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| Greeks | first combined music and drama |
| England | in America most performers of early musicals were from this country |
| beginning in the 20th Century | Puritan ideals got weaker |
| Whites | Broadway musicals are a musical for liked by this race |
| staggering (difficult to afford) expense | caused Broadway to put on popular old shows |
| Opera | when there is little spoken language in a musical, for example the Lion King, it is like |
| Movie musicals | are making a strong comeback - getting popular again |
| In the early 19th century | there wasn't much difference between popular and classical music |
| After the Civil War | musical theater became popular |
| Musical shows between the civil war and WW1 | had little plot |
| Minstrel shows were popular | Around the time of the civil war |
| Vaudeville | replaced Minstrel shows |
| Burlesque | was based on satire |
| Revue | was based on a common theme - not a plot |
| Ziefeld Follies | the most popular revue |
| The revue became less popular during the depression | because revues were expensive. |
| A musical book show | told a story in song |
| Operetta - light opera | the music and dancing are closely integrated with the plot |
| Gilbert and Sullivan | British comic opera writers who had funny lyrics |
| Patter songs | Gilbert wrote songs that had ridiculous rhyming words sung very fast |
| Viennese operettas | were romantic |
| Europe | where the best composers of American operettas came from |
| Musical comedy | was a blend of vaudeville and plots as in operettas |
| George M. Cohan | created the American musical comedy |
| The earliest all black musicals | were like minstrel shows |
| Will Marion Cook | wrote the first all-black musical - Dahomey |
| Show Boat | 1920's landmark show by Jerome Kern |
| Irving Berlin | was a famous songwriter who put various pieces together like a revue |
| Irne and Vernon Castle | were the famous dance couple in 'Watch Your Step' |
| Adele and Fred Astaire | were the famous dance team in 'Lady Be Good' |
| After th economic crash of 1929 | people didn't buy much sheet music to play at home. It was cheaper to listen to the radio, etc |
| Oklahoma | was written by Rogers and Hammerstein who also wrote 'sound of music' and 'south pacific' |
| Frank Loesser | wrote 'Most Happy Fella' complex music for the stage |
| Lerner and Loewe | wrote 'Brigadoon' Paint Your Wagon' 'Gigi' 'Cameolt' and 'My Fair Lady |
| Leonard Bernstein | wrote 'Candide' 'On the Town' and 'West Side Story' |
| Jerome Robbins | was the famous choreographer who worked with Bernstein |
| West Side Story | was based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet but set in the 20th Century |
| The ensemble | several characters sing different words and music at the same time |
| Stephen Sondheim | wrote 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' and other musicals |
| Concept musicals | present ideas that the audience can understand in different ways and leaves situations unresolved at the end |
| Pacific Overture | was written by Sondheim and was about the opening of Japan |
| Jazz, Hip Hop, Latin, Rock and Country | have not become established in musicals |
| Hair | was called a rock musical but it was more like a revue as it didn't have a plot |
| Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell | were 60's and 70's musicals based on religious themes |
| Jesus Christ Superstar | was also a hit record |
| The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast | began as films and then became stage musicals |
| Chamber musical | has a small cast and little money |
| Multimedia show | includes some combination of music, dance, film, slides, tape recordings etc |
| Dance | is still important in musicals |
| Musicals | have tried to appeal to younger audiences lately - Beauty and the Beast and Lion King |
