Thea Musicals
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Oklahoma! | musical. it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. written by composer Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. |
| Hair | Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, hippies of the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. key characters: claude, berger sheila |
| Grease | Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. |
| Annie Get Your Gun | a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860-1926), who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, and her husband, Frank Butler. |
| Guys and Dolls | is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon, |
| Babes in Arms | is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers. It concerns a teen-age boy who puts on a show with his friends to avoid being sent to a work farm. |
| My Fair Lady | is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so she can pass as a proper lady. |
| Americana | song in it, was the signature song of the great depression |
| Fiddler on the Roof | is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and Jewish religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives. |
| The Wiz | is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. |
| Les Miserables | written by cameron macintosh |
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