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The Musical

The Musical . Info on Classical Musicals, Contemporary Musicals, and Satire in “The Producers” .

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The Musical

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  1. The Musical Info on Classical Musicals, Contemporary Musicals, and Satire in “The Producers”

  2. 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".

  3. Musicals are performed all around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big budget West End and Broadway theatre productions in London and New York City, or in smaller Fringe Theatre, Off-Broadway or regional productions, on tour, or by amateur groups in schools, theatres and other performance spaces. In addition to Britain and North America, there are vibrant musical theatre scenes in many countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia. • Some famous musicals include Show Boat, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, The Fantasticks, Hair, A Chorus Line, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, and The Producers.

  4. Discuss the following questions with the class: Is the music an integral part of the story? • In what ways does the music enhance or hinder the plot? • How are different elements of music used to enhance the dramatic nature of the performance? • What did you like or dislike about the production? Why?

  5. History of the musical

  6. Cats • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUd4W7esb1I • Chorus Line- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYVgf_IsRBg

  7. Chicago – we both reached for the gun • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBM82Ju2kJU&feature=related

  8. Hair • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj4vfrPdfdo • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlE3bb6At4

  9. Godspell • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWo7eHqhQU • Jesus Christ Superstar • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7dIUjCkXtM

  10. Combining classic and the culture of the day so they would be relevant to the day • Why a rock opera about Jesus?? • This story is not just the story of our parents generation. It is our story too.

  11. Classic Musicals • Sound of Music- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9KwlIHcmq4 • Guys and Dolls- • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7kzsZreG0o&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58J37ZN5hik&feature=related

  12. Chicago- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNFryicvxeE • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoCZEmfnE-M&feature=related

  13. Gypsy • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRSawe33sA • Annie • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yop62wQH498 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDkEXszYtdo

  14. Cabaret • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-24Zm0bjk • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRIbUT6u7Q&feature=related

  15. Joel Grey or Alan Cummings? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D7AebhY4qg • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7OAJUtuoo

  16. Grease • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blcvkFqeKac&feature=related • Grease 2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLuDMlTOLAY

  17. The Producers • The Producers is a comedy-musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film of the same name, with lyrics by Brooks and music by Brooks and Glen Kelly. As in the film, the story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich by overselling interests in a Broadway flop.

  18. Complications arise when the show unexpectedly turns out to be successful. The humor of the show is accessible to a wide range of audiences, and draws on ridiculous accents, caricatures of homosexuals and Nazis, and many show business in-jokes.

  19. The aim of The Producers' musical within a musical 'Springtime for Hitler: a Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva in Berchestgarten' is to offend.

  20. Stereotypes to the Extreme of Stereotypes • Persons associated with the Nazi Party • Gay men involved with theater as well as many many gay stereotypes • Stereotypes about blonde women • Stereotypes about people from Sweden

  21. Satire • Satire doesn't make speeches. It stands or fails on its own sense of itself: on the strength of its implicit argument and the unswerving belief that the audience will understand, that there is a shared understanding of the real world and the way it really is.

  22. Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humour in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.

  23. A very common, almost defining feature of satire is its strong vein of irony or sarcasm, but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. The essential point, however, is that "in satire, irony is militant".[2] This "militant irony" (or sarcasm) often professes to approve the very things the satirist actually wishes to attack.

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