Michael McCauley provides a recipe for creating the perfect musical. There are 6 key ingredients: 1) an interesting plot, 2) a clear, consistent theme, 3) varied characters including a harmless woman, jokey man, and evil villain, 4) costumes that suit the characters' personalities and cultures, 5) interesting musical numbers including dance and music that match the theme, and 6) lighting, props, and presentation that attract audiences and suit the scenes and theme. The target audience is the final, crucial ingredient that gives the musical flavor.

1. Welcome to Michael McCauley’s cooking show, Today I will be talking
about how to make a perfect Musical. This show today is very important
so pay attention to everything I say that is if you want a Here we go, let’s
start of shall we! There are 6 ingredients you need to make a perfect
musical:
1st Ingredient: The first ingredient is the plot, not a bland and boring plot an
interesting plot which would attract the audience to watch the musical.
2nd Ingredient: This ingredient gives the recipe a flavour, the main recipe to be
honest the theme. The theme needs to stay consistent throughout the musical
and be very clear to the audience. And the theme could be a table spoon of
romance, comedy, sadness and mystery.
3rd Ingredient: The next ingredient will be the characters, make sure you have
many characters that vary from different personalities.
However the brilliant musicals always star a harmless
women a jokey, romantic man and the evil villain who spices up the recipe!
4th Ingredient: Once the characters are chosen, you need to add costumes to
suit their personality and sometimes what culture they are, for example the
musical ‘Britain’s Got Bhangra’ the Indian man wears traditional costume also
make sure the costumes are bright.
5th Ingredient: To make the recipe pumped up for the audience, you need an
interesting musical number including dance and music that suits the musical
theme.
6th Ingredient: How it is presented and would attract the audience the lighting
needs to be in time and you need amazing props that stand out in the performance, also the lighting
needs to suit the scene and theme of the performance.
7th Ingredient: The last and not least ingredient is the sauce to
not make the amazing master piece dry. The target audience
gives the recipe a good flavour.
And that’s the amazing master piece! Hope it helps you
as it helped Chef Chapulo. Thanks for that
incredible recipe
Michael, sure kept
my show in
business!
By Michael McCauley