Improv Game Rules
True or False: in the game Autobiography, improvisers are given the name of a completely made up character and they come up with a rejected autobiography title for that fictional character?
True
False
False! "a historical character, a professional athlete, or a cartoon character"
Audra McDonald, the most decorated theater performer in history, has how many Tony Awards?
2
3
4
5
6
7?
What is 6?
The Booth Theater is named after which relation of famous historical figure John Wilkes Booth?
Booth's dad
Booth's brother
Booth's uncle
Booth's cousin?
What is Booth's brother? His name was Edwin
Winner of Best Musical in 2008
In the Heights
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu
In the Heights
"sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia" is the scientific term for which of these phenomena?
Brain freeze
Hiccups
Brain rot?
What is brain freeze?
How many judges are needed for the game Objection?
2
3
4
5
What is 3?
Ariel and Tiana
Jasmine and Mulan
Belle and Elsa?
What are Jasmine and Mulan?
True or False: there is an actual theater on the street called Broadway in NYC? What is that theater called?
The Broadway Theater, home of The Great Gatsby
2017 Best Actor Winner
Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen
Christian Borle, Falsettos
Josh Groban, The Great Comet
Andy Karl, Groundhog Day
David Hyde Pierce, Hello, Dolly!
Ben Platt
What is a single strand of spaghetti called?
Spaghetti
Spaghetto
Spaghettu
Spaghetty
What is a spaghetto?
Which person gets the first quirk or direction in the game Four-Square. Is it the person standing...?
Downstage Right
Upstage Left
Upstage Right
Downstage Left?
Downstage left
Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters was in the 1982 film version of this musical, about a little orphan girl in New York, searching for her family?
What is Annie?
The Winter Garden Theatre was initially built as a depot for what kind of animals, before it was converted into a Broadway theater?
Donkeys
Horses
Elephants?
What are horses?
& Juliet
Kimberly Akimbo
New York, New York
Shucked
Some Like It Hot
Kimberly Akimbo
There are more of these toys than there are people on Earth.
Furby
Lego minifigs
Slinkys?
What are Lego minifigs?
ALL PLAY (so whatever group I see raise their hand fastest):
Explain the rules of the game Oscar Winning Moment?
:)
Which of these shows is currently at the August Wilson theater?
Hell's Kitchen
Cabaret
The Great Gatsby
Wicked
The Lion King?
What is Cabaret?
Which of these theaters, the most often presented on, was home to the original Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, among others?
Music Box Theater
Majestic Theater
Broadhurst Theater
St. James Theater?
What is The Majestic Theatre?
1996 Best Musical Tony Winner
Rent
Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Swinging on a Star?
Rent
What is the underwater version of the game of rugby called?
What is underwater rugby?
What are the three levels that players must utilize in the game Levels?
One stands up, one must kneel/be on knees, one must be on the ground.
When people presented on William Shakespeare, how many plays did Shakespeare write in his lifetime? It is between 30 and 40. Best guess wins.
38
Before it got the cooler name of The Richard Rodgers, it was initially just called The ? Street Theater, because of where it was located.
44th
46th
48th
50th?
What is 46th?
Who was the only winner of Best Actor at the 74th Tony Award ceremony? He won for playing the role of Christian in Moulin Rouge!
Aaron Tveit
Danny Burstein
Jeremy Jordan?
Who is Aaron Tveit?
Lettuce is a member of which flower family?
Tulip
Sunflower
Lilac
Rose?
What is sunflower?
What are Bob's coworkers complaining about in the games Here Comes Bob?
Bob's quirks
Hal Prince, noted Broadway producer/director was awarded 21 Tony Awards in his career, including Tonys for this musical, which goes down in history as the longest running musical ever.
The Lion King
The Phantom of the Opera
Evita
West Side Story
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
Home to the musical Maybe Happy Ending, this is named after theatrical owner David, who is said to haunt this whole theater night after night
David Belasco
David Golden
David Hirschfeld
David Sondheim?
