Musicals/plays without speaking at all
Musicals/plays without speaking at all
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#1
Posted: 7/17/16 at 10:08pm
Stomp, blue man group? What else?
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Musicals/plays without speaking at all#3
Posted: 7/17/16 at 11:33pm
Did Largely New York have any dialogue?
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#4
Posted: 7/17/16 at 11:46pm
In no particular order, and yes, I know, there's a lot of Webber on here.
Cats
Evita
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hamilton
Les Misérables
Miss Saigon
Falsettos
The Last 5 Years
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Starlight Express
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Musicals/plays without speaking at all#5
Posted: 7/17/16 at 11:47pm
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1094761&dt=20
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Musicals/plays without speaking at all#6
Posted: 7/18/16 at 12:01am
The recent off Broadway show The Woodsman had zero dialogue and very little music tthehttp://thewoodsmanplay.com/
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#7
Posted: 7/18/16 at 1:16am
I think the OP was looking for shows where nothing is said at all rather than shows where everything is sung.
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#11
Posted: 7/18/16 at 5:58am
Mr. Nowack said: "I think the OP was looking for shows where nothing is said at all rather than shows where everything is sung.
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Ah, I think that you may be right, apologies to the OP.
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#12
Posted: 7/18/16 at 7:00am
¿Macavity? said: "In no particular order, and yes, I know, there's a lot of Webber on here.
Cats
Evita
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hamilton
Les Misérables
Miss Saigon
Falsettos
The Last 5 Years
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Starlight Express
Che in "EVITA" speaks. He talks during the instrumental break in the song "Buenos Aires".
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#15
Posted: 7/18/16 at 8:56am
Technically, all of those plays have some sort of "dialogue." Even if they're part of a song or underscored by music. It would be super helpful if the OP could be a bit more clear....
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#17
Posted: 7/18/16 at 9:51am
Request Concert by Franz Xaver Kroetz
Play Without Words by Samuel Beckett
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#19
Posted: 7/18/16 at 10:42am
Mummenschanz (I hope I got the spelling right).
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#20
Posted: 7/18/16 at 10:44am
Do they still perform or have they gone silent?
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#22
Posted: 7/18/16 at 11:20am
I really wouldn't consider Blue Man Group, Stomp, or Fuerzabruta to be musicals. Or even theatre.
Musicals/plays without speaking at all#23
Posted: 7/18/16 at 11:47am
The classic Cirque du Soleil shows up to around 2001-2002 had a variation on this, with singing and dialogue in "Cirque-ese," the invented nonsensical language that depends more on sound and tone than any actual meaning or language construct. Singers would vocalize wordlessly on some songs and sing "lyrics" in Cirque-ese on others, while the clowns and occasional "characters" would dialogue in Cirque-ese almost exclusively.
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