CLASSICAL

BROADWAY
GROUP 9
CLASSICAL BROADWAY
 A number of large, professional theatres
(theatrical performances).
 Continue to run as long as they are popular
to satisfy investors.
 Plays that are performed as songs and
dances instead of dialogues.
HISTORY
 Aronson, Rudolph (1856-1919) is the
producer and composer built the Casino
Theatre which opened in 1882 as the first
playhouse designed for Broadway musicals.
 Charles Frohman and Marcus Alonzo Klaw
are the developers of this genre.
BROADWAY MUSICALS
 Very popular and world-known.
 The Elves in 1857 was the first “long-run”
musical.
 The longest running production musical is
Phantom of the Opera (opened in 1988).
SOME BROADWAY MUSICALS
 Mamma Mia
 Chicago
 West Side Story
 The Phantom of the Opera
 My Fair Lady
 Cats
MAMMA MIA
 An Italian expression which means “mom
mine/my.”
 It convey many different emotions such as
surprise, fear, pain, joy, and exasperation.
 Related to maternal figure.
CHICAGO
 Musical tale of murder, greed, corruption,
violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery.
 Paint the town red with merry murderesses
with an iconic choreography.
WEST SIDE STORY
 Award-winning adaptation of the classical
romantic tradegy “Romeo and Juliet.”
 A musical with book by Arthur Laurents.
 A play that uses singing and dancing to tell a
story.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
 A book by the French writer Gaston Leroux
about a frightening man whose face has been
disfigured and who wears a mask to hide it.
 Inspired by historical events at the Paris
Opera and an apocryphal tale.
MY FAIR LADY
 A musical based on George Bernard Shaw's
pygmalion.
 The story concerns with a flower girl who
takes speech lessons.
 The main story was not a love story, there
was no subplot or secondary love story.
CATS
 A film based on the stage musical of the
same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in
turn was based on the 1939 poetry collection.
 Tells the story of a tribe of cats called the
Jellicles.