Comparison And Analysis Of Local Folk Drama And Western Musical Drama-use Examples Of The Huangmei Opera "best Match" And The Musical Drama "cat"

The Chinese drama, Greece's tragicomedy and India's Sanskrit drama are called the three great ancient drama cultures. Especially the Chinese folk drama, which has the unique artistic characteristic and the deep cultural foundation, is attracting more and more people's attention. Although the folk drama has not achieved the mature stage, but as one kind original and comprehensive performing arts that is rich in local characteristics, it has its own unique artistic style. Not only does it demonstrate fully the substantive characteristics of drama, it also has widely the distinct difference with folk song, folk dance, and traditional rapping and dancing. This article tries hard to carry on the analysis from its performance's amateurism and the capriciousness, the story content mass character comes from real life, the dialect of the speakers, musical program and mixture, the stage prop similarity and syllogism. In the west countries, the most representative drama normally has rakish and comedy subject, mixing with singing, dancing with story together, that has great entertaining nature. Taking examples of two famous work which are Huangmei Opera "Best Matche" and "Cat", the article compare and analyses China's folk drama and the Western musical these two kind of different artistic style on the difference and common nature. Subsequently propose opinions on folk drama's protection and developing strategy, which could to be able to bring some useful thoughts for Chinese folk arts'development.