LESSON 2

• Theater performance


  What is a theater performance?
• Connection between music and theater performances


  How is music connected to theater performances?
• Benefits of studying musical theater

  How can the study of musical theater benefit your life?
• The Philippines has theatrical forms influenced by foreign invaders (Spaniards, Japanese, Americans)
• These theatrical forms are executed through singing, dancing, and acting
• Sarswela


  A traditional theater form with songs and dances performed by actors and actresses in theaters and town plazas during fiestas or Holy Week
• The sarswela was introduced to the Philippines by the Spaniards
• Use of music in sarswela


  To accompany the whole play presentation, performers sing their lines in accordance to the mood of the story, groups of musicians also accompany them
• Types of sarswela


  • Walang Sugat - a play with song and dance in three acts, about two young lovers affected by their love for each other, written and directed by Severino Reyes, music composed by Fulgencio Tolentino, first premiered in 1902
• Severino Reyes


  Known as the "Father of Tagalog Sarswela", organized a company called Gran Compania de Zarzuela Tagala (Great Company of Tagalog Zarzuela)
• Atang de la Rama


  Known as the "Philippine Sarswela Star/Nightingale of the Sarswela"