Hi all, my name is Robert and this is my blog about the most popular and best musicals of all time. Here you’ll find descriptions and reviews of your favorite movies, and you can also share your reviews and impressions.

A little bit about the genre.

A musical is a genre of musical film, based on singing and choreographic numbers, which constitute a single whole and are united by a single artistic idea.

The musical as a stage genre appeared in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in the 1920s musicals began to be filmed, which made the genre even more popular. Perhaps the film musical is the only genre so closely associated with the rise and fall of Hollywood. One of the first sound films – “The Jazz Singer” (1927) with Broadway star Al Jolson in the strict sense of the word can not be called a musical, it was only a claim, but in the next movie “Crazy About Songs” (also with Jolson) clearly delineated its musical genre features. In 1929 came the screens the musical “A Broadway Tune”, which immediately became one of the highest grossing films of the time. In addition, “A Broadway melody” was the first musical to win an Oscar.

Based on research regarding the musical, we can determine that the musical is one of the few genres that not only has a stage incarnation, but has also received a second life on the screen. The question of the development of the cinematic musical today is relevant, because these forms, as the most democratic and mass, have a significant perspective and are actively developing in the modern cultural process.