Gimme Gimme
This 2018 Tony award winning musical, famous for its incorporation off blues, jazz, and folk music and its diverse casting, is based on a Greek tragedy.
"Follow that dollar for a long way down
Far away from the poorhouse door
You either get to {*} or to _______
Ain't no difference anymore!
Way down _________
Way down under the ground,"
What is Hadestown?
This is literally any male broadway actor.
Answers may vary, but include:
Who is...
- Andrew Rannells
- Christian Borle
- John Cariani
- Brian D'Arcy James
- Andrew Keenan-Bolger
- Rob McClure
- Chris Evans
- Mark Ruffalo
- Hugh Jackman
- Lin Manuel Miranda
- Daveed Diggs
- Anthony Ramos
- Jon Rua
- Ben Platt
- Jeremy Jordan
- Ramin Karimloo
- Jonathon Groff
- Josh Gad
- Aaron Tveit
- Alex Brightman
This is a common cliché phrase said to actors right before their performances.
What is 'break a leg'?
This is Kaosi's favorite musical.
What is Hamilton?
Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now
History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the ________ ____ __ _____!
greatest city in the world
This is the wildly successful and 2015 Tony award winning musical whose iconic integration of rap music made it a national ongoing hit.
"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came,
And the world is gonna know your name
What's your name, man?"
"Alexander ______
My name is Alexander _______
And there's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait, just you wait,"
What is Hamilton?
This is any female broadway actor.
Answers may vary but include:
Who is...
- Patti LuPone
- Idina Menzel
- Bernadette Peters
- Sutton Foster
- Phillipa Soo
- Eva Noblezada
- Kristen Bell
- Taylor Louderman
- Laura Dreyfuss
- Lea Michele
- Kristin Chenoweth
- Ariana DeBose
- Barrett Wilbert Weed
- Jasmine Cephas Jones
- Renée Elise Goldsberry
These are the offstage spaces to the left and right of the stage, often enclosed in curtains.
What are the wings?
This musical, featuring the recently deceased Olivia Newton-John alongside John Travolta, is a performance that Chisom was in as an ensemble member.
What is Grease?
"Go, go, go Joseph you know what they say!
Hang on now Joseph you'll make it some day!
Sha la la Joseph you're still in your prime!
You and your ________ ahead of your time!"
dreamcoat
This is a popular Disney-owned musical which came to Broadway in 2012:
"We'll all be out there
Carrying the banner man to man!
We're always out there
Soakin' every sucker that we can!
Here's the headline:
_____ on a mission!
Kill the competition!
Sell the next edition!
What is Newsies?
This is one of Chisom's favorite actors, who notoriously played Thomas Jefferson in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton and played Mr. Brown in the 2017 children's musical Wonder.
Who is Daveed Diggs?
This is the official registered name of the booklet that is received at any Broadway or off-broadway performance.
What is a playbill?
This is Chisom's least favorite musical.
What is Cats?
"__ ___ _____ ___ ______ ____?
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!"
Do you hear the people sing
This critically acclaimed musical and winner of the 1988 Tony award for best musical is about to celebrate its 35th anniversary next year. It is considered to be a Broadway classic.
"In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came
That voice which calls to me and speaks my name
And do I dream again? For now I find
___ __________ ___ ___ _______ is there
Inside my mind"
What is the Phantom of the Opera?
This is an Broadway actor Chisom dislikes.
Answers may vary, but include:
Who is...
- Anthony Ramos
- James Corden
- Christian Borle
- Brain D'Arcy
This the name of any theater venue in the New York City area that has between 100 and 499 seats (the opposite of a Broadway venue).
What is off- Broadway?
This is a musical based on or inspired by a book in the Bible.
Answers include:
What is...
- Godspell
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Children of Eden
You can't have that fault and be the salt of the earth!
So let your _____ so shine before men
Let your _____ so shine
So that they might know some kindness again
We all need help to feel fine (let's have some wine!)
light
This show won the Tony-ward for best musical in 2002.
"Good-bye, good goody girl,
I'm changing and how!
So beat the drums 'cause here comes
___________ _______ _______ now!"
What is Thoroughly Modern Millie?
This is one of two actors who played the leading parts of Orpheus and Hades in the musical Hadestown, and played the leading parts of Spiderman and The Green Goblin in the Broadway disaster Spiderman Turn Off the Dark.
Who is..
- Reeve Carney
- Patrick Page
These are actors who train and practice for multiple roles in case the official actors cannot perform. They are different from understudies because they often cover all the actors for their gender and/or voice part.
Who are swings?
Taking place around the French Revolution, this show won Best Musical in 1987. Chizy recently saw it at Broadway in Detroit.
What is Les Misérables?
But there's one thing I know
And I know it for sure:
This disease that they've got
Has got no ready cure!
And I'm certain
Life is terribly hard
When your life's a ______!
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