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The Anceient Greek Theatre
Musical theatres started with the Ancient Greece theatres which was based on the Greece culture, the Greek theatre started between 550 and 220BC -
Ballad Opera
Ballad Opera Began in the 18th Century. Ballad Opera is a form of opera entertainment with different combinations which were of sentimental plays with musical numbers which was very popular and another one was the comic combination. -
Burlesque
Burlesque is a very old and popular form of entertainment. The burlesque is a sort of entertainment which only women took part in to entertain their audience who were only men. Burlesque began in the 1840s and onwards -
Musical Halls
This black and white image was first taken in the 1875 this image is one of the first Music Hall in Oxford, in England. The musica halls were for all different types of entertainments, it was open for higher and lower classes but however both classes were seated in different places. Rich people liked going to musical halls to socialise, musical halls were for both sexs -
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was very popular in the United States from the 1890s until the early 1930s which consisted of 10 to 15 individual unrelated acts which were featuring magicians, acrobats, comedians, trained animals, jugglers, singers, and dancers. -
Golden Age Od Musicals
The ‘Golden Age’ of musical theatres is well known as the ‘Golden Age’ partly because of the fact in 1940 to 1960 there was a massive hits in the musical theatre plays and some of the musicals which were produced in 1920 to 1960 had more than 500 performers as the economy rebounded. -
Porgy And Bess - Great Depression Musical
The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. Porgy and Bess is a well-known opera performed in the 1935 this music was written by George Gershwin. Porgy and Bess was one of the first best great Opera’s. -
Rock Musicals
Rock musicals are theatres which work on rock musicals containing rock music, the genre of rock musical tell a story through rock music and some album musicals and concept albums become rock musicals. Some examples of rock musicals are 'Hair', 'Grease', 'Rent', 'Next To Normal' and other more famous hits. The Rock Musical became an important part of the musical theatres in the late 1960's with the very famous rock musical hit show called 'Hair'. -
Musical Post 2000
From 2000 and onwards most famous films have changed into musicals and most musicals have changed into films as most people had favoured for it. Most times the novel of a story is converted into a film, however it could be the other way round. An example of a novel which converted into a film and then into a musical, an example of that is ‘Lord Of The Rings’.
