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musical play

stage work that combines songs, music, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance
Intangible music_genre Q2743
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Summary

musical play is a music genre[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of music genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,637 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: theatrical genre[3], type of dramatico-musical work[4]
  • Subclass of: musical drama[5], audiovisual work[6], play[7], performing arts production[8]
  • Commons category: Musicals[9]
  • Country of origin: Europe[10]
  • Has part(s): pit orchestra[11], show tune[12]
  • Inception: January 1, 1560[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Musicals[14]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[15]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox musical[16]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Musical[17]
  • Different from: musical film[18], musical[19]
  • Has list: list of lists of musicals[20]
  • Practiced by: musical theatre composer[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]

Why It Matters

musical play has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Alan Menken Annie Cordy Ashley Tisdale Bob Fosse Bo Burnham Cole Porter Cynthia Erivo Diverse Harmony Elaine Paige Emmy Rossum Fikret Amirov Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C. George Gershwin Glynis Johns Idina Menzel Irving Berlin Jerome Kern John Barrowman Jonathan Larson Ken Page Kristin Chenoweth Lea Salonga Lin-Manuel Miranda Lotte Lenya Mary Martin Milva Musica - Mixed Choir of Friends of Music New Hampshire Gay Men's Chorus Paul Laurence Dunbar Raimonds Pauls

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Andre Engels · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 89
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da',
    Asc leiden thesaurus id → 294926879, 298838761
    Claims rich → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Asc leiden thesaurus id: 298838761, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/53038331|musicals (form) (#53038331)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/1315|ASC Leiden "
  2. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → musicals
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: musicals, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955373|musicals (#289955373)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006198-muzikaly, 0380384-muzikal
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0006198-muzikaly, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → Europe
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox musical
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 11693, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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