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This musical opened at the Shubert Theatre in 2005 and is based on a 1975 film. It follows King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as they search for the Holy Grail.

What is Spamalot? 

200

In a musical production, one of the actors, usually an offstage swing, who is given the responsibility of maintaining the choreography set by the creative team.  

What is the Dance Captain? 

200

The 2023 revival of this Henrik Ibsen play was notable not only for the hollywood star in the lead role but also for the minimal set, lack of period costumes, and lack of props.

What is A Dolls House? 

200

Something that Hugh Jackman, Angela Lansbury, and Neil Patrick Harris have in common.

They've all hosted the Tony Awards.

400

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the creators of South Park. They are also the creators of this musical which is one of the longest running musicals on broadway.

What is The Book of Mormon? 

400

At the annual Broadway sleepout actors of stage and screen sleep outside for one night to bring attention and raise money for this cause.

What is youth homelessness? 

400

Heidi Schreck wrote and starred in a semi-autobiographical play that centers around a famous historical document and had a limited run on Broadway in 2019.

What is What the Constitution Means to Me? 

400

In 2009, this Broadway legend--actor, singer, and dancer extraordinaire--was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Who is Chita Rivera?

600

Annual Nocturnal gatherings in skintight costumes to pick the chosen one. Ah! The Memories!

What is Cats? 

600

The thing that happened during the run of Spiderman: Turn off the Dark that caused a performance to stop.

A performer was injured and sent to the hospital.

600

The stars of the original Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Doubt.

Who are Cherry Jones and Brian F. O’Bryne?

600

The only director to win a Tony, Oscar, and Emmy in the same year.

Who is Bob Fosse?

800

The rest of the lyric from the musical Be More Chill. “When you love somebody, ______  

What is "Put your Pants on!"? 

800

In 2022, the Court Theatre was renamed to honor this actor, known for his distinctive voice, who first performed onstage there in 1958 in Sunrise at Campobello

Who is James Earl Jones?

800

The play in which this quote is from: “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I’d prefer you just said thank you and went on your way.”

What is A Few Good Men? 

800

The Broadway musical that won the most Tony Awards for one Production.

What is The Producers? 
1000

This do-it-all showman wrote “Give my Regards to Broadway” and has a statue in his honor in New York City’s Times Square.

Who is George M. Cohan?

1000

This Broadway theatre was built in 1921 for Irving Berlin.

What is The Music Box Theatre?

1000

The Play in which this quote is from: “I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends, and I from Legends created only the ordinary!”

What is Amadeus?

1000

This actress won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Caroline, or Change in 2004. She also voiced a character in an animated movie about a talking frog.

Who is Anika Noni Rose?

1200

Director Spike Lee filmed a performance of this broadway rock musical about a young Black man’s journey to discover “the real”.

What is Passing Strange?

1200

The prior name of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

What is The Royale Theatre? 

1200

How Funny!!! This playwright had four productions running simultaneously on Broadway.

Who is Neil Simon? 

1200

The actor that won a Tony in 1950 for their role as Bloody Mary in South Pacific becoming the first Black performer to win a Tony Award.

Who is Juanita Hall?

1400

This prolific actor, famous for his musical bravado, actually made his Broadway debut in a play, the 1982 revival of Noel Coward’s Present Laughter with George C. Scott.

Who is Nathan Lane?

1400

This Broadway producer who built the Longacre Theatre also once owned the Boston Red Sox and was responsible for trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees.

Who is Harry Frazee?

1400

This play is second in what is known as Neil Simon’s “Eugene Trilogy” and is the only play in the trilogy in which Eugene is not the central character.

What is Biloxi Blues? 

1400

This film and theatre actor, known for their roles in the 1955 movies Kismet and It’s Always Fair Weather, won the Tony Award for their performance in the musical Carnival in Flanders.

Who is Dolores Gray?

1600

My Fair Lady is based on this 1913 play by George Bernard Shaw.

What is Pygmalion?

1600

The reason that on the day before rehearsals were to begin for the Broadway musical adaptation of Rebecca, the show folded.

The show’s investors had been fabricated; they never existed. 

1600

The two plays that Writer and activist James Baldwin wrote.

What are Blues for Mister Charlie and The Amen Corner?

1600

The original production of The Sound of Music won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1960, but because of a tie, it had to share that distinction with this show.

What is Fiorello?

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