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Musical - Search View - MSN Encarta (3249 words) |
 | The musical has been influenced by a variety of dramatic forms through the centuries, with the modern version emerging in the United States and Britain in the second half of the 20th century. |
| The popular music of the time included the tuneful but uninspired “She’s Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage” and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Theater music of this period was typically modeled after operetta, in the manner of the tremendously popular 19th-century works of Gilbert and Sullivan. |
| Kern’s shows were called the Princess musicals because they were produced in the intimate Princess Theater on Broadway, the New York City street that had become one of the world’s major entertainment thoroughfares in the mid-19th century. |
| Comedy Musical (990 words) |
| This lively account establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of the modern condition. |
| Bloomers (musical comedy troupe) - Founded in 1979 at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Bloomers is one of the only (perhaps the only) all-female musical comedy troupes in the United States. |
| History of the Songs The musical forms most associated with Music Hall Music Hall is a form of Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), the mother of John Joe's star fiddler, Anne (Andrea Corr, lead singer of the minstrel song. |
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