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Musical Theater: The Ever-Changing Musical Theatre

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Musical theater is a form of art where stories are told on stage in front of a live audience through acting, dancing, and singing. Americans have been enjoying the ever-changing musical theater genre since the early 1900s when the country started transitioning out of opera and into the new musical theater era. Audiences were amazed by the beauty of watching characters tell a story from a place of such deep passion that it moved them to sing and sometimes dance. American musical theater is centered on Broadway, an area of New York City where dozens of theaters are within blocks of each other. Although, American musical theater is centered on Broadway, most shows do not start on Broadway. Shows primarily come from regional theaters and off-Broadway,

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