Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)- Page 2

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:33pm

TheGaIsSilent, read the stuff BEFORE Plum's post.

[Michael Strathmore]

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:50pm

Alas, the best through-composed musical NEVER to make it to Broadway was the initial version of Paul Gordon's JANE EYRE. This show was incredible in Toronto. Unfortunately, the revamped Broadway version didn't compare.



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[andyf]

Posted: 12/20/04 at 1:02pm

I was waiting for someone to mention Sideshow.
How can you forget all the awkward "Seriously...why aren't we just speaking??" moments of conversation.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 12/20/04 at 1:03pm

SWEENEY is not sung-through.

It almost is. But not quite.

Posted: 12/21/04 at 5:37am

And Ragtime is not sung thru at all....

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[Loge]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 10:48am

I think you can largely consider shows like Ragtime and Sweeney Todd as sung-through because an enormous amount of those shows is sung rather than spoken. They rely much more on song than dialogue. I tend to think of the sung-throughs as "mega-musicals". If were saying any dialogue excludes a show from being deemed as sung-through, then it would be difficult to name any show as sung-through. Even Caroline, or Change has a small amount of dialogue.

La Boheme is an opera that played on Broadway, not a musical! Just wanted to clarify.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 11:06am

The Human Comedy

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 11:16am

Loge,

I think what separates a sung-through musical from a 'traditional' musical is not necessarily the amount of music, but how that show employs the use of recictative. A musical like CAROLINE uses it quite a bit. Sweeney and Ragtime, not so much.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 12/21/04 at 11:18am

Margo - JANE EYRE wasn't completely sung through.

Neither was BARE.