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John Gay's The Beggars Opera
FORERUNNER OF MUSICAL THEATRE
Took popular 1728 songs and rewrote the lyrics, English Ballad Opera -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Unknown Date. Songs written for the show, diegetic- source music, happening within the show -
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Musical Theatre History
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W.S. Gilbert
Lyricist, paired up with Arthur Sullivan by James Mills, lawyer- wrote satirical articles, MADE THE PATTER SONG: Modern Major General -
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Tony Pastor
Father of Vaudeville -
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Arthur Sullivan
Composer, paired up with W.S. Gilbert by James Mills, Classically trained, wrote 23 operas, 13 orchestra works, D'Oyly Carte= producer, MADE THE PATTER SONG: Modern Major General -
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Edward Harrigan
Irish, stock companies, impacted Cohan, working class americans -
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Vincent Youmans
Composer, 151 songs -
Astro Place Riots
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John Philip Sousa
March guy, "operetta", American born american trained -
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Tony Hart
Irish, stock companies, impacted Cohan, working class americans -
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Victor Herbert
Irish Immigrant, trained in Germany, The Fortune Teller (Gypsy Love Song), Founder of ASCAP, The Red Mill- First lighted marquis -
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Reginald De Koven
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Golden Age Operetta
Gilbert and Sullivan (H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado), Reginald De Koven (Robin Hood [Oh Promise Me]), John Philip Sousa, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow). -
The Black Crook
Spectacle, 5 1/2 hours long, European, First American Musical -
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Lew Fields
German Immigrant, clean burlesque, Dutch Comedy around 1855 -
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Joe Weber
German Immigrant, clean burlesque, Dutch Comedy around 1855 -
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Franz Lehar
The Merry Widow -
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George Walker
Created "The Creole Show"- First African American show with Williams. Worked the minstrel shows, "The dandy and the darky" -
The Mulligan Guard Sketch
Harrigan and Hart -
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Bert Williams
Work in Ziegfeld Follies, crossed the color line. Created "The Creole Show"- First African American show. Worked the minstrel shows, "The dandy and the darky" -
The Mulligan Guard Picnic
Harrigan and Hart -
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George M Cohan
Grandson of Irish immigrants, actor, director, producer, beginning of speech-based lyrics -
H.M.S. Pinafore
Premiered in London, people stole it and produced it in NYC. G+S -
The Pirates of Penzance
Premiered the American and English version at the same time.
First patter song, Modern Major General, G+S -
Mulligan Guard's Ball
Harrigan and Hart -
Excelsior
First to use electric light -
The Mikado
G+S -
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Jerome Kern
NYC, Showboat with Hammerstein II, Tin Pan Alley, 1st love song in 4/4, American Songbook with acting, almost wrote the Wizard of Oz -
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Al Jolson
The Jazz Singer 1927, always in blackface (hiding his Jewish heritage), could make or break a show, biggest star -
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Sigmund Romberg
The Student Prince, The New Moon, The Desert Song -
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Irving Berlin
Russian, the double song "old fashioned wedding", "american music", so many songs, only book musical = Annie Get Your Gun -
Robin Hood - Oh Promise Me
Famous song, used in weddings, first American song to actually be good, Reginald De Koven -
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Cole Porter
Indiana, wealthy, homosexual, supposed to go to Law School, songs are dirty, no particular social or political agenda, most music survives as individual songs. 50 Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Jubilee, Can-Can (Gwen Verdon stole the show), Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate. Ethel Merman -
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Lorenz Hart
4'11, lived with mother, very sad man, drinker himself to death, lyricist, 24 yrs with Rogers -
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Ira Gershwin
Worked with Youmans, Arlen, Weil. Lyricist -
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George Gershwin
Started as Tin Pan Alley, fell in love with Princess Shows, wanted to do production songs. Swanee, George White Scandals. Girl Crazy = Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers. Lady Be Good, Oh, Kay!, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band -
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Silver Age Operetta
Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta), Sigmund Romberg (The Student Prince, The New Moon) -
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Musical Comedy
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Kurt Weill
Three Penny Opera, Street Scene, German -
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Frederick Loewe
composer, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, Lerner and Lowewe -
In Dahomey
Williams and Walker, most popular full-length African American musical to play in a Broadway Theatre -
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Meredith Willson
MAN! The music Man -
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Richard Rogers
Alcoholism, jaw cancer, womanizer, Rogers + Hart, Rogers + Hammerstein, 24 yr partnership with Hart -
Babes in Toyland
Victor Herbert -
Little Johnny Jones
George M Cohan -
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
George M Cohan -
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Harold Arlen
Wizard of Oz, Bloomer Girl -
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Jule Styne
MAN, ukraine/jewish immigrants, 16 job as a relief burlesque pianist, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bells are Ringing, GYPSY, Funny Girl -
George Washington Junior
George M Cohan -
The Merry Widow
Merchandise, turning point of Golden Age into Silver Age Operetta, Franz Lehar -
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Ziegfeld Follies
spectacular revue, 1910 Fanny Brice, 1919= best year of Follies, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Will Rodgers, unify themes and costumes, 1920: zippers invented -
Bandanna Land
Williams and Walker -
Naughty Marietta
Victor Herbert, heavy and sad -
