... in the previous millennium together with the destruction of all theatres, so we were left with small groups of medieval minstrels from village to village. By 1100 the church itself had brought drama back into existence and Christmas and Easter stories ...

... 1960. King was born into a showbiz family. Her father, a black-faced comic, ran a travelling troupe. Uncle Billy King's Minstrels. They had a portable theatre and lived in a caravan. The family travelled constantly. She went to school in whichever town ...

... Rose, with the same award for a sitcom going to American show Will Grace. At the gala dinner table afterwards, some interesting comments were made. One European producer claimed that British and American programme makers have an unfair advantage when it ...

... the straight man of the famous comedy team Scott and Whaley. Eddie was born in Montgomery, Alabama and the coloured American was a Minstrel show performer before coming to Europe. He came to Britain for an eight-week engagement and apparently never returned ...

... recalls how his nasal American accent lit up airwaves her childhood I first heard the distinctive C on the radio when I was a child , in those days in the late thirties just before the war it was called the wireless . He had an American accent with a dry ...

... Clem Vickery , who , with his Banjo Kings , was an part of The Black and White Minstrel Show for many years , is still going strong as a solo performer . His show Minstrel Magic has been particularly successful at Ashorne Hall , near Warwick . Vickery ...

... Television who said that Americans will always follow a trend , and since Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ? , have started buying all their UK Europe . He said that if you have a gameshow and you have not sold it to the Americans you must be doing something ...

... service together in India . When the war ended Barnes and his wife , now a double act , found themselves in entertaining the American occupation forces . home it was back to touring in variety until that facet of entertainment began to wane due to the popularity ...

... song - later taken up by one of his admirers , Sammy Davis Jr . Robinson emerged from the great American minstrel tradition , though he was not in minstrel shows and certainly never appeared in blackface like some artists . Robinson was black and proud ...

... he was offered a professional contract in , where he was popular for several years , appearances with The Black and White Minstrel Show and northern club dates alongside stars like Frankie Laine , Johnnie Ray and Guy Mitchell . As as his Formby act , which ...

... as principal singers in The Black and White Minstrel Show , are the first ten years of their production company Deja Vu . This was the name of the act that Roger and Ali formed when they left the Minstrels in the , though they first cruised in 1978 aboard ...

... behind The Black and White Minstrel Show both on stage and in the television series . Stemming from a special entitled The 1957 Television Minstrels , the , series was a showcase for conductor George and his Mitchell Minstrels and lead vocalists Dai Francis ...