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The black crook is often "cautiously" referred to as the first musical (see the Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Crook). The issue with it is that it was not only a collaborative work (we don't know all the composers) but it ran continuously for many years with the music sometimes changing.

I feel IMSLP should make more of an effort to identify and "join" these works together. For example, there's:

• Black Crook Galop (Baker, Thomas) - https://imslp.org/wiki/Black_Crook_Galo ... 2C_Thomas)
  Black Crook Waltzes (Noll, Joseph) - https://imslp.org/wiki/Black_Crook_Walt ... l,_Joseph)
  The Black Crook, Op.201 (Operti, Giuseppe) - https://imslp.org/wiki/The_Black_Crook% ... _Giuseppe)

I'm not sure all these should be on a single page, but maybe they could have some kind of navigation device where someone looking for music from The black crook would immediately find all the music. Certainly the category "Musicals" should be appended to these three works.
(Special Piano Music for 'The Black Crook' (Simon, Walter Cleveland) is a silent film score, not meant for the stage production.)