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A sung-through stage musical, musical film, opera, or other work of performance art is one in which songs entirely or almost entirely replace any spoken dialogue. Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically, for example 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.^[1]^[2]

A through-sung opera or other form of narrative work with continuous music may also be described as through-composed.

List of fully sung-through musicals

Art Thief Musical!
Bare: A Pop Opera
Bumblescratch
Cats^[3]
Une chambre en ville
Cricket
Les Dix Commandements
Evening-1910^[4]
Evita
Falsettos
Hamilton: An American Musical^[5]
The Human Comedy^[6]
Jesus Christ Superstar
Johanna
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Katy! the Musical
Keating!
King David
Marry Me a Little
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem
Les Misérables^[7]
Miss Saigon^[7]
Murder Ballad
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812^[8]
Notre-Dame de Paris
Ordinary Days
Quadrophenia
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Song and Dance
Songs for a New World
Starlight Express
Starmania
Tell Me on a Sunday^[9]
The Ten Commandments: The Musical
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

List of sung-through musicals with occasional spoken lines

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 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

^ 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.
^ Hummler, Richard (13 October 1982). "Cats". Variety. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ Finkle, David (9 May 2016). "First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016". HuffPost.
^ Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017). "How to Make a Hamilton Movie". Screen Rant.
^ "Ken Mandelbaum's MUSICALS ON DISC: Human Comedy and Ziegfeld Follies - Playbill.com". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
^ ^a ^b Vermette, Margaret (2007). The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 37, 41. ISBN 9781557837158.
^ Clarke, David. "BWW CD Reviews: NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Original Cast Recording) is Astonishingly Complex". BroadwayWorld.com.
^ "First Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me on a Sunday'". Huffington Post. 19 February 2014.
^ Dietz, Dan (21 November 2012). Off Broadway Musicals, 1910Š—–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457311 – via Google Books.
^ "A New Brain, a CurtainUp review". www.curtainup.com.
^ Shubow, Charles. "BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL At Center Stage is Electrifying". BroadwayWorld.com.
^ "Charpo Canada -". Charpo Canada.
^ Hischak, Thomas S. (18 February 2011). Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877726 – via Google Books.
^ "Munster High School Musical Opens Saturday." NWITimes. 2013.
^ Hetrick, Adam (2 August 2013). "Erin Davie and Emily Padgett Will Star in Re-Imagined Side Show at La Jolla and Kennedy Center". Playbill.
^ "Suffs Off-Broadway Review". 6 April 2022.
^ "Chess the Musical – The Production Company". www.australianstage.com.au.
^ "Chess: A Musical". www.metafilter.com.
^ Chess (musical)#Miscellaneous productions.2C concerts.2C and recordings .281989.E2.80.93present.29
^ Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (film)#Soundtrack

[1] Richard Taruskin, (2009 ). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press

[2] Lotte Eilskov Jensen, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, Marita Mathijsen (eds). 2010. Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Brill. p. 236.

[3] Hummler, Richard (13 October 1982). "Cats". Variety. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[4] Finkle, David (9 May 2016). "First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016". HuffPost.

[Donaldson-5] Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017). "How to Make a Hamilton Movie". Screen Rant.

[6] "Ken Mandelbaum's MUSICALS ON DISC: Human Comedy and Ziegfeld Follies - Playbill.com". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2014-12-12.

[boublil-7] Vermette, Margaret (2007). The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg. Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 37, 41. ISBN 9781557837158.

[8] Clarke, David. "BWW CD Reviews: NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Original Cast Recording) is Astonishingly Complex". BroadwayWorld.com.

[9] "First Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me on a Sunday'". Huffington Post. 19 February 2014.

[10] Dietz, Dan (21 November 2012). Off Broadway Musicals, 1910Š—–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457311 – via Google Books.

[11] "A New Brain, a CurtainUp review". www.curtainup.com.

[12] Shubow, Charles. "BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL At Center Stage is Electrifying". BroadwayWorld.com.

[13] "Charpo Canada -". Charpo Canada.

[14] Hischak, Thomas S. (18 February 2011). Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877726 – via Google Books.

[15] "Munster High School Musical Opens Saturday." NWITimes. 2013.

[16] Hetrick, Adam (2 August 2013). "Erin Davie and Emily Padgett Will Star in Re-Imagined Side Show at La Jolla and Kennedy Center". Playbill.

[17] "Suffs Off-Broadway Review". 6 April 2022.

[18] "Chess the Musical – The Production Company". www.australianstage.com.au.

[19] "Chess: A Musical". www.metafilter.com.

