This Is Why We Love Musicals

I stumbled on this video and I thought it was way cool.

I think this is the reason why musicals are so fantastic.

Think of a musical song as a “song with context”.

Meaning, a musical song actually has full relevance to what is currently happening.

It’s as if you’re expressing whatever you’re saying in a song…as if the words you say are somehow put to music, and they all rhyme perfectly.

And obviously, saying it in a song gives so much more impact that just saying the words “I love lunch”.

A song adds both colour and emphasis to what you’re trying to bring across.

Of course, we all know that in real life, nobody actually pauses at opportune moments to break out in song (unlike what you see in the movies), but wouldn’t it be so cool if we actually treated real life like a musical…just like in the clip above?

That would be so cool wouldn’t it?

4 Responses

  1. It’s staged right. Nevertheless, cute!

  2. Yup it’s definitely staged.

    More info here: http://improveverywhere.com/2009/11/05/i-love-lunch-the-musical/

  3. I think I heard there was a supermarket musical going on somewhere too.

  4. Yup you’re right. There was a supermarket one too!

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