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musical play

stage work that combines songs, music, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance
Class type of: musical drama, audiovisual work, play Q2743

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
music genre, theatrical genre, type of dramatico-musical work[6][7]
Inception
1560[11]
Subclass of
musical drama, audiovisual work, play, performing arts production
Country of origin
Europe[8]
Described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[12]
Different from
musical film, musical[14][15]
Has list
list of lists of musicals[16]
Has part(s)
pit orchestra, show tune[9][10]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]
Practiced by
musical theatre composer[17]
Topic has template
Template:Infobox musical[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en lyric drama en musical en stage musical en musical theatre en musical theater en musical play ar مسرحية غنائية ar مسرح موسيقي cs muzikál de Songspiel de Musiktheater el μιούζικαλ en-gb musical theatre en-gb musical play en-gb stage musical es espectaculo musical es espectáculo musical es teatro musical fa تئاتر موزیکال fi teatterimusikaali
🔖 Identifiers · 61
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85089018, sh89002771
GND ID
4040801-2
OpenAlex ID
C558565934
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Naples Players Performance of "42nd Street" in Blackburn Hall, July 2011..jpg ↗
ABC News topic ID
opera-and-musical-theatre
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294926879, 298838761
AllMusic genre/style ID
ma0000012216, ma0000004506
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/3044
BBC News topic ID
cp78k38ly58t
BBC Things ID
c32c884c-369d-4560-90e9-8a19ca9cf340
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
musical-theatre, musical-theatre-emc
Cultureel Woordenboek ID
toneel/musical
Show all 61 identifiers +49
Deaf Movie Database genre ID
musical
Discogs style ID
musical
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/musical
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
comedie-musicale
Equivalent class
dbpedia.org
Every Noise at Once ID
comediemusicale
France 24 topic ID (French)
comédie-musicale
Freebase ID
/m/0557q
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
musikal
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2241957, 5471765
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
miuzikl-660e8e
Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID
musical
Harper's tag
musicals
Homosaurus ID (V3)
homoit0001031
IAB code
156
IPTC NewsCode
mediatopic/20001133
ITunes genre ID (archived)
8.3k (1.2k–8.3k, n=3)
Interlingual Index ID
i73554
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
musical-theater
KBpedia ID
Musical
Klexikon article ID
Musical
Krugosvet article (archived)
kultura_i_obrazovanie/teatr_i_kino/MYUZIKL.html
Lex ID
musical
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
gf2014026957
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
558565934
Museum-digital tag ID
14686
MusicBrainz genre ID
ff6d73e8-bf1a-431e-9911-88ae7ffcfdfb
NDL Authority ID
00567959
NL CR AUT ID
ph123057, ph123058
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555758705171, 987007546550105171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
414995
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
4009245
Open Library subject ID
musicals
PSH ID
11895
Quora topic ID
Musical-Theatre
SVKKL authority ID
h0006198-muzikaly, 0380384-muzikal
Subreddit
musicals
The Advocate tag ID
musical
The Guardian topic ID
stage/musicals
Topic's main category
Category:Musicals
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10643996, 10644246
Vikidia article ID
fr:Comédie_musicale
WikiKids ID
Musical
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07032286-n
X (Twitter) topic ID
1035186638777802752
YSO ID
11693
Yale LUX ID
concept/a31eec72-4db6-47fb-bbc3-aa20c774b69d
Yandex Music genre ID
musical
Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online ID
M/Musical

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🔗 Connections
← Form of creative work 300
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Hamilton, Cats, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Misérables, Hair +292 more
← Genre 190
Dumbo, Cinderella, Emmy Rossum, Ashley Tisdale, Irving Berlin, Bob Fosse, Cole Porter, Idina Menzel +182 more
← Category combines topics 139
Category:Films based on musicals, Category:Broadway musicals, Category:Musicals by year, Category:Theatres in Estonia, Category:American musicals, Category:Songs from musicals, Category:British musicals, Category:1970s musicals +131 more
← Field of work 61
George Gershwin, Glynis Johns, Stanley Donen, Stephen Sondheim, Ken Page, Jerome Kern, Ute Lemper, Annie Cordy +53 more
← Category contains 12
Category:Musicals, Category:Broadway musicals, Category:American musicals, Category:French musicals, Category:Musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Category:Musicals based on books, Category:Musicals by Cole Porter, Category:Musicals by Stephen Sondheim +4 more
Subtypes 5
rock opera, jukebox musical, tuồng, musical comedy, 2.5D musical
Instance of 2
music genre, theatrical genre
Subclass of 2
play, audiovisual work
← Category's main topic 2
Category:Musicals, Category:Musical
Country of origin 1
Europe
Different from 1
musical film
Has part(s) 1
show tune
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Topic has template 1
Template:Infobox musical
Topic's main category 1
Category:Musicals
← Different from 1
musical film
← Facet of 1
show tune
← Has effect 1
Dream SMP
← Has part(s) of the class 1
Sailor Moon musicals
← Is a list of 1
list of musicals
← Main subject 1
All Musicals
← Product or material produced 1
Disney Theatrical Group
← Resistance in Belgium ID 1
Sinaai
← SNARC ID 1
Abbottabad
← TDKIV Wikibase ID 1
schoolwork
← Template has topic 1
Template:Infobox musical
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Summary

musical play is a music genre[1]. It is a type of musical drama[2], audiovisual work[3], play[4], and performing arts production[5].

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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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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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. 19d ago · Trivialist · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da',
    Sitelink count → 90
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||nl */ Cleanup: remove self_stated_in refs; normalize text ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  2. 4w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 90
    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 "
  3. 20w 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"
  4. 20w 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]]"
  5. 24w 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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