Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

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Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:22pm

In no particular order

1. Evita
2. Rockabye Hamlet
3. Via Galactica
4. Inner City
5. Dude


If you can think of any others, please add to it

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#2

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:23pm

Phantom of the Opera
Jesus Christ Superstar
Sweeney Todd
Les Miserables
Miss Saigon
RENT

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Updated On: 12/19/04 at 07:23 PM

#3

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:24pm

Er-Rent, Bare and The Last Five Years are mostly sung-through.

#4

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:24pm

Rent
Cats (for the most part)
Phantom of the Opera (for the most part)
Dreamgirls (maybe pushing it)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
La Boheme

Updated On: 12/19/04 at 07:24 PM

#5

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:26pm

"Caroline....Caroline....."

Caroline, Or Change

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#6

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:26pm

Caroline, or Change
Jane Eyre
Cats

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#7

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:30pm

TOMMY (I think...I've only seen the movie and heard the OBC)

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#8

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:41pm

does A CHRISTMAS CAROL count? I mean, it's mostly sung through and it says Broadway on MTI... but I guess it all depends on how many seats are at the theatre at Madison Square Garden to tell whether it was on Broadway or not...

#9

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:45pm

I think that maybe this question might be better asked another way. In the last fourteen years (since 1990) how many new musicals have NOT been Sung Thru?

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#10

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 7:51pm

Are you serious, pab? Just last season-

Avenue Q
Taboo
The Boy From Oz
Bombay Dreams
Wicked

This season there's Brooklyn, so far. Most musicals still aren't sung-through.

#11

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:05pm

I'm not sure about this but wasn't HAIR sung through.

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#12

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:15pm

if i am not mistaken, Carrie was mostly sung through.

Speaking of Rockabye Hamlet i just purchased a cd with two songs from that show on there. They are pretty good.

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#13

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/19/04 at 9:34pm

Movin' Out!!!

#14

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:48am

lies & legends (although its never been on broadway)

#15

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:53am

THE GOLDEN APPLE (1954) was sung through. HAIR had dialogue.

#16

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:54am

And of course, FALSETTOS

#17

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:59am

Plum,

Avenue Q and Wicked have tons of non-singing dialogue.

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#18

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 2:01am

I think that's what she meant; sung-through musicals aren't the norm right now.

I think they hit a peak with the British invasion -- all of the "Big Four" were sung-through, as are (still) most of ALW's work.

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re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 8:20am

Les Mis
Rent
La Boheme
Sweeney Todd
Ragtime

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#20

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 11:11am

Hair was not all the way sung thru... in fact there are a couple of pretty funny scenes. Carrie was all the way sung through except for one tiny section of dialogue that was underscored and led to a song

#21

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 11:14am

avenue q and wicked are not 'sung through' musicals.

And Boy from oz.

Updated On: 12/20/04 at 11:14 AM

#22

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 11:17am

I don't think that anyone said that they were.

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#23

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 11:19am

For the Record: Sweeney Todd is NOT ENTIRELY sung through. There are many parts with speaking, to many to considrer it Sung-Thru. Also Hair was much like Sweeney in the sense that it was about 85-90% sung-through, but there were too many spoken scenes in them to consider them sung-through.

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#24

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 11:19am

ahh yes I see. Carry on

#25

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)

Posted: 12/20/04 at 11:22am

Act 1 of Side Show is mostly sung-through. There are longer stretches of dialogue in Act 2.

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