TASK: What I have learned about Musicals
1. Write a sexy paragraph and add youtube clips to your examples.
STATEMENT
I think musicals are..
I like musicals because...
There are a lot of different kinds of musicals.
EXPLAIN
Musicals have been popular since the 1920's. There have been different styles such as Broadway musicals like Annie, Rock Operas like Tommy and Disney musicals like Aladdin.
EXAMPLES
Wicked, based on a novel is about the Wizard of Oz story and has spectacular costumes and effects. Singalong Disney songs Disney musicals are on film and live shows.They are popular with families.
The dancing from West Side Story is very energetic jazz dance.
YOUR OPINION:I like the energy and emotion in a musical.
TASK 2 What song/dance/dialogue do you want to do?
eg: I think we should do the comedy song "Look at Me I am Sandra Dee" from Grease, where the girls are having a sleepover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5D-D7VYmY
Researching MUSICALS - they can
1. look up 3 different dances and describe them with attached You tube clip on their BLOGS [computers in Drama Room]
2, Then find 10 pictures of costumes to put on; answer- why are costumes important in musicals.
3 find 4 romantic songs[ballads; describe them and put links on their blogs - they must be from 4 different decades, eg: 1950'3 1980's 1990's 21st century
Today we looked at the opening numbers from Grease, Oklahoma and Godspell. Students are looking up writer/ music writer and where/when it was set and naming 3 characters
Insert the opening number from another musical
eg:
There are other sites and I have books with Monologues: Just check with me before you start. The above are modern and aimed at teenagers. There are also monologues from novels and from Shakespeare.
