What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining?
What are the features that lead to its ability to stimulate
emotional attachment, to move and to give pleasure? Beginning from
the passion musical theatre performances arouse and their ubiquity
in London's West End and on Broadway this book explores the ways in
which musical theatre reaches out to and involves its audiences. It
investigates how pleasure is stimulated by vocal, musical and
spectacular performances. Early discussions centre on the
construction of the composed text, but then attention is given to
performance and audience response. Musical theatre contains
disruptions and dissonances in its multiple texts, it allows gaps
for audiences to read playfully. This combines with the voluptuous
sensations of embodied emotion, contagiously and viscerally shared
between audience and stage, and augmented through the presence of
voice and music. A number of features are discovered in the
construction of musical theatre performance texts that allow them
to engage the intense emotional attachment of their audiences and
so achieve enormous popularity. In doing this, the book challenges
the conception of musical theatre as 'only entertainment'.
Entertainment instead becomes a desirable, ephemeral and playful
concept.
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