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
Phantom of the Opera
Jesus Christ Superstar
Sweeney Todd
Les Miserables
Miss Saigon
RENT
Er-Rent, Bare and The Last Five Years are mostly sung-through.
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
"Caroline....Caroline....."
Caroline, Or Change
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
Caroline, or Change
Jane Eyre
Cats
TOMMY (I think...I've only seen the movie and heard the OBC)
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...
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
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.
I'm not sure about this but wasn't HAIR sung through.
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
lies & legends (although its never been on broadway)
THE GOLDEN APPLE (1954) was sung through. HAIR had dialogue.
And of course, FALSETTOS
Plum,
Avenue Q and Wicked have tons of non-singing dialogue.
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.
Les Mis
Rent
La Boheme
Sweeney Todd
Ragtime
Stand-by Joined: 10/31/03
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
avenue q and wicked are not 'sung through' musicals.
And Boy from oz.
Updated On: 12/20/04 at 11:14 AM
I don't think that anyone said that they were.
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.
ahh yes I see. Carry on
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/04
Act 1 of Side Show is mostly sung-through. There are longer stretches of dialogue in Act 2.
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