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Yolanda

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on: Aug 26, 2018
While the number of musicals per season has declined, the genre of musical theatre continues to be popular with the theatre-going public. The same cannot be said for the film musical, which dropped out of favor in the mid-1960s. Recently, there has been a resurgence in the film musical with the popularity of such films as Moulin Rouge, Chicago, and Rent. What accounts for films' renewed interest in going public in this type of musical?
 
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Some musical do and can reflect the period in which they were first performed. Hair certainly did that for the 1960s, and Rent has done that for the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. How do each of these shows reflect or speak for the time periods in which they were first performed?
 
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Reply #1 on: Aug 26, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Students may point to the popularity of musical TV shows such as Glee spilling into the realm of film, the use of popular and familiar music in movies such as Moulin Rouge and Mamma Mia, or the sheer quality of movies like Chicago.

Answer to Question 2

With Hair's depiction of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution and Rent's exploration of homosexuality and HIV/AIDS, both musicals reflected the time period of their debuts both in their themes and in the music used in the production.


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