Monday, September 8, 2008

The difference between Drama and Musicals



In the theater world we came across different theater genres such as Dramas and musicals. Both of them are different in alot of ways and at times they can be similar as well. Let's start with Drama. Drama is an type of theater that can only do tragedies such as Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman. The emotion within drama can bring about saddness and guilty emotions. For example in Romeno and Juliet Romeno killed himself for the love of Juliet had consumed him. We can't help it for being sad what Romeno did because, he loved Juliet and he is willing to follow her to the end.

Both musicals and drama are similar because they are played within the theater and both of them are genres in the theater world. Musicals are different because their emotions can bring similes and laughter within the theater. The classics of musical theater can include Intermittence and the Frog Prince. Both of those plays are musicals and they have music in them. The next blog will be about Method acting and how we used it the theater and the history of Konsition.

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