GHOST the musical is a theatrical adaptation of the original 1990's hit movie GHOST. GHOST is a love story between protagonist's Sam and Molly who live in New York in the 1980's. They have recently moved into a new apartment and Sam works in a bank while Molly works with pottery. The couple are madly in love and everything seems perfect until one of Sam's colleagues at the bank decides to steal money, however Sam finds out about what his Friend is going to do. So the colleague arranges fro Sam's death and he is shot dead in the street by a hit man, however Sam stays on the planet as a ghost (hence the title). Sam then vows to protect Molly and to stop his colleague stealing the money and to stop his colleague trying to win Molly's heart. Sam does this through the help of a physic and eventually Sam stops his colleague completes his mission on earth and is allowed to leave and go to 'heaven'.The movie was a massive success and now they have adapted for movie theatres in the west end.
GHOST addresses the idea of betrayal because Sam's colleague Carl betrays him and kills him and steals the money. Furthermore he tries to steal Molly from Sam once he is dead. This is interesting because it isn't betrayal withing a loving relationship which may Be what is expected, and all of us can relate as we would have all been betrayed by our Friends.
GHOST the musical is mostly targeted upon people who loved the movie and would not like to go and watch it as a theatrical adaptation, that would also be the main reason behind adapting the piece in the first place. People who also like romance would also go and watch this adaptation because at heart that is what GHOST is about which is a love story between Sam and Molly. The film is also aimed at people who enjoy theatre and musicals because even if they hadn't watched the movie they may have seen the trailer and wanted to go and see it for its production values.
Personally I have seen and loved the movie and I would dearly love to go and see this if it was only for this reason, also the film looks very well and interestingly made with the production effects the dance the costume. Its very well thought out and I think it will look amazing and I would really love to go. I like the fact that they stay close to the original movie while also offering a different take upon it.
The style of work is musical theatre, you can tell this with the accumulation of acting and singing also the use of dance suggests that it is a musical, also the fact that it is played in the west end shows that it is also a musical theatre piece. However during the trailer when Sam is on the train their is an element of physical theatre because it choreographed fight scene but done in an almost dance style. The projection effects also show that it is a new piece of theatre and is pushing the boundaries of what musicals can do and look.
The genre of the musical GHOST is that of romance, drama, and a supernatural aspect (a bit like Twilight but cooler). I say its supernatural because its about ghosts but not in the traditional Halloween sense.
Their is a lot of technology used like the projection that is almost constantly on, and the lighting effects with having Sam and Molly is different colours Sam in blue to further show he is a ghost.
They also use a lot of big props such as building the train they really did put a lot of set building effort into this, which further shows how modern the piece is.
Their is also a lot of use of sound such as the heart monitor and the gun shot to help move the story along and also the use of song to make it from a drama piece into a piece of musical theatre. Their is more of a great use of colour such as when its around Molly and Sam in the beginning their are lots of reds and yellows showing passion love and happiness however when its around Carl their are uses of greens and blacks showing evil jealousy and greed.
He also wears a red tie which could symbolise blood as he hired someone to kill Sam showing the blood on his hands. Their are a lot of projectiosn used throught the whole peice each with a difefrent meaning.
This is the projection used when Sam first discovers he is dead, they use the ehart moniter to symbolise a dying heart, they have made it green to surgest something alien and idfferent because heart moniters are usually red.
This is the projection used when the bankers are walking around. In this they use weird walking styles as part of contempary dance. they also have a rapidly moving projection to show their busy lives.
This projection is used near the end of the trailer, and its praying hands and then a heart moniter.
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