Musicals
Author Johnathan Larson worked on this iconic broadway musical for seven years, but passed away the night before its first off-broadway performance at New York Theatre Workshop.
What is Rent?
The music that plays before the start of a show to help set the tone.
What is the overture?
This two-part play by Tony Kushner won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and takes place during the Reagan administration.
What is Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes?
The Broadway actress that won a Tony in 1980 for her role as Eva Peron in Evita and won another Tony in 2022 for her role as Joanne in Company.
Who is Patti Lupone?
The musical these lyrics are from: “Oh, if life were made of moments. Even now and then a bad one! But if life were only moments then you’d never know you had one.” A: Into the Woods
What is Into the Woods
The Audience sits on three sides of the stage.
What is a thrust stage?
The Shakespeare play that the musical--Kiss Me, Kate-- is loosely based on.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
This musical, which is about a suburban family dealing with a mother’s bipolar disorder, received the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2010.
What is Next to Normal?
A Black queer writer writing a musical about a black queer writer writing a musical about a black queer writer.
What is A Strange Loop?
The name of the annual fundraiser for Equity Fights AIDS that features burlesque performances by the Broadway community.
What is Broadway Bares?
A play in which this quote appears: “Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour--but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands--and who knows what to do with it?”
What is A Streetcar Named Desire?
This songwriter wrote their first musical while a sophomore at Wesleyan University. Years later, the production made its Broadway debut.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
The storyline of This Stephen Sondheim Musical plays out in reverse.
What is Merrily We Roll Along?
The national trade association for the Broadway Theatre industry.
What is the Broadway League?
Paula Vogel's first play produced on Broadway. (In 2017)
What is Indecent?
This original production of a Broadway Musical--starring Robert Preston--had no trouble bringing home six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in 1958
What is The Music Man?
This is considered the first modern musical, which integrated the elements of the libretto, score, and staging to tell one cohesive story.
What is Oklahoma?
What people commonly say instead of "Macbeth" because it is bad luck.
What is The Scottish Play?
A play about Two Brothers--one a straitlaced Hollywood screenwriter, the other a con man and a thief--discover that they are more alike than they would care to admit.
What is True West?
A Broadway musical that was later made into a film and went on to win 10 Academy Awards, the most Oscars won by a musical.
What is West Side Story?
A window washer becomes a successful businessman while a successful businessman becomes a window washer. I guess that’s just the company way!
What is How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying?
In 2022, Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre was renamed for this late stage and screen star, becoming the first Broadway theatre to bare the name of a Black Woman.
Who is Lena Horne?
A glam rock star that played the lead of John Merrick in The Elephant Man during part of the original Broadway run in 1980.
Who is David Bowie?
A playwright that won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 (Hint: Jack Nicholson played him in a 1981 movie)
Who is Eugene O’Neill?
This Tony Award-winning best musical, which opened on Broadway in 1965, uses the classic novel Don Quixote as the inspiration for the story.
What is Man of La Mancha?
The first Broadway show to use Peter Foy's Inter-related Pendulum system, allowing actors to fly onstage.
What is Peter Pan?
A play about a couple that leads an idyllic suburban life until the loss of their child leaves them tumbling into a seemingly bottomless tunnel of pain and loss.
What is Rabbit Hole?
The two Broadway composers that have won a PEGOT with a Pulitzer. (To win a PEGOT, you must win all four EGOT awards plus a Peabody or a Pulitzer.)
Who are Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch?
Sammy Davis Jr. starred in this 1964 Broadway musical adaptation of a play written in 1937 by Clifford Odets, which tells the tragic story of a boxer in New York City during the Depression.
What is Golden Boy?
The famous cartoonist known for his black-and-white caricatures of Broadway performers that were typically published in the New York Times ahead of a show’s opening
Who is Al Hirschfeld?
The Play in which this quote is from: “All women need makeup. Don’t let anybody tell you differently. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor, and she wore a ton”
What is August: Osage County?
The first person to win an Oscar and a Tony for the same role.
Who is Jose Ferrer?