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FORERUNNER OF MUSICAL THEATRE
Took popular 1728 songs and rewrote the lyrics, English Ballad Opera -
Unknown Date. Songs written for the show, diegetic- source music, happening within the show
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Lyricist, paired up with Arthur Sullivan by James Mills, lawyer- wrote satirical articles, MADE THE PATTER SONG: Modern Major General
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Father of Vaudeville
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Composer, paired up with W.S. Gilbert by James Mills, Classically trained, wrote 23 operas, 13 orchestra works, D'Oyly Carte= producer, MADE THE PATTER SONG: Modern Major General
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Irish, stock companies, impacted Cohan, working class americans
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Composer, 151 songs
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March guy, "operetta", American born american trained
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Irish, stock companies, impacted Cohan, working class americans
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Irish Immigrant, trained in Germany, The Fortune Teller (Gypsy Love Song), Founder of ASCAP, The Red Mill- First lighted marquis
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Gilbert and Sullivan (H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado), Reginald De Koven (Robin Hood [Oh Promise Me]), John Philip Sousa, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow).
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Spectacle, 5 1/2 hours long, European, First American Musical
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German Immigrant, clean burlesque, Dutch Comedy around 1855
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German Immigrant, clean burlesque, Dutch Comedy around 1855
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The Merry Widow
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Created "The Creole Show"- First African American show with Williams. Worked the minstrel shows, "The dandy and the darky"
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Harrigan and Hart
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Work in Ziegfeld Follies, crossed the color line. Created "The Creole Show"- First African American show. Worked the minstrel shows, "The dandy and the darky"
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Harrigan and Hart
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Grandson of Irish immigrants, actor, director, producer, beginning of speech-based lyrics
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Premiered in London, people stole it and produced it in NYC. G+S
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Premiered the American and English version at the same time.
First patter song, Modern Major General, G+S -
Harrigan and Hart
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First to use electric light
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G+S
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NYC, Showboat with Hammerstein II, Tin Pan Alley, 1st love song in 4/4, American Songbook with acting, almost wrote the Wizard of Oz
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The Jazz Singer 1927, always in blackface (hiding his Jewish heritage), could make or break a show, biggest star
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The Student Prince, The New Moon, The Desert Song
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Russian, the double song "old fashioned wedding", "american music", so many songs, only book musical = Annie Get Your Gun
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Famous song, used in weddings, first American song to actually be good, Reginald De Koven
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Indiana, wealthy, homosexual, supposed to go to Law School, songs are dirty, no particular social or political agenda, most music survives as individual songs. 50 Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Jubilee, Can-Can (Gwen Verdon stole the show), Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate. Ethel Merman
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4'11, lived with mother, very sad man, drinker himself to death, lyricist, 24 yrs with Rogers
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Worked with Youmans, Arlen, Weil. Lyricist
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Started as Tin Pan Alley, fell in love with Princess Shows, wanted to do production songs. Swanee, George White Scandals. Girl Crazy = Ethel Merman, Ginger Rogers. Lady Be Good, Oh, Kay!, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band
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Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta), Sigmund Romberg (The Student Prince, The New Moon)
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Three Penny Opera, Street Scene, German
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composer, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, Lerner and Lowewe
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Williams and Walker, most popular full-length African American musical to play in a Broadway Theatre
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MAN! The music Man
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Alcoholism, jaw cancer, womanizer, Rogers + Hart, Rogers + Hammerstein, 24 yr partnership with Hart
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Victor Herbert
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George M Cohan
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George M Cohan
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Wizard of Oz, Bloomer Girl
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MAN, ukraine/jewish immigrants, 16 job as a relief burlesque pianist, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bells are Ringing, GYPSY, Funny Girl
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George M Cohan
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Merchandise, turning point of Golden Age into Silver Age Operetta, Franz Lehar
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spectacular revue, 1910 Fanny Brice, 1919= best year of Follies, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Will Rodgers, unify themes and costumes, 1920: zippers invented
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Williams and Walker
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Victor Herbert, heavy and sad
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composer/lyricist, guys and dolls. how to succeed, where's charley
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Kern, Bolton, Wodehouse
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lyrics, Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, Lerner and Lowewe
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WSS, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide
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Imitator of Follies, 1920 hired Gershwins to write his score, dancing and music
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Eubie Blake + Noble Sissle
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Intimate revues
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Pajama Game, Damn Yankees
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imitator, racy-strip shows
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Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof
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Bye Bye Birdie
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Vincent Youmans, Tea for Two, Jazz Age Musical, Choreographer=Sammy Lee
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Rogers an Hart launch, morphed into musical comedy
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Kern and Hammerstein II, FIGURING IT OUT, Ziegfeld produced, musical comedy + European Operetta, cross cultural integration, songs have dramatic emotional themes, earliest of shows to be dusted off regularly
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The Producers, Young Frankenstein
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Pajama Game, Damn Yankees
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Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret, Chicage, Fosse, Kiss of the Spiderwpman, LIZA MINELLI
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The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade
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Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret, Chicage, Fosse, Kiss of the Spiderwpman, LIZA MINELLI
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Stolen acts from Harlem brought into NYC
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Bye Bye Birdie
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Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof
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The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade
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Sweet Charity, City of Angels, Will Rogers Follies
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Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Hammerstein's menthe, ANGELA LANSBURY
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Gershwins. Pulitzer
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Kern and Harbach
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Hello, Dolly, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles
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Cole Porter
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Gershwins, all African American opera company
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Rogers and Hart, George Balenchine, ensemble danced and sang, doing something new
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Rogers and Hart
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Composer, baby
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lyrics, baby
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Rogers and Hart
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Movie, Arlen, Judy Garland
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Rogers and Hart, dance becoming an important aspect of musicals
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First concept musical, lyrics: Ira gershwin, book: Moss Hart, Kurt Weill
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FRENCH MEGA MUSICALS! Les Miserables, Miss Saigon
