And the Tony Award Goes to...
This musical by Stephen Sondheim won Best Musical Revival at the 2024 Tony Awards.
What is Merrily We Roll Along?
These feathers, taken from a particularly vibrant bird, are considered to be bad luck on stage, because of their association with the evil eye.
What are Peacock Feathers?
This film adaptation features Broadway Star Ben Platt looking like an undercover cop playing a high schooler.
What is Dear Evan Hansen (2021)?
The number of years Teresa Durbin-Ames has served on the AU Theatre Faculty.
What is 25 years?
This APO Cast member saw the original broadway cast of Mean Girls in 2018.
Who is Meredith?
This Broadway Musical holds the record for most Tony nominations, beating out The Producers and Billy Elliot.
What is Hamilton?
This light is left on at all times in the theatre, even when all other lights are turned off. In addition to its practical safety uses, it helps to ward off mischievous spirits.
What is a Ghost Light?
This film adaptation of the 1999 musical of the same name features Pierce Brosnan… trying his best.
What is Mamma Mia! (2008)?
This play by Qui Nguyen, is the first play the graduating Seniors participated in at AU.
What is She Kills Monsters?
This APO member met Josh Groban in 2023 outside the theatre where he was playing Sweeney Todd on Broadway.
Who is Emilee?
This Musical, based on a young adult novel by the same name, won Best Musical at the 2024 Tony Awards.
What is The Outsiders?
It is bad luck to wish an actor good luck, so this traditional phrase, dating back to the days of Vaudeville, is used instead.
What is "Break A Leg?"
This musical about a certain redhead has been remade 3 times (1982, 1999, 2014).
What is Annie?
A sign from this show hangs in the Scene Shop, designed after campaign propaganda from a recent presidential bid.
What is Pippin?
This APO member has played 5 Disney Princesses.
Who is Ellie?
This person won an award in 2023 for their performance in Some Like It Hot, becoming the first out Non-Binary Actor to receive this award.
Who is J. Harrison Ghee?
This AU Theatre tradition has actors and crew members alike pinning these small pom poms onto their clothes during performances. Typically they are named for the person’s first show in AU Theatre.
What is a Lucky Duck?
This film, based on a Broadway Musical, has both Catwoman and Wolverine in starring roles.
What is Les Misérables (2012)?
This theatre company, founded in spring of 2022, is the only non-departmental theatre company on this campus.
What is Ashbrook Classical Theatre Company?
This APO cast member knows Luke Holt, famous for voicing Zeus in EPIC: The Musical.
Who is Leanna?
This play by Arthur Miller is the only one to win Best Production in four different decades (1949, 1984, 1999, 2012).
What is Death of a Salesman?
Written in 1606 by William Shakespeare, it is bad luck to say the name of this infamous Scottish lord, and the play for which he is namesake.
What is Macbeth?
This film, released in 2004, features a love triangle where both actors are nearly double the age of their teenaged costar.
What is The Phantom of the Opera (2004)?
This is the last year that AU graduated Theatre majors.
What is 2024?
This APO cast member once spent Thanksgiving day locked in a basement with Andrew Keenan Bolger, the first Crutchie in the Original Broadway Cast of Newsies.
Who is Raven?