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Please answer the following questions:

1. Definition/Features of Musical Theatre

Musical theatre is a form of dramatic performance that includes songs, acting, and dance, conversation between two or more people.

2. Comparison with Opera

Musicals usually concentrate on spoken dialogue, on dancing, sundries of popular music, and on the avoidance of certain operatic conventions. And opera usually concentrates on acting and dancing first and then singing.

 3. Two Large Venues Musicals are Performed In

Musicals have produced in London or New York, they are always sung in English or French.

4. Other Forms of Theatre (with Music)

There are more forms of theater that include music, such as Chinese opera, Taiwanese opera, etc.

5. Make a list (Musicals/Opera)

Musical：Hairspray 

Opera：The Magic Flute

 (From Wikipedia )

6. Find a Song (Video) of Musical and Briefly Introduce the Background (With Lyrics)
Hairspray- I Know Were I've Been

Video

Lyrics http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/hairspray/iknowwhereivebeen.htm