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The Black Crook
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Music Thomas Baker
Lyrics Theodore Kennick Book Charles M. Barras Productions 1866 Broadway Plot: The production included state-of-the-art special effects, including a "transformation scene" that converted a rocky grotto into a fairyland throne room in full view of the audience. A scantily-clad female dancing chorus of 100 ballerinas in skin-colored tights, choreographed in semi-classical style by David Costa, was a big draw |
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Oh, Kay
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Music George Gershwin
Lyrics Ira Gershwin Book Guy Bolton P. G. Wodehouse Basis play La Presidente Productions 1926 Broadway Plot: The story aptly captured the spirit of the Roaring Twenties, bootleggers |
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Brigadoon
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Music Frederick Loewe
Lyrics Alan Jay Lerner Book Alan Jay Lerner *based on a much older German story by Friedrich Gerstäcker, later translated by Charles Brandon Schaeffer. Productions 1947 Broadway Plot:It tells the story of a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years, though to the villagers, the passing of each century seems no longer than one night.In 1947, memories of World War II were too fresh to present a German-themed musical on Broadway, so Lerner reimagined the story in Scotland, complete with kilts, bonnie lasses, bagpipes, Highland flings and "Heather on the Hill". |
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Finian's Rainbow
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Music Burton Lane
Lyrics E.Y. Harburg Book E.Y. Harburg Fred Saidy Productions 1947 Broadway Plot:Finian moves to the Upper South from Ireland with his daughter Sharon, to bury a stolen pot of gold near Fort Knox, in the mistaken belief that it will grow. A leprechaun follows them, desperate to recover his treasure before the loss of it turns him permanently human. Complications arise when a bigoted and corrupt U.S. Senator gets involved, and when wishes are made inadvertently over the hidden crock. All ends happily.A combination of whimsy, romance, and political satire. |
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Kiss Me, Kate
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Music Cole Porter
Lyrics Cole Porter Book Samuel and Bella Spewack Basis Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew Productions 1948 Broadway Plot:Egotistical Fred Graham is the director of a Broadway-bound musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He and his diva movie-star ex-wife Lilli Vanessi star opposite each other in the roles of Petruchio and Katharine (The "Kate" of the title). The pair argue backstage as only people in love can argue. Meanwhile, Fred's new girlfriend, Lois Lane, who plays Bianca, is romantically interested in Bill Calhoun, the actor playing Lucentio. Bill loves to gamble, and it turns out that he has signed Fred's name to a big IOU [for $10,000 from a game of craps]. Also, flowers sent by Fred to Lois are mistakenly delivered to Lilli, and Lilli realizes that she still loves Fred. Everyone is in the middle of performing The Taming of the Shrew on stage when Lilli discovers that Fred's flowers were really intended for Lois, and she starts an all-out war mid-performance that threatens the production's success. At the same time, a pair of gangsters have come after Fred to collect the gambling debt, since his name is on the IOU. Only a successful show will provide the money that Fred needs to avoid getting his fingers broken. Fred slyly uses the gangsters to prevent the furious Lilli from walking out on the show. The gangsters join the cast to keep an eye on Lilli. Lilli channels her anger into a fierce performance as Katharine, and Fred loses his temper and spanks her as Petruchio. Act II After intermission, "The Shrew" progresses as Petruchio marries Katharine and soon misses the single life. The gangsters find out that their boss has been killed, and so the IOU is worthless, and they leave, noting that guys who know Shakespeare can impress the ladies. Lilli quits the show, walking out with her dependable fiance Harrison. On stage, Bianca and Lucentio are finally married. As "The Shrew" comes to a close, Lilli unexpectedly returns to the stage, and speaking as Katharine, she admits her love for Fred. Lilli and Fred are reunited, Lois and Bill come together, and all ends happily. |
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Carousel
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Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II Book Oscar Hammerstein II Basis Liliom, a play by Ferenc Molnár Productions 1945 Broadway Plot:Carousel was innovative for its time, being one of the first musicals to contain a tragic plot.play Liliom, transplanting the Budapest setting of Molnár's play to a New England fishing village. |
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South Pacific
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Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II Book Oscar Hammerstein II Joshua Logan Basis Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener Productions 1949 Broadway Plot:issue of racial prejudice was sensitively and candidly explored |
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Oklahoma!
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Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II Book Oscar Hammerstein II Basis Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs Productions 1943 Broadway Plot:Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. A secondary romance concerns flirtatious Ado Annie and her long-suffering fiancé Will Parker. |
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Guys And Dolls
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Music Frank Loesser
Lyrics Frank Loesser Book Jo Swerling Abe Burrows Basis The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon Productions 1950 Broadway |
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Hair
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Music Galt MacDermot
Lyrics James Rado Gerome Ragni Book James Rado Gerome Ragni Productions 1967 Off-Broadway 1968 Broadway Plot: Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution with their rebellion against the war and their conservative parents and society. Ultimately, Claude must decide whether to resist the draft as his friends have done, or to compromise his pacifistic principles and risk his life by serving in Vietnam. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy.[1] The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of "rock musical", using a racially integrated cast, and inviting the audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale. the roles for the black members of the tribe portrayed them as equals, breaking away from the traditional roles for blacks in entertainment as slaves or servants.Songs like "Good Morning, Starshine" and "Aquarius" reflect the '60s cultural interest in astrological and cosmic concepts.laude becomes a classic Christ figure at various points in the script.[69] In Act I, Claude enters, saying, "I am the Son of God. I shall vanish and be forgotten," then gives benediction to the tribe and the audience. Claude suffers from indecision, and, in his Gethsemane at the end of Act I, he asks "Where Do I Go?". There are textual allusions to Claude being on a cross, and, in the end, he is chosen to give his life for the others.[69] Berger can be seen as a John the Baptist figure, preparing the way for Claude.air also aims its satire at the pollution caused by our civilization.[50] Jeanie appears from a trap door in the stage wearing a gas mask and then sings the song "Air": "Welcome, sulfur dioxide. Hello carbon monoxide. The air ... is everywhere"The theme of opposition to the war that pervades the show is unified by the plot thread that progresses through the book – Claude's moral dilemma over whether to burn his draft card.Pacifism is explored, nudity, sexual freedom, drug use. The naked body was beautiful, something to be celebrated and appreciated, not scorned and hidden. |
