page_title: Musical theater
hierarchical_section_title: Musical theater
caption_attribution_description: Cover of the vocal score of Sidney Jones' The Geisha
context_page_description: Musical theater is a kind of performance in a theater. A work of musical theater is called a musical. It uses acting, music, songs, and often dance. Some musicals have only a few lines of dialogue. Everything else is sung. It is usually a mixture of speaking and song. Some well-known musicals are West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Chicago, and Oklahoma!.
  Music has been a part of drama since ancient times, but modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century.
context_section_description: Musical theater (or musical theatre) is a kind of performance in a theater. A work of musical theater is called a musical.  It uses acting, music, songs, and often dance. Some musicals (for example Les Misérables) have only a few lines of dialogue. Everything else is sung. It is usually a mixture of speaking and song. Some well-known musicals are West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Chicago, and Oklahoma!.
  Music has been a part of drama since ancient times, but modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century.
caption: Sidney Jones' the Geisha (1898), one of the first musicals
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