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Important Musicals
Important musicals and info about them
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Undergraduate 4
06/05/2008

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The Black Crook
Definition

1886

regarded to be the first musical

combined a ballet troupe with a production of Dr. Faust

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Showboat
Definition

written in 1927

music- Jerome Kern

lyrics and book Oscar Hammerstein

1st landmark musical

talked about alcoholism, racial issues, gambling

song and dance arose from the plot

 

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Porgy And Bess
Definition

Written by The Gershwins

1935

a serious opera

all black cast

discussed serious social issues

 

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Pal Joey
Definition
Rodgers and Hart songs: Bewitched,I Could Write A Book, Me and My Shadow
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Lady In the Dark
Definition

Music by Kurt Weill, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin

musical about psychoanalysis

music only during dream sequences

songs: Tchaikovsky, My Ship 

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Oklahoma  
Definition

Rodgers and Hammerstein

first integrated musical

dark themes: suicide, obsession

Agnes De Mille

first show with a cast recording

 

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On The Town

 

Definition

Comden and Green

Jerome Robbins

1944 

music by Bernstein

songs- New York New York 

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Carousel
Definition

Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945

pushed the boundaries of musical theatre

opens with pantomime

death, domestic violence

songs: June, Never Walk Alone, Soliloquy, If I Loved you 

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South Pacific  
Definition

Rodgers and Hammerstein

won the Pulitzer Prize

racial prejudice. Director Joshua Logan

created "in one" scenes to have continuous action 

 Stars: Mary Martin and Enzio Pinza

Songs: Hunny Bun, Enchanted Evening, Nothing Like a Dame, Bali Hi,  

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Guys and Dolls
Definition

1950. Music by Frank Loesser, book by Abe Burrows

Sterling? director?

Songs: Luck Be A Lady, Adelaide's Lament, Take Back Your Mink, I'll Know 

 

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The King And I  
Definition

Rodgers and Hammerstein

1951

Stars Yule Brenner and Gertrude Lawrence

Based on Anna and the King of Siam

Songs: getting to know you, carefully taught?

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My Fair Lady

Definition

Lerner and Loewe

1956 

based on Shaw's Pygmalion

stars: Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison

 first use of the body mic

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The Most Happy Fella
Definition

Frank Loesser

1956

Written as a chamber musical

songs: Somebody Somewhere, standing on the corner,  

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West Side Story
Definition

book by Arthur Laurents. Music by Bernstein. Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Conception by Jerome Robbins

1957

songs: America, Maria, When You're A Jet 

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Gypsy  
Definition

Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents

1959 

Ethel Merman

producer David Merrick 

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Fiddler On The Roof  
Definition

Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, book by Joseph Stein

1964

chor- Jerome Robbins

set a new record with 3200 performances

songs: If I Were A Rich Man, Sunrise, Sunset 

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Cabaret  
Definition

Kander and Ebb

1966

The concept musical

Director Harold Prince

starred Joel Grey and Lotte Lenny 

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Hair    

Definition

1968

music by Galt MacDermot

book and lyrics by Ragni and Rado

Tribal Rock Musical 

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Company
Definition

1970

Stephen Sondheim

concept musical

no linear plot, just vignettes

Hal Prince

Star: Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie 

songs: Another Hundred People, Being Alive 

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Follies
Definition

1971

Stephen Sondheim

 director Hal Prince and Michael Bennett

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A Chorus Line
Definition

1975

Marvin Hamlisch, music by Edward Kelban, conception by Michael Bennett

concept musical

Nothing, One, What I Did For Love, Dance Ten- Looks Three 

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Sweeney Todd
Definition

1979

Stephen Sondheim

Harold Prince

darkly comedic operetta 

Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou 

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Les Miserables
Definition

1987

Schonberg and Boublil

Director Trevor Nunn

based on Hugo Wolf book

importance: turntable set  

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Phantom of the Opera
Definition

1988

Andrew Lloyd Webber

still open on broadway. Beat cats

director Hal Prince

starred Sarah Brightman 

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Rent
Definition

1996

musical about AIDS

Music, Lyrics andBook by Jonathn Larson

still open on B-way 

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Ragtime
Definition

Director Frank Galati

Flaherty and Ahrens 

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