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World Encyclopedia | Date: 2005
musical Genre of popular dramatic light entertainment exemplified by firm plot, strong songs and vivacious dance numbers. It developed at the end of the 19th century from elements of light opera, revue and burlesque. The most popular musicals originated in the USA with the work of George
Gershwin, Jerome
Kern, Richard
Rodgers, Oscar
Hammerstein II, and Stephen
Sondheim. Audiences in the 1970s responded to the works of Andrew
Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, such as
Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) and
Evita (1978). Lloyd Webber was extremely successful in the 1980s with
Cats (1981) and
The Phantom of the Opera (1986). Successful film musicals, such as
West Side Story (1961),
My Fair Lady (1964) and
The Sound of Music (1965), are generally based on stage originals. Original film musicals include
Forty-Second Street (1933),
Meet Me in St Louis (1944), and
Singin' in the Rain (1952).
© World Encyclopedia 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005.
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