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I theoretically love musicals. But often I have a bit of a hard time getting into them. Because the concept is kinda silly. It's just so incredibly melodramatic. But that is also its charm.

I know that most of the times I have gone to see a musical (stage musicals, it's sometimes a bit different in the movies) I'm often taken aback at first when they start singing but after a very short while I'm completely into it. There's like a contract of sorts in the opening number or similar where the audience is asked to suspend their disbelief because this is what this is going to be.

So usually by those emotional peaks there at the end of the acts I'm fully invested and crying a bit because it is awesome. And melodramatic. But awesome melodrama.

Of course it seems too like musicals can sort of be divided into two groups-ish. Where one is the classic melodrama full of song and the other is the meta-musical that can't help but comment on being a musical in some way and point out how silly it is that they are singing.

In the end I guess I don't see nearly enough musicals. I've seen like a handful. In fact I've almost been in more musicals than I've seen. (My musical resume could almost be impressive, I've played in among others Annie, Showboat, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Full Monty and The Sound of Music. Of course I'm not a very musical person so I've had mostly non-singing parts :)