Christine Caccipuoti

Last year, I wrote a post selecting some of my favorite musicals that depict historical people and events. (If you missed it, you can find it here!) Recently, I was thinking about how, in addition to historical musicals being ideal to embellish learning about the past, musicals based on literature do the same thing. There have been many times in my life when I was exposed to the musical adaptation of a novel before I read the novel itself. Comparing the two, regardless of the

I considered calling this post “Everything I Need to Know about History I Learned from Musical Theatre” but that would be such a gross exaggeration that I could not do it, despite how great it looked on my screen. Still, one of the biggest influences on my life has always been musical theatre, and it played a significant role in cultivating my adoration of history. I grew up listening to and watching every musical possible. I would get sucked in by the beautiful scores and dr