Why Are Musicals So Popular?

Once pondering around musicals you can not support but point around Andrew Lloyd Webber. He has accomplished the most accomplishment in musical theatre and runs a single of the biggest theatre businesses in London. He can be credited for making the longest operating musical production ever and the highest grossing in history. The Phantom of the Opera celebrated its ten,000th Broadway overall performance on 11 February 2012 which is the initial musical to ever to do so and it's nonetheless going powerful these days. His talents at creating musicals are legendary and long might they continue.

Les Misérables is an additional musical which has been operating for over 20 years. Over 60 million individuals about the globe have noticed the stage musical in over 40 countrys. Lately it hit the big screen with starring roles for Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway. If you need to have a great cry, then head to your cinema and watch it. It really is simple to see why it won a golden planet for very best motion image and why it got eight Oscar nominations and 9 Bafta nominations.

The history of musicals goes back a long way. I as soon as visited the Amphitheatre close to Taormina in Sicily and you can bet it saw its fair share of musicals in its time. The Romans are believed to have copied the Greek theatres' and done in enclosed wooden structures. They attached metal chips to the shows to improve the sound of the dancing. I am guessing these would be classed as the initially tap footwear.

There is some thing simply superior around musicals after they are carried out nicely. As a kid the most recorded and watched films on Television for me had been all musicals. "The Wizard of Oz" "Mary Poppins" and "Greece" have been my favourite; even now I may sing along to all the songs and totally adhere to the spoken dialogue. I even keep in mind spending hours perfecting the precise skip Dorothy does down the yellow brick road! Then there was "Annie", "Dirty Dancing", "Fame" and "Flashdance", the list goes on. The Much more I believe around it the Extra I realise I was brought up on musicals.

But what is it around musicals that make them so well-liked even currently? I assume it is merely simply because they use song and dance to boost a story. But I consider it requires a particular sort of director and choreographer to make a musical perform. Possessing observed lots of productions of the very same musical it appears the accomplishment is actually down to how properly it's made. A couple of years ago I took my mother to see "We will Rock you" and it was basically wonderful. It truly offers you the think superior point.

I can not wait for the subsequent big musical to hit the stage. I have constantly wanted to burst into song and dance whist carrying out my weekly shop at Tesco's! Possibly I need to have to arrange this, get a group of close friends, prepare a dance and have some music prepared. I bet it would make all the shoppers cease and watch and give them the assume fantastic issue that all the most effective musicals give you.

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