The musical market has grown rapidly in Korea for last few years thanks to audience s interest. The musicals for children, however, take insignificant portion in a total number of musicals that have been performed so far. Having this in view, this stu...
The musical market has grown rapidly in Korea for last few years thanks to audience s interest. The musicals for children, however, take insignificant portion in a total number of musicals that have been performed so far. Having this in view, this study aims to propose useful suggestions for a boost to children s musicals by comparing and analyzing the differences in stage make-up between adult and children Nantas. To accomplish this purpose, it was examined and confirmed through past investigation and documentary research that stage make-up is organically connected with other components of musicals such as directing, stage art, costume and lighting and has a huge effect on the end performance quality. The in depth comparative analysis was executed over the stage make-up cases in the musicals targeting two different type of audience: adult and children. The outcome can be summarized as follows. First, audience s reliance on stage make-up in adult musicals was far lower than that in children musicals. This is because adult audience analyze and accept the musical characters not by stage make-up but by the internal or external factors of musicals such as story plot or actors (or actresses ) image the audience held in mind. According to children audience s characteristics, it is remarkably important to show something interesting to attract children audience s attention. For this reason, magician characters who need colorful make-up and fancy costume were added in the musical which is likely to be somewhat mundane with cook characters only to arouse more interests among children. Second, what both adult and children Nantas have in common in terms of stage make-up is not exaggerated but natural make-up stressing single specific point like a beard on sexy guy and chef in adult Nanta and manager in children Nanta, This helped audience recognize the musical characters naturally without sense of distance. This also suggests that stage make-up in Nantas comply with the current make-up tendency which stage make-up put naturalness first and attempts reverse characterization by giving vividness to actors own character. Based upon these findings. following suggestions can be made. As stage make-up places a great deal of weight in children musicals, the thorough study on children audience should be conducted prior to applying actual make-up. The children musical stage make-up manual should be developed. Furthermore, stage make-up for children musicals should be considered as an independent and specialized sector in stage make-up and a dynamization scheme should be sought after through constant attention and study.