Terms :P
The center of musical theater
What is "New York City"?
The notion the entertainment industry of the 1940s was looking to uphold.
What is "The American Dream"?
The first musical to be racial integrated, show an interracial marriage, and show a character of mixed race
What is "Show Boat"?
The device that played a major role in the mass distribution of music during the 1940s
What is "radio"?
The genre musical theater originated from
What is "opera"?
A contemporary, pop style of singing
What is "belt" singing?
The mood and intricacies of musicals in the early 1920s
What is "lighthearted and shallow"?
Oklahoma popularized this style of dance in musicals
What is "dream ballet"?
Musical style that became popular in the 1970s
What is "rock"?
The dominant story arc of Golden Age musicals
What is "romance"?
A classical, sometimes operatic style of singing
What is "legit" singing?
The mood of musicals in the 1930s
Anything Goes popularized this style of dance in musicals
What is "tap"?
Topics discussed in 1970s musicals
What are "edgier" topics? (Sexuality, teen pregnancy, drugs, etc.)
The height of World Ear II led to a push for this type of music
What is "patriotic"?
A musical including both story and song
What is an "integrated musical"?
The effect the economic boom had on musical theater in the 1950s
What is "Broadway boom, more money to spend on entertainment"?
Rent became a game changer in musical theater because of this
What is "showed small, inexpensive musicals can be successful"?
The competition for musicals in the 1980s-1990s
Big-budget movies with special effects
The name for the 1940s-1960s era of musicals
What is "The Golden Age of Broadway"?
Short skits of random humor and talent
What is "vaudeville"?
The three events in the 1940s that led to Americans wanting escapism
What are "the years after Great Depression, height of WWII, and beginning of the Cold War"?
The new standard Show Boat set at the end of the 1920s
What is "the use of a serious and intriguing storyline"?
The two major threats to musical theater in the 1930s
What are "movies and The Great Depression"?
The First Lady of Musical Theater
Who is "Ethel Merman"?