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#9 Musical Theatre

Watch & Read (for Tuesday's Quiz)

We're going out with a singing, dancing look at the Broadway Book Musical. Oklahoma! On the Town! Annie Get Your Gun! Also, just Annie! Today you'll learn about the development of the Broadway Book Musical in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and get a sense of how the form developed through the Golden Age of Broadway.

Vocabulary 

ballad opera

Black Crook

book musical

comic opera

concept musical

“dark” theatre

Fantasticks

Gilbert and Sullivan

In Dahomey

jukebox musical

libretto

lyrics

megamusical

operetta

rock musical

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Show Boat

sung-through

triple threat

vignette

West End

Videos

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