Golden Age Musicals
This musical taught most of us our Do-Re-Mi's
What is The Sound of Music
This musical takes places over 3 days in a neighborhood in New York City, and tackles themes such as family, the immigrant experience, and home.
What is In the Heights?
This person wrote musicals such as Rent and tick, tick...BOOM!
Who is Jonathan Larson?
Time flies
And then, no need to endure anymore
Time dies
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The door.
This musical is often described as Gunho's least favourite.
What is Dear Evan Hansen?
This musical's climax involves a domestically abusive man coming back from the dead and then hitting his daughter. The daughter then asks her mother about it, and her response is "it is possible, dear - fer someone to hit you - hit you hard - and not hurt at all."
What is Carousel?
Before Come From Away, this used to be the longest running Canadian musical on Broadway, with 674 performances.
What is the Drowsy Chaperone?
This person was the first wheelchair user to be nominated and win a Tony Award for acting, specifically the Tony Award for best Featured Actress in a Musical
Who is Ali Stroker?
Someone to crowd you with love
Someone to force you to care
Someone to make you come through
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Who'll always be there
As frightened as you
Of being alive
This was Gunho's first musical.
Bonus Points: What role did he play?
What is Grease? and Who is Danny Zuko?
Although this musical is set in Russia, it's depiction of tradition vs change made this musical a hit in Japan.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
This musical is considered Sondheim's only flop. Audiences had such a hard time following along to the story and telling the actors apart that eventually they all wore clothes with their character's names written on them.
What is Merrily We Roll Along?
This person was the first to ever complete an EGOT (winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar & Tony Award)
Who is Richard Rodgers?
When I hear a complementary whistle
That greets my bikini by the sea
I turn and I glower and I gristle
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But I'm happy to know the whistles meant for me
This was the first musical Gunho saw on Broadway.
What is A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder