Famous Names
The "Great White Way."
What is Broadway also called in reference to all the lights?
I am tied together by a common element, theme or person.
What is a Revue Musical?
I am a musical about a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970’s group.
What is Mama Mia?
The popular trend in the age was Jazz, Musical Revues, Operettas, Ragtime and Comedies.
What is the Jazz Age?
I give equal importance to music, dialogue, movement and technical elements to tell the story.
What is Musical Theatre?
The writer of Hamilton.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
I use a style of music and typically have less dialogue, sometime I am referred to as an Opera.
What is a Rock or Pop Musical?
I am a musical about a group of hippies who celebrate peace and love in the shadow of the Vietnam War.
What is Hair?
This age is considered by many to be the peak of musical theatre popularity.
What is the Golden Age?
There are up to 99 seat in this type of theater.
What is Off-Off Broadway?
I am a famous show with complete integration music, acting and movement woven seamlessly together about people who worked on the Mississippi River.
What is Show Boat?
I am derived from a previously published piece of literature which give the story for my stage version.
What is a Book Musical?
I am the first musical to premiere at the Niblo Garden Theater in NY in 1866 and last 5 1/2 hours long.
What is the Black Crook?
The age of Rock Operas, Mega Musicals, Revue Musicals, Sung-Through Musicals, and Disney Musicals.
What is Pre-Contemporary Age?
I am the first Theater to open on Nassau Street.
What is the "Theater on Nassau Street?"
The most influential producer in the history of the Broadway musical.
Who is Florence Ziegfeld?
I use pre-existing songs and the story intertwines the songs to create a storyline.
What is a Jukebox Musical?
I am a musical about a family who attempts to maintain Jewish traditions as outside influences encroach upon his family's lives.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
The type of show popular early on that was a variety show using music, comedy, dance, acrobatics, magic, puppets, and even trained animals.
What is Vaudeville?
I am usually shorter than the one who comes before me
What is Act Two?
Invented by Bob Fosse and you see me in many shows like Chicago and Cabaret.
What are Jazz Hands?
I am structured around conveying a theme or message, rather than emphasizing a plot.
What is a Concept Musical?
I am a musical about young people with dreams, escaping their painful lives and trading them for the unique world of the Broadway stage.
What is a Chorus Line?
The year New York started having a significant theatre presence.
What is 1752?
A compilation of songs from the show and played at the very beginning.
What is the Overture?