"You know you're over 30 when you now clean your house to the music you used to get drunk to" is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying has several small…
"You know you're old when you clean to the music you used to drink too" was posted on Twitter by [Sparkling heart] on February 20, 2021. "You know you're old when you clean…
"You know you're over 30 when you now clean your house to the music you used to get drunk to" is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying has several small…
"You know you're over 30 when you now clean your house to the music you used to get drunk to" is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying has several small…
The movie My Favorite Year (1982) was based on the Sid Caesar variety television show Your Show of Shows (1950-1954) -- a live television comedy legacy in New York City continued with Saturday…
"You should try anything/everything once -- except incest and folk dancing" is a popular jocular saying of unknown authorship. "His hobby is to try anything once— except fretwork…
New York-born newspaper gossip columnist Walter Winchell (1897-1972) got his start on the Vaudeville News in 1920. He published the Broadway-themed poem "Your Broadway and Mine" on March…
"St. Patrick's Day Tip: Your kilt should be short enough for dancing a jig, but long enough to hide your lucky charms" (also "Make sure your kilt is short enough to do a jig,…
"Two dow shay" is a spoonerism for "two show day." Two shows a day is a business day in the theater, and the joke is that it's so exhausting that even the term can't…
A "dip" dance move has also been called "Death drop" (or "Deathdrop"), "Shablam," "Shawam" (or "Shawham") and "5000." At the…
Wikipedia: Actors StudioThe Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the…
William Shakespeare's play Macbeth includes witches, and theater tradition has it that the play is cursed. Saying the play's name or its lines (outside of an actual performance) is said…
"ABCD (Any Body Can Dance)" is a saying that is becoming increasing popular in dance. ABCD: Any Body Can Dance (2013) was the title of an Indian film. ABCD: Any Body Can Dance (2003) was…
The Cotton Club (located in Harlem at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then midtown at Broadway and 48th Street from 1936 to 1940) was called the "Aristocrat of Harlem."…
Bernard "Barney" Gallant (1884-1968) operated several speakeasies in Greenwich Village. "Barney Gallant's" was located at 85 West 3rd Street. From 1929 through 1931, the…
The term "Battle of the Bands" existed before Harlem, but Harlem's Savoy Ballroom (596 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard) made it famous in the late 1930s. Chick Webb, Count Basie and…
Broadway (a street, especially in the theater district) was the "Big Apple" to syndicated newspaper columnists Walter Winchell (1897-1972) and O. O. McIntyre (1884-1938). Winchell's…
There are "Big Apple caps" (also called "newsboy caps") or "Big Apple hats" or "flat caps." The name "Big Apple" comes from the 1937 Big Apple…
The Big Apple Chorus is a barbershop chorus based in Manhattan that was formed in 1983. The chorus has competed in the Barbershop Harmony Society's international chorus competition, and it has…
The Big Apple Circus began in 1977, during the 1970s revival of the "Big Apple" name. It is still going. Wikipedia: Big Apple CircusThe Big Apple Circus is a circus based in New York…