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The city actually deemed the month of the opening "Prosperity Month," celebrating the recent era of development Texas was experiencing. In size, the Greater Majestic was second in the nation only to Atlanta, Georgia's Fox Theatre , and it was the first theatre in Texas to be fully air-conditioned, something that alone was a major attraction in ...
The American Musical: History & Development. ISBN 9780889629257. Simas, Rick (1987). The Musicals No One Came to See: A Guidebook to Four Decades of Musical-Comedy Casualties On Broadway, Off-Broadway, and In Out-Of-Town Try-Out, 1943-1983. Garland Publishing. ISBN 9780824088040.
The title of the musical is followed by its first public performance, the composer, the lyricist, the book writer, the title of the film adapted from the musical, the year of the film, and the film's director. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.
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The 1930s through the early 1950s are considered to be the golden age of the musical film, when the genre's popularity was at its highest in the Western world. Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the earliest Disney animated feature film, was a musical which won an honorary Oscar for Walt Disney at the 11th Academy Awards.
Allowing a recent film to crack the Top 5 is risky, but Lin Manuel-Miranda's adaptation of Jonathan Larson's unfinished autobiographical musical is an astonishing feat and everything that I love ...
The Big Show is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring Gene Autry, Kay Hughes, and Smiley Burnette.Written by Dorrell and Stuart E. McGowan, the film is about a singing cowboy who confuses two girls by being himself and his own stunt double at the Texas Centennial in Dallas.
A William Hogarth painting based on The Beggar's Opera (c. 1728), a key antecedent of musical theatre. Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.