Music Theatre

What is music theatre?

• Musical theatre uses song, dance and dialogue to tell a story.

• A performance that only includes music

• A performance with three actors

• A theatre that plays music

Where did music theatre come from?

• There have always been plays containing songs and musical interludes, as far back as Shakespearean theatre and even further back in ancient Greece and in ritual practice where all theatre stems from.

• New York

• Italy

• Spain

When were the earliest forms of music theatre documented?

• There were some early forms of Musical theatre as we know it in existence in the 18th-century in Britain.

• 17th Century

• 16th Century in America

• 19th Century

A book musical usually comes in three parts:

• the book, the music and the lyrics

• a graph, words and pictures

• act one songs, monologues and group speeches

• A score that only actors can read, movement and songs