Recently, in step with the national musical boom the children`s musical industry also has continuously been in its quantitative and qualitative growth. The children`s musical has its difference from the musical for the adult, which should have its les...
Recently, in step with the national musical boom the children`s musical industry also has continuously been in its quantitative and qualitative growth. The children`s musical has its difference from the musical for the adult, which should have its lesson indispensably. Therefore, as this particularity of children`s musical and its restraint it would be not strange to remember the classical fairy tale. The traditional fairy tale has served as a useful vehicle helping us to understand our tradition and culture for a long time. Everyone has experiences having listened to some traditional fairy tales from adults or having read fairy books in childhood. Like that, the traditional fairy tale is very familiar to us, and it will be transmitted to our descendents in the same way that it has been transmitted to us. One main reason why the traditional fairy tale has survived may lie in its educational value. Its educational values can be largely summarized into 5 factors. First, it has entertainment value. Its clear, simple framework and fantastic story has some humor (which are) balanced with story characters based on the prototype and the animism. Second, it has some literature value. The traditional fairy story with clear theme and simple framework is a good model helping children to understand literature`s basic frameworks. The third value lies in its ethical factor. Through the characters` behaviors in such stories, children can be provided some examples for their judgement on what is the right and the wrong, and can have the opportunity for their ethical thinking practice. As the fourth value, it has traditional transmission value. Through the traditional fairy tale, we naturally meet and understand our people`s lives and customs and transmit them to our descendents. Finally, the fifth value may be referred to ask the value satisfying needs. The traditional fairy tale suggests many, indirect experiences about various lives to children who are not exposed to any social experience and relevant matters yet. In these indirect experiences, children can nurture their solution capabilities. Based on the above values, the traditional fairy tale had passed down orally for a long time, and since the creation of letters, it was gradually handed down in the form of documentary literature. Entering the contemporary times, these transmission ways are variously changed and even produced in the forms of media program and performance, increasing its ripple effect. Producing the children`s educational musical presided by Gwangju MBC(Munwha Broadcasting Corporation), I groped for the way more efficient to show the common denominator of classic fairy tale and children`s musical. Accordingly, growing out of embodying the classic fairy tale as it is, and in connection with modern culture it has delivered children efficiently the lesson of work, and embodied the work that can provide children with various experiences of culture. So I progressed the plan to recreate the〈The Old Man with a Lump〉, a fairy tale, into a musical with traditional & modern senses. As a first step, I reinterpreted〈The Old Man with a Lump〉`s lessons according to modern values and searched for ways to utilize the fairy tale as a musical entertainment. After entering the full-scale ; musical production, I focused on following 3 fields and analyzed them. First, we had to make a new story plot, new characters, and new relationship through adaptation work. We also had to ascertain modern entertainment factors in the traditional characters and background. Second, we had to create music to represent the dramatic adaptation more effectively in embracing traditional & modern features. Third, we had to devise dancing to effectively express the drama and the music. This research is expected to analyze the production process of children`s musical〈The Old Man with a Lump and B. boy Goblins〉 that has been produced over this sort of production process, to grope for the efficient way to deliver the classical fairy tale`s own value, to interpret the infinite classical fairy tales later in various angles, to use various arts and entertainment technique for its dramatization in its base in order to present the model for this production process and to activate this work more.