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Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times that the show's opening number changed the history of musical theatre: "After a verse like that, sung to a buoyant melody, the banalities of the old musical stage became intolerable." [66] It was the first "blockbuster" Broadway show, running a total of 2,212 performances, and was made into a hit film ...
A William Hogarth painting based on The Beggar's Opera (c. 1728), a key antecedent of musical theatre. Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
When it closed on January 13, 2002, it had run for 42 years and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical. The current longest-running musical on Broadway is The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in 1988 and played its final performance in 2023. [129] M denotes a musical and P denotes a straight play.
List of musicals: A to L; List of musicals: M to Z; List of musicals by composer: A to L; List of musicals by composer: M to Z; List of musicals filmed live on stage; List of rock musicals; List of stage jukebox musicals; List of Tony Award- and Olivier Award-winning musicals; Long-running musical theatre productions; Long runs on the London ...
Better Foot Forward: The History of American Musical Theatre. Grossman Publishers. ISBN 9780670159741. Naden, Corinne J. (2011). The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877337. Porter, Susan L. (1991). With An Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America, 1785-1815. Smithsonian Institution Press.
This is a selected list of the longest-running musical theatre productions in history divided into two sections. The first section lists all Broadway and West End productions of musicals that have exceeded 2,500 performances, in order of greatest number of performances in either market.
We wouldn't have High School Musical, or contemporary teen musicals like Spring Awakening and Dear Evan Hansen for that matter, without Grease. Just remember, kids, that this is meant to be a satire!
The musical Gypsy first performed; The musical The Sound of Music first performed; Deaths of: Billie Holiday; Ritchie Valens; Buddy Holly; the Big Bopper; Heitor Villa-Lobos; Notable releases: Miles Davis – Kind of Blue, Porgy and Bess and Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet; Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um; The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out