Infographic Research into Musicals

Facts about musicals:-

- Musical evolved directly out of operas

- There are two different types of musical - "Book musicals" and "sung throughs". Book musicals have songs interspersed between dialogue and acting. In "sung throughs" nearly every line is sung with only occasional dialogue. 
- Many older musical films had singers dubbed over the actors' voices as they couldn't carry a tune
- There is a new trend of 'jukebox musicals' adapting a play or musical from an artist's catalogue of songs (eg Mamma Mia, Moulin Rouge).

Tropes of musicals:-
- All-knowing singing narrator
- Angry Mob Song
- Bad Girl Song
- Colourful Song
- Crowd Song
- Cut Song
- Dark Reprise
- Death Song
- Fanfare
- Friendship Song
- "I Am Becoming" Song
- "I Am Great!" Song
- "I Am" Song
- "I Want" Song
- Duets
- List Song
- Opening Chorus
- Pep Talk Song
- The Song Before the Storm
- They've Come So Far Song
- Triumphant Reprise
- Villain Song
- Welcoming Song
(from tvtropes.org)

List of famous musicals:-

• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• West Side Story (1961)
• Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Cabaret (1972)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• High Society (1956)
• Oliver! (1968)
• Guys and Dolls (1955)
• The Jungle Book (1967)
• Mary Poppins (1964)
• Grease (1978)
• Bugsy Malone (1976)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
• Hairspray (1988/2007)
• Frozen (2013)
• Once (2007)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Les Miserables (2012)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• Moulin Rouge! (2001)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
• Top Hat (1935)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• All That Jazz (1979)
• Annie (1982)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Chicago (2002)
• Dancer In The Dark (2000)
• Sunshine on Leith (2013)
• Evita (1996)
• Fiddler On The Roof (1971)
• Funny Face (1957)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• Tommy (1975)
• Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)
• Mamma Mia! (2008)
• New York, New York (1977)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• Stage Fright (2014)
• Sweeney Todd (2007)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• The Wiz (1978)
• One From The Heart (1981)
• Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
• 8 Women (2002)
• Golden Eighties (1986)
• South Park (1999)