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songs deepen the characters, agnes deMille = Dream Ballet, Shirley Jones, ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
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Died of AIDS, Choreographer, ACL, Subways are for Sleeping, Bye Bye Birdie, Company, Follies, Promises Promises, Dream Girls
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Bernstein
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FRENCH MEGA MUSICALS! Les Miserables, Miss Saigon
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Chorus Line, Sweet Smell of Success
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Written for John Raitt, hungarian play: Lillium
ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN -
Dream girls
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Titanic
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Irving Berlin
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Burton Lane
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Lerner and Loewe, romantic, agnes deMille, cemented role of choreographers
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The Lion King, Aida, Billy Elliot
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Cole Porter
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godspell, pippin, wicked
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Once on this Island, Ragtime
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MEGA MUSICALS! British! JCS, Cats, Evita, Phantom of the Opera
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10 Tony's, Pulitzer Prize, first show to have a character we care about die, no set changes, racial tensions, ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
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Disney, beauty and the beast, little mermaid, etc
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frank loesser
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ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN, open 5ths, dialects, lots of research, thai underscoring, King and I ballet (Jerome Robbins)
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Falsettos, Spelling Bee
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Adler and Ross
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Adler and Ross, GWEN VERDON, BOB FOSSEE
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Lerner and Loewe, based off of pygmalion, integrated show, moss hart= director
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Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Jewish vs Catholic, virgin = soprano, belt = sex, accessible to hoi polloi, universal, transparent, lasts forever
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Meredith Willson
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last of Hammerstein's shows, ROGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN
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Bock and Harnick, pulitzer
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Jule Styne, Ethel Merman, Lyrics: Sondheim
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Jekyll and Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Dracula, Wonderland, Bonnie and Clyde, Flopmaster flop
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Hairspray, Catch me if You Can, SMASH, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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JFK loved this show, became famous after he died, Lerner and Loewe
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Strouse and Adams, pivoting to a new style
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Once on this Island, Ragtime
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Tick tick boom, rent, died too young
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Pulitzer, frank loesser
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The Fully Monty
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Caroline or Change, Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek, Fun Home
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Marie Christine, the wild Party, Giant
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Bock and Harnick
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Bock and Harnick, end of the golden age
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Jerry Herman
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Mitch Leigh, one hit wonder, regional houses to do work, no chorus girls, thrust stage
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Light in the Piazza, Floyd Collins
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Charlie Brown, Addams Family, Wild Party
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Jerry Herman
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First to use synthesizers, cy coleman
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Kander and Ebb, fosse=movie, concept musical
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Burt Bacharach, Michael Bennet, NEW STYLES OF MUSIC!!!!!
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McDermot, rado and ragini
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Sherman Edwards
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Legally Blonde, Bat Boy, Heathers
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Sondheim
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Andrew lloyd webber
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Parade, The Last Five Years, Honeymoon in Vegas
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Next to Normal, If/Then
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stephen Schwartz
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stephen Schwartz
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Sondheim
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Woldin and Brittain
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Next to Normal, If/Then
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Kander and Ebb, Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Anne Reinking, Chita Rivera
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Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Bennet, Pulitzer
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Charlie Smalls
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Andrew lloyd webber, tim rice
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Sondheim
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gower champion, Harry Warren, Al Dubin
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In the Heights, Hamilton
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Andrew lloyd webber, old possums book of practical cats
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Henry Krieger, Michael Bennet
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be more chill, love in hate nation
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alan menken
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Jerry Herman
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Sondheim
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30mm
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Rupert Holmes, Golden Age/Operetta throwback
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Dogfight, Dear Evan Hansen
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Dogfight, Dear Evan Hansen
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Andrew lloyd webber
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Boublil and Schonberg
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Sondheim
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Flaherty and AHrens
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Lucy Simon, Marsha Norman, Susan Schulman, Golden Age/Operetta throwback
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Boublil and Schonberg
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William Finn
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alan menken
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Larson
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Maury Yeston
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Elton John
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Flaherty and AHrens
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JRB
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jukebox, 1984 movie
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David Yazbek
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Mel Brooks
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Hollmann and Kotis
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ABBA, jukebox
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JRb
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Marc Shaiman
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stephen Schwartz
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Lopez and Marks
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Janine Tesori
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Adam Guettel, Golden Age/Operetta throwback
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Flaherty and AHrens
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Willian Finn
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Bray, Rusell, Willis
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Elvis, jukebox
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The four seasons, jukebox
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Lambert and Morrison
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Sheik, Slater
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Laurence O'Keefe
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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GreenDay, jukebox
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Friedman
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Hansard, irglova
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Pasek and Paul
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PARker and Stone, lopez
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Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman
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Cyndi Lauper
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Carole King, jukebox
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Janine Tesori
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Lin Manuel Miranda
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Pasek and Paul
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