New Pittsburgh Courier: Though anxiety about the fate of live theater performances still lingers, Broadway is celebrating its third season since reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic, with a lineup dominated once again by musicals.
The new season includes long-running hits like “Hamilton,” revivals of classics like “Merrily We Roll Along,” new musical adaptations of nonmusical works like “Days of Wine and Roses,” and even “Here We Are”, the last musical by Stephen Sondheim.
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As someone who is very passionate about music, I found this article to be very interesting. I have read many Greek plays and often noticed that many had vague notation for music but were rarely performed that way. It was interesting to read an article that had researched the Greek plays and was able to pinpoint where the music went and then explain how important it was to the plot. The article uses a few different plays as an example to illustrate where music was used and for what purpose. The article also brings to attention just how much of modern theatre rests on music, especially broadway. Looking at the current Broadway line up, musicals definitely are the main focus. Meaning that if you consider greek plays to be musicals that musicals have always dominated theatre and are not second to what society would consider classical or straight plays. I think that is a really interesting thought.
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