Music lesson 3

• Musical play


  A form of theatrical performance that combines song, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The story and emotional content are communicated through the words, music, movement, and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole.
• Broadway musicals


  • Use live dialogue, music, singing, and dancing to tell stories
• Broadway and West End productions

  • The King and I
  • My Fair Lady
  • The Sound of Silence
  • Camelot
  • West Side Story
• Broadway and West End productions are the most widely associated with musical theatre
• Showboat - First major Broadway musical

  1927
• Lea Salonga


  Filipino artist who attained superstar status on both London's West End and Broadway, known for her portrayal of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon
• Phantom of the Opera

  Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe, the longest running Broadway musical of all time, nominated for 11 Tony Awards and won 7
• The story of Phantom of the Opera focuses on a beautiful singer Christine Daaé as she is seduced by a mysterious disfigured musical genius known as "The Phantom of the Opera", who lives beneath the Paris Opera House and terrorizes those who work there, demanding that Christine be the star of the theater's productions
• Les Misérables


  Nicknamed "Les Mis", a musical composed in 1980 by French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg, the most famous of all French musicals and the most well-loved musical performed worldwide
• Les Misérables tells the story of paroled convict Jean Valjean who, failing attempts to find work as an honest man, breaks his chains and conceals his identity in order to live his life again
• Philippine musical plays


  A more recent development than on Broadway and the West End, relying mostly on adaptations of novels, literary works or biographical sketches of famous artists
• Philippine musical plays


  • Andres Bonifacio: Ang Dakilang Anak Pawis
  • Atang - Dulang May Musika
  • Katy! The Musical
  • Florante at Laura, The Musical
  • Daragang Magayon
  • Noli Me Tangere - The Musical
  • El Filibusterismo, The Musical
  • Magsimula Ka, The Musical