- A book musical is a musical that is based off a book and the book is used as a base script.
- It strives for realism and integration
- It tells the story and then has songs and dances.
Example-
The Lion King, Disney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NbR6hDXblU
- The musical is based from Disney original.
Operetta Musical
- An operetta musical is a musical with a light subject matter and it is less serious than other opera's.
- It has a classical style as it has an orchestra.
- Gilbert and Sullivan are the main people who have come from operetta musicals.
Example-
Thespis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUECsW8CdxM
- Thespis started in the Gaiety Theatre on the 26th October 1871.
Review Musical
- A review musical is when all the musical theatre art forms aren't done together.
- Review musicals were post world war 1 entertainment.
- The London pavilion is the main place for them to be held.
Examples-
Berlin to broadway with Kurt Weill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9ACkDlHH8
- This colourful cavalcade of a revue artfully mixes cabaret and commentary spanning a history of twenty extraordinary years from his successes in Hitler's Germany to his triumphs in Truman's America.
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