my extended learning project for Keyboarding!!!

1. Acting for Film and Musical Theater. My Extended Learning Project. By, Emerald Ogden.

2. What is Musical Theatre? Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called simply, "musicals". Musicals are performed all around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big budget West End and Broadway theatre productions in London and New York City, or in smaller fringe theatre, Off-Broadway or regional productions, on tour, or by amateur groups in schools, theatres and other performance spaces. In addition to Britain and North America, there are vibrant musical theatre scenes in many countries in Europe, Latin America, Australasia and Asia. The show “GLEE” would be an example of a regional competition.

3. Some popular musicals are… Les Misérables, Wicked, and The Phantom of the Opera. These Musicals are played on Broadway every week at least one time.

4. Explanation of Wicked and Les Miserables Wicked Wicked is the untold story of the Witches of The Wizard of Oz, long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls met in the land of Oz. One of them is born with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. Les Miserables After 19 years on the chain gang, Jean Valjeanfinds that the ticket of leave he must display condemns him to be an outcast. Only the Bishop of Digne treats him kindly and Valjean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing some silver. Valjeanis caught and brought back by the police and is astonished when the Bishop lies to the police to save him. Valjeandecides to start his life anew.

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