Show tune
A show tune is a popular song originally written as part of the score of a "show" (or stage musical), especially if the piece in question has become a "standard", more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context. Particular musicals that have yielded "show tunes" include the following (although the list is of course far from comprehensive):
 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot
Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Dear World, Mack & Mabel, La Cage aux Folles
Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, West Side Story,Sweeney Todd
John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret, Chicago
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Starlight Express, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Stephen Schwartz's Pippin, Godspell, and Wicked
Though show tunes vary in style, they do tend to share common characteristics — they usually fit the context of a story being told in the original musical, they are useful in enhancing and heightening choice moments.
Until the late forties, show tunes dominated popular music: most of the hits of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin came from their shows.
See also
Musical theatre
Great American Songbook
Popular song
The Jerry Herman musical revues Showtune, Jerry's Girls
The Stephen Sondheim musical revues Side by Side by Sondheim, Putting It Together
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