Richard Fawkes: The History of the Musical (unabridged)

Vaudevilles, Burlesques in Europe - Adolphe Adam

Oh Qu'il Etait Beau, Le Postillon de Longjumeau (Adolphe Adam) 1836

Opera-bouffes in Paris - Herve (Florimond Roger) and Jacques Offenbach

Can Can - Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) 1858

Andre Messager and Charles Lecoq - Brussels and Paris

La Diuspute - La Fille De Madame Angot (Charles Lecoq) 1872

Vienna - Franz von Suppe

Overture - Die Schöne Galathee (Franz von Suppe)

Vienna - Johann Strauss

Overture Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss) 1874

England - Sir Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert

The Moon and I - The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan) 1885

London - George Edwardes and The Gaity Theatre

And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back - The Shop Girl (Ivan Caryll / Felix McGlennon) 1894

Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton

The Girl With a Brogue - The Arcadians (Lionel Monckton) 1909

Sydney Jones - The Geisha

The Amorous Goldfish - The Geisha (Jones / Hall / Greenbank) 1896

Edward German - complete's Sullivan's last opera and writes Merrie England

Dan Cupid Hath a Garden - Merrie England (Edward German) 1902

USA and London - Ivan Caryll and Gustave Kerker

Teach me How to Kiss - The Belle of New York (Gustave Kerker) 1897

Vaudeville - George M. Cohan

Give My Regards to Broadway - Little Johnny Jones 1904 (George M. Cohan)

USA - Victor Herbert

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life - Naughty Marietta (Victor Herbert) 1910

Viennese operetta - Franz Lehar

Vilja - The Merry Widow (Lehar) 1905

USA - Sigmund Romberg

Will You Remember - Maytime (Sigmund Romberg) 1917

London - Chu Chin Chow by Frederic Norton: 2,235 performances

The Cobbler's Song - Chu Chin Chow (Frederic Norton) 1916

USA - The end of World War I and the Jazz Age

I'm Just Wild About Harry - Shuffle Along (Eubie Blake) 1921

USA - Vincent Youmans

Tea for Two - No No Nanette (Vincent Youmans) 1923

Broadway - Rudolf Friml

Indian Love Call - Rose Marie (Rudolf Friml) 1924

USA - George Gershwin: Lady Be Good (1924), The Song of the Flame (1925)

Cossack Love Song - The Song of the Flame (George Gershwin) 1925

USA - American operetta and musical comedies: Gershwin, Friml, Romberg, Herbert - and Jerome Kern

They Didn't Believe Me - The Girl From Utah (Kern / Reynolds) 1913

USA - Jerome Kern and Show Boat

Make Believe - Show Boat (Kern / Hammerstein) 1927

Why was Show Boat so differenet?

Ol'man River - Show Boat (Kern / Hammerstein) 1927

Bill - Show Boat (Kern / Hamerstein) 1927

Hollywood and film musicals

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise - The New Moon (Romburg / Hammerstein) 1928

Dance Spectaculars - Busby Berkeley; George Gershwin and the American sound

The Man I Love - Lady Be Good (Gershwin / Gershwin) 1924

George Gershwin: Strike Up The Band & Girl Crazy

I Got Rhythm - Girl Crazy (Gershwin / Gershwin) 1930

George Gershwin: Of Thee I Sing

Love is Sweeping the Country - Of Thee I Sing (Gershwin / Gershwin / Kaufman / Ryskind) 1931

George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Summertime - Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin) 1935

USA - Cole Porter

Let's Do It - Paris (Cole Porter) 1928

Cole Porter - Anything Goes 1934

I Get a Kick Out of You - Anything Goes (Porter) 1934

USA - Marc Blitzstein and The Cradle will Rock 1937

Art for Art's Sake - The Cradle Will Rock (Marc Blitzstein) 1937

USA - Irving Berlin

Easter Parade - As Thousands Cheer (Irving Berlin) 1933

USA - Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart

Here in My Arms - Dearest Enemy (Rodgers / Hart) 1925

Rodgers and Hart: Songs

Ten Cents and Dance - Simple Simon (Rodgers / Hart) 1930

Rodgers and Hart: Babes in Arms

The Lady is a Tramp - Babes in Arms (Rodgers / Hart) 1937

Europe - Franz Lehar and Richard Tauber

You are My Heart's Delight - The Land of Smiles (Franz Lehar) 1929

England - Noel Coward

I'll See You Again - Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) 1929

England - Ivor Novello

Shine Through My Dreams - Glamorous Night (Novello / Hassall) 1935

England - Vivian Ellis

Spread a Little Happiness - Mr Cinders (Vivan Ellis) 1929

England - Cole Porter

How Could We be Wrong? Nymph Errant (Cole Porter) 1933

Berlin - Im Weissen Rossl (The White Horse Inn)

Your Eyes - The White Horse Inn (Benatsky / Stolz) 1930

Hitler's Germany: Jewish composers, including Kurt Weill, leave

Moritat (Mack The Knife) - The Threepenny Opera (Weill / Brecht) 1928

USA - Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in New York, 1935

September Song - Knickerbocker Holiday (Weill / Anderson) 1938

England - Noel Gay: Me and My Girl 1937

The Lambeth Walk - Me and My Girl (Gay / Furber / Rose) 1937

Europe - War. Ivor Novello: The Dancing Years

I Can Give You The Starlight - The Dancing Years (Ivor Novello) 1939

Falling in Love with Love - The Boys from Syracuse (Rodgers / Hart) 1938

USA - Escapist musicals - Dubarry was a Lady, Cabin in the Sky (Vernon Duke)

Taking a Chance on Love - Cabin in the Sky (Duke / Latouche) 1940

Rodgers and Hart: Pal Joey (1940)

I Could Write a Book - Pal Joey (Rodgers / Hart) 1940

USA - Seill and Gershwin: Lady in the Dark

My Ship - Lady in The Dark (Weill / Gershwin) 1941

USA - Kurt Weill teams up with Ogden Nash for One Touch of Venus

West Wind - One Touch of Venus (Weill / Nash)

USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: Oklahoma!

