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HMS Pinafore

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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Pirates of Penzance

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also Gilbert and Sullivan
premiers in NYC first, power of NYC and IR

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what does PofP introduce

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patter song
Modern Major General
comedic effect

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The Mulligan Guards’ Ball

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Irish Immigrant Vaudeville

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A Trip to Chinatown

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interpolated most popular song of time, AFTER THE BALL

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In Dahomey

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First full length musical written and performed by AA performers in major Bway theater
largely minstrel
WILLIAMS AND WALKER

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Little Johnny Jones

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George M. Cohan
comes from Vaudeville
paper thin but ORIGINAL

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The Merry Widow

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european operetta import
Franz Leihar

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Naughty Marietta

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AMERICAN operetta
Victor Herbert
Rida Johnson Young book and lyrics
produced by Oscar Hammerstein the first

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where was operetta most pop

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Austria

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Victor Herbert

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Father of American Operetta

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George M. Cohan

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father of American musical comedy

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Scott Joplin

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king of ragtime

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Irving Berlin (Israel Beilin)

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Alexander’s Ragtime Band

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Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1911)

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first global megahit song

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Watch Your Step

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Berlin’s first book and complete show
first Bway show to feature ragtime

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Play A Simple Melody

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counterpoint song
two contrary melodies playing against each other

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Irene and Vernon Castle

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star of Watch Your Step
leading dance couple
revived popularity of ballroom dancing
masters of foxtrot

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Jerome Kern

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song of Eastern European Jewish immigrants
studied in Germany then London
wrote interpolated songs in London
music for Princess Theatre musicals
wrote in 4/4, 3/4 current popular time sig

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Very Good Eddie

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first of Princess Theatre Musicals
intimate and landmark

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Elisabeth Marbury

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literary agent
her idea to do modern scaled down MT
cast of 30 max
focus on characte

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Oh, Boy!

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second PT musical
Kern
most successful of PT musicals
MT for common person

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Till The Clouds Roll By

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song from Oh, Boy!

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Yip Yip Yaphank

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Berlin
midst of WW1
minstrel show as end of act 1

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Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

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song from Yip Yip Yaphank

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God Bless America

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second act finale, used when revived as This is the Army in 1942

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trunk song

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written but not used, saved for later

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The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919

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Berlin and Herbert
revue
minstrel act 1 finale
Williams was in this

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A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody

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Berlin
formalizes and cements misogyny on Bway, expectation of a pretty woman

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1920

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prohibition
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes, proudly gay

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Shuffle Along

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Blake and Sissle
expansion of a two man minstrel show

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Shuffle Along Landmark

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first musical written, directed, and performed by AA

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Shuffle Along song

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I’m Just Wild About Harry

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No, No, Nanette

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most popular musical of 20s
based on play called My Lady Friends

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No, No, Nanette songs

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Tea for Two
I Want to be Happy

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No, No, Nanette story

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Harry HH Frazze, wonder of Boston Red Sox, needed money for the show, sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees to get money

37
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Show Boat

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first golden age musical (some say OK)
based on novel by Edna Ferber
first largely integrated show

38
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Show Boat interpolated songs

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Goodbye My Lady Love
After the Ball!!!
interpolated for period effect
AA songs written in dialect

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The Jazz Singer

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first talkie
based on play Pray Boy
Al Jolson, known for blackface performance, added Minstrel show as finale, not related to rest of story

40
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Girl Crazy

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George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin wrote lyrics

41
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Girl Crazy story

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star was supposed to be Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman was breakout star

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The Bandwagon

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revue, expensive at height of depression
Fred and Adele Astaire

43
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The Bandwagon takeaway song

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Dancing in the Dark
danced on a slanted mirrored stage lit from underneath

44
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what is required for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama

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distinguished play by an American playwright, preferable original material, dealing with American life
est 1917

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Of Thee I Sing

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Gershwins
first to win PPD
Music Box Theater (built by I. Berlin)
political satire
style of Gilbert and Sullivan

46
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Of Thee I Sing Takeaway songs

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Love is Sweeping the Country
Of Thee I Sing

47
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42nd Street

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film musical
Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Hollywood writers)
first song and dance book musical
stars Ruby Keeler and Ginger Rogers

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As Thousands Cheer

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Music Box therefore I. Berlin
newspaper revue

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As Thousands Cheer takeaway songs

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Heatwave
Easter Parade

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Suppertime (As Thousands Sing)

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Ethel Waters
song about man who has been lynched, mother explaining to kids
written for Ethel Waters

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Ethel Waters

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performer at Cotton Club
first AA woman to appears in a broadway “white” musical

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protest song

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A song devoted to a social cause, such as the fight against injustice, antiwar sentiment, etc.
Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday
Brother Can You Spare a Dime, depression era song

53
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Threepenny Opera

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interpretation of the Beggar’s Opera
Bertolt Brecht Kurt Weill
criticizing rising Nazi Party
doesn’t hit with depression era Americans
hit in ‘54 when revived

54
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Anything Goes

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Cole Porter

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Cole Porter

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gay
expressed love to partner through his ballads

56
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Anything Goes story

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had to change because of national tragedy aboard pleasure cruiser
scramble to rewrite show
performers given new scene on toilet paper
said anything goes!

57
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Porgy and Bess

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Gershwins
American folk opera
complete AA piece, caused riots
based on play Porgy (PPD)
written in AA language

58
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Babes in Arms

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Rodgers and Hart

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The Black Crook

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first musical
thin story
adds Paris Ballet Troupe when their theater burns down
song and dance unrelated

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