classic musicals
Golden age shows
Classic musicals are the celebrated song-and-dance films or stage productions from roughly the 1930s through the 1960s—the genre's golden age.
Works like *Oklahoma!*, *Singin' in the Rain*, and *The Sound of Music* exemplify the form: integrated musical numbers, romantic plots, and lavish production.
The term distinguishes these from rock musicals and modern revivals: She prefers classic musicals to anything Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote.
- Oklahoma!State-named stage musical
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- West Side StoryBroadway musical, rival gangs
- Cole PorterAmerican songwriter, Broadway musicals
- My Fair LadyMusical about dialect coaching
Richard Rodgers · Oscar Hammerstein II · George Gershwin · Gene Kelly · tap dancing · Leonard Bernstein · dream ballet · Show Boat · South Pacific · Fred Astaire · song and dance · Irving Berlin · Duets · Broadway · Judy Garland · choreography · curtain call
- musical theater formatssoundtracks, concert recordings, film adaptations, archival recordings, demo recordings
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