Michael McCauley provides a recipe for creating a perfect musical with 7 key ingredients: 1) an interesting plot, 2) a clear and consistent theme, 3) varied characters including a harmless woman, jokey romantic man, and evil villain, 4) costumes that suit the characters' personalities and cultures, 5) interesting musical numbers including dance and music that suit the theme, 6) lighting and props that enhance the scenes and theme, and 7) targeting the right audience to give 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 Thanks for that
helps you as it helped Chef Chapulo. incredible recipe
Michael, sure kept
my show in
business!
By Michael McCauley