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{{Short description|Musical or opera with no spoken dialogue}}
{{Short description|Musical or opera with little or no spoken dialogue}}
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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.<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>
{{original research|date=September 2011}}
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The [[adjective]] or [[adverb]] '''sung-through''' (also '''through-sung''') describes a [[musical theatre|musical]], [[musical film]], [[opera]], or other work of [[performance art]] in which songs entirely or almost entirely stand in place of 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]].
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 ==
==List of fully sung-through musicals==
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* ''[[Art Thief Musical!]]''
*''[[Art Thief Musical!]]''
* ''[[Bare: A Pop Opera]]''
*''[[Bare: A Pop Opera]]''
** ''[[Bare: The Musical]]''
*''[[Bumblescratch]]''
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*''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1982/legit/reviews/cats-1200425296/|title=Cats|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=13 October 1982|first=Richard|last=Hummler|access-date=2 April 2019|url-status=live|archive-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402021920/https://variety.com/1982/legit/reviews/cats-1200425296/}}</ref>
* ''[[Bumblescratch]]''
*''[[Une chambre en ville]]''
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* ''[[Cats (musical)|Cats]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1982/legit/reviews/cats-1200425296/|title=Cats|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=13 October 1982|first=Richard|last=Hummler|access-date=2 April 2019|url-status=live|archive-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402021920/https://variety.com/1982/legit/reviews/cats-1200425296/}}</ref>
* ''[[Une chambre en ville]]''
*''[[Cricket (musical)|Cricket]]''
* ''[[Cricket (musical)|Cricket]]''
*''[[Les Dix Commandements (musical)|Les Dix Commandements]]''
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*''Evening-1910''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-finkle/first-nighter-evening-191_b_9866590.html|title=First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016|first=David|last=Finkle|website=[[HuffPost]]|date=9 May 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[Les Dix Commandements (musical)|Les Dix Commandements]]''
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*''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]''
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* ''Evening-1910''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-finkle/first-nighter-evening-191_b_9866590.html|title=First Nighter: "Evening-1910" a Valuable Musical Evening-2016|first=David|last=Finkle|date=9 May 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]''
*''[[Falsettos]]''
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*''[[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>
* ''[[Falsettos]]''
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*''[[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>
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* ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton: An American Musical]]'' (sung-and-rapped-through)<ref name="Donaldson">Donaldson, Kayleigh (2017). "[http://screenrant.com/hamilton-musical-movie-lin-manuel-miranda/ How to Make a Hamilton Movie]". ''Screen Rant''.</ref>
*''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]''
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* ''[[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=Archived copy |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]]''
*''[[Johanna (film)|Johanna]]''
*''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''
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* ''[[Johanna (film)|Johanna]]''
* ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''
*''[[Katy! the Musical]]''
* ''[[Keating!]]''
*''[[Keating!]]''
* ''[[Katy! the Musical]]''
*''[[King David (musical)|King David]]''
* ''[[King David (musical)|King David]]''
*''[[Marry Me A Little (musical)|Marry Me a Little]]''
* ''[[The Last 5 Years]]''
*''[[Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem]]''
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*<!--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>
* ''[[Marry Me A Little (musical)|Marry Me a Little]]''
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*''[[Miss Saigon]]''<ref name="boublil" />
* ''[[Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem]]''
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*''[[Murder Ballad (musical)|Murder Ballad]]''
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* ''[[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>
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*''[[Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-CD-Reviews-NATASHA-PIERRE-AND-THE-GREAT-COMET-OF-1812-Original-Cast-Album-is-Astonishingly-Complex-20131222|title=BWW CD Reviews: NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Original Cast Recording) is Astonishingly Complex|first=David|last=Clarke|website=BroadwayWorld.com}}</ref>
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* ''[[Miss Saigon]]''<ref name="boublil" />
* ''[[Murder Ballad (musical)|Murder Ballad]]''
*''[[Notre-Dame de Paris (musical)|Notre-Dame de Paris]]''
*''[[Ordinary Days]]''
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* ''[[Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-CD-Reviews-NATASHA-PIERRE-AND-THE-GREAT-COMET-OF-1812-Original-Cast-Album-is-Astonishingly-Complex-20131222|title=BWW CD Reviews: NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (Original Cast Recording) is Astonishingly Complex|first=David|last=Clarke|website=BroadwayWorld.com}}</ref>
* ''[[Notre-Dame de Paris (musical)|Notre-Dame de Paris]]''
*''[[Quadrophenia (musical)|Quadrophenia]]''
* ''[[Ordinary Days]]''
*''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''
* ''[[Quadrophenia (musical)|Quadrophenia]]''
*''[[Song and Dance]]''
* ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''
*''[[Songs for a New World]]''
* ''[[Song and Dance]]''
*''[[Starlight Express]]''
* ''[[Songs for a New World]]''
*''[[Starmania (musical)|Starmania]]''
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*''[[Tell Me on a Sunday]]''<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-finkle/first-nighter-andrew-lloy_b_4819220.html | work=Huffington Post | title=First Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me on a Sunday' | date=19 February 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Starlight Express]]''
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*''[[The Ten Commandments: The Musical]]''
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* ''[[Starmania (musical)|Starmania]]''
* ''[[Summer: The Donna Summer Musical]]''
*''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]''
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* ''[[Tell Me on a Sunday]]''<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-finkle/first-nighter-andrew-lloy_b_4819220.html | work=Huffington Post | title=First Nighter: Andrew Lloyd Webber's So Low 'Stephen Ward' and Solo 'Tell Me on a Sunday' | date=19 February 2014}}</ref>
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* ''[[The Ten Commandments: The Musical]]''
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* ''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]''


