Thursday, 18 May 2017

Book musical, Operetta musical and review musical

Book Musical
  • 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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