Sung Through Musicals
Sung Through Musicals
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#0Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:19pmBesides Phantom of the Opera, are there any other musicals on Broadway sung through?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#1re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:20pm
His name is Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Also "A New Brain" is almost entirely sung through.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#2re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:23pmI should correct myself: any current musicals on Broadway, not ones that have already closed.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Updated On: 9/19/04 at 08:23 PM
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#3re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:24pmThis is an infertile period on Broadway, so no, there are no other sung-through musicals on right now. Not since Caroline, or Change closed.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#4re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:37pmThanks. Anyone know if Brooklyn is sung through, and what upcoming shows will be?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
aspiringguy715
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/04
#5re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:38pmBare: A Pop Opera is entirely sung through, hence the "Opera."
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#6re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:41pmi think rent technically is with some exceptions
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#7re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:43pm
I forgot about Rent. Yup, that's right.
The question was about Broadway, so I don't think Bare counts.
aspiringguy715
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/04
#8re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:46pmVery true Plum, take note that "BARE" is Off-Broadway.
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#9re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 8:59pm
Was Assassins sung through? I know there were some lines, like the ones on the CD, but were there many lines cut from there?
Basically, what I'm asking how complete is the Assassins CD? When I phrase it that way, its OT lol
#10re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 9:00pmThere was an extensive and funny book.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#11re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 9:02pmI dont think RENT counts, theres a lot of speaking.
#12re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 9:03pmRAGTIME and SEUSSICAL pretty much are.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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Actinggbugg474
Featured Actor Joined: 9/4/04
#13re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:20pmJust a question .. I've heard the term "operetta" being thrown around a lot in regards to shows like Les Mis and Phantom. I was just wondering if this was the correct term. Any ideas?
MusicMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#14re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:22pm
"This is an infertile period on Broadway so there are no other sung-through musicals on right now."
Whether a show is sung-through or not is hardly an indication of "infertility," lack of creativity of anything else for that matter. A show's musical style depends on the needs of the story being told, period. And just because a show may be entirely sung does not automatically render it operatic in the least, certainly not in any developmental sense. In fact, most sung-through musicals written today are overly inflated in their musical treatment since they have little reason to sing at all, let alone be subjected to a so-called "operatic" setting. CAROLINE, OR CHANGE is only the most recent example of such egregious misfires.
Updated On: 9/19/04 at 11:22 PM
broadwayfan24
Leading Actor Joined: 7/7/04
#15re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:25pm
Les Mis was but I think RENT and POTO are the only ones out on broadway now
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#16re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:33pmthey're not operas or operttas. They're musicals. You can call them rock operas, pop operas or sung through musicals.
kissmycookie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/21/04
#17re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:55pm
but many musicals are making their way onto the opera stages, and may in the future be considered operas or operettas...
Look at "A Little Night Music" and "Sweeney Todd"
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#18re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/19/04 at 11:57pm
Am I crazy? Isn't there spoken dialogue in POTO? At least the auctioneer speech in the prologue. And I'm sure the Phantom yells some stuff that is not set to music.
I mean, I only saw the show once, ten years ago, so I'm not an expert like some of you...
As far as RENT is concerned, doesn't Mark have several narration monologues?
#19re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/20/04 at 12:15amYes, there is some spoken dialogue in POTO, as well as RENT, BARE, and so on. I don't think there is really a complete sung through musical.........I might be wrong.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#21re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/20/04 at 12:21am
And you are right my friend. Thanks for reminding me. 
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#22re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/20/04 at 12:22am
Miss Saigon was also.
Falsettos and A New Brain too.
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#24re: Sung Through Musicals
Posted: 9/20/04 at 12:28am
Whether a show is sung-through or not is hardly an indication of "infertility," lack of creativity of anything else for that matter.
Woops. I didn't mean to imply that at all, MusicMan. :) I just meant that we've just had a bunch of shows sacrificed to the Labor Day blues and we haven't gotten to the fall openings yet, so we're in a down period. So there aren't a lot of musicals or shows on in general, let alone sung-through ones, which are comparatively rare creatures.
And I wouldn't call Caroline, or Change an egregious misfire, but that's for another thread.
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