[20] Chess (musical)#Miscellaneous productions.2C concerts.2C and recordings .281989.E2.80.93present.29

[21] Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (film)#Soundtrack

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-A '''sung-through''' (also '''through-sung''') [[musical theatre|musical]], [[musical film]], [[opera]], or other work of [[performance art]] is one in which songs entirely or almost entirely replace any spoken [[dialogue]]. Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically, for example 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.<ref>[[Richard Taruskin]], (2009 ). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press</ref><ref>Lotte Eilskov Jensen, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, Marita Mathijsen (eds). 2010. Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Brill. p. 236.</ref>
+A '''sung-through''' [[stage musical]], [[musical film]], [[opera]], or other work of [[performance art]] is one in which songs entirely or almost entirely replace any spoken [[dialogue]]. Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically, for example 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.<ref>[[Richard Taruskin]], (2009 ). Music in the Nineteenth Century: The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press</ref><ref>Lotte Eilskov Jensen, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, Marita Mathijsen (eds). 2010. Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. Brill. p. 236.</ref>
 A through-sung opera or other form of narrative work with continuous music may also be described as [[through-composed]].
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 *''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]''
 *''[[Falsettos]]''
+*''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton: An American Musical]]''<ref name="Donaldson">Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017). "[http://screenrant.com/hamilton-musical-movie-lin-manuel-miranda/ How to Make a Hamilton Movie]". ''Screen Rant''.</ref>
 *''[[The Human Comedy (musical)|The Human Comedy]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/ken-mandelbaums-musicals-on-disc-human-comedy-and-ziegfeld-follies-72815/print |title=Ken Mandelbaum's MUSICALS ON DISC: ''Human Comedy'' and ''Ziegfeld Follies'' - Playbill.com |access-date=2014-12-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924200345/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/ken-mandelbaums-musicals-on-disc-human-comedy-and-ziegfeld-follies-72815/print |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref>
 *''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]''
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 *''[[Keating!]]''
 *''[[King David (musical)|King David]]''
-*''[[The Last 5 Years]]''
 *''[[Marry Me A Little (musical)|Marry Me a Little]]''
 *''[[Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem]]''
-*<!--almost alphabetized this under L, but it's alphabetized under M because "Les" means "The"-->''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Misérables]]''<ref name="boublil">{{Cite book | isbn = 9781557837158 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/musicalworldofbo00verm/page/37 37, 41] | last = Vermette | first = Margaret | title = The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg | year = 2007 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/musicalworldofbo00verm/page/37 }}</ref>
+*<!--almost alphabetized this under L, but it's alphabetized under M because "Les" means "The"-->''[[Les Misérables (musical)|Les Misérables]]''<ref name="boublil">{{Cite book | isbn = 9781557837158 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/musicalworldofbo00verm/page/37 37, 41] | last = Vermette | first = Margaret | title = The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg | year = 2007 | publisher = Hal Leonard Corporation | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/musicalworldofbo00verm/page/37 }}</ref>
 *''[[Miss Saigon]]''<ref name="boublil" />
 *''[[Murder Ballad (musical)|Murder Ballad]]''
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-== List of sung-through musicals with scattered lines ==
+== List of sung-through musicals with occasional spoken lines ==
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 * ''[[Ain't Misbehavin' (musical)|Ain't Misbehavin']]''
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 * ''[[Aspects of Love]]''
 * ''[[Caroline or Change]]''
-* ''[[Come from Away]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://laist.com/2018/11/29/surprisingly_funny_911_musical_come_from_away_comes_to_la.php|title=The Surprisingly Funny 9/11 Musical 'Come from Away' is Now in LA|date=29 November 2018}}</ref>
 * ''[[Dance of the Vampires (musical)|Dance of the Vampires]]''
 * ''[[Elisabeth (musical)|Elisabeth]]''
+* ''[[Epic: The Musical]]''
 * ''[[The Golden Apple (musical)|The Golden Apple]]''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgOqZWHCLbUC&q=is+the+golden+apple+sung-through&pg=PA1|title=Off Broadway Musicals, 1910Š—–2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows|first=Dan|last=Dietz|date=21 November 2012|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786457311|via=Google Books}}</ref>
 * ''[[Hadestown (musical)|Hadestown]]''
-*''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton: An American Musical]]''<ref name="Donaldson">Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017). "[http://screenrant.com/hamilton-musical-movie-lin-manuel-miranda/ How to Make a Hamilton Movie]". ''Screen Rant''.</ref>
 * ''[[In Trousers]]''
 * ''[[Jekyll & Hyde (musical)|Jekyll & Hyde]]''
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 * ''[[Once on This Island]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charpo-canada.com/|title=Charpo Canada -|website=Charpo Canada}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w2sZLVpH_jwC&q=is+once+on+this+island+sung-through&pg=PA258|title=Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger|first=Thomas S.|last=Hischak|date=18 February 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810877726|via=Google Books}}</ref>
 * ''[[Passing Strange (musical)|Passing Strange]]''
+*''[[The Last 5 Years]]''
 * ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)|The Phantom of the Opera]]''
 * ''[[Pink Floyd – The Wall|Pink Floyd—The Wall]] ''
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 * ''[[Soon (musical)|Soon]]''
 * ''[[The Stingiest Man in Town]]''
-* ''[[Suffs (musical)|Suffs]]''<ref>https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/suffs-off-broadway-review-public-theater</ref>
+* ''[[Suffs (musical)|Suffs]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/suffs-off-broadway-review-public-theater | title=Suffs Off-Broadway Review | date=6 April 2022 }}</ref>
-* ''[[Superhero (musical)|Superhero]] ''
+* ''[[Sunset Boulevard (musical)]]''
+* ''[[Superhero (musical)|Superhero]]''
 * ''[[The Who's Tommy]]''
 * ''[[The Woman in White (musical)|The Woman in White]]''