Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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10 Facts About Musical theatre
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Musical theatre is closely related to the theatrical form of opera, but the two are usually distinguished by weighing a number of factors.
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Gilbert and Sullivan's influence on later musical theatre was profound, creating examples of how to "integrate" musicals so that the lyrics and dialogue advanced a coherent story.
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Musical theatre experimented with a modern-dress, family-friendly musical theatre style, with breezy, popular songs, snappy, romantic banter, and stylish spectacle at the Gaiety and his other theatres.
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Musical theatre replaced the bawdy women of burlesque with his "respectable" corps of Gaiety Girls to complete the musical and visual fun.
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The British Musical theatre public supported far longer runs like that of The Maid of the Mountains and especially Chu Chin Chow.
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Musical theatre was later the director-choreographer for Sweet Charity, Pippin and Chicago .
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Two men had considerable impact on musical theatre history beginning in this decade: Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman.
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Musical theatre started to diverge from the relatively narrow confines of the 1950s.
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Some musical theatre markets began to reopen in fits and starts by early 2021, with West End theatres postponing their reopening from June to July, and Broadway starting in September.
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