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Resource:Broadway: From Page to Stage
Provider:PBS
Summary:Compare and contrast literary works and the contemporary musicals they inspired within the context of their influence on popular culture. Adapt an exerpt from a literarary work into a three-minute musical and produce it for an audience.
Description:"Musical theater book writers, lyricists, and composers have long looked to literature for their inspiration and subject material. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast literary works and the musicals they inspired. Utilizing video clips and Web sites, students will compare specific passages from original texts to moments in Broadway musicals on which they were based, and analyze similarities and differences between the two. As a culminating activity, students will try their hand at adapting and performing a nondramatic narrative, either as a straight play or as a musical number.
This lesson can be used as a pre- or postviewing activity for the PBS series BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL, or as an independent lesson for the language arts or theater classroom. A basic knowledge of musical theater (or movie musicals) and its conventions is required, and a basic familiarity with Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is helpful."
Contributed by:Marnice Emerson
C A T E G O R I E S
Orientation:General
Subjects:Writing, Drama, Music, History
Teaching Methods:Unit Study, Tutorial
I N T E N D E D   F O R:
Ages:13,14,15,16
Grades:8,9,10
F O R   M O R E   I N F O R M A T I O N
Web Site:http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/teachers/lp1.html

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