THE BROADWAY

MUSICALS
 INTRODUCTION
Musical play, just like opera is also
a union of music which includes
singing, dancing and instrumentations,
and drama that includes acting with
spoken dialogue.
 Describe the following:
TIME / PERIOD WHEN MOST 20th CENTURY
WERE WRITTEN
VOICE TYPES/TRAINING BELTING OR CHEST VOICE
USED PRIMARILY
LANGUAGE ENGLISH

ACCOMPANIMENT PIANO, BAND OR ORCHESTRA

PERFORMANCE LOCATION CONCERT HALL, OUTDOOR

THEATER, SCHOOL
AUDITORIUM, CHURCH
WHO PUTS ON PRODUCTION BROADWAY PRODUCTIO
COMPANIES, SCHOOL,
THEATER, COMMUNITY
THEATER
WAY TO DELIVER TEXT SPOKEN, SUNG

CULTURAL POPULARITY VERY POPULAR IN AMERICA

 Fill in the blanks with Famous Broadway Song
Titles, Musical Artists, Composers or Lyricists.
BROADWAY MUSICAL FAMOUS SONGS ARTIST / COMPOSER /
LYRICIST
The Grease
Miss Saigon

West Side Story

Phantom of the Opera
The Cats
Annie
Les Miserables
 Theatrical Forms

It is a two-act American theater that aims to

entertain through fusion of dramatic script,
acting spoken dialogue with music, singing,
dancing with scenery, costumes and
spectacles.
 SUMMER NIGHTS

• Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren

Casey with additional songs written by John Farrar, set in
1959 at fictional Rydell High School.
• The show mentions social issues such as teenage pregnancy
and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship,
teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence,
and, to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict.
 SUN AND MOON
I GIVE MY LIFE FOR
YOU

It is a Broadway musical based on Giacomo

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and
similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed
romance involving an Asian woman
abandoned by her American lover.
LEA
LEA SALONGA
SALONGA
HE is
• Maria Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga is a
Filipina singer who made a big name in •
the field of Musical theater here and
abroad.
• Lea studied at the OB Montessori Center
and took lessons at the University of
Philippines College of Music.
• Her career began in theatre when she was
7 years old. She was part of the Repertory
9 Philippines like King and I, Annie, Fiddler
on the Roof, and the Sound of Music.
Lea got her big break in the
international musical theater
when she passed the audition
for Miss Saigon bagging the
lead role of Kim.
• She won her various
international awards from Olivier,
Tony Award, President Award of
Merit and Lakandula Award.
 MEMORY

MACAVITY CAT

Cats is an award-winning musical composed by

Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book
of Practical Cats and other poems by T. S. Eliot. The
show has been performed around the world in
numerous productions and has been translated into
more than 20 languages.
 SOMEWHERE

MARIA

A musical in which a modern day Romeo and

Juliet are involved in New York street gangs.
On the harsh streets of the upper west side,
two gangs battle for control of the turf. The
situation becomes complicated when a gang
member falls in love with a rival's sister.
 THINK OF ME ALL I ASK OF YOU

"The Phantom of the Opera“ is based in a

horror novel by Gaston Leroux about a
mysterious "phantom" who lives in a 19th
century Paris opera house. It is composed by
Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles
Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe
 FOR GOOD
DEFYING GRAVITY

Wicked tells the story of two unlikely friends,

Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and
Glinda, who struggle through opposing
personalities and viewpoints, rivalry over the
same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's
corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's
public fall from grace.
 WHAT I DID FOR LOVE

ONE

It is a musical with music by Marvin

Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban
and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr.
and Nicholas Dante about Hundreds of
hopefuls congregate at a cattle call for
Broadway dancers.
I DREAMED A
DREAM
ON MY OWN
This Broadway musical is based
upon the popular Harold Gray
comic strip Little Orphan Annie,
with music by Charles Strouse,
lyrics by Martin Charnin, and
the book by Thomas Meehan.
TOMORROW
 A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based
on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family
singers, one of the world's best-known concert
groups in the era immediately preceding World
War II.
 He is a British
composer known
internationally. He
has composed 13
musicals, a song
"The Music of the Night" from The
cycle, a set of
Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know variations, two film
How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ
Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, scores, and a Latin
Argentina" and "You Must Love Me"
from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Requiem Mass.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamboat and "Memory" from Cats.
Stephen Sondheim was a
composer and lyricist who
gained prominence during the
1970s and 1980s. He gave a
creative twist and
sophistication to lyrics that
gained him wide praise. He
demonstrated this technique
through musicals such as
“Company” (1970), “A Little
Night Music” (1973), “Sweeney
Todd” (1979), “Sunday in the
Park with George” (1974), “Into
the Woods” (1986).
 Answer the following:
• What makes Broadway different from an
opera?
• How is electronic music produced?