Sung-through
Sung-through (also through-sung) is a term describing a musical, musical film, or opera with no spoken dialogue, except perhaps for some occasional lines spoken in the course of a song but remaining part of the song's lyrics rather than constituting stand-alone dialogue.[1]
Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically through a combination of recitative, aria, and arioso. Early versions of this include the Italian genre of opera buffa, a light-hearted form of opera that gained prominence in the 1750s.[2] [3]
In 2016, Lin-Manuel Miranda, in Hamilton, has introduced the idea of communicating "dialogue" through rap, therefore keeping the spirit of a sung-through musical, without actually singing everything. A through-sung opera may also be described as through-composed.
List of fully sung-through musicals
- Art Thief Musical!
- Cats
- Charlotte Sweet
- Cricket
- Delphi Or Bust!
- Evita
- Falsettos
- The Human Comedy[4]
- Hamilton
- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris[5]
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Johanna
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Keating!
- Katy! the Musical
- King David
- The Last 5 Years
- Les Dix Commandements
- Les Misérables[1]
- Ludlow Ladd
- Marry Me a Little
- Murder Ballad
- Miss Saigon[1]
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (with the exception of one line)[6]
- Ordinary Days
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- Starlight Express
- Starmania
- Tell Me on a Sunday[7]
- The Ten Commandments: The Musical
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Une chambre en ville
List of sung-through musicals with scattered lines
- A New Brain[8]
- American Idiot
- Aspects of Love
- bare: A Pop Opera
- Caroline or Change
- Dance of the Vampires
- Elisabeth
- The Golden Apple[9]
- In the Heights
- john & jen
- Jerry Springer: The Opera
- Love Never Dies
- Martin Guerre
- Next to Normal[10]
- Once on This Island[11][12]
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Pink Floyd—The Wall
- Ragtime[13]
- Rent[14]
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Side by Side by Sondheim[15]
- Side Show[16]
- Soon[17]
- The Pirate Queen
- The Most Happy Fella
- The Who's Tommy
- The Woman in White
List of sung-through musicals depending on the production
- Chess[18][19]
- Originally starting off as a concept album, the musical has a reputation for being re-written during every new production that is staged around the world. Some productions are completely sung-through, some are have scattered lines, and some (notably the original Broadway production) are staged as book musicals.[20]
- Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris[21]
References
- 1 2 3 Vermette, Margaret (2007). The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg. pp. 37,41. ISBN 9781557837158.
- ↑ Richard Taruskin, (2009 ). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press
- ↑ Lotte Eilskov Jensen, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, Marita Mathijsen (eds). 2010. Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Brill. p. 236.
- ↑ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/ken-mandelbaums-musicals-on-disc-human-comedy-and-ziegfeld-follies-72815/print
- ↑ Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (film)#Soundtrack
- ↑ http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-CD-Reviews-NATASHA-PIERRE-AND-THE-GREAT-COMET-OF-1812-Original-Cast-Album-is-Astonishingly-Complex-20131222
- ↑ "First Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me on a Sunday'". Huffington Post. 19 February 2014.
- ↑ http://www.curtainup.com/newbrain.html
- ↑ https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fgOqZWHCLbUC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=is+the+golden+apple+sung-through&source=bl&ots=0ZbTRwwM2p&sig=Ay-Joo_6AyXF_2xn8DAURN_EIiU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KpaHVOivF6TBmwXa14GQCg&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=is%20the%20golden%20apple%20sung-through&f=false
- ↑ http://www.broadwayworld.com/washington-dc/article/BWW-Reviews-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-At-Center-Stage-is-Electrifying-20141020
- ↑ http://www.charpo-canada.com/2014/01/review-toronto-once-on-this-island.html
- ↑ https://books.google.com.au/books?id=w2sZLVpH_jwC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=is+once+on+this+island+sung-through&source=bl&ots=W15QT4lxsG&sig=jlVXxKYBBmg_6m2i-7P1w0_Qzx8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rRuJVNXHHYmD8QXZ7ILwDQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=is%20once%20on%20this%20island%20sung-through&f=false
- ↑ Category:Sung-through musicals
- ↑ 'No day but today': Queer temporality in Rent. Ellis, Sarah Taylor. Studies in Musical Theatre (2011), 5:2, p 195-207
- ↑ As it is a revue, a lot of the content is primarily sung-through, with the exception of brief introductions from a narrator before each musical sequence begins
- ↑ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/erin-davie-and-emily-padgett-will-star-in-re-imagined-side-show-at-la-jolla-208165
- ↑ Category:Sung-through musicals
- ↑ http://www.australianstage.com.au/201208235719/reviews/melbourne/chess-the-musical-%7C-the-production-company.html
- ↑ http://www.metafilter.com/120019/Chess-A-Musical
- ↑ Chess (musical)#Miscellaneous productions.2C concerts.2C and recordings .281989.E2.80.93present.29
- ↑ Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris#Revival Shows
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