MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comic Opera, Fred Ebb, Joe Masteroff
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What is a musical? a musical is broadly de ned genre that refers to a type of performance made up on talking, singing, dancing. In other words, the theatre that speaks, sings and dances a genre is a category sanctioned by convention: musical: the term was not developed until the early sixties other terms before 1960: musical comedy, light opera, operetta. What is the conventional structure of a musical: act 1 (90-105 minutes, act 2 ( 45- 60 minutes) Four pivotal points in a musical: 1. beginning of act 1, 2. !1: showboat, oklahoma!, porgy and bess, street scene, west side. Story, love life, cabaret, company, sunday in the park with george, Assassins, les miz, the phantom of the opera, rent, urinetown: the. Roles in musicals: musicals are highly collaborative art forms that bring together a large creative collective, which includes the composer, lyrricist, book writer, director, choreographer, producer, orchestrator, actors, musicians, lyricists.
