Musical theatre began in ancient Greece in 220 BC, with performances typically featuring themes of violence, social issues, and relationships and attended by wealthy men and women. The music in early Greek theatre was classical in nature. While ancient and modern musicals both combine music and drama, a key difference is that modern musicals allow women to perform, unlike early Greek theatre which excluded women from performances.

1. Musical Theatre

2. Why/how it first started?
• The first form of musicals theatres started in
Greek in 220 BC.

3. Who used to go and watch it?
• The type of people that would go and watch
these performances would have been a high
class/rich people. The gender of the people
would have been both men and woman.

4. What were the themes of
performances?
The type of themes you would find in a Ancient
Greek Theatre performance would be about
violence, social and ethical plays, daily life, war
,murder , lust , betrayal between people.

5. What type of music would you be
likely to hear?
• The music that would have been played would
have been very classic

6. What are the similarities/difference
from musicals today?
• The similarities are that they have mixed
music and acting together.
• The differences are that now women can be
part of the play, before women were never in
a play