Hot on Musicals
- Life Is Sweeter by Descendants: The Rise of Red Cast
- Where or When by Laufey
- Thunder Bringer by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
- Love Ain't It by Rita Ora, Kylie Cantrall, Brandy & Malia Baker
- Once Upon a December by Liz Callaway
- Scylla by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
- Perfect Revenge by Dara Reneé, Anthony Pyatt, Joshua Colley, Marissa Kruep & Peder Lindell
- Space Between by Dove Cameron & Sofia Carson
- Fight of Our Lives by Kylie Cantrall & Malia Baker
- Burn by Phillipa Soo
- Guns and Ships by Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton"
- One Last Time by Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton"
- She Used to Be Mine by Sara Bareilles
- City of Stars by Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone
- All I Want by Olivia Rodrigo
- Hakuna Matata by Walt Disney Records
- Alexander Hamilton by Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton"
- Mutiny by Jorge Rivera-Herrans
- Did I Mention by Jeff Lewis
- Wait For It by Leslie Odom, Jr. & Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton"
About Musicals
Musicals is a tag that encompasses both staged productions and film.
Although music and theatre have had a long relationship throughout history, musicals as we know them today started to emerge in the 19th century in the United States and Great Britain. In the United States, many musicals (but not all) start out on ‘Broadway’, which refers to the street in New York City where many theatres used to, and still do, operate today. Likewise, the U.K.’s hub of musical theatre activity is based around London’s ‘West End.’ Most English-language musicals, prior to going on tour, originate in either of these places.
After the advent of sound in film, adaptations of musicals or original musicals soon made their way into the cinematic medium as well. In fact, today movies are the easiest way for many people to experience a Broadway musical without having to go to Broadway. Musical movies saw a popularity peak in the mid-twentieth century, but have also seen a sort of revival in the twenty-first century.
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