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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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