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Musical Overview
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This musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel by Gaston Leroux, is considered by many to be the most successful musical of all time and is also the longest running show in broadway history.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
100
This stage Musical is about young artists in the East Village, New York, struggling with life, love and AIDs, and the impacts they have on America.
What is RENT?
100
This rock musical was based on a controversial German play about abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse, and suicide.
What is Spring Awakening?
100
This American writer is best known for the Musical production Hairspray, The Producers, and Annie.
Who is Thomas Meehan?
100
This Musical Sequel was made was turned into a movie in 1982. The original cast in the first movie had actors such as Olivia John Newton and John Travolta.
What is Grease 2?
200
This sound effect was used in 1987 play "The Perfect Crime" to start the broadway show.
What is "BANG!"
200
This form of theatrical production is NOT performed on any of the 40 professional Broadway stages.
What is Off-Broadway stage musicals?
200
This musical about being "special" as a child, but then getting into the real world and realizing you are no different than anyone else is noted for having puppets along-side human actors.
What is Avenue Q?
200
Director of the Musical production "Nine."
Who is Tommy Tune?
200
In 1988 this musical took place in rural France and had the "Angel of Music."
What is Phantom of the Opera?
300
This is a musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Set in early 19th-century France, the plot follows the stories of many characters as they struggle for redemption and revolution. An ensemble that includes prostitutes, student revolutionaries, factory workers, and others joins the lead characters.
What is Les Miserables?
300
This American multinational diversified mass media corporation had a huge impact on Musicals like Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and Aida.
What is The Walt Disney Company?
300
Based on a novel about a sorority girl getting into Harvard University to win back her ex-boyfriend.
What is Legally Blonde?
300
This American composer and playwright is noted for exploring serious social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia is his works.
Who is Jonathan Larson?
300
This musical about AIDs in Greenwich Village, hit hard after the playwright, Jonathan Larson unexpectedly died.
What is Rent?
400
This Tony award-winning musical was based on the 1973 French play of the same name by Jean Poiret, it focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his romantic partner and star attraction, and the farcical adventures that ensue when Georges's son, Jean-Michel, brings home his fiancée's ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
What is La Cage?
400
This female director, directed the Musical "Sweeny Todd."
Who is Susan H. Schulman?
400
This Musical is based on a 2001 DreamWorks film about an ogre and a princess.
What is Shrek?
400
This English composer of Musical Theater, whose company "The Really Useful Group," is one of the largest theatre operations in London.
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
400
This musical about Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad who teaches Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show, won 8 out of 13 Tony awards.
What is Hairspray?
500
This person from a T.V. talk show appearance made the best selling musical novel, "The Perfect Crime," a huge success.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
500
This is the term given to young students who saw the production "Rent" over and over again in hopes to win a $20.00 stage front seat.
What is "Rentheads?"
500
This 2001 romantic Jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann tells the story of a young, English poet/writer, Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill star of the cabaret, Satine.
What is Moulin Rouge?
500
This French producer, actor, songwriter, etc. is best known for his collaborations with lyricists Alain Boublil.
Who is Claude-Michel Schonber?
500
This Musical based on the 1937 play of the same name by Odets, it focuses on Joe Wellington, a young man from Harlem who, despite his family's objections, turns to prizefighting as a means of escaping his ghetto roots and finding fame and fortune, hits Broadway on November 2012.
What is Golden Boy?
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