1. General Music
Musicals

2. History
Musicals started on Broadway St in New York, City around the turn of the 20th century (early 1900s)
Short plays with song and dance were performed on street corners

3. History continued Revues soon started
Florence Ziegfeld with “Ziegfeld Follies”
Singers, dancers, chorus line
Pioneered new talents of songwriters
Also allowed African-American talent to be showcased
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Louis Armstrong, and Ethel Waters

4. Structure/Form Opening Number Solos/Duets/Ensemble numbers
All cast is on stage
Usually introduces characters and sets up the storyline
Solos/Duets/Ensemble numbers
Builds tension
Explains thoughts, emotions, and responses of the characters
Chorus Number
Happens at climax of the story
Happens right before Intermission (15 to 20 minute break)

5. Structure/Form continued
Solos/Duets/Ensemble
Resolves tension
Explains thoughts, emotions, and responses of the characters
Closing/Ending Chorus Number
Ends with everyone on stage
Story ends, gives feeling of resolution

6. Famous Musicals and Composers
Cole Porter
Kiss Me Kate
Anything Goes
George and Ira Gershwin
Porgy and Bess
Funny Face
Oh, Kay!

7. Richard Rogers (composer) and Oscar Hammerstein (lyricist)
State Fair
South Pacific
Show Boat
Oklahoma
The Sound of Music
Carousel
The King and I

8. Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story
Candide
Peter Pan

9. Andrew Lloyd Weber Cats Phantom of the Opera Evita
Jesus Christ Superstar
Was considered a “rock opera”
Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

10. Stephen Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Into the Woods
Sweeney Todd
Assassins
West Side Story (lyrics)

11. Tim Rice Beauty and the Beast The Lion King Aida
Worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber on Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat
Has written many songs for Disney

12. Musical Examples America from West Side Story
Phantom of the Opera
Prologue from Into the Woods
My Favorite Things from Sound of Music
Circle of Life from The Lion King