Musicals and Awe

 Musicals are made up of the spoken word and song

 It is amazing to find out how many people

 are involved in making these spectacular events

There is editing and re-working of the script before the final pages even come out. 

 Musicals started as a slapstick humor

 They became popular entertainment and started to develop storylines

They even got very serious. Tackling topics like Gang life and leaving a home country.

In West Side Story there are racial tensions between Puerto Ricans and Americans 

In The Sound of Music there are Nazis and the war 

affecting a family in Austria. (This is a pic of Maria)

Some other serious lines from musicals

Showboat was one musical that really catered to the time period. The great Depression needed uplifting entertainment.

After the Depression, Musicals went through there growing stage, awe is developed by continually creating and then running in to a masterpiece. There were many bad before the good.

People decided to experiment with religious content 

They looked into problems of the day. Emotional disorders among them.

And began a series of  musicals that entertained and informed others about social issues.

But perhaps the most remarkable thing about musicals is that it all must come together in the end so we can come step out of reality and view a spectacle of awe.