BUCKFIELD – The Leftover Turkey Variety Show, to be presented two days after Thanksgiving at Oddfellow Theater, offers everything vaudeville: music, tap dance, comedy, juggling, magic, mime and monologues.

The modern, fast-paced and family-oriented revival of vaudeville theater will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24. It will also be presented at the same time Friday, Nov. 23, at St. Lawrence Arts & Community Center in Portland.

Cast members are Randy Judkins, Mike Miclon, Julie Goell, Michael Lane Trautman, Drika Overton and Joel Eckhaus – all Maine-based performers and veterans of the New Vaudeville stage who have performed locally and around the world.

The Leftover Turkey Variety Show made its modest debut in 1982, at the Chocolate Church Performing Arts Center in Bath. A handful of performers, including Benny and Denise Rheel (Buckfield Leather and Lather Variety show), Randy Judkins (Jud the Jester), Bau Graves and Joel Eckhaus (the Neverly Brothers) conspired on the day after Thanksgiving, pooled their talents and threw together a show in the evening that was an immediate hit.

The comedy, creativity and energy at its debut in 1982 sparked many more collaborations in subsequent years, including the Cabin Fever Cure-All, the Spice of Life Variety Show, the Native Corn Revue and the New England New Vaudeville Festival. The shows traveled around New England and beyond and were featured in Yankee Magazine and on the “Today Show.”

Most of all, they were a source of pleasure, laughter and inspiration for those who witnessed or participated in them. And now, after a 25-year hiatus, the Leftover Turkey Variety Show returns, with the same simple premise – lock a talented (and pretty wacky) bunch of performers in a room for an afternoon and see what kind of a show they dream up for that night.

Tickets to the show at Odd Fellow Theater on Route 117 are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $6 for children under 12. Call 336-3306.