People Will Say We're in Love - Oklahoma! (Rodgers / Hammerstein) 1943

USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: Carousel

What's the Use of Wonderin' - Carousel (Rodgers / Hammerstein) 1945

USA - Leonard Bernstein

Lonely Town - On the Town (Bernstein / Comden / Green) 1944

USA - Irving Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun (1946)

Anything You Can Do - Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin) 1946

USA - Forrester and Wright...and Grieg

Strange Music - Song of Norway (Wright / Forrester / Grieg) 1944

And This is My Beloved - Kismet (Wright / Forrest / Borodin)

My Heart and I - Old Chelsea 1943

England - Ivor Novell: Perchance to Dream (1945)

We'll Gather Lilacs - Perchance to Dream (vor Novello) 1945

England - Vivian Ellis: Bless the Bride (1947)

USA - Cole Porter: Kiss Me Kate (1948)

Brush Up Your Shakespeare - Kiss Me, Kate! (Porter) 1948

USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein: South Pacific

Some Enchanted Evening - South Pacific (Rodgers / Hammerstein) 1949

USA - Lerner and Loewe: Brigadoon (1947)

The Heather on the Hill Brigadoon (Lerner / Loewe)

USA - Lerner and Loewe: Paint Your Wagon (1951)

They Call the Wind Maria - Paint Your Wagon (Lerner / Loewe) 1951

USA - Lerner and Loewe: My Fair Lady (1956)

I Could Have Danced All Night - My Fair Lady (Lerner / Loewe) 1956

England - Julie Andrews; Sandy Wilson / The Boyfriend (1954)

I Could Be Happy with You - The Boyfriend (Wilson) 1954

England - Julian Slade: Salad Days (1954)

We Said We Wouldn't Look Back - Salad Days (Slade / Reynolds) 1954

USA - Frank Loesser: Guys and Dolls (1950)

Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat - Guys and Dolls (Loesser) 1950

USA - Anna and the King of Siam

Shall We Dance? - The King and I (Rodgers / Hammerstein) 1951

USA - The Film Musical

Singin' in The Rain - Singin' in The Rain (Brown / Freed) 1952

More films

USA - A new generation: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

Hey There - The Pajama Game (Adler / Ross) 1954

USA - Frank Loesser: The Most Happy Feller (1956)

Mamma, Mamma - The Most Happy Fella (Loesser) 1956

USA - Something's coming - Overture West Side Story - West Side Story (Bernstein / Sondheim) 1957

America - West Side Story (Bernstein / Sondheim) 1957

I am Easily Assimilate - Candide (Bernstien / Wilbur / Sondheim / Latouche) 1956

USA - Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

Maria - West Side Story (Bernstein / Sondheim) 1957

USA - Rodgers and Hammerstein's final musical

Do-Re-Me - The Sound of Music (Rodgers / Hammerstein) 19549

England - Lionel Bart: Fings Ain't What They Used to be / Oliver

Reviewing The Situation - Oliver! (Bart) 1960

England - The demise of Bart / Anthony Newley

What Kind of Fool Am I? - Stop The World I Want to Get Off (Newley / Bricusse) 1961

England - Cyrill Ornadel / Wolf Mankowitz: Pickwick

If I Ruled The World - Pickwick (Ornadel / Bricusse) 1963

England - Musicals on classical themes

USA - Broadway: early 1960s

If I were a Rich Man - Fiddler On The Roof (Harnick / Bock) 1964

Hollywood: One of the last great MGM musicals: Gigi

I Remember It Well - Gigi (Lerner / Loewe) 1958

USA - Broadway: The changing styles of the 1960s

Mame - Mame (Herman) 1966

USA - Off Broadway, a sensation: The Fantasticks

Try to Remember - The Fantasticks (Jones / Schmidt) 1960

USA - The musical nobody wanted

The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha (Leigh / Darion) 1965

USA - Political Protest: a new kind of musical: John Kander and Fred Ebb

Money Money - Cabaret (Kander / Ebb) 1966

USA - Cy Coleman

Big Spender - Sweet Charity (Coleman / Fields) 1966

USA - Sixties Flower Power

Aquarius - Hair (MacDermot / Radio / Ragni) 1967

USA - The backward-looking rock musical

Sweet Transvestite - The Rocky Horror Show (O'Brien) 1973

USA - Stephen Sondheim

Company - Company (Sondheim) 1970

A Little Night Muisc (Sondheim)

Send In The Clowns - A Little Night Music (Sondheim) 1973

England - Andrew Lloyd Webber

I Don't Know How To Love Him - Jesus Christ Superstar (Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice) 1971

England - Jeeves followed by Evita

Another Suitcase, Another Hall - Evita (Lloyd Webber / Rice) 1978

England - T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Cats

Memory - Cats (Lloyd Webber / Eliot / Nunn) 1981

USA - Kander and Ebb: 1920s jazz flashback

All That Jazz - Chicago (Kander / Ebb) 1975

USA - The back-stage setting

What I Did For Love - A Chorus Line (Hamlish / Kablan) 1976

USA - A show re-appears

Tomorrow - Annie (Strouse / Charnin) 1977

England - Lloyd Webber spectaculars

USA - Stephen Sondheim

Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd (Sondheim) 1979

France - Alain Boubill and Claude-Michel Schonberg

The People Song - Les Miserables (Schonberg / Boublil) 1985