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Theater Musicals

Theater Musicals combine dramatic acting with song and dance. Ask questions about your favorite Broadway and Off Broadway musicals, the casts, the shows, the songs, and much more here.

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What musical or play is The Girl in 14G from?

"The Girl From 14G" was written by Jeanine Tesori , who's an award-winning song writers for musicals (she wrote the score for Thoroughly Modern Millie). She was commissioned by Sony Classical to write "The Girl in 14G" for Kristin Chenoweth's debut CD, "Let Yourself Go".

What is the genre for the musical The Wizard of Oz?

The Wizard was a Hollywood musical. It also could be considered a fantasy, or "movie based on book". It was a record-breaking movie because it was the first movie in color, or at least partly in color. If you've seen the movie, I'm sure you know it starts of in Kansas in black and white and then lands on the rainbow, in (what was then) dazzling color.

What musical did Barbra Streisand perform in 1964?

In 1968, a young, beautiful and eager Barbra Streisand was freshly on the market. Her first movie, "Funny Girl," had just been released. The film is described as a "commercial based musical" and Streisand won a 1968 Academy Award for her role.

What is a good Broadway song for a teenage first soprano to sing?

popular- wicked

little lamb- gypsy

let me entertain you- gypsy

fully dressed- annie

hard knock life- annie

consider yourself- oliver

where is love- oliver

who will buy- oliver

all for you- seussical

amayzing mayzie- seussical

castle on a cloud- les mes.

good morning baltimore- hairsray

hopes this helps =)

What is les miserables?

Les misérables (the ones who live in misery) is a novel by Victor Hugo, set mainly in the first part of the 1800s. It is one of the most important books of French literature.

What musicals have 6 words in the title?

My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, Rent, Chicago, Cats, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, The Sound of Music...

*Just an updated, because the only of these currently on Broadway are Mamma Mia and Jersey Boys. Currently (as of August 2010): Addams Family, Next to Normal, Fela!, Memphis, The Million Dollar Quartet, Everyday Rapture, In The Heights, Billy Elliott, American Idiot, Come Fly Away, A Little Night Music, Phantom of the Opera, Promises, Promises.

Where can Porgy and Bess 1959 be purchased?

Talk about re-writing history! I watched this movie as a child, and now due to people in power who believe we should be told what to watch and what to believe in we cannot watch this movie anymore. If you could compare this movie to the crud they show about black Americans doing in movies now-days you simply could not understand why this movie is NO LONGER ALLOWED to be seen in America. Notice I did not say russia.

Americans need to be very worried about any sort of sensorship in America. The fact that a great movie such as this can be BANNED in American under cover, on the DOWN-LOW, should make every American stand up and ask "who the heck is able to do this" and "what else are these people going to be able to eliminate from the history of America?" A person in America today can buy or download any kind of filthy pornography they want FOR FREE, but they can't buy or download a great classic such as the 1959 movie Porgy & Bess.

Answer 2. I've only checked Amazon, and you might want to try other sources, but as of RIGHT NOW they're showing it available new on an all-region DVD for $49.99. That's very high, but it's not "banned," and never has been.

Is the heart is slow to learn in Love Never Dies?

The Heart is Slow to Learn is an earlier version of the song titled Love Never Dies in Andrew Lloyd Webbers Phantom sequel.

Which musical theatre songs are about choices?

Uhm... I suppose you could say...

Past the Point of No Return - The Phantom of the Opera (whether or not to be together, the beginning at least)

Down Once More - The Phantom of the Opera (whether ir not to kill Raoul, to let then go, for Christine to kiss the Phantom, for Christine to choose a life with the Phantom to save Raoul or to let Raoul die for her freedom)

Kiss Me - Sweeney Todd (whether or not to be together)

A Weekend in the Country - A Little Night Music (to got o the country or not)

Hope this helps!

What parts does Purity the angel have in anything goes?

She is one of Reno's Angels. She dances in Blow Gabriel Blow and Anything Goes, and probably more but she is defiantly in those two numbers. The girl playing purity must tap and have fluidity in their dancing for the musical numbers anything goes and blow Gabriel blow. Possibly must know ballroom dancing as well.

Does rent-the musical-have any talking?

Yes, in both the stage and movie versions. However, the movie version was substantially reworked to have more unaccompanied (without music) dialogue in it. The stage version is mostly sung-through, with some dialogue thrown in, generally as part of or intro to a song.

Who is the leader of the chorus?

The person who leads or conducts the chorus is called the conductor.

What is the Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan?

The Mikado is an operetta written by Gilbert and Sullivan. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was the second longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time. Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera. The Mikado remains the most frequently performed Savoy Opera, and it is especially popular with amateur and school productions. The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history.

Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese. Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions.

What is the order of the songs in legally blonde the musical?

Oh my god

serious

what you want

harvard variations

blood in the water

positive

ireland

ireland reprise

serious reprise

chip on my shoulder

so much better

act2

whipped in to shape

take it like a man

bend and snap

there! right ther! (gay or european)

legally blonde

legally blonde remix

scene of the crime

find my way

bows music

finale/goodbye song

When and why was Oliver the musical written?

Oliver is about a young orphan boy who feels lost. He goes to london to try to make his fortune and befriends a young boy named the Artful Dodger. He lives with pocketpickers. The musical is about people trying to make thier wasy in the world living under the poverty line.

Who stared in the musical the Phantom of the Opera?

Sarah Brightman Played Christine. Micheal Crawford played the Phantom. Andrew Loyd Webber composed the music. Charles Hart wrote most of the lyrics. Gaston Leroux written the Phantom of the Opera, released in 1909 as a novel.

Who is better fontine or eponine?

Eponine, with out a doubt, On my Own and A Little Fall of Rain are two of the best songs in the entire musical!