The history of the theater is a long and famed one. We're not going to bore you with the historical time line of what demonstrate came out when and who stared in it. You can pick up that info impartial about anywhere. What we'd like to do in this review of one of the most incredible forms of entertainment is touch on some of the greatest moments and how they have forever changed how we gawk at the world of entertainment itself. The theater has had a spacious impact on our lives and the many things we do in our lives. Let's face it, there is unprejudiced nothing like seeing performers apt up there on stage, live, accurate before your eyes. If you judge that's an overstatement then you've obviously never been to the theater.
You can go all the plot abet to the mid 1950s when a young girl by the name of Julie Andrews made her debut in the London production of "My radiant Lady", a play based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Her electrifying performance as Eliza Doolittle, the dreadful Cockney gal who couldn't articulate pleasurable English if her life depended on it, made her a household name overnight and began a career that would span over 40 years until she sadly lost her deny due to serious throat problems.
Looking for something a minute more current? How about the very first legitimate musical of the 1960s to feature nudity? We are of course talking about the 1969 production of "Hair". This was a play that literally changed pop music altogether. Never in the history of Broadway has one play had as many hit pop records as "Hair". This play featured such gargantuan hits as "Hair", "Easy To Be Hard", "noble Morning Starshine" and the number 1 song of 1969, "Aquarius". Because of the large music in this play, careers for "Three Dog Night", "The 5th Dimension", "The Cowsills" and "Oliver" were launched into orbit. Talk about an impact on the music world.
Then of course there was the astonishing rock opera of the Who, "Tommy". This play was an record of a musical masterpiece itself and not only achieve the Who firmly on the intention as future rock and roll hall of famers, but also location the stage for a number of recording stars to capitalize on the success of "Tommy" itself. As ample as the Who's version of "Pinball Wizard" was, who could ever forget the leisurely 70s remake by Elton John? Tommy will always be one of the greatest moments in theater history ever.
But if you want a single defining moment in theater history that chilled an entire world and set a single man on the plot as a living story, one need go no farther than Michael Crawford's haunting rendition of "Music Of The Night" from "Phantom Of The Opera". This is said to be one of the greatest musical performances of all time. And rightly so. To this day it has been said that nobody played this piece like Crawford.
These few examples only scratch the surface of a gain of entertainment that has captivated and mesmerized us for many years and will no doubt continue to do so for many more years to near.