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Frank Loesser
composer/lyricist, guys and dolls. how to succeed, where's charley -
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Burton Lane
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Very Good Eddie
Kern, Bolton, Wodehouse -
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Alan Jay Lerner
lyrics, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, Lerner and Lowewe -
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Leonard Bernstein
WSS, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide -
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George White's Scandals
Imitator of Follies, 1920 hired Gershwins to write his score, dancing and music -
Shuffle Along
Eubie Blake + Noble Sissle -
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Music Box Revue
Intimate revues -
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Richard Adler
Pajama Game, Damn Yankees -
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Earl Carroll's Vanities
imitator, racy-strip shows -
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Sheldon Harnick
Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof -
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Lee Adams
Bye Bye Birdie -
No No Nanette
Vincent Youmans, Tea for Two, Jazz Age Musical, Choreographer=Sammy Lee -
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Garrick Gaities
Rogers an Hart launch, morphed into musical comedy -
Showboat
Kern and Hammerstein II, FIGURING IT OUT, Ziegfeld produced, musical comedy + European Operetta, cross cultural integration, songs have dramatic emotional themes, earliest of shows to be dusted off regularly -
Mel Brooks
The Producers, Young Frankenstein -
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Jerry Ross
Pajama Game, Damn Yankees -
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John Kander
Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret, Chicage, Fosse, Kiss of the Spiderwpman, LIZA MINELLI -
Tom Jones
The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade -
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Fred Ebb
Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret, Chicage, Fosse, Kiss of the Spiderwpman, LIZA MINELLI -
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Blackbirds
Stolen acts from Harlem brought into NYC -
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Charles Strouse
Bye Bye Birdie -
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Jerry Bock
Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof -
Harvey Schmidt
The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade -
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Cy Coleman
Sweet Charity, City of Angels, Will Rogers Follies -
Stephen Sondheim
Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Hammerstein's menthe, ANGELA LANSBURY -
Of Thee I Sing
Gershwins. Pulitzer -
The Cat and the Fiddle
Kern and Harbach -
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Jerry Herman
Hello, Dolly, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles -
Anything Goes
Cole Porter -
Porgy and Bess
Gershwins, all African American opera company -
On Your Toes
Rogers and Hart, George Balenchine, ensemble danced and sang, doing something new -
Babes in Arms
Rogers and Hart -
David Shire
Composer, baby -
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Richard Maltby
lyrics, baby -
Boys From Syracuse
Rogers and Hart -
Wizard of OZ
Movie, Arlen, Judy Garland -
Pal Joey
Rogers and Hart, dance becoming an important aspect of musicals -
Lady in the Dark
First concept musical, lyrics: Ira gershwin, book: Moss Hart, Kurt Weill -
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Alain Boublil
FRENCH MEGA MUSICALS! Les Miserables, Miss Saigon -
Oklahoma!
songs deepen the characters, agnes deMille = Dream Ballet, Shirley Jones, ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN -
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GOLDEN AGE OF MUSICAL THEATRE!
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Michael Bennet
Died of AIDS, Choreographer, ACL, Subways are for Sleeping, Bye Bye Birdie, Company, Follies, Promises Promises, Dream Girls -
On the Town
Bernstein -
Claude-Michel Schonberg
FRENCH MEGA MUSICALS! Les Miserables, Miss Saigon -
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Marvin Hamlisch
Chorus Line, Sweet Smell of Success -
Carousel
Written for John Raitt, hungarian play: Lillium
ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN -
Henry Krieger
Dream girls -
Maury Yeston
Titanic -
Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin -
Finian's Rainbow
Burton Lane -
Brigadoon
Lerner and Loewe, romantic, agnes deMille, cemented role of choreographers -
Elton John
The Lion King, Aida, Billy Elliot -
Kiss Me Kate
Cole Porter -
Stephen Schwartz
godspell, pippin, wicked -
lynn ahrens
Once on this Island, Ragtime -
Andrew Lloyd Webber
MEGA MUSICALS! British! JCS, Cats, Evita, Phantom of the Opera -
South Pacific
10 Tony's, Pulitzer Prize, first show to have a character we care about die, no set changes, racial tensions, ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN -
Alan Menken
Disney, beauty and the beast, little mermaid, etc -
Guys and Dolls
frank loesser -
The King and I
ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN, open 5ths, dialects, lots of research, thai underscoring, King and I ballet (Jerome Robbins) -
William Finn
Falsettos, Spelling Bee -
Pajama Game
Adler and Ross -
DamnYankees
Adler and Ross, GWEN VERDON, BOB FOSSEE -
My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe, based off of pygmalion, integrated show, moss hart= director -
West Side Story
Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Jewish vs Catholic, virgin = soprano, belt = sex, accessible to hoi polloi, universal, transparent, lasts forever -
The Music Man
Meredith Willson -
The Sound of Music
last of Hammerstein's shows, ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN -
Fiorello
Bock and Harnick, pulitzer -
GYpsy
Jule Styne, Ethel Merman, Lyrics: Sondheim -
Frank Wildhorn
Jekyll and Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Dracula, Wonderland, Bonnie and Clyde, Flopmaster flop -
Marc Shaiman
Hairspray, Catch me if You Can, SMASH, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -
Camelot
JFK loved this show, became famous after he died, Lerner and Loewe -
Bye Bye Birdie
Strouse and Adams, pivoting to a new style -
Stephen Flaherty
Once on this Island, Ragtime -
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Jonathan Larson
Tick tick boom, rent, died too young -
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Pulitzer, frank loesser -
David Yazbek
The Fully Monty -
Janine Tesori
Caroline or Change, Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek, Fun Home -
Michael John LaChuisa
Marie Christine, the wild Party, Giant -
She Loves Me
Bock and Harnick -
Fiddler on the Roof
Bock and Harnick, end of the golden age -
Hello, Dolly!
