Musical film

simple 3 minute pop song. Additionally, since this idea would have been set within a high school, it was relevant to research similar musicals. For example, Heathers the Musical, Be More Chill, and Spring Awakening are all musicals set within a high school environment. Bare the Musical stood out to me the most personally, for the simple fact that within the musical, there are high school characters putting on a Shakespeare play. The song ‘Auditions’ would have been a brilliant way to inspire a script

Hairspray the musical was based out of the 1960’s, and dealt with current issues for the time, like race, women’s rights, religion and pop culture, and the rise of technology. Dance was used in the film and musical performance, as most musicals have dance numbers. Hairspray used the dance performances mostly in the show on the film. In some cases, the cast danced as a rebellion, or to show how the character was changing their point of view. Quite a few of the dance moves involved hips, and shoulders

Gerald Mast, “Before the Ball: American Musical Theater Before American Musicals,” Can’t Help Singin’: The American Musical on Stage and Screen, 7-24 This dense excerpt provides the reader with a rapid overview of American Musical Theater Before American Musicals. The reading explains the reasons why multiple shows and musicals failed and how their plot and lyrics were preserved in writing. It recounts how the shows embraced the new technologies to provide more powerful shows. One of the multiple

1) Discuss the genre, plot, and theme of this play. The genre is a musical comedy. The rock music of the eighties moves the play through the story that is centered in the Bourbon Room bar in Los Angeles. Most of the characters in the play used to be in a rock band, currently are in a rock band or are trying hard to get into a rock band. The girls who wanted or currently want to make in movies are bar waitresses and strippers. Big business wants to close down the strip and develop a new business district

“Don’t want to be an American Idiot.” The hit musical, Green Days American Idiot, can be described as captivatingly entertaining and a show that will surely get your feet stomping to the beat of the music. The Broadway musical, American Idiot, was originally written by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer and incorporates the music from Green Days hit album American Idiot. It is safe to say that American Idiot is different from most musicals, as the storyline is developed around a hit music album

For this discussion form/MLA, I had chosen Grease because I consider it as a classical film with Hollywood style to it and the storyline takes place with wonderful talent in the film. The movie Grease was the most successful movie musical of all time back in 1978. This movie was released June 16, 1978 and the director was Randal Kleiser. The genre was comedy music/Teen film. The Cinematic style is exactly what people would have expected from this movie. In the first dance scene when the whole Grease

Musical film is a genre of movie, which include singing as an important aspect of the plot, and also involves dance numbers done by the characters. Move musicals usually depict a utopian society in which people express their thoughts through song, and emotions through dance. Over time, it has changed with music genre, staging, and plots. The styles have expanded into hip-hop, pop, and swing music, all represented on current Broadway shows. The staging has become more diverse and varied, with the

talk to you about Musicals. For as long as I can remember I have been interested in musicals. It's a big passion and love of mine. I even broke my Scooby-Doo umbrella while watching Mary Poppins when I was 4 because I have put too many stuffed animals underneath it and was leaning into it too much. :) Musicals are becoming more and more popular again, whether you may have realized it or not they are and effect all of us. La La Land, which came out last year in 2016, was a musical, and ended up doing

important parts of a play. American Musicals allowed actors to express their selves in a way that no one has ever seen before. The evolution of musicals began with the influences of American Expressionism. Musical Theatre has its own very unique art and it has influenced the expansion of the boundless creations one can make with such beautiful art. Along the road it gave birth to the Golden Age, Rock Musicals, and Pop Musicals. Stage Musicals and Film Musicals have influence each other to the point

A musical theatre production generally consists of drama, music, songs, and dancing. These aspects are what make musical theatre one of the most favored type of drama production. The difference between a play and a musical play is obviously the input of music and how the story is told. In plays, the emotions and actions are showcased through words and movement, but in musical theatre, the content can be expressed through dialogue as well as music and dancing. Musical theatre has quite an extensive