Musical Theatre History

By DanielGnau

  • The Black Crook

  • Rodgers and Hart

  • Showboat

    The "first" book musical that follows a story

  • Lorenz Hart Death

  • Rodgers and Hammerstein

  • Oklahoma!

  • Kiss me kate

  • Period: to

    Golden Age

  • Singing in the rain

  • Harvey shmidt

    Wrote the fantasticks, kickstarted his career

  • Vietnam war

  • The Fantasticks

  • Period: to

    1960's

  • Period: to

    1970's

    Began Rock Musicals and concept musicals

  • Stephen Sondheim

    Began His Career Here in the 70's

  • Grease

  • 42nd Street

  • Period: to

    1980's

  • British Invasion, AKA Andrew Lloyd Webber

  • AIDS Crisis

  • Little Shop

  • Period: to

    1990's

  • Will Rogers Follies

  • Falsettos

  • Disney on Broadway

    Productions like Beauty and the Beast start to appear
  • Period: to

    2000's

    Began A new form of musical theatre as tragedy struck the united states, including jukebox musicals and darker themes

  • Urinetown

  • 911

  • Mamma Mia

  • Wicked

  • Period: to

    2010's

  • Book Of Mormon

  • Newsies

  • Hamilton

  • Dear Evan Hansen

  • Waitress