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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']]''
* ''[[Ain't Misbehavin' (musical)|Ain't Misbehavin']]''
* ''[[American Idiot (musical)|American Idiot]]''
* ''[[American Idiot (musical)|American Idiot]]''
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* ''[[Annette (film)|Annette]]''
* ''[[Aspects of Love]]''
* ''[[Aspects of Love]]''
* ''[[Caroline or Change]]''
* ''[[Caroline or Change]]''
* ''[[Dance of the Vampires (musical)|Dance of the Vampires]]''
* ''[[Dance of the Vampires (musical)|Dance of the Vampires]]''
* ''[[Elisabeth (musical)|Elisabeth]]''
* ''[[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>
* ''[[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]]''
* ''[[Hadestown (musical)|Hadestown]]''
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* ''[[Next to Normal]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/washington-dc/article/BWW-Reviews-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-At-Center-Stage-is-Electrifying-20141020|title=BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL At Center Stage is Electrifying|first=Charles|last=Shubow|website=BroadwayWorld.com}}</ref>
* ''[[Next to Normal]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/washington-dc/article/BWW-Reviews-NEXT-TO-NORMAL-At-Center-Stage-is-Electrifying-20141020|title=BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL At Center Stage is Electrifying|first=Charles|last=Shubow|website=BroadwayWorld.com}}</ref>
* ''[[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>
* ''[[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>
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* ''[[Parade (musical)|Parade]]''
* ''[[Passing Strange (musical)|Passing Strange]]''
* ''[[Passing Strange (musical)|Passing Strange]]''
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*''[[The Last 5 Years]]''
* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)|The Phantom of the Opera]]''
* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)|The Phantom of the Opera]]''
* ''[[Pink Floyd – The Wall|Pink Floyd—The Wall]] ''
* ''[[Pink Floyd – The Wall|Pink Floyd—The Wall]] ''
* ''[[The Pirate Queen]]''
* ''[[The Pirate Queen]]''
* ''[[Ragtime (musical)|Ragtime]]''
* ''[[Ragtime (musical)|Ragtime]]''
* ''[[Razia's Shadow: A Musical|Razia's Shadow]]''
* ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]''
* ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]''
* ''[[Seussical]]''<ref>"[http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/munster/munster-high-school-musical-opens-thursday/article_0abe1d2b-4503-5ea3-9434-51b540c50768.html Munster High School Musical Opens Saturday]." NWITimes. 2013.</ref>
* ''[[Seussical]]''<ref>"[http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/munster/munster-high-school-musical-opens-thursday/article_0abe1d2b-4503-5ea3-9434-51b540c50768.html Munster High School Musical Opens Saturday]." NWITimes. 2013.</ref>
* ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''
* ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''
* ''[[Side Show (musical)|Side Show]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/erin-davie-and-emily-padgett-will-star-in-re-imagined-side-show-at-la-jolla-and-kennedy-center-com-208165|title=Erin Davie and Emily Padgett Will Star in Re-Imagined Side Show at La Jolla and Kennedy Center|first=Adam|last=Hetrick|date=2 August 2013|website=Playbill}}</ref>
* ''[[Side Show (musical)|Side Show]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/erin-davie-and-emily-padgett-will-star-in-re-imagined-side-show-at-la-jolla-and-kennedy-center-com-208165|title=Erin Davie and Emily Padgett Will Star in Re-Imagined Side Show at La Jolla and Kennedy Center|first=Adam|last=Hetrick|date=2 August 2013|website=Playbill}}</ref>
* ''[[Soon (musical)|Soon]]''
* ''[[Soon (musical)|Soon]]''
* ''[[The Stingiest Man in Town]]''
* ''[[The Stingiest Man in Town]]''
* ''[[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>
* ''[[Sunset Boulevard (musical)|Sunset Boulevard]]''
* ''[[Superhero (musical)|Superhero]] ''
* ''[[Sunset Boulevard (musical)]]''
* ''[[Superhero (musical)|Superhero]]''
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''
* ''[[The Who's Tommy]]''
* ''[[The Who's Tommy]]''
* ''[[The Woman in White (musical)|The Woman in White]]''
* ''[[The Woman in White (musical)|The Woman in White]]''
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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

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List of sung-through musicals with occasional spoken lines

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List of sung-through musicals depending on the production

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References

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  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.
  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.
  7. ^ a b 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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