Musical theater

Musical theater is a form of theater combining songs, dance routines, and spoken dialogue?.

History

• Operetta? (Gilbert and Sullivan etc.)
• Vaudeville?
• The golden age (40's/50's)
• The 80's musical boom
• Smaller musical?s etc.

Famous Composers/Writers?

• [Irving Berlin]?
• [Leonard Bernstein]?
• [Fred Ebb]?
• [George Gershwin]?
• Oscar Hammerstein II
• [Lorenz Hart]?
• [John Kander]?
• [Jerome Kern]?
• [Alan J. Lerner]?
• [Frank Loesser]?
• [Frederic Loewe]?
• [Cole Porter]?
• [Richard Rodgers]?
• Stephen Sondheim
• [Meredith Willson]?

Famous performers in musical theater

• [Nathan Lane]?
• [Gertrude Lawrence]?
• [Mary Martin]?
• [Ethel Merman]?
• [Bernadette Peters]?
• [John Raitt]?

See also Broadway.