Selected World Musicals on the Russian stages

This bachelor thesis deals with worl´s and original Russian musicals, which was successfully played or are still playing in the theater stages of Russia. It is not a complete listing of musicals, but a selection of most widely known masterpieces that most influenced the development of this genre in the history of Russian musical theater. The main part focuses on the origin, historical evolution and the storyline chosen musicals. Part of this work is a brief description of evolution of a musical play as a genre in the world and important information about known Moscow musical theaters. The thesis also includes photographs and pictures