Movie Musicals
This Movie Musical follows a young bride to be as she tries to unveil the true identity of her father by inviting three men from her mother's past to her upcoming wedding in Greece.
What is Mamma Mia?
In which play do the characters Titania and Oberon reign as Fairy King and Queen.
What is "A Midsummers Night Dream"
It's terribly bad luck to wish someone "good luck" in a performance. Instead, you are supposed to say this phrase.
What is Break a Leg?
This Musical about Manaiacal stage mother Madame Rose and her daughters June and Louise. Features Lyrics by Sondheim and Music by Jule Styne.
What is Gypsy?
The land of Oz before and after Dorothy Walked in.
What is Wicked?
"The Sound of Music" and this Movie Musical both have a song called "Maria"
What is West Side Story?
The titular protagonist accounts for 37% of the 4000 lines of this Shakespeare play, making it the meatiest role in Shakespeare's Canon.
What is "Hamlet"
Now and almost obligatory practice in Modern Theatre, before a show opens, they have performances called this, where the show can still change a little (or a lot).
What are Previews?
The Beggar Woman frantically wonders what's become of the Beatle in the song "City on Fire" from this masterful Sondheim Thriller.
What is "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
A junkyard on the Night of the Jellicle Ball
What is CATS?
in "Mean Girls" A trio of female students rule the halls of North Shore High with an iron fist. They're nicknamed this.
What is The Plastics?
This 2015 Musical Comedy features Shakespeare as a character and his feud with the fictiitious Bottom Brothers.
What is "Something Rotton"
Due to chemicals used, the spotlights have a greenish tinge to them, leading to this nickname for spotlights.
What is Limelight?
This Stephen Sondheim Musical written in 1984 is inspired by French Pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
What is "Sunday in the Park with George"
The small village of Anatevka in Russia.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
This movie musical set in Paris is based on a real life cabaret club famously known as the birth place of the Can Can.
What is Moulin Rouge?
In Spring 2025, audiences could see Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington on Broadway, with Denzel in the title role of this classic Shakespeare Tragedy.
What is "Othello"
some stages are heavily sloped to give the audience a better view of the show. These types of stages are called this.
What is Raked
Intertwining the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, this musical follows the Baker and his Wife, who learn they cannot have a child because of a witches curse, and they set off on a journey to break it and all the fairy tale characters they come across on the way.
What is "Into the Woods"
In and around the Royal Palace in Bangkok in the 1860's.
What is "The King and I"
Spider Man Actor Tom Holland, was one of several young British Actors to play the title role in this dance heavy musical, based on the film of the same name.
What is Billy Elliott?
From 2011-2024, Visitors to the Mckittrick Hotel in New York City's Chelsea neighbourhood were treated to a nightly immersive production called "Sleep No More." Deprived of almost all spoken dialogue, the audience wanders through the rooms as actors recreate which Shakespearean tragedy about a Scottish general whose ambition to become King leads him to commit regicide.
What is "Macbeth"
This German word is the term for the all important rehearsal when the cast first performs with the shows full orchestra.
What is a Sitzprobe.
This 1962 Musical Comedy starring Zero Mostel was the first musical with both music and lyrics to reach Broadway.
What is "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."
Mushnik's Skid Row Florists.
What is "Little Shop of Horrors"