Sung-through

Sung-through (also through-sung) is a term describing a musical, musical film, or opera with no spoken dialogue, except perhaps for some occasional lines spoken in the course of a song but remaining part of the song's lyrics rather than constituting stand-alone dialogue.^[1] Conversations, speeches, and musings are communicated musically though a combination of recitative, aria, and arioso. A through-sung opera may also be described as through-composed.

List of fully sung-through musicals

• Art Thief Musical!
• Cats
• Cricket
• Evita
• Falsettos
• The Human Comedy^[2]
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris^[3]
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Johanna
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Keating!
• Katy! the Musical
• King David
• The Last 5 Years
• Les Dix Commandements
• Les Misérables^[1]
• Marry Me a Little
• Miss Saigon^[1]
• Notre-Dame de Paris
• Ordinary Days
• Starlight Express
• Starmania
• Tell Me on a Sunday^[4]
• The Ten Commandments: The Musical
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Une chambre en ville

List of sung-through musicals with scattered lines

• A New Brain^[5]
• American Idiot
• Aspects of Love
• bare: A Pop Opera
• Caroline or Change
• Dance of the Vampires
• Elisabeth
• The Golden Apple^[6]
• Jerry Springer: The Opera
• Love Never Dies
• Martin Guerre
• Next to Normal^[7]
• Once on This Island^[8][9]
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Pink Floyd—The Wall
• Ragtime^[10]
• Rent
• Repo! The Genetic Opera
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
• Side by Side by Sondheim^[11]
• Side Show^[12]
• Soon^[13]
• The Pirate Queen
• The Most Happy Fella
• The Who's Tommy
• The Woman in White

List of sung-through musicals depending on the production

• Chess^[14][15]
  • 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 are have scattered lines, and some (notably the original Broadway production) are staged as book musicals.^[16]
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris^[17]

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