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Theater Musicals
Theater Musicals combine dramatic acting with song and dance. Ask questions about your favorite Broadway and Off Broadway musicals, the casts, the shows, the songs, and much more here.
498 Questions
What is the phantom of the opera story about?
In originally written by Gaston Leroux and first published as a novel in 1909. It's a story about a man named Erik, who is a musical genius but whose face is horribly disfigured ever since his birth and because of that he has been shunned, hated and abused by the society and his mother feared and loathed him. In the original novel his face looks like a skull. And as he is also very skinny, it results him looking like a corpse. In the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical adaptation and the 2004 film based on it, only half of his face is deformed. Eventually he went to hiding from the world, ending up living deep underground in the cellar dungeons of the Paris Opera House and with his multi-talent genius, he has created the imago of a ghost haunting the opera house. As the ghost he makes his living by stealing and demanding from the managers his share of the profit the opera house makes.
He falls in love with a young singer, Christine Daaè and starts to coach her to become a perfect singer. He appeared to her as the Angel of Music, who her recently passed away father had promised to send her and she believed in - so he is nothing but a echoing voice in her dressing room and she keeps him secret. When Christine's childhood friend and sweetheart, vicount Raoul de Chagny suddenly appears back into her life, the Phanrom/Erik - known to Christine as the Angel of Music - becomes jealous. As the Phantom/Erik has already fallen obsessively in love with Christine and his violent and utterly lonely life has made him horribly deranged and insane, the love triangle increases into a nightmare. In the original novel he's killed before and he still kills in means to get Christine. The fact that Christine tries to escape with Raoul and engages him, doesn't help at all. In the end of the original story, he kidnaps Christine and attempts to drown Raoul and another man in a torture chamber, if Christine didn't agree to marry him.
In the Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation, she shows it by putting the engagment ring on and kissing him twice full on the lips. In the original novel, she just wears the ring and the wedding dress and he sees his living wife in her eyes. She does kiss his forehead and lets him kiss hers in the end of the original story but it's a bit later for a different reason. In both endings, her sacrifice and commitment leads to Erik/the Phantom making a redeeming act of love by letting her go with Raoul. In the original novel's end, Erik/the Phantom dies. In the Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, he just disappears somewhere. In the ALW musical version he threatens to kill only Raoul who came alone to try and save Christine and the Phantom threatens to kill him by hanging or strangling instead of drowning.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical and the film based on it is a romanticized version of Leroux's original story which is much more of a horror genre. But both versions have the same essence and basically the same essential characteristics for the main characters that are the same ones. The essential differences are in how deformed the Phantom's face is, and the musical has the Phantom feel sexual desire towards Christine whereas in the novel he does feel sexual toward Christine in chapter 12, he write Don Juan the Triumph in the expression of his love for her , he even tells her she will burn if he played it for her directly. In Gaston Leroux's novel it is written in sexual suppression of the Victorian age. In the musical she feels some nature of more romantic/mature love for the Phantom whereas in the novel Christine loves the Phantom only as a father figure and a teacher who taught her music, she loved his voice but she was in love with only Raoul.
What musical or play is The Girl in 14G from?
"The Girl From 14G" was written by Jeanine Tesori , who's an award-winning song writers for musicals (she wrote the score for Thoroughly Modern Millie). She was commissioned by Sony Classical to write "The Girl in 14G" for Kristin Chenoweth's debut CD, "Let Yourself Go".
What is the genre for the musical The Wizard of Oz?
The Wizard was a Hollywood musical. It also could be considered a fantasy, or "movie based on book". It was a record-breaking movie because it was the first movie in color, or at least partly in color. If you've seen the movie, I'm sure you know it starts of in Kansas in black and white and then lands on the rainbow, in (what was then) dazzling color.
What musical did Barbra Streisand perform in 1964?
In 1968, a young, beautiful and eager Barbra Streisand was freshly on the market. Her first movie, "Funny Girl," had just been released. The film is described as a "commercial based musical" and Streisand won a 1968 Academy Award for her role.
What is a good Broadway song for a teenage first soprano to sing?
popular- wicked
little lamb- gypsy
let me entertain you- gypsy
fully dressed- annie
hard knock life- annie
consider yourself- oliver
where is love- oliver
who will buy- oliver
all for you- seussical
amayzing mayzie- seussical
castle on a cloud- les mes.
good morning baltimore- hairsray
hopes this helps =)
Les misérables (the ones who live in misery) is a novel by Victor Hugo, set mainly in the first part of the 1800s. It is one of the most important books of French literature.
