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  • This 45-minute, sung-through opera by librettist Phil Porter and composer Martin Ward combines music, singingand puppetry with an engaging, junkshop aesthetic to terrific effect in a show aimed at the three-to-six agerange.

    Skitterbang Island 2010

  • If the show is sung-through, like Les Miz, then fine, that's what you're doing.

    up and down the bou-le-vard- 2009

  • This is my first opera, but I've done musicals, and these days a lot of musicals are sung-through, with so little dialogue that they're virtually opera.

    Putting Antigone's World in Context 2008

  • Its first sin is laziness -- Messrs. Boublil and Schönberg ought to have worked a little harder and then engaged Mr. Legrand to make it a sung-through piece; at least they would have been forced to concentrate their minds on the story, and not pushed the plot creakily along with truly terrible dialogue.

    Britain pays tribute to American prints 2008

  • He, too, envisioned a sung-through format, "a new film genre -- not opera, not an old MGM musical with people speaking, then bursting into song."

    Madonna Tangos With Evita 2008

  • And at first sight I was quite taken with her new West End show, adapted from Jacques Demy's quirkily sung-through, 1964 film which starred the teenage Catherine Deneuve.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • The show is nearly all sung-through, apparent right from the start as Gordon sits down at his piano to compose a "spring" song for his aquatic, despotic frog boss, children's TV show personality Mr. Bungee, who appears from time to time in hellish hallucination to offer advice and criticism.

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • Les Misérables, the sung-through tale of outcasts, orphans, revolutionaries, lovers and thieves in early 19th-century France, originally opened in London at the Barbican Theatre on

    Playbill.com : News 2010

  • And the entire sung-through show has a feeling of a long, long trail of telegraphic gossipy dispatches scrawled on the backs of picturesque postcards.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • As an operatic, sung-through musical, one brief number flows to the next without spoken dialogue.

    Creative Loafing Atlanta 2010

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  • MaryW commented on the word sung-through

    To watch Hamilton is to experience a total work of art—a Gesamtkunstwerk, in which different forms are combined into a single unified whole. The production brings together a staggeringly wide array of musical styles, including hip-hop, ragtime, Broadway musical theatre, Jazz, and baroque harpsichord. The tableau unfolds dynamically . . .an ensemble of dancers surrounds the main characters with intricate, sharp choreography . . . . The costumes manage to be elegant and period appropriate while also avoiding caricature. . . .

    But the most astonishing artistic weapon that Hamilton unleashes is the power—in both force and quantity—of its words.The two-and-a-half-hour show comprises 20,000 words, nearly all of them delivered in some form of song or rap. The show is "sung-through," a phrase whose new frequency among the general public is yet another consequence of Hamilton-mania.

    Alison L. LaCroix, The Rooms Where It Happened, The New Rambler, May 23, 2016 (reviewing Hamilton: An American Musical, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Hamilton: The Revolution, by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter)

    May 23, 2016