Lyricists and Composers
This team wrote the music and lyrics for many Broadway classics.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
This show is considered the first American Musical.
What is Show Boat?
"I'm gonna wash that man..."
What is "right out of my hair?"
This man helped cement the use of the assembly line as a means of mass production.
Who is Henry Ford?
"First-hand accounts of the events, practices, or conditions you are researching."
What are primary sources?
In his older age, this writer criticized the lyrics he wrote for West Side Story as a young lyricist.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
This show was inspired by a Shakespeare play.
What is West Side Story?
And we will ride...
This person published "Notes on the State of Virginia" in 1785.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
"A conceptual figure of speech, a storytelling shorthand for a concept that the audience will recognize and understand instantly."
What is a "trope?"
Writer Bronte Woodard's claim to fame was that the soundtrack to this film musical was the second-best selling album of the year in the United States in 1978.
What is Grease?
This show attempts to capture the turn of the 20th century.
What is Ragtime?
"Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion..."
What is "let it sink back in the ocean."
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in these states.
What are the border states?
"Emphasis on regional locale and characteristics in art or literature."
What is "regionalism?"
This duo wrote the musical "Chicago."
Who are Kander and Ebb?
What is Oklahoma?
"A hundred and one pounds of fun..."
What is "that's my little honey bun?"
The 2004 biography of Hamilton that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda was written by this historian.
Who is Ron Chernow?
When a show has few or no spoken words it is referred to by this term.
What is "sung-through?"
The Book Music and Lyrics for this show were all written by Meredith Wilson.
What is the Music Man?
"Sit Down, John" is a song from this show.
What is 1776?
"When you're living in America, at the end of the millennium..."
What is "you're what you own."
This man was an African American leader at the turn of the 20th Century.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
"The text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater."
What is a "libretto?"