Intro/Origins
Greek actors wore these, causing them to need to rely on their voice and physical gestures as the main way to express their characters.
What are masks?
This British duo highlighted ridiculousness in a sincere manner in their musicals.
Who are Gilbert and Sullivan?
This musical about cowboys revolutionized the future of musical theater by integrating song, story, and physical production
What is Oklahoma?
This musical style dominated the 1960's-1970's and almost ended the success of Broadway.
What is rock and roll?
This style of music is primarily used in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton.
What is rap?
These are 3 out of the 5 elements needed to create a musical.
What are music/lyrics, book/libretto, physical production, choreography, and staging?
This American composer revolutionized human emotion in music by mixing sentiment and romance.
This duo is one of the most popular duos in musical theater history that set a new standard for musicals during the golden age.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
Created in the 70's by Sondheim and Prince, this type of musical explores a central theme using characters and plotlines related to that theme
What is a concept musical?
This style of musical focuses on the music of a single band or artist and creates a story based off that music.
What is a jukebox musical?
This was created to provide a clean, safe alternative to American variety. It is French for "voice of the town."
What is vaudeville?
This early musical turned into a film years later would inspire a generation of family-friendly musicals.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
Which musical illustrated a clash between a royal Asian family and a British tutor?
What is The King and I?
This was a main theme in 1960's musicals
Overcoming hardships
The corporate musical was created by this production company.
What is Walt Disney Productions?
These testosterone-filled, and sometimes violent and dangerous places, are where American variety originated.
What are saloons?
This musical changed the future of musicals by exploring bigotry, heartbreak, and life on the river across many decades and locations.
What is Show Boat?
This musical experiments with musical tragedy by killing a main character at the end of the first act.
What is Carosuel?
This 1980's style of musical used melodramtic stories, big music, and the production was the extravagant star, not the actors.
What is a mega musical?
In the 90's, this musical spoke to a generation of young people struggling with money and disease.
What is Rent?
Theaters were built to honor this Greek god - the god of wine, agriculture, and joy.
Who is Dionysus?
This is the small, 299 seat theater that Jerome Kern composed music for.
What is the Princess Theater?
This is about the 20-year span that is known as the golden age of musical theater.
What is 1940-1960?
This musical uses Hebrew styles of music to tell the story of a milkman living in the Russian ghetto struggling to raise his family.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
In 2002, The Producers revived this style of musical, also the style of Hairspray and Spamalot.
What is musical comedy?