1. Types and History of Musicals

2. Types of Musicals
Book Musical - is dependent on plot and character, integrates the script with the musical style and major musical themes, often contains as many scenes of spoken dialogue as it does musical numbers
Oklahoma!, Showboat
Concept Musical - is a musical where the show's metaphor or statement is more important than the actual narrative.
Cats, Starlight Express
“Sung-Through” Musical - refers to a musical or opera with little or no spoken dialogue.
Les Miserables, Evita
Dance Musicals - These shows tended to use recycled show tunes and pop songs, and in some cases even recycled dance sequences -- the main focus was on the dancing.
Movin’ Out, Fosse
The Rock Musical - A rock musical is a musical theatre work with rock music
Mamma Mia, Tommy, Yellow Submarine
Book, Concept, Sung-through, Dance, Rock

3. What Show is this Standard from?
What is this singers name?
What Show is this Standard from?

6. Librettist- writes the “book” Composer- writes the music
The three main components of a musical are the music, the lyrics, and the book. The book of a musical refers to the story of the show
Librettist- writes the “book”
Composer- writes the music
Lyricist- writes the words that are sung
Choreographer- creates the dance moves
Librettist, Composer, Lyricist, Choreographer

7. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera. The lyrics of the songs are set to popular songs of the time.
John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera- popular songs

8. French and Viennese Operettas
Jacques Offenbach – French
Orpheus in the Underworld
Johann Strauss II - German
Die Fledermaus
Gilbert and Sullivan- English
H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado are among the best known.

9. Vaudeville
Types of acts included (among others) musicians (both classical and popular), dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and short movies.

10. The Black Crook – the first musical
Opened in 1866
Produced by William Wheatley
Stranded Ballet Dancers
Plot
Wolfenstein (bad) loves Amina (good) who loves Rodolphe (good)
Hertzog the “black crook”
Stalacta, the Fairy Queen
“Extravaganzas”

11. The major musicals Showboat -- 1927 Hammerstein and Kern]
Plot: Nolie comes of age
carefully written
serious themes: Racism, single women
plot covers large span of time
Characters develop!
Book and Lyrics somewhat integrated

12. Oklahoma! 1943 Rogers and Hammerstein
Book and lyrics more fully integrated
A serious work
choreographed by Agnes DeMille

13. By the 40s and 50s we were treated to some of the greatest musicals in what was called the modern era. These musicals included such classics as Oklahoma, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, The King and I, My Fair Lady, and the list goes on for miles.

14. In the 1960s we saw such great musicals like Hello Dolly, Fiddler On The Roof, and Hair, which was the first musical in the United States to feature nude actors.

15. By the 1970s musical theater had become pretty extravagant with the advances in technology and design. The 70s brought us such great shows as A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, No No Nanette, Sweeney Todd and Evita.

16. But the hits kept coming and many from Britain
But the hits kept coming and many from Britain. In the 80s we saw such shows like Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats and Phantom Of The Opera. Along with Les Miserables

17. The 90’s The lion King Rent Jekyll and Hyde Beauty and the Beast
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Once on this Island

18. The 00’s In the Heights Wicked The Drowsy Chaperone
Billy Elliot – The Musical
Hairspray
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