Staged musicals
Watch one of the three video versions of staged musicals (available from Netflix) and write a 500-word description of the ‘theatrical’ elements: choreography, music, lighting, set design, etc.
1. South Pacific On the South Seas shores during World War II, Navy nurse Nellie Forbush falls in love with a French plantation owner in this classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
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2. Sunday in the Park with George This Pulitzer Prize-winning Stephen Sondheim musical follows artist Georges Seurat (Mandy Patinkin) as he paints his lover, Dot (Bernadette Peters), and interacts with the people who become characters in his painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte. Act II presents Seurat’s artistic great-grandson (also Patinkin) and his grandmother (also Peters) as they revisit Seurat’s life and work.
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3. Oklahoma! The first musical written by the legendary team of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II (1943). Set in the Oklahoma Territory in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams.
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