The British musical Cat is considered to be one of the four classic musicals in contemporary times. The story is easy to understand, but the dramatic structure is logical. As a multi-level clue, diversified musical styles bring aesthetic feelings to the audience and enhance the logic of the whole play. I appreciate its vocal aesthetic features such as lyrics, song creation and vocal performance.

The British musical Cat is considered to be one of the four classic musicals in contemporary times. The story is easy to understand, but the dramatic structure is logical. As a multi-level clue, diversified musical styles bring aesthetic feelings to the audience and enhance the logic of the whole play. This paper appreciates his vocal aesthetic characteristics such as lyrics, song creation and vocal performance.

The script of Cat is adapted from the poem An Old Cat Who is Good at Dressing up by andrew lloyd webber, a famous music master and composer. Later, director Trebor Noon, dancer Gillian Lenny and famous fashion designer John Napier were invited to join the creation of Cats. 198 1 officially premiered at the New London Theatre on May 1 1, which was a great success. The following year, it premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in the United States and was a success. Today, Cats ranks alongside Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and Phantom of the Opera as the "four major musicals".

Brief Introduction of Musical Cat

The play is changed from 15 in the original poem to 19, which is divided into two acts. In the background of Jericho's annual cat's full moon night ascension meeting, this paper tells the story that cats of various shapes appear one after another and gather in the garbage dump, waiting for the arrival of the centenarian leader old Dutroni. They tell their stories by singing and dancing, hoping to be chosen to ascend to heaven and be reborn. Grizebella, a "charming cat" who has always been tired of cats living outside, also came to the party. At this time, she has tasted the coolness of the world, lost her glamorous appearance, and became unkempt. She is eager to go back to the cat's house, but the cats are unwilling to accept the tramp who betrayed the cat's house and are very hostile to her. Finally, she used a song "Memories" to recall the past, which calmed the hostility of all cats to her and aroused deep sympathy and pity for her. Because of this song "Memories", she was chosen as a lucky cat reborn in heaven.

This play is a Broadway-style musical, which carries dance, music, beauty and other elements with a simple drama structure. In the overall music presentation, the jazz music style with changeable rhythm runs through the whole drama, supplemented by electronic music of various elements, depicting a dreamy musical poetic drama.

The music of the whole musical is particularly beautiful and moving. In addition to cheerful jazz music, there are fierce rock and roll, resentful blues and classical pop music with classical flavor. In the nearly three-hour performance, * * * included 23 original music. With the development of the plot, the musical atmosphere shifted from the main jazz music to various musical elements, forming a smooth pouring of the main melody and auxiliary melody, which brought endless aesthetic enjoyment to the audience.

An Analysis of the Musical Cat's Vocal Aesthetic Features

First of all, the metaphor of the lyrics of the opera Cat is memorable. The author restores the characteristics that people should gather into a lovely animal around us, while Weber sorts out the anthropomorphic cats through musicals and returns all the contents to the audience. Jemima's appearance is almost related to Bella in Grisey, and her melody is the same as Bella in Grisey. An innocent and enviable youth, the journey of life has just begun. The other is weather-beaten and dying, which reminds people that Jemima was Grisey Bella when he was young. Seeing Jemima, it is not difficult to understand Grisey Bella's nostalgia for the happy times in the past. One faces the setting of the moon and the other faces the sunrise; One is painful memories, and the other is naive expectations; One has gone through many vicissitudes, and the other is innocent, which also symbolizes the cycle of life.

Secondly, Cat has different melody styles and varied timbre, which gives people a strong sense of hearing and plays an important role in expressing the characters of different roles. In Gamby Cat, Jenny's little voice is bright and lyrical, and her melody is euphemistic. The hero cat's baritone slowly sang the lyric part, and then the music suddenly turned into a cheerful jazz style. When Jerry Lauren, Dimit and Bamba Luna joined together, they immediately formed a gorgeous tone, and a feeling of happiness and exaggeration came into being. Jemima, the female cat, exudes the breath of youth, and her timbre is extremely sweet, pure and natural. Although she sang the same melody as Grisey Bella, it gave the song a different feeling. Griese Bella sings loudly, full of vicissitudes and heaviness. Jemima, on the other hand, handled it lightly, which obviously made people feel her innocence, but both of them showed the theme of love and forgiveness. Although the cat's head is a tenor, its voice is dull and hoarse, with obvious signs of weakness, trembling and aging. He has no self-confidence and a hollow voice, which is very suitable for the elderly.

Finally, although the play shows the form of a cat, it is actually a metaphor of a cat to people, just like the cat's head sings "A cat is like you." Cats in Jellicoe have three names, the first is the name of their daily family, the second is a strange and more noble name, and the third is a name that humans can't find and never guess. The so-called cat names are actually all aspects of human nature. Everyone's human nature is multifaceted, including the ordinary side, the arty side and the artificial side in daily life. The third names are like the desire side of human nature, because they are complex, obscure and indispensable, and belong to everyone's secret. Accepting this hint, the audience will understand that the performances of various cats in the back are actually showing different human nature. Every cat on the stage has its own distinct personality, which represents every kind of person in real life and makes every audience feel the same.

A Review of the Musical Cat

Because I was attracted by the classic Phantom of the Opera in my previous class, I was curious about the equally famous opera Cat. But after careful consideration twice, the cat impressed me more than the Phantom of the Opera. At first glance, it seems to be a pantomime, which has no deeper meaning, but after careful taste, some characteristics of these cats are similar to those of humans. My heart was caught when Grisebella, a charming cat, appeared again to express her feelings. Her unique expression announced the birth of an immortal famous song in the history of musical, that is, Memories. Griese Bella, who left and went home, wanted to find the lost footprints and the warmth and happiness in her memory. She longs for a new life. She realized the true meaning of happiness in the outside world, so she came back, really worried and distressed. What was the past world like? In the distant songs, people returned to a separate world to talk. The leader of the cat finally chose to send this wandering, once beautiful and charming cat to heaven for a new life, which made the charming cat have a lofty understanding.

I lost it, but I've been looking for it. Just like this musical, the lost are artistically tolerated and forgiven in Cats. This tolerance and love deeply touched me, and made my impetuous experience calm down and rethink: about pursuit, about freedom, about true happiness.