Musical Theater

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"Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called simply, musicals."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre

http://www.musicals101.com/musical.htm

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Project Explanationhttp://leadership.uoregon.edu/get_involved/advisory_boards/370

My Playlist:
For my playlist I chose to do songs that had either been in a movie that was based off of a musical or a movie that turned into a musical. I wanted to do something with Disney movies and I realized that many had been made into musicals recently or even plays and that helped me decide my continuous theme throughout my project.

Time Playlist:
For my time playlist I chose to do musicals that were on Broadway during the 1950s and 1960s. I knew this was a time period where many hit musicals that are still famous today had come out. I knew that some of these musicals have some extremely well known songs and I wanted to be able to include songs that a lot of people would know, regardless of if they have ever seen the musical.

Place Playlist:
For my place playlist I chose to use the place where the hit musicals are always running, Broadway. I began with the general idea of New York City but I narrowed it down to the musicals that are currently running on Broadway. Some of these musicals have been running for a long time, some are remakes, and some are brand new.

I believe this created a large amount of diversity within my playlists by using current and old Broadway hits and including movie soundtracks. Although there aren't a lot of musical similarities between each of these songs they all aim at doing the same thing: pleasing the crowd.