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  2. Category:Sung-through musicals - Wikipedia

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    Musicals in which recitative takes the place of spoken dialogue for all or most of the show. See also Sung-through.

  3. Sung-through - Wikipedia

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    A sung-through stage musical, musical film, opera, or other work of performance art is one in which songs entirely or almost entirely replace any spoken dialogue. Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically, for example through a combination of recitative , aria , and arioso .

  4. Opéra comique - Wikipedia

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    Opéra comique (French: [ɔpeʁa kɔmik]; plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias.It emerged from the popular opéras comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne), [1] which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections.

  5. 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

  6. Comic opera - Wikipedia

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    Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria.

  7. The 60 Best Movie Musicals of All Time, Ranked - AOL

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    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!

  8. Operetta - Wikipedia

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    The term operetta arises in the mid-eighteenth-century Italy and it is first acknowledged as an independent genre in Paris around 1850. [2] Castil-Blaze's Dictionnaire de la musique moderne claims that this term has a long history and that Mozart was one of the first people to use the word operetta, disparagingly, [7] describing operettas as "certain dramatic abortions, those miniature ...

  9. 37 of the Best Riddles for Teens (with Answers) - AOL

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    Have a fun family game night with these brain twisters! The post 37 of the Best Riddles for Teens (with Answers) appeared first on Reader's Digest.