Although this site may not gleefully bathe in nostalgia's warm glow, I've desperately tried to avoid stilted academic gibberish and endeavored to keep this site, like vaudeville itself, novel, entertaining, and accessible to all. I designed the pages with an exaggerated sense of the hyperbolic style of early vaudeville show posters and included a varied assortment of visually stimulating decorative touches, in an effort towards my own variety of managed spectacle. In an effort to achieve the desired overall effect and out of my own sheer perversity, the majority of links in this project are the same color as the text. I've tried to make active links evident through the use of rollovers and simple animations, but if you're not sure, just click and see what happens.