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Song and Dance
100

Composer famous for many musicals including Cats and Phantom of the Opera.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

100

Writers and Composers write with performers

Workshop

100

Musical based on Romeo and Juliet

West Side Story

100

Demonstrate the tap move: Flap

Demonstrate

200

In the USA in the 19th century, there was not much development in theatre due to their deep roots in this. 

Puritanism

200

Musical that uses previously released popular songs as its musical score

Jukebox Musical

200

The show that started the shift to what is known as the musical theatre “Golden Age”

Showboat

200

The opera version of a monologue

Aria

300

In Medieval Europe, the character a dancing performer portrays. 

The Devil

300

During this time, emphasis is put on concept 

1960s & 1970s

300

Collection of entertainment (songs, dances, acrobatics, animal acts) performed in concert halls, saloons, and playhouses

Variety and Vaudeville

300

In this period, almost all music is religious

Medieval 

400

Choreographer who introduced specific dancing as a means to advance the plot and reveal characters.

Jerome Robbins

400

In this time period, focus is less on spectacle and more on dance

1950s

400

1st Musical

The Black Crook

400

Demonstrate the tap move: Buffalo

Demonstrate

500

The "father of tap dance"

“Master Juba” - William Henry Lane

500

In this time period, realism and naturalism were introduced

1920s

500

New element of musicals introduced during Oklahoma!

Opening Number

500

Song in opera designed to carry the dialogue and to advance the action of the plot 

Recitative