Even if
musicals don’t always contain traditional music it can give facts about
different countries. A great example of this is in Legally Blonde the Musical
in the song Ireland. In this song, it gives some facts about Ireland some are
wrong as she says bag pipes which are Scottish instead of uilleann pipes which
are Irish. So, it is a great way for people to learn a bit more about Ireland
without having to research it at all. In Les Miserable it gives you an insight
to the living conditions of the poor during the time of the June rebellion in
1833. You really get an insight of their life’s during the song At the End of
the Day. This is really interesting to find out about this as one of the only
other copy of what happened is in Victor Hugo’s book Les Miserable so it is
really great to hear what happened during that time. So, musicals are not just
very enjoyable to watch but they can also inform you about historic events and
other countries. So, it is true that musicals are the best things in the world.
Musical theatre is traced back all the way to ancient Greece when they started to combine music and dance to their on stage comedies. At first parts of Europe only songs in their musical performances and these were called opera but as time went on composers started to experiment with different styles. Around the 1850 a French composer named Herve came up with comic musical theatre called operetta. The adaption of these were called musical burlesques which became really big in London in the 1870s. These are very different to musicals today as today musicals contain more popular music. There is also more spoken dialogue in modern musicals then operettas. They also try attract musicals to younger people by creating musicals with more modern music like rap a good example of this is the new musical Hamilton this musical contain loads of rap particularly in the song guns and ships. There are musicals set in loads of different places. It can go from Paris in France all the way to Chicago in A...
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