What Are The Key Characteristics of Musicals?

The muscial numbers, costumes and characters.

Musical Numbers

The musical numbers in a musical tell the story as well as entertain the audiences. This is the probably the most important key to a musical. Have you ever heard about a musical without music?

Costumes

What people wear brings out their personality. E.g; Cats the musical, the costumes are made to look like cats. Hairspray; The costumes are made to look old fasioned like dresses and tuxs etc. This is another important part of a musical.

Characters

Each musical must have characters. These are the people you see performing, they wear the costumes and learn the musical numbers. This is another important part of musicals because you can't have one without characters.