本詮釋報告以百老匯音樂劇《拜訪森林》中之母親角色做角色分析與探討。本詮釋報告共分為六章。首章,講述研究動機以及研究架構。第二章,談到童話之起源、要素及功用,藉此對《拜訪森林》中的童話原型有更深層的認識。第三章分為三節,第一節以各種史料及文獻,探討從經典童話轉化到音樂劇《拜訪森林》的各面向延伸;第二節則將音樂劇《拜訪森林》劇本及創作背景做介紹及研究,從整個音樂劇的發展過程來探討《拜訪森林》中所要呈現的童話故事意涵;第三節則是將筆者的研究主題音樂劇《拜訪森林》中,角色介紹、曲目介紹,以及劇作家在整齣音樂中對於音樂的編排及使用,藉此對於劇作家如何將童話文本轉化為音樂劇做更深的研究及了解。第四章則是音樂劇《拜訪森林》中母親角色的角色分析,筆者選出在此劇中兩位有母親特質的角色,對其做深入的分析及研究。第五章進入本論文的主題,筆者挑選了八首劇中這兩位母親角色所演唱之曲目,加以分析歌曲中角之潛台詞、內在情緒及外在表演。第六章則總結本文個章節之論述,並期許筆者未來有機會能夠在舞台上詮釋這兩位精彩且具有豐富外在表演及內心情緒的母親角色。
This essay mainly focus on the discussion and analysis of “mother” in the musical “Into the Woods”, and the content can be separated into six chapters. In the first chapter, I will assert the motivation of the research and furthermore deliberate on the structure of the essay. The second chapter mentions the concept and the origin of the Grimm's fairy tales, in which achieves further realization of the tales of its sorts. Chapter three can be divided into three parts, the first part compares the classic fairy tales which are included in “Into the Woods”, and discuss the adaptations that are made for the musical. Second part introduces the script and the composing background; purpose of the respective tales are to be demonstrated as the development of the story line. The third part puts emphasis on the transformations from fairy tales to musical in light of the characters, songs and repertoires. The forth chapter begins with the analysis of the mothers in the musical and two of the characters, as they display the characteristic of mother, are chosen to be deeply discussed. Chapter five enters the main part of the research as eight songs that sung by the two mothers are picked and make comparisons, in terms of the unspoken words in the play, emotions and performance of the characters, etc. The last chapter concludes the crucial points of the previous texts, and hopefully, expecting the author to make a perfect interpretation onstage, and to fully embody the spirits of the two characters.