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2. Rodgers and Hammerstein - Wikipedia

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   Their popular Broadway productions in the 1940s and 1950s initiated what is considered the "golden age" of musical theater. [2] Five of their Broadway shows, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes, as was the television broadcast of Cinderella (1957).

3. Musical theatre - Wikipedia

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   The Black Crook was a long-running musical on Broadway in 1866. [1]Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated who

4. Broadway theatre - Wikipedia

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   After the lean years of the Great Depression, Broadway theatre had entered a golden age with the blockbuster hit Oklahoma!, in 1943, which ran for 2,212 performances. According to John Kenrick's writings on Broadway musicals, "Every season saw new stage musicals send songs to the top of the charts. Public demand, a booming economy and abundant ...

5. List of the longest-running Broadway shows - Wikipedia

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   Anatomy of a Hit: Long-Run Plays on Broadway from 1900 to the Present Day. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1966. Schildcrout, Jordan. In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Sheward, David. It's a Hit!: The Back Stage Book of Longest-Running Broadway Shows, 1884 to the Present. New York: Back ...

6. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

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   Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2003 documentary film by Rick McKay, [1] telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 1940s and 1950s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos.

7. Development of musical theatre - Wikipedia

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   [41] Nevertheless, as the Great Depression set in during the post-Broadway national tour of Show Boat, the public turned back to light, brassy, escapist entertainment, and no follow-up was produced so seriously treating serious social themes until Oklahoma! in 1943. [41] The motion picture mounted a challenge to the stage.

8. Mitzi Gaynor, star of Hollywood musicals, dies at 93

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   Mitzi Gaynor, whose singing and dancing brightened Hollywood musicals throughout the 1950s, including trying unsuccessfully to "wash that man right outa my hair" as nurse Nellie Forbush in "South ...

9. Lists of musicals - Wikipedia

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   List of musicals: A to L; List of musicals: M to Z; List of musicals by composer: A to L; List of musicals by composer: M to Z; List of musicals filmed live on stage; List of rock musicals; List of stage jukebox musicals; List of Tony Award- and Olivier Award-winning musicals; Long-running musical theatre productions; Long runs on the London ...