Musical Theatre

Today, I want to talk about Musical Theatre, a wonderful  art, to everyone.     

1.Summary  2.Comparison with Opera  3.Famous places  4.Other Forms of Theatre  5.A Easy List  6.A Song of Musical

Musical theatre is a style of performance that includes dance, popular songs, spoken dialog, and lots of acting.

The Musicals performed at New York Broadway or London West End are famous.  And most of the musical theatres actors usually sing the Musicals in English or French.

The biggest difference between the Musical theatre and the Opera is that Musical theatre concentrates on acting and dancing first and then singing.  On the other hand, opera focuses on singing the most.  That is why the musical theatre performers are often handsome actors and beautiful actress that sometimes with terrible voice.  Besides, the Musical performers in large theatres often use microphones, but it is avoided in an operatic context.

There are various Eastern conventions of the theatre, for example, Chinese Opera, Taiwanese opera, Noh (classical Japanese dance theatre) and Musical theatre in India.             

1.Musicals: The Black Brook, Les Misérables, Billy Elliot, The Sound of Music, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, West Side Story, Notre Dame de Paris, The Lion King, 

Notre Dame de Paris …
          2.Opera: Carmen, La traviata, The Magic Flute, Otello, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, The Marriage of Figaro …

          At the end, I want to share one of my favorite song of Musical: Belle. 

       Notre Dame de Paris - Belle ↑↑↑                                   from: Wikipedia, Google Search

A brief introduction of Musical theatre ~ by Jackyy

        New York Broadway and London West End. Both of them are famous for musical theatre.

Musical theatre is a type of theatre that integrates with spoken, songs, dialogue, dance, and acting.

There are some difference of Musical theatre and opera. For example:

1. focuses on pop music style, dancing, and spoken dialogue, but some of operas have unaccompanied dialogue. 

        2. The actors in musical theatre are more important than singers and dancers, but the actors in opera are not that important like singer.   

   

         The following is some famous musical:

         1.   Cats  ( 貓 )   2. Into the Woods  ( 拜訪森林 )   3.  Les Miserable ( 悲慘世界 )

     4.  West Side Story ( 西城故事 )     5.  The Sound of Music ( 真善美 )

       

         And there are lots of other forms of theater, for example: Taiwanese opera, Chinese opera, and Sanskrit drama.

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