Who is David Belasco?
Which of these musicals should have won the Tony for Best Musical in 2004, but lost to a bunch of puppets?
Wicked
Caroline, or Change
The Boy from Oz
Wicked
What are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons
Mercury and Venus?
Explain the rules to Family of Experts (or Three Headed Expert) in 10 words or less.
:)
The music half of the duo that wrote The Sound of Music, South Pacific, and Oklahoma!, it is also the name of a Broadway theater, currently the home of Hamilton?
George Gershwin
Bernard B. Jacobs
Richard Rodgers
Eugene O'Neill?
Who was Richard Rodgers?
This theater, originally called the Uris because of the construction company that built it, was renamed the Gershwin, and in 2003, opened this very famous musical about two unlikely girls who become the best of friends.
Frozen
Wicked
Mean Girls
In the Heights?
What is Wicked?
The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, this musical won the Tony for Best Musical in 2006?
Jersey Boys
T-Shirt Boys
Sweater Boys
Cardigan Boys?
What is Jersey Boys?
How did Tic Tacs get their name?
What is from the sound they make when they are tossed around in their container?
How are the games DVD and Director different?
In DVD, one player narrates what is going on. In Director, the director only says "cut" and has them change the scene.
Which of these famous composers, who were options in our Broadway's Brightest unit, composed such shows as Sunset Blvd., The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, and School of Rock?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Stephen Sondheim
Richard Rodgers?
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Home of the Broadway smash Moulin Rouge!, The Al Hirschfeld Theater is named after Al Hirschfeld, who was famous for creating what kind of Broadway artwork?
Broadway posters
Broadway album covers
Broadway caricatures
Broadway set designs?
What are Broadway caricatures?
This rock musical, based on a very famous band (Green Day)'s album of the same name, this was nominated for 3 Tony Awards, and won 2.
American Idiot
Canadian Dummy
French Moron?
What is American Idiot?
In Japan, Domino’s started testing pizza delivery via what in 2016?
Drone
Reindeer
Sled
Pigeons?
What are reindeer?
What are the two things needed in the game ABC?
Situation and letter
Relationship and letter
Quirk and letter?
What are situation and letter?
Angela Lansbury, famous for playing Jessica Fletcher in the TV show Murder, She Wrote, is also a 5 time Tony Award winner, and most famously, the voice for which of these enchanted objects in the movie Beauty and the Beast?
Lumiere
Cogsworth
Plumette (the feather duster)
Wardrobe
Mrs Potts?
Who is Mrs Potts?
Hadestown is housed at the Walter Kerr Theatre, also known as a "? box theater" because of how small it is and how intimate the shows in there are?
Music box
Jewel/jewelry box
Cardboard box?
What is a jewel/jewelry box?
2016 was revolutionary, in many ways. Which show won? Think rap and hip-hop.
What is Hamilton?
In 2007, Scotland spent £125,000 devising a new national slogan. What was the winning entry?
"Welcome to Scotland?"
In the game Shakespeare, is the scene set in Shakespeare's times or in modern times?
Modern times.
Which Broadway performer, who is also a very famous recording artist, has the record of being the only woman to record a top 20 album on the Billboard charts in every decade from the 1960s to the 2020s?
Barbra Streisand
Kristen Chenoweth
Idina Menzel
Julie Andrews?
Barbra Streisand
Named after famous power couple Albert Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, The Lunt-Fontanne was home to which two Disney musicals?
Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid
Aladdin and The Lion King
Frozen and Hercules?
What is Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid?
This year is the 78th Tony Awards ceremony. Which three time Oscar nominated, and one time Tony Award winning, actress is hosting the Tony Awards?
Cynthia Erivo
Ariana Grande
Cynthia Erivo
Tirana, the capital of Albania, has a lot of things in common with other European capitals – except one. It’s one of the few capitals without this fast food restaurant, along with Vatican City, Reykjavik, Iceland, and Podgorica, Montenegro.
What are McDonald's?