musical play
Let an agent explain musicals, relay history, forms, creative roles and industry from theatre history sources, describe the named forms and flag the instance and related traditions, and distinguish musicals from opera, operetta, revue, musical films and plays with incidental music.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain musicals, relay history, forms, creative roles and industry from theatre history sources, describe the named forms and flag the instance and related traditions, and distinguish musicals from opera, operetta, revue, musical films and plays with incidental music.
A form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance to tell a story, developed from operetta, music hall, vaudeville and burlesque into the book musical exemplified by Show Boat of 1927 and Oklahoma! of 1943, centred on Broadway and the West End, with forms such as historical musicals, children s musicals and later jukebox and concept musicals; the registry aliases also include Everybody s Talking About Jamie, a 2017 musical that is an instance, tuong, a Vietnamese classical theatre form, and Tumbuk kalang, an Indonesian rice-pounding music tradition, which are related performing arts rather than musicals.
What it is for: Musical storytelling on stage.
It can be explain history and forms; relay creative roles and industry; describe named forms; flag instances and related traditions.
Distinguishing features
Songs advance story
Spoken dialogue
Dance
Commercial theatre centres
What it looks like
Stage productions with singing, dancing, orchestra and sets.
Physical character
Show Boat: 1927 year - landmark book musical
Oklahoma!: 1943 year - Rodgers and Hammerstein
Everybody s Talking About Jamie: 2017 year - instance
How it is recognised
Stage work combining songs, dialogue and dance
Musical, historical musical, Tumbuk kalang, children s musical, tuong, Everybody s Talking About Jamie
Opera is mostly sung; operetta is lighter opera; revues lack a single story; film musicals are screen works; incidental music supports plays
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is staged on -
is contrasted with -
includes - instance
In practice
Families and kinds
book musicals
concept musicals
jukebox musicals
rock and pop musicals
historical and children s musicals
Standards and regulation
Theatrical licensing and grand rights
Tony and Olivier awards eligibility rules
Failure modes and hazards
Treating instances as kinds
Misfiled traditional forms
Stale production information
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a musical is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a musical, and how does it differ from opera, operetta, revue, film musicals and plays with music? definition
- Is the question about a specific show, history, performing or licensing? boundary
Forms
Named forms.
Forms
Forms.
- What are historical and children s musicals, and why are Jamie, tuong and Tumbuk kalang different? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
History History.
Sources.
Origins
Origins.
Origins
Origins.
- How did operetta, vaudeville and music hall lead to the musical? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Golden Age
Golden Age.
Golden Age
Golden Age.
- What defined the Golden Age of the Broadway musical? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Craft Making musicals.
Sources.
Roles
Creative roles.
Roles
Roles.
- What do the composer, lyricist and book writer do? provenance
- Which entry fits lyricist? action
Licensing
Licensing.
Licensing
Licensing.
- How do schools and amateur groups license musicals? provenance
- Which entry fits performing rights? action
Context World traditions.
Context.
Tuong
Vietnamese tuong.
Tuong
Tuong.
- What is tuong, and how does it differ from Western musicals? provenance
- Which entry fits tuong? action
Industry
Industry.
Industry
Industry.
- How do Broadway and West End economics work? provenance
- Is the information current? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- The registry aliases Everybody s Talking About Jamie, tuong and Tumbuk kalang should be moved to their own entries
- How should theatre history sources be linked?
- Should jukebox musical be a separate entry?