What musicals have 6 words in the title?
My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, Rent, Chicago, Cats, Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, The Sound of Music...
*Just an updated, because the only of these currently on Broadway are Mamma Mia and Jersey Boys. Currently (as of August 2010): Addams Family, Next to Normal, Fela!, Memphis, The Million Dollar Quartet, Everyday Rapture, In The Heights, Billy Elliott, American Idiot, Come Fly Away, A Little Night Music, Phantom of the Opera, Promises, Promises.
Where can Porgy and Bess 1959 be purchased?
Talk about re-writing history! I watched this movie as a child, and now due to people in power who believe we should be told what to watch and what to believe in we cannot watch this movie anymore. If you could compare this movie to the crud they show about black Americans doing in movies now-days you simply could not understand why this movie is NO LONGER ALLOWED to be seen in America. Notice I did not say russia.
Americans need to be very worried about any sort of sensorship in America. The fact that a great movie such as this can be BANNED in American under cover, on the DOWN-LOW, should make every American stand up and ask "who the heck is able to do this" and "what else are these people going to be able to eliminate from the history of America?" A person in America today can buy or download any kind of filthy pornography they want FOR FREE, but they can't buy or download a great classic such as the 1959 movie Porgy & Bess.
Answer 2. I've only checked Amazon, and you might want to try other sources, but as of RIGHT NOW they're showing it available new on an all-region DVD for $49.99. That's very high, but it's not "banned," and never has been.
Is the heart is slow to learn in Love Never Dies?
The Heart is Slow to Learn is an earlier version of the song titled Love Never Dies in Andrew Lloyd Webbers Phantom sequel.
What parts does Purity the angel have in anything goes?
She is one of Reno's Angels. She dances in Blow Gabriel Blow and Anything Goes, and probably more but she is defiantly in those two numbers. The girl playing purity must tap and have fluidity in their dancing for the musical numbers anything goes and blow Gabriel blow. Possibly must know ballroom dancing as well.
Which musical theatre songs are about choices?
Uhm... I suppose you could say...
Past the Point of No Return - The Phantom of the Opera (whether or not to be together, the beginning at least)
Down Once More - The Phantom of the Opera (whether ir not to kill Raoul, to let then go, for Christine to kiss the Phantom, for Christine to choose a life with the Phantom to save Raoul or to let Raoul die for her freedom)
Kiss Me - Sweeney Todd (whether or not to be together)
A Weekend in the Country - A Little Night Music (to got o the country or not)
Hope this helps!
Does rent-the musical-have any talking?
Yes, in both the stage and movie versions. However, the movie version was substantially reworked to have more unaccompanied (without music) dialogue in it. The stage version is mostly sung-through, with some dialogue thrown in, generally as part of or intro to a song.
Who is the leader of the chorus?
The person who leads or conducts the chorus is called the conductor.
What is the Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan?
The Mikado is an operetta written by Gilbert and Sullivan. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was the second longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time. Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera. The Mikado remains the most frequently performed Savoy Opera, and it is especially popular with amateur and school productions. The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history.
Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese. Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions.
What is the order of the songs in legally blonde the musical?
Oh my god
serious
what you want
harvard variations
blood in the water
positive
ireland
ireland reprise
serious reprise
chip on my shoulder
so much better
act2
whipped in to shape
take it like a man
bend and snap
there! right ther! (gay or european)
legally blonde
legally blonde remix
scene of the crime
find my way
bows music
finale/goodbye song
When and why was Oliver the musical written?
Oliver is about a young orphan boy who feels lost. He goes to london to try to make his fortune and befriends a young boy named the Artful Dodger. He lives with pocketpickers. The musical is about people trying to make thier wasy in the world living under the poverty line.
Who stared in the musical the Phantom of the Opera?
Sarah Brightman Played Christine. Micheal Crawford played the Phantom. Andrew Loyd Webber composed the music. Charles Hart wrote most of the lyrics. Gaston Leroux written the Phantom of the Opera, released in 1909 as a novel.
Who is better fontine or eponine?
Eponine, with out a doubt, On my Own and A Little Fall of Rain are two of the best songs in the entire musical!
