MuHi Final 84 Questions With Complete Solutions

What are some labels that earlier musicals had? - ️️A musical comedy, a romantic musical play, a burlesque, a farcial comedy with songs and dances, and an operetta. Has there always been music in the theater? - ️️There has been music in theater for as long as it has existed. What types of musical dramas dominated the American stage in the 1880s? - ️️European operettas, comic operas, and opera bouffes. How did Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S Pinafore affect the public's idea of a musical? - ️️The stage was looked upon with suspicion by the respectable American family but was okay for the whole family. When was the Golden Age of American comic operas and operettas? - ️️1920s-1930s What type of shows prospered in the 1920s and 30s? - ️️The revue and musical comedy. What is revue? - ️️One producer tried to outdo another in extravagance of sets and costumes. Skits, sketches, blackouts, songs, dances, and production numbers followed a consistent program. What is musical comedy? - ️️Plot, characters, and setting were all just a convenient hook on which to hang song, dance, and comedy. What was the change in musical comedies that made them more like today's musicals? - ️️Bringing musical comedy originality of subject matter, authenticity of characterization and background, dramatic truth, and freshness of viewpoint.