Vaudeville gave way to Vegas and nightclubs, which gave way to television.
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Questlove,
The Atlantic,
7 Nov. 2025
His legacy is alive and well in the nightclubs of Recife, the capital city, where couples dance to forró’s distinctive ringing of triangles and humming zabumba drum until the early hours.
All that’s before the evening kicked in with live music, cabarets acts, and theatre shows.
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Jane Archer,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile, the second half folds in the aesthetics of Vegas strip cabarets with eerie melodies from movie scores like Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas.
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