The Shaping Of Musical Theatre’sillabub’ From<Cats>

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines vocal and dance. Different from the general musicals, the music throughout the whole show, less spoken dialogue, more through the singing or body movements to tell the story. Therefore, actors need to have a strong singing technique and a good ability of dancing during the training, and they will be able to integrate both. In the performance, you have to know the story of what the character’s singing and the meaning of each of movements, basis on that you need to combine it to the character and use the creatively to explore different way of performing, and to enrich the character personality in the music. Through the set dance routine and the creative body performance to build the role up. I am going to use my role "Sillabub" a.k.a."the innocent cat" in the musical "Cats", Chinese production to demonstrate the specialty of this kind of musical.