DOI: 10.36871/hon.202102015
Authors
Xia Tsihan
Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract
Theater in Russia has for a long time neither cultivated nor encouraged the pursuit of entertainment
and commercial success. Perhaps that is why, the first attempts to integrate the
musical into the Russian theater environment ended in failure. "My Fair Lady" by F. Loewe,
staged at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre, "Avtograd–1929", staged at
the Satire Theater and the "Chicago" musical, after several performances, were removed from
the repertoire or, like enterprise productions, ceased to exist.
The purpose of this research is to determine the reasons for the growing popularity of the
literary musical in Russia. The article examines the development of literary musical through
the work of its outstanding representatives, composers R. Ignatiev and K. Breitburg. Scientific
novelty of the work lies in the study of previously unpopular classical literature samples,
which are the basis for the modern musical theatre genre.
Keywords
musical art, composition, Broadway, literary musical, theatre in Russia, modern stage genres