Jerry Herman -
Man of La Mancha
Mitch Leigh, one hit wonder, regional houses to do work, no chorus girls, thrust stage -
Adam Guettel
Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins -
Andrew Lippa
Charlie Brown, Addams Family, Wild Party -
Mame
Jerry Herman -
Sweet Charity
First to use synthesizers, cy coleman -
Cabaret
Kander and Ebb, fosse=movie, concept musical -
Promises Promises
Burt Bacharach, Michael Bennet, NEW STYLES OF MUSIC!!!!! -
Hair
McDermot, rado and ragini -
1776
Sherman Edwards -
Laurence O'Keefe
Legally Blonde, Bat Boy, Heathers -
Company
Sondheim -
Jesus Christ Superstar
Andrew lloyd webber -
Jason Robert Brown
Parade, The Last Five Years, Honeymoon in Vegas -
Brian Yorkey
Next to Normal, If/Then -
Godspell
stephen Schwartz -
Pippin
stephen Schwartz -
A Little Night Music
Sondheim -
Rasin
Woldin and Brittain -
Tom Kitt
Next to Normal, If/Then -
Chicago
Kander and Ebb, Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Anne Reinking, Chita Rivera -
A Chorus Line
Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Bennet, Pulitzer -
The Wiz
Charlie Smalls -
Evita
Andrew lloyd webber, tim rice -
Sweeney Todd
Sondheim -
42nd Street
gower champion, Harry Warren, Al Dubin -
Lin-Manuel miranda
In the Heights, Hamilton -
CATS
Andrew lloyd webber, old possums book of practical cats -
Dreamgirls
Henry Krieger, Michael Bennet -
Joe Iconis
be more chill, love in hate nation -
Little Shop of Horrors
alan menken -
LA Cage Aux Folles
Jerry Herman -
Sunday in the Park with George
Sondheim -
Ryan Scott Oliver
30mm -
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Rupert Holmes, Golden Age/Operetta throwback -
Justin Pasek
Dogfight, Dear Evan Hansen -
Benj Paul
Dogfight, Dear Evan Hansen -
The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew lloyd webber -
Les Miserables
Boublil and Schonberg -
Assassins
Sondheim -
Once on this Island
Flaherty and AHrens -
The Secret Garden
Lucy Simon, Marsha Norman, Susan Schulman, Golden Age/Operetta throwback -
Miss Saigon
Boublil and Schonberg -
Falsettos
William Finn -
Beauty and the beast
alan menken -
RENT
Larson -
Titanic
Maury Yeston -
Lion King
Elton John -
ragtime
Flaherty and AHrens -
Parade
JRB -
Footloose
jukebox, 1984 movie -
The Full Monty
David Yazbek -
The Producers
Mel Brooks -
Urinetown
Hollmann and Kotis -
Mamma Mia
ABBA, jukebox -
The Last Five Years
JRb -
Hairspray
Marc Shaiman -
Wicked
stephen Schwartz -
Avenue Q
Lopez and Marks -
Caroline or Change
Janine Tesori -
Light in the Piazza
Adam Guettel, Golden Age/Operetta throwback -
Dessa Rose
Flaherty and AHrens -
Spelling Bee
Willian Finn -
The Color Purple
Bray, Rusell, Willis -
All Shook Up
Elvis, jukebox -
Jersey boys
The four seasons, jukebox -
The Drowsy Chaperone
Lambert and Morrison -
Spring Awakening
Sheik, Slater -
Legally Blonde
Laurence O'Keefe -
In the Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda -
American Idiot
GreenDay, jukebox -
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Friedman -
Once
Hansard, irglova -
Dogfight
Pasek and Paul -
The Book of Mormon
PARker and Stone, lopez -
A Gentleman's Guide Guide to Love and Murder
Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman -
Kinky Boots
Cyndi Lauper -
Beautiful
Carole King, jukebox -
Fun Home
Janine Tesori -
Hamilton
Lin Manuel Miranda -
Dear Evan Hansen
Pasek and Paul -
Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham
next thing you know, I love you because -
Goldrich and Heisler
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