Question: a golden era of american musical theater was from about

title: Musical theatre
text: The show 's creativity stimulated Rodgers and Hammerstein 's contemporaries and ushered in the `` Golden Age '' of American musical theatre . Americana was displayed on Broadway during the `` Golden Age '' , as the wartime cycle of shows began to arrive . An example of this is On the Town ( 1944 ) , written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green , composed by Leonard Bernstein and choreographed by Jerome Robbins . The story is set during wartime and concerns three sailors who are on a 24 - hour shore leave in New York City , during which each falls in love . The show also gives the impression of a country with an uncertain future , as the sailors and their women also have . Irving Berlin used sharpshooter Annie Oakley 's career as a basis for his Annie Get Your Gun ( 1946 , 1,147 performances ) ; Burton Lane , E.Y. Harburg , and Fred Saidy combined political satire with Irish whimsy for their fantasy Finian 's Rainbow ( 1947 , 725 performances ) ; and Cole Porter found inspiration in William Shakespeare 's Taming of the Shrew for Kiss Me , Kate ( 1948 , 1,077 performances ) . The American musicals overwhelmed the old - fashioned British Coward / Novello - style shows , one of the last big successes of which was Novello 's Perchance to Dream ( 1945 , 1,021 performances ) . The formula for the Golden Age musicals reflected one or more of four widely held perceptions of the `` American dream '' : That stability and worth derives from a love relationship sanctioned and restricted by Protestant ideals of marriage ; that a married couple should make a moral home with children away from the city in a suburb or small town ; that the woman 's function was as homemaker and mother ; and that Americans incorporate an independent and pioneering spirit or that their success is self - made . 1950s 

Answer: answer: An example of the ``Golden Age'' of American musical theatre is On the Town in 1944, Annie Get Your Gun in 1946 and Kiss Me, Kate 1948.