The Study And Enlightenment About Characters’Modeling In Broadway Musicals

Broadway Musical is a unique and charming drama form which was born in19th century. This kind of art is composed by music, song and dance, supported by simple and innovative play book, based on actor’s dramatic performance, visual presented by scenery, lighting, dress and face-painting. This art form fuses all these elements and gives the audience a visual and auditive feast. With more than one hundred year’s development, music drama becomes a focus of the audience worldwide because of the graceful rhythm, amazing stage affect, attractive story. Meanwhile, with the change of life style, modern people’s omnidirectional visual demand is arising. The characters’modeling in a musical drama show the characters’ personality which are also an important method to create the exterior impression. The characters’ modeling mainly includ dress and face-painting, both of them are essential. In the performance of broadway musical, the characters’ modeling also play a role in explaining gut and figuring characters’ impression. The musical characters’ modeling are important creation in stage art, together with scenery and lighting, they give musical drama the fantastic stage effect. The characters’ modeling should not only accord with the demand of scenario and characters’ individuality but also be syncretic with other stage art elements.This article studies the Broadway Musicals, introduce the development of the musical charactes’ modeling, generalize the relation between the characters’ modeling and the main factors of musical drama, expound the characteristic of musical characters’ modeling, look for the perfect combine with characters’ modeling and musical stage art, analyze the creation of clothing in the classic domestic and overseas musical drama deeply, discuss the foreground of Chinese original musical characters’ modeling.This article also studies the creation of characters’ modeling in musical drama, which is an important tache in a perfect show and a visual language presenting time background and characters’ look. So the inventment should be based on deep understand of the play book and combined with scenery, lighting and other stage elements. During the study, it is founded that Chinese original musical drama develops late compared with Broadway musical drama. The characters’modeling are still in exploration stage and has many shortages. Thus, a perfect and systemic creation theory for reference and inspiring is essential. Improve the knowledge of the musical figures of artist designers, hands-on capability and innovation capability, both the responsibilities of musical figures stylist, but also the most important way to improve the original musical character modeling.