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 America. So musical
theatre is full of song, dance and geography
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...
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