Music

Broadway Musicals

100

Ben Platt reprised the role of the title teen with a broken arm when this Broadway musical became a 2021 film

Dear Evan Hansen

200

Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham

The Book of Mormon

300

Act I of this long-running musical starts with the song "Think Of Me" & ends with a chandelier crashing

The Phantom of the Opera

400

This musical is based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about Tevye the dairyman

Fiddler on the Roof

500

"Waitress" has music & lyrics by this woman who had a Top 40 hit with "Brave"

Sara Bareilles

Opera Composers

100

The greatest early opera composer, he wrote "Orfeo".

Who is Claudio Monteverdi.

200

Composer of such well-known operas as “The Magic Flute” and “The Marriage of Figaro”.

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

300

This composer, creator of “Madam Butterfly”, is often cited as the end of Grand Opera.

Who is Giacomo Puccini.

400

Famous for his complex operas, he was also known for his anti-semitism.

Who is Richard Wagner.

500

Though a composers of many different types of music, this British composer wrote more than 14 operas after the premier of his first opera, "Peter Grimes", establishing himself as one of the leading 20th century composers in the genre.

Who is Benjamin Britten.

Music "C"lass

100

It has 4 strings, 5 letters & 6 Bach solo suites written just for it

Cello 

200

The Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos had a surprise 1994 international hit with an album of Gregorian these

chants

300

Italian for "tail", this 4-letter word is a concluding part of a piece of music

Coda 

400

Joan Sutherland was one of these sopranos who decorated her arias with a "rainbow" of musical hues

coloratura

500

A male alto voice is also known as this 12-letter word

countertenor

Classical Music

100

At age 15 in 1825 he played for the Russian czar, who was visiting Warsaw

Chopin 

200

This march by Sir Edward Elgar is commonly played at high school & college graduations

"Pomp And Circumstance"

300

Nicknamed "The Red Priest", he was an ordained priest before he composed "The Four Seasons"

Vivaldi

400

This composer supervised when the Met staged his "Madama Butterfly" in 1907

Puccini

500

"O"! This best-known song from "Carmina Burana" has a Latin title

"O Fortuna"

Musicals Based on Literature

100

It took only about 350 years for this musical "Man" to ride forth from Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

Man of La Mancha

200

In 2018 "Fiddler on the Roof" was staged in NYC in this language of Sholem Alechiem's original stories

Yiddish

300

Characters from "War and Peace" populate "Natasha", him "and the Great Comet of 1812"

Pierre

400

Show your luck & name this musical based on Damon Runyon stories including "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown"

Guys and Dolls

500

The musical "Big River" was inspired by this novel first published in the U.S. in 1885

Huckleberry Finn