Musical theatre: Right mix of masala and music

Musical theatre is more fascinating than the normal drama plays. This form of entertainment is performed throughout the world. The musicals have been introduced in India with shows like 'The city of dreams' and 'A rough in the Diamond'

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Mon, Mar 09, 2009 12:36:34 IST

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MUSICAL THEATRE is like a live movie right in front of you. A form of theatre where there are actors, drama, music, dance, spoken dialogues, heavy lights and costumes. Lyrics is one of the most important part of the musical theatre as it consists of songs and choreographed dance.

It started in the early 20th century, where they were simply called as ’musicals’. This form of entertainment is performed throughout the world. It is much more fascinating than the normal drama plays because it has all the elements and the masala for entertaining as against just dry dialogues.

The most famous musical plays since the 20th century have been Show Boat, Oklahoma! West Side Story, The Fantasticks, Hair, A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, The Phantom of Opera, Rent, Broadway and The Producers. Among these, the West End show of London and the Broadway of New York are very well known. They include the best of the actors performing in the show. These entertaining shows are very high budgeted ones. A Broadway of New York may cost as much as the whole budget of the Indian film Saawariya. And that would be around Rs 50-100 crore.

In India, this phase has already started. The musicals have been introduced to us with the shows like The city of dreams by the Morani’s and Surma’s and A rough in the Diamond. Though these shows are very entertaining but they consists of a very high budget. So what is the future of such shows?

"I think it has a very bright future, if one gets to see a full on entertaining live show with best of the actors where there is music, drama, dance, choreography, songs and many more things then why would one go for a regular drama show," says Faraz Ansari, the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer and executive production manager of the musical A rough in the Diamond. The budget of this show was Rs 10 lakhs.

"I am in favour of the musical shows. It is like two sides of the same coin. These kinds of shows have more potential and give a better opportunity to perform for the actors and the people, who are behind the scene," says Shashank Jadhav, actor and production manager of an upcoming musical show in January, which will be performed at Prithvi Theatre, Juhu.

Let’s hope for the best form of entertainment and wait for the musical shows to be picked up soon.

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