music hall

Noun

music hall (plural music halls)

1. An auditorium for concerts and musical entertainments.
2. A vaudeville or variety theater.
3. A style of light entertainment popular in the United Kingdom from the late-19th to early-20th centuries, especially associated with jaunty sing-along songs, comedic sketches and variety acts.
   • His first appearance, at the age of four, was in a music-hall comedy routine played by his father and Little Tich at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle.1976, Roy Busby, British Music Hall: An Illustrated Who's who from 1850 to the Present Day, Conran Octopus
   • The instrumentation of two B flat clarinets, bass clarinet, piano, bass guitar and snare drum brushstrokes in and of itself evokes an antiquated music hall style.1983, Terence J. O'Grady, The Beatles, a Musical Evolution, Macmillan Reference USA