Honors History Essay

Musicals
Musicals are a way of expressing yourself and what you are capable of doing on stage, they express the every move that you make in a creative and visual way. Musicals have such passion to them that makes everything even the more real. It’s something that makes a play fun to watch which they actually help get the vibe of the play more exciting and interesting. Musicals bring emotion, drama, passion, thrill, and much more things that can excite you to go and watch a musical yourself. I think that musicals are important in history today, because they have been developing throughout the years and have gotten stronger ever since. This is due to commitment and dedication, which play writers that work well with song composers and choreographers have done to bring musicals all the way to the big stage. Now, their collaboration has been more modern and adapted to our times as the 21st century advances.
Musicals have been climbing their way through fame ever since the mid 1870’s where it began with a really good written play and someone decided to just put a mix in to it and make it more fun, but it also got the theme through as well. It then was a big eye opening scene towards what Broadway was later on. Now, musicals have an important role today all around the world where they have been presented in London, New York City, North America, Latin America, and locally where ever you live. Even though it may seem relevant today that we see musicals as TV shows such as Glee, it has been happening all around, with teenagers that put on their own musicals, or just a group of adults that would like to fulfill their acting, dancing, or singing skills practicing musicals. This is a great way to put them into practice all together and make a phenomenal musical that people might want to watch as entertainment.
Musicals are very catchy and fun, they bring out the many talents that people have on only one stage. There are different types of musicals, which make them all the more interesting to watch and learn from. There are musicals that tell a story which makes the theme into songs that play with what the story is about, they are very fun and creative to watch. Since you never know how a story can be interpreted in a musical, you’ll just have to wait and be amazed at what you will experience in one of the many stories. It’s just the way that you see it and feel it. Once you get hooked on to a musical you’ll want to see more of it and expect much more singing and dancing rather than just acting the whole story. It’s like a beat, once you get the rhythm you’ll want to play the chorus over and over again.
Musicals are always very popular since they play modern songs which relate to common people today. This is a strategy that helps become more useful to catch people’s attention and make them interested in what they are watching. It makes them feel part of the musical and find a character that they can really relate to when they are later reviewing what they saw. A great example of musicals as movies is “Chicago” which has all the tricks in a musical perfected. It has all the qualities that make you be intrigued and excited with every scene that they perform. It has a theme to it and goes on with mini conflicts that make space for the singing and dancing performances that get the rhythm of what’s going on in the story. There are many movies like this one, but there’s nothing better than experiencing a live performance where you can feel and see the little details which make you feed on the energy of the performers.
Musicals have gone through so many changes that have made them go worldwide and been recognized throughout the world today. They have many qualities that make the stories have an interesting concept to it, and feel like your experiencing a thrill while watching the real life actors right in front of your face. They make you remember every scene that you experience in the play. It’s something that comes alive in your imagination, and which you can actually pay to see somewhere near you. Musicals just have been successful ever since there have been theaters around, and hopefully they will be around much longer.