#26
Posted: 4/7/05 at 11:07am
It's not about the style of the period so much. If it were, then every musical would be an operetta and there would have been no distiction between the two. Operetta was a crossover style that started dying out in the 40s due to the popularity of "musicals", which were different. Show Boat is a perfect example of this. The book was far more sophisticated, the characters had more depth and the score was more integrated into the book. While both musicals and operettas have existed in the same period, the distiction between the two were pretty clear to most critics and audiences. The writing, composition, structure and style were different. Popular musicals began to catch on and operettas died out.
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