21.   In its efforts to explore the themes of sex roles, racism and mob violence, it is a departure from the traditions of the American musical.

22.   In its corn-tassel golden heyday, the American musical presented its own happy vision of a democratic society.

23.   In the glory days of the American musical, ticket sales were only part of the business.

24.   Interestingly, in recent years several prominent British directors have been revisiting American musicals and gleaning darker themes and visual subtexts from them.

25.   It also sets off echoes sure to stir the hearts of aficionados of the American musical.

26.   Jazz remains a functioning creative form, but the original American musical seems to be running out its string.

27.   Known to balletomanes for his long association with the New York City Ballet, he was best known as the quintessential choreographer of the modern American musical.

28.   Mackintosh was interested in staging revivals of classic American musicals and set up a fund to help the subsidized Royal National Theatre with the cost of a large-scale production.

29.   Now that the American musical has a genuine heritage of works, it makes sense that older musicals should be presented to new audiences.

30.   Once, even the American musical, charged by the electric atmosphere generated by those plays, added substance to its entertainment, made theater history.