Pre-Pre Golden
Comic French opera
Opera Bouffe
His FOLLIES were a precursor to our musicals
Ziegfeld
Oklahoma
West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim
Allows us to see the inner fears and hopes of a protagonist without lyrics
Dream Ballet
Comic Italian opera
Opera Buffa
The small theatre where much innovation was made because of low budgets and small casts
Princess Theatre
Wrote the book for Oklahoma
Oscar Hammerstein
Rodgers writing partner before Hammerstein
Lorenz Hart
Term for the elements of the musical all coming together. (Hint, Oklahoma was the first to do so)
Integration
Dramatic Italian Opera
Opera Seria
The first musical comedy (not musical play, think pre 1920s)
The Black Crook
Major convention did Oklahoma break in the first few minutes of the show.
Solo opening number instead of group number
Innovator of the Princess Musicals, Show Boat and Brigadoon
Jerome Kern
songs that take place in the world of the play, either within a performance context (night club, theater, etc.), or as a song a character sings for an acknowledged audience
Diagetic
This team wrote operettas like The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert and Sullivan
The first musical play
Show Boat
She did the choreography for Oklahoma
Agnes DeMille
Guys and Dolls, Most Happy Fella, How to Succeed
Frank Loesser
1940s
This famous Greek tale has influenced everything from operas to Hadestown (the Italian name!)
L'Orfeo
Wrote the lyrics for the first musical play
Oscar Hammerstein
Year Oklahoma opened
1943
Of Thee I Sing, Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Decade musicals start to go away as the popular music of the day
1960s