Broadway History
Composers & Lyricists
About the Shows
Which is Which?
When was what?
100
The Black Crook
What is the first official long running hit on Broadway?
100
6 composers who were popular on Broadway prior to Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Who are Victor Herbert, George M. Cohan, Jermome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Cole Porter?
100
Farcical sketches spotlighting singers, dancers, and comedians dealing with current events.
What are follies?
100
The first Broadway musical to use character development as the driving force instead of featuring song and dance.
What is Oklahoma?
100
The Black Crook on Broadway.
What is 1866?
200
The first forms of Broadway musicals.
What is musical comedies or follies?
200
Richard Rodger's lyricist before Oscar Hammerstein II.
Who is Lorenz Hart?
200
21 editions total of this "follie".
What are the Ziegfeld Follies?
200
A show considered a pop opera.
What is Les Miserables?
200
"Oklahoma" (a landmark in American Musical Theatre) opened on Broadway.
What is 1943?
300
Another name for Broadway
What is The Great White Way?
300
Oscar Hammerstein's composer before Richard Rodgers.
Who is Jerome Kern?
300
Two songs in The Music Man, which are the exact same song.
What is Goodnight, My Someone and Seventy-Six Trombones?
300
The composer/lyricist for Godspell also created a blockbluster which opened on Broadway in 2003?
What is Wicked?
300
The year Music Man won the Tony Award.
What is 1958?
400
Winner of the most Tony awards for either Best Musical or Best Musical Score?
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
400
Lyrcist for West Side Story
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
400
A show based on an adaptation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What is Big River?
400
A concept show like Mamma Mia.
What is Jersey Boys?
400
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway.
What is 1971?
500
First composer to have three shows running simulaneously in New York and England.
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber.
500
Iowa born musical composer and lyricist who created the musical The Music Man.
Who is Meredith Wilson?
500
Spamalot is an example of this type of show.
What is a spoof musical?
500
Sunday in the Park with George is center around this masterpiece by George Seurat.
What is A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte?
500
The years Sondheim dominated Broadway.
What is 1963 to 1979?
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