Besides the shows that are featured at the Tony Awards; "Kinky Boots", "Mitilda", " Pippin", and "Cinderella", they're plenty shows for different audience groups. In the children's market alone, long lasting top sellers like "The Lion King" roar at the box office, which is what Broadway is about roaring shows that stick around.
In the 1920's when the musical theatre setting was adapting, acts were show cased like into an ensemble of stories. The lyricist teamed up with a music composer and composed an adaption of a classic story woven into a new piece. Kiss Me Kate which featured the story A Taming of the Shrewd by Shakespeare is an example, Miss Saigon is the musical score of Madame Butterfly by Puccini, and today to symbolize this are plays that have featured on Hollywood pictures and adapted into musical numbers.
Most theatre goers are adults who can afford to go out to theatre and spend a hard weeks wager on show casings. Today's market tailored by age, gender and race is featured according to location and story popularity. Most schools take on class trips which take on professional setting teaching musical theatre history where child or teen maturity may be of suggestion, spectacles such as Phantom of the Opera, Chicago and Les Miserable may show appeal in educational setting significant, these stories obtain theatrical fever of professionalism that support musical theatre's future history.
A musical piece is made up of a main song number, which later reprises along with the dance telling the story in a gestus, there's also an Eleven O'clock which is featured singing the plot of the entire spine of the play, taking on the name because usually theatre are set for late crowds, knowing that the cost at box offices are for those well established in life.
A recent list of Broadways 2013 tops sells on Broadwayworld.com/grosses, reveals the following shows highest to lowest: 700 Sundays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, A Night With Janis Joplin, A time to Kill and After Midnight, before featuring other top sellers like Annie, Betrayal and Big Fish, which was a Disney story whose narrative was phenomenal during the end of the century beginning a new one.
For colored audiences and other advant style theatre there's Motown, a musical about black music in show business, and Romeo and Juliet which is a classic remade. Black productions of the early century haven't done so well on Broadway, usually are in need of extra funding, like early 2000's Ragtime which unlike Motown, had to tour to meet revenues.
A Time to Kill, in particular features a more adult audience as its symbolizes a Jacobean like theatre premise of theatre, developing a trial is story, usually stories like A Time to Kill are set to express and appropriate law of stage, which is an adaptation of John Grisham's book.
Musical theatre is pretty much around to please audiences. Musical score are developed for crowds by genre or season. Christmas shows are popular along with the rise of going to see celebrities perform on stage. Even Hollywood has taken up to plot of expressing celebrities, but in the fashion of story telling is the only thing that separates stage theatre from film.
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