Sung-through
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A sung-through (also through-sung) musical, musical film, songs-only version, songs-only edition, sing-along or opera is a musical play with no spoken dialogue.
Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically 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 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
- 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
- Parade
- 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
- Dance of the Vampires
- Elisabeth
- The Golden Apple[10]
- Hadestown
- In Trousers
- Jekyll & Hyde
- Jerry Springer: The Opera
- John & Jen
- Love Never Dies
- Martin Guerre
- The Most Happy Fella
- A New Brain[11]
- Next to Normal[12]
- Once on This Island[13][14]
- Parade
- Passing Strange
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Pink Floyd—The Wall
- The Pirate Queen
- Ragtime
- Rent
- Seussical[15]
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Side Show[16]
- 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[17][18]
- 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.[19]
- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris[20]
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.
- ^ 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