This 1977 Tony winner, based on a comic strip, features a red-headed orphan girl in the Great Depression searching to find her parents.
What is Annie
100
This 2008 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play was recently adapted into a feature film starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.
What is August: Osage County
100
This high-flying Tony Award winning actress recently sang the voice of Elsa in the movie Frozen. At the Oscars, her name was mispronounced "Adele Dezeem" by John Travolta.
Who is Idina Menzel
100
This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, currently running at the Majestic Theatre, ran over 10,000 performances as of 2014, making it the longest running musical on Broadway
What is The Phantom of the Opera
100
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.
Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.
How do you measure, measure a year?
What is Seasons of Love from "RENT"
200
Winner of the 1965 Tony Award for Best Musical, this show is based on Shalom Aleichem's "Tevye and His Daughters".
What is Fiddler on the Roof
200
The winner of the 1993 and 1994 Tony Awards for Best Play and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this play discusses the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s. Written by the screenwriter of Lincoln. Part two of this saga was recently produced by the UF School of Theatre and Dance.
What is Angels in America
200
This multi-Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter won a Tony for Best Score last year for the musical "Kinky Boots", making her the first female composer/lyricist to win a Tony for Best Original Score solo.
Who is Cyndi Lauper
200
This Kander and Ebb musical, running over 7200 performances since 1997, is the longest running American Musical and the longest running musical revival on Broadway
What is Chicago
200
Mama who bore me,
Mama who gave me,
No way to handle things
who made me so sad.
Mama, the weeping,
Mama, the angels,
No sleep in Heaven
Or Bethlehem
What is "Mama Who Bore Me" from Spring Awakening
300
Duncan Sheik won two Tony Awards for composing and orchestrating this musical, based on the banned German play of the same name by Frank Wedekind. Florida Players recently produced this show on campus.
What is Spring Awakening
300
This play, written by Christopher Durang, won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. It starred David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver on Broadway, and it will be produced at the Hippodrome next Spring.
What is Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
300
This actress, nominated tonight for "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grille," has won five Tony Awards. The only other two actresses to have achieved this accomplishment were Angela Lansbury and the late Julie Harris.
Who is Audra McDonald
300
This Mel Brooks musical garnered the most Tony Awards (12) and the most nominations (15) in Broadway history.
What is The Producers
300
What did Lewis say to Clark when everything looked bleak?
What did Sir Edmund say to Tensing as they struggled toward Everest Peak?
What did Washington say to his troops as they crossed the Delaware?
I'm sure you're well aware!
What is "We Can Do It" from The Producers
400
This musical, nominated tonight for Best Revival of a Musical, is a story of Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement. Note: The title is also the name of a color.
What is Violet
400
This Tennessee Williams play was never nominated for a Tony when it came out in 1946, but it is nominated tonight for Best Revival of a Play. Cherry Jones is also nominated for Best Actress.
What is The Glass Menagerie
400
This composer, nominated tonight for "Aladdin", has won eight Oscars for scoring Disney animated musicals.
Who is Alan Menken
400
This composer won eight Tony awards, the most a composer has ever won.
Who is Stephen Sondheim
400
Good times, fun times,
I've seen them all, but my dear,
I'm still here.
Plush velvet sometimes,
sometimes, it's pretzels and beer.
But I'm here.
What is "I'm Still Here" from Follies
500
This 2012 Tony Award winning musical, based on the 2007 movie of the same name, tells the story of an Irish and Czech musician falling in love in Dublin. The entire cast of this musical also plays at least one instrument in the show.
What is Once
500
This play was the only one-man show to win a Tony Award for Best Play. Jefferson Mays, who is nominated tonight for "A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder" won Best Actor in a Play for playing every character in this piece.
What is I Am My Own Wife
500
The creators of the TV series "South Park", these guys won multiple Tony Awards for the raunchy musical "The Book of Mormon"
Who are Matt Stone and Trey Parker
500
This 2011 Kander and Ebb musical was nominated for 12 Tony Awards, but did not win a single statue.
What is The Scottsboro Boys
500
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water, so they say
Their subsequent fall was inevitable
They never stood a chance, they were written that way.
Innocent victims of their story.
Like Romeo and Juliet
T'was written in the stars before they even met
That love and fate, and a touch of stupidity
Would rob them of their hope of living happily
The endings are often a little bit gory