"Musical Theatre" is a comprehensive history of stage musicals from Paris during the 1840s, all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway as it we know it today."Musicals are dead!" From producers to actors to ushers, everyone has said it. Times have changed in the musical theatre. But why should this be considered a harbinger of death? Like film and television, literature and music, the musical theatre has been changing and evolving since its inception.Musicals have been around for more than 2000 years. This book begins with the ancient Greeks, for whom songs were a common element in staging. The Romans borrowed many of the classical forms and added visual spectacle. The musical as we know it was born!The musical theatre we know today first appeared in Paris during the 1840s. It was then a short step to the minstrel shows of the US, Gilbert and Sullivan in the UK and eventually to George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The 21st century has brought a new wave of pop comedies like The Rich in anecdotes of shows and show people, "Musicals Theatre: A History" is designed as a celebration for those in the theatre as well as all Broadway and West End fans.

"音乐剧 "是一部全面的舞台音乐剧历史，从19世纪40年代的巴黎，一直到今天的安德鲁-劳埃德-韦伯和百老汇。"音乐剧已死！" 从制片人到演员到招待员，每个人都这样说。音乐剧的时代已经改变。但为什么这应该被认为是死亡的预兆呢？像电影和电视、文学和音乐一样，音乐剧自诞生以来一直在变化和发展。音乐剧已经有2000多年的历史了。本书从古希腊人开始，对他们来说，歌曲是舞台上的一个常见元素。罗马人借鉴了许多古典形式，并增加了视觉奇观。我们所知道的音乐剧就这样诞生了！我们今天所知道的音乐剧最早出现在19世纪40年代的巴黎。随后，美国的吟游诗人表演、英国的吉尔伯特和沙利文，以及最终的乔治-M-科汉、维克多-赫伯特、杰罗姆-克恩、乔治和艾拉-格什温、罗杰斯和哈特、奥斯卡-汉默斯坦、伦纳德-伯恩斯坦和安德鲁-劳埃德-韦伯，都是短短一步。21世纪带来了新一轮的流行喜剧，如《富人》中的演出和演出人员的轶事，《音乐剧剧院。历史》旨在为戏剧界人士以及所有百老汇和伦敦西区的粉丝们提供一个庆典。

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