Broadway

         Broadway, in my opinion, is the rainbow of the musical world.  It showcases multiple performing arts: acting, art, music, singing, and writing.

    Art.  Art is what turns Broadway from a blank canvas to a rich, vivid, colorful piece of artwork.  The designers job is to make sure the audience sees the character and not the actor who plays it.  The arts aspect of Broadway is to create a veil on the audience's eyes and take them to where to story takes place.  The Theatre is there to help them audience relax and become comfortable and soon as the red velvet curtains go up they're transported into the world of the story.  No longer in the theatre.  

    Acting.  Acting gives characters in a story a distinct personality that the audience can connect with.  The actors that play these characters become one with them and find their connection with the persona they are performing as.  Acting is a highly advance skill because the actors have to master all forms of emotion.  Additionally, learn how to speak in different dialect, improvisation,  and sometimes learn to play as the opposite gender (which is called typecasting).

   

    Writing.  When I think of writing  I think the script of the whole entire play.  The people who make the script sometimes are overlooked because they aren't the ones on the stage.  However they are just as important.  The writers gives the actors humor, courage, sadness, anger, jealous, etc.  Essentially without the writers there's no plot.  The actors don't have a voice and the musicians don't have cues to come in on time.  




   

    Music/Singing. I put these two things together because one can not work without the other which makes sense.  The Pit Orchestra, which is the musicians who play the music in a dark pit, need the actor or there's no musical.  The actors need music to sing the songs and well you can't have "Musical" without music.   Together some of the greatest hits in our society today were made through Broadway and I hope one day to become a pit performer as a professional career.