Broadway through the Years
This New York City street is synonymous with American musical theatre.
What is Broadway?
A young orphan with a red dress and a dog named Sandy hopes to find her parents.
What is Annie?
A Broadway musical usually has this many acts, separated by an intermission.
What is 2?
This 2024 movie musical stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as two witches from Oz.
What is Wicked?
This writer and performer created Hamilton and In the Heights.
What is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
First performed on Broadway in 1943, this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical features cowboys and farmers in the American West.
What is Oklahoma?
A young woman becomes a governess to seven children in Austria before World War II.
What is the Sound of Music?
This musical about six wives of Henry VIII features exactly six queens as its principal performers.
What is Six?
This 1978 film musical stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as Danny and Sandy.
These two collaborators wrote Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Sound of Music.
What are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
This 1968 rock musical embraced hippie counterculture and protested the Vietnam War.
What is Hair?
A French prisoner breaks parole and is pursued for years by a determined police inspector.
What is Les Miserables?
This musical has the most Tony nominations for a single production, with 16 in 2016.
What is Hamilton?
This 2007 film stars Johnny Depp as a murderous barber.
What is Sweeney Todd?
This British composer created Cats, Evita, and The Phantom of the Opera.
What is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
This 1927 musical, featuring “Ol' Man River,” helped establish musicals as vehicles for serious storytelling.
What is Showboat?
A murderous barber returns to London and conspires with a woman who runs a meat pie shop.
What is Sweeney Todd?
This musical about two Broadway producers won a record 12 Tony Awards in 2001.
What is The Producers?
This 1961 film adaptation of a Broadway musical won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
What is West Side Story?
This composer-lyricist created Into the Woods, Company, and Sweeney Todd.
What is Steven Sondheim?
This 1931 political satire became the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
What is Of Thee I Sing?
An aging Jewish milkman struggles with his daughters' changing marriage choices in Imperial Russia.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
This musical about a masked figure beneath a Paris opera house ran for 13,981 Broadway performances.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This 1972 movie stars Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles, a nightclub performer in Berlin
What is Cabaret?
This costume designer worked on the costumes for Hamilton and Death Becomes Her, as well as the recent movie adaptations of West Side Story and Wicked.
What is Paul Tazwell?