Sung-through

The adjective or adverb sung-through (also through-sung) describes a musical, musical film, opera, or other work of performance art in which songs entirely or almost entirely stand in place of any spoken dialogue. Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically, for example through a combination of recitative, aria, and arioso. Early versions of this include the Italian genre of opera buffa, a light-hearted form of opera that gained prominence in the 1750s.^[1]^[2]

A through-sung opera or other form of narrative work with continuous music may also be described as through-composed.

List of fully sung-through musicals

Art Thief Musical!
Bare: A Pop Opera
- Bare: The Musical
Bumblescratch
Cats^[3]
Une chambre en ville
Cricket
Les Dix Commandements
Evening-1910^[4]
Evita
Falsettos
Hamilton: An American Musical (sung-and-rapped-through)^[5]
The Human Comedy^[6]
Jesus Christ Superstar
Johanna
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Keating!
Katy! the Musical
King David
The Last 5 Years
Marry Me a Little
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem
Les Misérables^[7]
Miss Saigon^[7]
Murder Ballad
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812^[8]
Notre-Dame de Paris
Ordinary Days
Quadrophenia
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Song and Dance
Songs for a New World
Starlight Express
Starmania
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
Tell Me on a Sunday^[9]
The Ten Commandments: The Musical
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

List of sung-through musicals with scattered lines

Ain't Misbehavin'
American Idiot
Aspects of Love
Caroline or Change
Come from Away^[10]
Dance of the Vampires
Elisabeth
The Golden Apple^[11]
Hadestown
In Trousers
Jekyll & Hyde
Jerry Springer: The Opera
John & Jen
Love Never Dies
Martin Guerre
The Most Happy Fella
A New Brain^[12]
Next to Normal^[13]
Once on This Island^[14]^[15]
Parade
Passing Strange
The Phantom of the Opera
Pink Floyd—The Wall
The Pirate Queen
Ragtime
Rent
Seussical^[16]
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Side Show^[17]
Soon
The Stingiest Man in Town
Sunset Boulevard
Superhero
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Who's Tommy
The Woman in White

List of sung-through musicals depending on the production

Chess^[18]^[19]
- Originally starting off as a concept album, the musical has a reputation for being re-written during every new production that is staged around the world. Some productions are completely sung-through, some have scattered lines, and some (notably the original Broadway production) are staged as book musicals.^[20]
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris^[21]

References

^ Richard Taruskin, (2009 ). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press
^ Lotte Eilskov Jensen, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, Marita Mathijsen (eds). 2010. Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Brill. p. 236.
^ Hummler, Richard (13 October 1982). "Cats". Variety. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ Finkle, David (9 May 2016). "First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016".
^ Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017). "How to Make a Hamilton Movie". Screen Rant.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ ^a ^b Vermette, Margaret (2007). The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg. pp. 37, 41. ISBN 9781557837158.
^ Clarke, David. "BWW CD Reviews: NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Original Cast Recording) is Astonishingly Complex". BroadwayWorld.com.
^ "First Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me on a Sunday'". Huffington Post. 19 February 2014.
^ https://laist.com/2018/11/29/surprisingly_funny_911_musical_come_from_away_comes_to_la.php
^ Dietz, Dan (21 November 2012). Off Broadway Musicals, 1910Š—–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457311 – via Google Books.
^ "A New Brain, a CurtainUp review". www.curtainup.com.
^ Shubow, Charles. "BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL At Center Stage is Electrifying". BroadwayWorld.com.
^ "Charpo Canada -". Charpo Canada.
^ Hischak, Thomas S. (18 February 2011). Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877726 – via Google Books.
^ "Munster High School Musical Opens Saturday." NWITimes. 2013.
^ Hetrick, Adam (2 August 2013). "Erin Davie and Emily Padgett Will Star in Re-Imagined Side Show at La Jolla and Kennedy Center". Playbill.
^ "Chess the Musical – The Production Company". www.australianstage.com.au.
^ "Chess: A Musical". www.metafilter.com.
^ Chess (musical)#Miscellaneous productions.2C concerts.2C and recordings .281989.E2.80.93present.29
^ Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (film)#Soundtrack

[1] Richard Taruskin, (2009 ). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press

[2] Lotte Eilskov Jensen, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, Marita Mathijsen (eds). 2010. Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Brill. p. 236.

[3] Hummler, Richard (13 October 1982). "Cats". Variety. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[4] Finkle, David (9 May 2016). "First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016".

[Donaldson-5] Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017). "How to Make a Hamilton Movie". Screen Rant.

[6] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[boublil-7] Vermette, Margaret (2007). The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg. pp. 37, 41. ISBN 9781557837158.

[8] Clarke, David. "BWW CD Reviews: NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Original Cast Recording) is Astonishingly Complex". BroadwayWorld.com.

[9] "First Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me on a Sunday'". Huffington Post. 19 February 2014.

[10] ttps://laist.com/2018/11/29/surprisingly_funny_911_musical_come_from_away_comes_to_la.php

[11] Dietz, Dan (21 November 2012). Off Broadway Musicals, 1910Š—–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457311 – via Google Books.

[12] "A New Brain, a CurtainUp review". www.curtainup.com.

[13] Shubow, Charles. "BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL At Center Stage is Electrifying". BroadwayWorld.com.

[14] "Charpo Canada -". Charpo Canada.

[15] Hischak, Thomas S. (18 February 2011). Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877726 – via Google Books.

[16] "Munster High School Musical Opens Saturday." NWITimes. 2013.

[17] Hetrick, Adam (2 August 2013). "Erin Davie and Emily Padgett Will Star in Re-Imagined Side Show at La Jolla and Kennedy Center". Playbill.

[18] "Chess the Musical – The Production Company". www.australianstage.com.au.

[19] "Chess: A Musical". www.metafilter.com.

[20] Chess (musical)#Miscellaneous productions.2C concerts.2C and recordings .281989.E2.80.93present.29

[21] Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (film)#Soundtrack

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