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Predominantly theatrical fiction work whose plot is structured around segments featuring combinations of music, song, and dance, including such various types as backstage, comedy, rock, and musical biographies. In the Hollywood context, musicals emerged with the coming of sound motion pictures, from roots in stage musicals and operettas, revues, and vaudeville. Note: For musical westerns use Musical in conjunction with Western (ANNIE GET YOUR GUN; PAINT YOUR WAGON), but for a Western using a singing hero, such as Gene Autry, use Singing cowboy. Use Musical with Variety for musical revues. For filmed or televised productions of stage musicals, not adaptations, use the form Performance in conjunction with Musical; otherwise, use Music and the form Performance for recorded musical performances. Feature examples: ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND; THE BAND WAGON (with Show business); CABIN IN THE SKY (with Ethnic; Fantasy); DANCE, GIRL, DANCE; THE DUKE IS TOPS / THE BRONZE VENUS (with Ethnic); FLOWER DRUM SONG (with Ethnic; Adaptation); 42ND STREET (with Show business); GREASE (with Youth; Comedy; Adaptation); THE GREAT WALTZ; THE GREAT ZIEGFELD; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (with Religious; Adaptation); OKLAHOMA (with Romance; Western; Adaptation); ROMAN SCANDALS; SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER; SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (with Western); SOUTH PACIFIC (with War; Romance; Social problem; Adaptation); YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (with Biographical). TV EXAMPLES: COP ROCK (with Police); FAME (with Youth).

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