Musicals Flashcards
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Many names including musical comedy
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Book musical
1
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Show using popular songs; dialogue optional
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Musical
2
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Roots in variety and vaudeville
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Revues
3
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Composed his own songs in Greece
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Sophocles
4
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Roman who included song and dance in plays
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Plautus
5
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The first tap shoes in theatre
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Sabilla
6
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Borrowed songs and rewrote lyrics
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Ballad opera
7
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Original scores and romantic plot lines
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Comic opera
8
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Early type of musical from 1860
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The black crook
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Wrote witty operettas that redefined musicals
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Gilbert and Sullivan
10
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Lasting hit written by Kern and Hammerstein
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Showboat
11
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First fully integrated musical in history
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Oklahoma
12
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Landmark rock musical that confused the genre
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Hair
13
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Muse inspired rock musical of 70s/80s
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Xanadu
14
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Dance, segregation, and aerosols
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Hairspray
