The Czech Musical

In this thesis, I am attempting to look into the development of the Czech musical, especially from its early rocketing start in the 1990s up to the present. To do so, I had to define musical as a genre, its roots and its relationship to operetta it´s so often being linked and compared to. I try to answer the questions of what the new things musical brought to theatre operetion in the country, whether the genre still stands a chance to free itself from purely commercial sphere, and what artistic ambition the musical has in Czech environment