sung through musicals

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:41pm

what are some other sung through musicals out there... and i mean those that are pretty much all singing to very very minimal speaking dialogue... i know some are:

Miss Saigon
Les Miserables
Phantom (although it has like one scene where it's just talking)
Martin Guerre

And i haven't seen them in a while... but isn't Caroline, Or Change and Jane Eyre sung through?

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:44pm

There are a number of them...especially those ALW shows like JCS and Evita. I think Joseph is as well.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:48pm

Falsettos (March of the Falsettos/Falsettoland)

[ggersten]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:53pm

Dreamgirls
Secret Garden
Last 5 Years

Then there are several by Joe Green (better known as Giuseppe Verdi), a few by Gilbert & Sullivan, some kid Wolf A. Mozart wrote a couple

[justagirl2]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:53pm

RENT.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:53pm

Most Happy Fella is almost completely sung through.

[sidjones09]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:56pm

Dreamgirls is not sung through, or even mostly sung. There is a lot of dialogue in it.

Porgy and Bess
Tommy

[Kgshrauder]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 4:58pm

Secret Garden is not sung through....there is a good bit of dialogue in that show.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 5:11pm

Isn't Side Show mostly sung-through?

[Sant]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 5:35pm

CATS
STARLIGHT EXPRESS
ASPECTS OF LOVE never saw it but there wasn't much spoken dialogue I understand.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 6:07pm

oh man... i completely blanked on pretty much all the ALW musicals...

so was i right that Caroline and Jane Eyre are sung through?

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 6:12pm

Actually, that's my one quibble about Dreamgirls. It seems like Henry Krieger was trying to make up his mind whether or not to make Dreamgirls a sung through musical or not. It's weird. Was he trying to experiment. Because the musical inconsistency is the one flaw of Dreamgirls.

And there's a little dialogue in Aspects of Love. But not a lot.

"Then there are several by Joe Green (better known as Giuseppe Verdi), a few by Gilbert & Sullivan, some kid Wolf A. Mozart wrote a couple"

Are you being sarcastic? Because those particular musicals have a name. Yeah, they're called operas.

Updated On: 1/9/07 at 06:12 PM

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 6:15pm

In one of its incarnations, CARRIE was sung through.

TEN COMMANDMENTS is another, although I'm not sure that works in its favour or not.

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:39pm

RAGTIME is pretty much sung-through.

[Julian2]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:42pm

No, Jane Eyre has plenty of dialogue. As for C,oC, I have no clue.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:46pm

Ragtime has a lot of book work, actually.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:47pm

Jesus Christ Superstar

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:47pm

I would say Caroline is sung through. Isn't Chess sung through as well?

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:50pm

Once on this Island and Bare

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:53pm

Evita
Inner City
Via Galactica

[ElFantasma14]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 7:58pm

Sweeney Todd is considered sung-through even with it's couple scenes of dialogue, as is Phantom. The Woman in White as well.

[gonnapassmealaw]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 8:00pm

Caroline, Or Change, although, with a few snippets of spoken dialogue is considered a sung-through musical by its creators, with its 53 songs.

[Broadway Baby4]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 8:09pm

Seussical is mostly song...

[Danielm]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 8:16pm

The Golden Apple, The Human Comedy.

[TT]

Posted: 1/9/07 at 8:22pm

Jekyll & Hyde (sort of)
Trial By Jury
Phantom of the Opera
The Light In The Piazza (although there is really only one good song in that whole show)