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Mrs . Abbott Theater Production and Drama Oak Park High School. What is a Musical?. Take Notes : Write down 6 good facts from the video on musical theater. A play, where music and dance are used to tell the story. Intro to Musical Theater. Why I Love Musical Theater. Give it a chance!. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mrs. AbbottTheater Production and Drama
Oak Park High School
What is a Musical? A play, where music and
dance are used to tell the story.
Intro to Musical Theater
Take Notes: Write down 6
good facts from the video
on musical theater.
Why I Love Musical Theater
Give it a chance! I don’t care if you end up loving or hating
musical theater (although I hope you love it)
Give it a chance… Which means, open your heart and your
mind up to the possibility that musical theater might be awesome!
Musical TheaterWhere did musical theatre come from?
Musical theatre has been around since the beginning of theatre in Greece more than 2000 years ago.
The musicals that we think of today, first became popular with the development of television. When television was created a number of people who went to the movies declined…why go to a movie when you can watch the same thing on television at home…enter musicals.
Movie Studios decided that they needed to come up with a type of movie that people couldn’t see at home on television, they came up with the musical.
Take Notes!
Musical Theater
How are musical’s different from television?
Big Budget: Television shows have a limited budget. Musicals also have large casts, and elaborate costumes and sets.
Musical Numbers: The characters occasionally burst into song…TV didn’t have that…until Glee…now we have Glee, Smash, Nashville, and more!
Take Notes!
Music
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” --Victor Hugo
“Music is the international language of mankind.” --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk to the Text
Origins of Musical Theatre in the United
States Factors leading to the birth of Musical
Theatre:› The large amounts of immigrants
making up the U.S. in late 19th & early 20th centuries and their respective music & dance traditions.
› The Minstrel shows, musical revues, and vaudeville paved the way.
Take Notes!
Three important things that make an Integrated Musical
Acting Singing Dancing
All of these three things have to come together to form a story, and they all
must match and make sense.Take
Notes!
Birth of Musical Theatre Producer Florenz Ziegfeld’s
SHOWBOAT (1927) establishes the American Musical Theatre. › A book musical based on Edna Ferber’s novel and told with text, music & dance.
› Focused in New York City.
Showboat
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip? What is the difference between the original and revival and why?
Can’t help loving that man of mineRevival
Who was Hattie
McDaniel?
The Broadway Theatre The heart of musical theatre
production. Close to Broadway & Times
Square, between 41st & 50th Streets.
BroadwayNew York City
Take Notes!
Rodgers and Hammerstei
n The most successful and influential
musical duos of their time! (1940-1950’s) Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The
King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes.
Among the many accolades their shows (and film versions) garnered were thirty-four Tony Awards, fifteen Academy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and two Grammy Awards
Oklahoma (1943) Musical about farmers and cowboys
reinforcing traditional American values. Created by Richard Rodgers (music)& Oscar
Hammerstein II (book & lyrics) during WWII. Dance used to develop character in
“Laurie’s Dream Ballet” with Choreography by Agnes de Mille
Oklahoma Laurie’s Dream Ballet
What was the clip about?
How is the story told without talking OR singing?
What are your feelings about the Laurie’s Dream Ballet?
Stephen Sondheim Most influential presence on
musical theatre of late 20th century.
The musical of untidy endings.
Earliest collaborations are West Side Story, Gypsy.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Into the Woods, Assassins.
West Side Story (1957)
West Side Story (1957) Based on the feuding families that
doomed the lovers Romeo & Juliet, but set in urban NYC dramatizing gang conflict.
Creators are Leonard Bernstein (music), Jerome Robbins (director/choreographer), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Arthur Laurents (book).
Entire story told through songs & dances, very little dialogue.
West Side Story
America
What was the clip about?
What does it say about America?
What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
My Fair Lady (1956) Brilliant language to the
musical stage provided by the work of George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmallion.
Created by Alan Lerner (music) & Frederick Loewe (lyrics), directed by Moss Hart.
Casting of Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins & Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle.
Julie Andrews
My Fair Lady (1956)
Wouldn’t it be Loverly
What was the clip about?
What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Not Julie
Andrews!
Why?
The Lion King The Lion King (1997) conceived, designed &
directed by Julie Taymor
How do you turn people into animals?
The Lion King
Opening Number
The Lion King
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Julie Taymor Director (movies
and theater), Artist, Designer
Revolutionized theater
Creator of: The Lion King, Spiderman, turn off the dark, The Tempest
Modern Musical Theater
Wicked The back-story of The
Wizard of Oz
Defying Gravity
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Jesus Christ Superstar The Bible story of
Jesus, as told with rock music.
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Once The actors and the
musicians are the same people!
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Once
Porgy and Bess A folk opera about
African American life in South Carolina in the 1920s.
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Medley
The Book of Mormon The story of
Mormon missionaries in Africa, made by the creators of South Park.
I Believe
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark
The Spiderman comic book, brought to life on stage…with LOTS of special effects.
Spiderman What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Shrek The musical
version of the cartoon hit, Shrek!
What’s up Dulac?
What was the clip about? What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beat
What was the clip about?
What are your thoughts/feelings about the clip?
Which clip do you like better? Why?
What is Beauty and the Beat trying to say?
Musical Questions What is the name of the musical? Where did this story take place? (20 words or more) Is this story from present day (now)? Why or why not? (30 words or more) What is the plot of the story? Using a flow map summarize what happened
first, second and so on…(This should be a large flow map, with lots and lots of detail, it should take up an entire page or more!)
List and describe the leading characters in the story, what is their relationship to each other? (60 words or more)
Who is (are) the main character(s) of the story? Why do you say that he/she/they are the main character(s)? (60 words or more)
Who is (are) the protagonist(s)? Describe him/her/them. (60 words or more) Who is (are) the antagonist(s)? Describe him/her/them. (60 words or more) What happens to the antagonist(s) at the end of the story? (30 words or more) What happens to the protagonist(s) at the end of the story? (30 words or
more)