20 well -known Broadway Love Triangles
Love triangles provide intense emotions and wonderful drama. (The producers of The bachelor figured out one and utilized it to the ninth degree.)
A plot equipment used since Greek mythology (when Sisters Hera and Demeter both at Zeus, Gasp!) Sleep until the times of Shakespeare (with the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet and the wealthy Paris), the love triangle remains a staple in theater. In musicals, this led to such brilliant unanswered love power ballads as The miserable “On my own” and Hamilton‘S’ satisfied ‘, as well as beautiful three-part harmonies in’ a heart full of love ‘or’ The Phantom’s Lair. ‘
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