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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.
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.
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
On November 22, 2016 the book Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812: The Journey of a New Musical to Broadway was released. The book, edited and compiled by Steven Suskin , includes interviews with many of the original cast members, as well as the annotated script and photos of both the Kazino and Broadway casts.
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell.It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.
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!
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.
Operetta is a precursor of the modern musical theatre or the "musical". [12] In the early decades of the 20th century, operetta continued to exist alongside the newer musicals, with each influencing the other. The distinctive traits of operetta are found in the musical theatre works of Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. [2]