1700-1865

• America's Musical Pioneers

French and Viennese Operetta:
1850-1880

British Music Hall

American Variety

Minstrel Shows

• I: Background
• II: Format, Songs & Jolson

Vaudeville

• I: Background
• II: Acts defined, Black vaudeville
• III: Headliners & Keeping It Clean
• IV: Final years & Legacy

Burlesque

• I: Background
• II: Skits & Final Decline

1866-1879

• I: The Black Crook
• II: Burlesques & Pantomimes

The First Musical Comedies: 1879-1899

• I: Harrigan & Hart, Erminie
• II: Farces, Weber & Fields

Gilbert and Sullivan

• I: Birth of a Team
• II: Pinafore to Princess Ida
• III: Mikado onwards
• Britain & America After G&S

1900-1910

• I: Floradora & Cohan
• II: Herbert, Merry Widow, Black Pioneers

1910-1920

• I: Jerome Kern
• II: Revues, WW I and Irene

Stage 1920s

• I: Sally & No No Nanette
• II: Operettas & Revues
• III: Black Musicals
• IV: New Songwriters
• V: Jolson, Good News & Show Boat

1930s

• I: The Songwriting Teams
• II: The Revues
• III: Noel Coward & Cole Porter

1940s

• I: Before Oklahoma!
• II: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
• III: After Oklahoma!
• IV: New Talents, London

1950s

• I: the Golden Decade
• II: The Composers
• III: The Directors
• IV: The Great Dames

1960s

• I: Early Hits
• II: The Golden Age Ends
• III: Rock Comes to Broadway

1970s

• I: Rock Musicals
• II: Sondheim, Prince and Fosse
• III: A Chorus Line, Revivals
• IV: New Book Musicals
• V: Storm Warnings

Stage 1980s

• I: New Musicals
• II: Hits and Disasters
• III: Britannia Rules

Stage 1990s

• I: Assorted Hits & Corporate Musicals
• II: Rent and Afterward

Stage 2000s

• Where Did We Go Right?

And the Future?