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What is one difference between Operettas and
Musicals?•1) Operettas are performed in
theatres, Musicals are not
•2) Operettas have spoken dialogue, Musicals do not
•3) Operettas are more closely tied to the classical tradition, while Musicals are oriented toward popular song.
•1) It combined music and acting
•2) Its plot dealt with sensitive issues such as racism
•3) There was a working river on the stage
One of the innovative features of Showboat was?
Oklahoma! (1943)
•Richard Rogers, music; Hammerstein, lyrics
•Based on Lynn Riggs play Green Grow the Lilacs
•Unprecedented run of 2, 212 performances
•Special Pulitzer prize awarded 1944
•1) Kern and Berlin
•2) Rogers and Hammerstein
•3) George and Ira Gershwin
•4) San Francisco Giants
Oklahoma! was a product of the
outstanding team:
West Side Story (1957)
•Leonard Bernstein, music
•Stephen Sondheim, lyrics
•Arthur Laurents, book
•Jerome Robbins, choreography
•1) Street gangs: one White (Polish) and the other Puerto Rican
•2) Two fathers: one works in a nuclear power plant, the other owns the Kwik-e-Mart
In West Side Story, the role of the “feuding
families” is played by