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A rock musical is a musical theatre work with rock music. The genre of rock musical may overlap somewhat with album musicals, concept albums and song cycles, as they sometimes tell a story through the rock music, and some album musicals and concept albums become rock musicals. Notable examples of rock musicals include ''Hair'', ''Grease'', ''Rent'', ''Spring Awakening'', and ''Next to Normal''. The Who's ''Tommy'' and other so-called rock operas are sometimes presented on stage as a musical. ==History== The rock musical became an important part of the musical theatre scene in the late 1960s with the hit show ''Hair''. Styled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical," the anti-war free-love hippie-themed, nude-scened ''Hair'' premiered in 1967 as the first production staged at The Public Theater. It moved to Broadway in October 1968.〔Kenrick, John. ("History of the Musical Stage 1960s: III – Rock: 'The Age of Aquarius'" ), Musicals101, accessed May 11, 2009〕 ''Your Own Thing'' also opened in 1968 and featured a gender-switching version of William Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night''. However, the first musical to hint at what was to come had been the final edition of the Ziegfeld Follies in 1957.〔Wollman, p. 14〕 This production featured one rock and roll number, "The Juvenile Delinquent". The song was performed by fifty-year-old Billy De Wolfe. This was followed by another precursor to the rock musical, ''Bye Bye Birdie'' (1960)."〔Ann-Margret, who starred in the movie version of ''Bye Bye Birdie'', later starred in the movie version of ''Tommy''〕 Although rock and roll would have to wait for seven more years before returning to Broadway, these early, tentative infusions of rock into musical theatre paved the way for ''Hair'' and its progeny.〔Everett, William A. and Paul R. Laird, ''The Cambridge Companion to the Musical'' (2002) Cambridge University Press, pp. 231-33 ISBN 0-521-79639-3.〕 ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, began as an album musical in 1970. The money made from album sales was used to fund the subsequent stage production in late 1971. This show and some other rock musicals that have no dialogue or are otherwise reminiscent of opera, with dramatic, emotional themes, are sometimes styled "rock operas". The musical ''Godspell'' (1971), had similar religious themes (albeit with a less controversial treatment) and pop/rock influences.〔 The genre continued to develop through the 1970s with shows such as ''Grease''〔 and ''Pippin''.〔() is a commonplace set to rock music": Barnes, Clive. ''The New York Times'', October 24, 1972, p. 37〕 The rock musical soon moved in other directions with shows like ''The Wiz'', ''Raisin'', ''Dreamgirls'' and ''Purlie'', which were heavily influenced by R&B and soul music. The rock musical saw a decline in popularity through the 1980s. Except for a few outposts of rock, like ''Little Shop of Horrors'' (1982) and ''Chess'' (1986), audience tastes turned to shows with European pop scores, like ''Les Misérables'' and ''The Phantom of the Opera'', as well as to more nostalgic fare. However, the rock musical achieved a renaissance in the 1990s, due in no small part to the popularity of Jonathan Larson's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical ''Rent'' (1996). This was followed by Off-Broadway rock musicals like ''Bat Boy: The Musical'' (1997)〔"O'Keefe's peppy and melodic pop-rock score is played by a five piece combo": Sommer, Elyse. (''Bat Boy'' ), curtainup.com, based on March 22, 2001 performance, accessed May 11, 2009〕 and ''Hedwig and the Angry Inch'' (1998), John Cameron Mitchell's Off-Broadway show about a transgender rocker.〔(Brasor, Philip, "A thumbnail history of the rock musical, March 9, 2006 )〕 The end of the 1980s saw the beginning of a new form, jukebox musicals, such as ''Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story'', ''Mamma Mia!'' and ''Jersey Boys'', which feature the songs of a popular band, performer or genre.〔Pareles, Jon. ("Broadway Rocks. Get Over It" ). ''The New York Times'', May 12, 2010, accessed June 10, 2010〕 The rock musical has seen a resurgence in the late 1990s and the 2000s, with shows by composers like Elton John (''Aida'', 1998), as well as a number of successful jukebox musicals with rock scores. Recent major original rock musical productions include Duncan Sheik's 2007 Tony Award winner, ''Spring Awakening'', ''Passing Strange'' (2008), ''Rock of Ages'' and ''Next to Normal'' (both 2009), and ''American Idiot'' (2010).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rock musical」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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