Musical Plays Origin

1. Cayetano Arellano High School
Presented to: Mark Anthony Janer
Presented by: Christan Anaviso

2. Members
• Anaviso Christan
• Cabinbin John Ron
• Corage Rogie
• Espina Ryan
• Garcia Kaizer
• Garcia Lord
• Gamayon Wilfredo
• Hermano Cyrille
• Viray Jay Rhon
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3. Music Plays Origin
• Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs,
spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a
musical – humor, phatos, love, anger – are communicated through the
words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as
an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other
theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the
equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue,
movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical
theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals.

4. Music Play Examples
• 1. LAZARUS

5. • David Bowie wrote the terrific rock score (a mix of old and new
songs) for this new off-Broadway musical, in which Michael C. Hall
plays the stranded space alien — now a melancholy, gin-swilling
hermit— that Bowie portrayed in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell
to Earth. Busy director Ivo Van Hove’s staging, which features
video screens, balloons, a tone of glam alienation, and a parade of
characters whose significance (and even existence) is not entirely
clear, is as mesmerizing as it is confounding.

6. 2.Finding Neverland

7. • The critics had the hook out from the start for this Broadway
musical from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, based on his 2004
film about J.M. Barrie and the creation of Peter Pan. Against all
odds, it turned out to be a spirited, tuneful and nimbly staged
delight — a marked improvement over the movie, and the very
model of a modern family musical.

8. 3. John

9. • A young couple try to hold their fraying relationship together while
staying at an oddball Pennsylvania inn, run by a dotty proprietor
(Georgia Engel) and populated by a few ghosts. Playwright Annie
Baker (The Flick) has perfected a kind of methodically paced, darkly
comic hyperrealism, and the play lasts a patience-testing 3 1/2
hours. But under Sam Gold’s astute direction for the Signature
Theater, it was strangely enthralling.

10. 4. The Visit

11. • John Kander and Fred Ebb’s last musical collaboration, based on
the Fredrich Durrenmatt play about a wealthy woman who returns
to her hometown seeking revenge, had been circling Broadway for
years. When it finally arrived last spring, it gave theater legend
Chita Rivera one of her greatest roles and New York audiences a
chance to hear one of Kander and Ebb’s most beguiling scores. Yet
the story, adapted by Terrence McNally and staged by John Doyle,
was too dark for Broadway theatergoers, and the show departed
quickly. A shame.

12. 5. The King and I

13. • The acclaimed Lincoln Center revival, directed by Bartlett Sher, has
it all: spectacle, heart and beautiful voices (especially those of Tony
winners Kelli O’Hara and Ruthie Ann Miles). Add to that Rodgers &
Hammerstein’s beloved score and a book — about a proper British
tutor’s encounter with a Siamese ruler struggling to embrace
modernism — with both relevance and tragic heft, and this
production makes a good case for The King and I as the best of all
the R&H classics.