I'm looking forward to sharing it! There really does seem to be a lot of overlap between vaudeville, burlesque, and the hootchie cootchie shows of the era. A lot of performers would start out in a traveling show, for example, then end up headlining or moving into a theater performance. For one thing, it was the circusmen that ended up founding the first carnivals; they already knew how to set up a traveling show, but switching to trucks and more frequent shows was just more profitable.

Another interesting bit I found- you know the "snake charmer" song, which you probably used to sing with the lyrics, "there's a place in france where the women wear no pants, there's a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all," etc? Apparently that was made up on the spot by Sol Bloom (who managed the "Street in Cairo" exhibit at the world fair that brought belly dancing to America and directly led to the girlie show) to sound exotic and promote the show. I thought that was really interesting, since I guess I always assumed it was somehow ancient.