Off-Broadway - Musical Theatre, the Fantasticks, the Civilians, Fat Pig, New World Stages, Robert Patrick, Primary Stages, Hudson Warehouse (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Musical theatre, The Fantasticks, The Civilians, Fat Pig, New World Stages, Robert Patrick, Primary Stages, Hudson Warehouse, Second Stage Theatre, Drama Desk Award, Theatreworks USA, Soho Repertory Theater, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Johnathan McClain, Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey, Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back, Westside Theatre, Forbidden Hollywood, Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act, The Life, Banana Bag & Bodice, Playwrights Horizons, Lucille Lortel Awards, New York Theatre Workshop, Arclight Theatre, Stop Kiss, Drumstruck, Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 1, Uncommon Women and Others, Nicholas Martin, Astor Place Theatre, Sally and Marsha, TACT, Theatre World, New York Classical Theatre, Folksbiene, The Bomb-itty of Errors, Lortel Archives, Transport Group, National Theater of the United States of America. Excerpt: Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining 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. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms such as opera, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements of the works. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, "musicals." 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 theatre productions, on tour, or by amateur groups in schools, theatres and other performance spaces. In addition to Britain and North America, there are vibra...