Editing Revue (section)

== Contemporary revues ==
Revues are often common today as [[student]] entertainment (with strong traditions in many universities in UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Denmark). These use [[pastiche]], in which contemporary songs are re-written in order to comment on the college or courses in a humorous nature. While most [[Comedy|comic songs]] will only be heard within the revue they were written for, sometimes they become more widely known—such as "A Transport of Delight", about the big red London bus, by [[Flanders and Swann]], who first made their name in a revue titled ''[[At the Drop of a Hat]]''.

The [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] was a famed U.S. concert tour in the mid-1970s consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by [[Bob Dylan]], that took place in late 1975 and early 1976.

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Towards the end of the 20th century, a subgenre of revue largely dispensed with the sketches, founding narrative structure within a song cycle in which the material is culled from varied works. This type of revue may or may not have identifiable characters and a rudimentary storyline but, even when it does, the songs remain the focus of the show (for example, ''[[Closer Than Ever]]'' by [[Richard Maltby Jr.]] and [[David Shire]]). This type of revue usually showcases songs written by a particular composer or songs made famous by a particular performer. Examples of the former are ''[[Side By Side By Sondheim]]'' (music/lyrics [[Stephen Sondheim]]), ''Eubie!'' ([[Eubie Blake]]) ''[[Tomfoolery (musical)|Tom Foolery]]'' ([[Tom Lehrer]]), and ''[[Five Guys Named Moe]]'' (songs made popular by [[Louis Jordan]]). The eponymous nature of these later revues suggest a continued embrace of a unifying authorial presence in this seemingly scattershot genre, much as was earlier the case with Ziegfeld, Carrol, ''et al''.

With different artistic emphases, the revue genre is today above all upheld at traditional variety theatres such as the [[Le Lido]], [[Moulin Rouge]] and [[Friedrichstadt-Palast]] Berlin, as well as in shows in Las Vegas.