Stephen Sondheim
Early 20th Century
Disney
The 60's
Name that Musical
100
This musical is the one in which he just wrote the lyrics for in 1957
What is West Side Story?
100
The event in the 1930's caused a third of the theater to shut down in New York City and around the country.
What is the Great Depression?
100
This first ever Broadway adaptation by Disney.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
100
This musical in the 60's was the voice of the hippie movement with such songs as "Let the Sunshine In"
What is HAIR?
100
"Wash that man right out of my hair"
What is South Pacific?
200
The musical in which is considered the first musical to really discuss adult themes, in which the main character is dealing with getting married or not.
What is Company?
200
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was the first to introduce the convention of the big opening number.
What is Oklahoma?
200
This is Broadway's Third longest running show IN HISTORY, opening originally in 1997.
What is the Lion King?
200
This musical, first produced in 1963, introduced to the power of male youths in musicals with such songs as "Food, glorious food" and "Where is love"
What is Oliver?
200
"It sucks to be me"
What is AVENUE Q?
300
This musical was centered around the famous artist George Seurat and his battles with finding himself through his famous painting.
What is Sunday in the Park with George?
300
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in the early 40's introduced heavier elements like suicide and spousal abuse?
What is Carousel?
300
This adaptation was produced into a Broadway musical when Elton John told Disney he refused to write music for this show if it was an animated film
What is AIDA?
300
While we were trying to find our national identity, this 1967 musical popped up originally in London and solidified the Jewish tradition on stage for years to come.
What is FIDDLER ON THE ROOF?
300
"Tell me it's not true"
What is BLOOD BROTHERS?
400
This is the actual character name behind the established alias known as Sweeney Todd
Who is Benjamin Barker?
400
This is the practice of white actors using black make up to establish themselves as black actors, due to black actors not being allowed on main stages before the 1920's.
What is Blackface?
400
Though many of Disney musicals stem from their animated films, this is the first one that is produced from one of their live action film?
What is Mary Poppins?
400
With race relations coming up to the surface, Langston Hughes presents this musical in 1964 with gospel based musical set right in the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Jerico-Jim Crow?
400
"Telephone Wire"
What is FUN HOME?
500
She played the original WITCH in the Original Broadway cast recording of INTO THE WOODS.
Who is Bernadette Peters?
500
The most frequently performed musical from the 1920's, it has such great musical numbers like "Tea for Two" and "I want to be happy"
What is NO NO Nannette?
500
Julie Taymor's success in costuming THE LION KING ended up being her failure in directing this highly costumed show.
What is Spider Man Turn off the dark?
500
This 1967 musical by Kander and Ebb, Set in Berlin in 1931 during the rise of the Nazis, is considered on the greatest musicals that arose from the 1960's.
What is CABARET?
500
"I Believe"
What is THE BOOK OF MORMON?
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