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  2. Follies - Wikipedia

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    Follies would enjoy a second fully staged production by CLOC Musical Theatre, which ran from 17 October–1 November 1986, at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clayton, Australia. David Wilson was the Director; Kirk Skinner was the Musical Director (of a 29-piece orchestra); Mary Charleston was the Choreographer; Graham McGuffie and ...

  3. Girl Crazy - Wikipedia

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    Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star.

  4. Chorus line - Wikipedia

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    A chorus line is a large group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines, usually in musical theatre. Sometimes, singing is also performed. While synchronized dancing indicative of a chorus line was vogue during the first half of the 20th century, modern theatre uses the terms " ensemble " and " chorus " to indicate all supporting ...

  5. Ensemble (musical theatre) - Wikipedia

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    A musical number from Thoroughly Modern Millie features the lead actress (in yellow) with a large ensemble. In musical theatre, the ensemble or chorus are the on-stage performers other than the featured players. Ensemble members typically do not play named characters and have few or no spoken lines or solo parts; rather, they sing and dance in ...

  6. Footloose (musical) - Wikipedia

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    The girls explain to a bemused Ren that dancing in Bomont is, in fact, illegal; years ago, after a horrifying car accident killed four kids returning from a dance in a neighboring county, Moore became extremely righteous and campaigned to pass a law forbidding all residents from dancing.

  7. Song and Dance - Wikipedia

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    Song and Dance is a musical comprising two acts, one told entirely in "Song" and one entirely in "Dance", tied together by a unifying love story. The "Song" act is Tell Me on a Sunday , with lyrics by Don Black and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber , about a young British woman's romantic misadventures in New York City and Hollywood .

  8. Musical theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Black Crook was a long-running musical on Broadway in 1866. [1]Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated who

  9. Solo performance - Wikipedia

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    This renaissance of solo performance also created ripples in the larger sense of American theatre; after this "boom" of the one man show had passed, the presentational style seeped into popular theatre productions such as Amadeus, Equus, and Evita among others, modeling a combination of representational theatricality and presentational, direct ...