Musicals that Narrate through Dance?

[DancerGirl16]

Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#1

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:35pm

Does anyone have some examples of musicals, that have "ballet sequences" (meaning that they use dance to narrate the story.

(doesn't neccessary have to be in ballet style)

I really appreciate any examples!

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[dramamama611]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#2

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:38pm

Oklahoma.

Billy Joel's Movin' Out IS a ballet but billed as a musical.




Um....thinking....thinking....

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[MTVMANN]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#2

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:39pm

Carousel!

[DancerGirl16]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#3

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:45pm

Do you guys think the NuttyCracker in Millie qualifies?

When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere

[dramamama611]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#4

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:56pm

No...because they are "at a club dancing". The story itself involves them dancing at a club.

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[DancerGirl16]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#5

Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:02pm

ok....thank you!

My logic was that "the plot moves foward," they are at the club, then they get caught and arrested, and then "poof" next scene in jail.

But, yours makes more sense :)

When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere

[dramamama611]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#6

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:02pm

Its more like things happen WHILE they are dancing, not that the dancing is telling us somehting separate.

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[blaxx]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#7

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:50pm

Sweet Charity has the Rich Man's Frug

All of Contact

The second act of Song & Dance

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[MrSweetNAwful]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#8

Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:53pm

I think Frug is in the same category as Nutty Cracker


ahem, WEST SIDE STORY

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[broadway122]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#9

Posted: 5/10/09 at 4:47pm

what about Once on This Island. Don't they do a lot of dancing in that to move the story?

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[scaryclowns2232]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#10

Posted: 5/10/09 at 5:27pm

This happens in some interludes of 9 to 5 (where the guy gets hired), but it doesn't really count because they clarify with words after.

[sally1112]

re: Musicals that Narrate through Dance?#11

Posted: 5/10/09 at 5:33pm

What about The More We Dance, from DRS?