Broadway Muscials

Musical theatre is a theatrical performance that includes four major elements: songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance.

Broadway musicals or live theater have a way of immersing you in the story right away. That is part of their secret power since you become engrossed in the story instantly. The costumes, songs, dialogue, music, sets, choreography, lighting, and cast, will grab your attention. Most importantly, musical theatre fosters a social awareness through exposure to the social issues, events and cultures that are portrayed in the scripts. These very things help students to develop an ability to understand works of literature, performance and expression in general.

SIX: the Musical

“Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived.”
SIX is a modern retelling of the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. They have come together as a band to stage a pop concert and invite the audience to hear their stories. They cannot decide who should be the lead singer, so they initiate a competition, or singing battle, to see who suffered the most as Queen

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Hamilton

Hamilton is a biographical sung-and-rapped-through musical by the American composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. Composed over a seven-year period from 2008 to 2015, the musical tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. It details Alexander Hamilton's life in two acts, along with how various historical figures influenced his life, including the Marquis de Lafayette, Aaron Burr, John Laurens, Hercules Mulligan, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler Church, Peggy Schuyler, Philip Hamilton, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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Wicked

Wicked is told from the perspective of, and focuses on, the witches of the Land of Oz; its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy Gale arrives in Oz from Kansas. Wicked tells the story of two unlikely friends, Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda (later Glinda the Good Witch), whose relationship struggles through their opposing personalities and viewpoints, same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's private fall from grace.

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Coded by Olivia Savard