Golden Age Musicals
This describes a show in which the music and plot are related.
What is a book musical?
This musical was impotent in displaying Jewish culture at the time of its release.
What is “Fiddler on the Roof”?
This Sondheim musical tells the story of political assassins and their motives.
What is Assassins?
This all-black retelling of The Wizard of Oz debuted first on Broadway, then made it to a film featuring Michael Jackson.
What is The Wiz?
This recent musical was so popular, its top ticket sold for $998 to see the original broadway cast.
What is Hamilton?
This major movie musical was created in 1939, starring Julie Andrews.
What is the Wizard of Oz?
This is the first Rock and Roll musical.
What is “Bye Bye Birdie”?
This Sondheim musical brings fairy tale characters to life, with dark twists as our characters interact and progress on their journeys.
What is Into the Woods?
This musical was the first Disney movie brought to Broadway.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
This 2000s musical featured Mr Boyle‘s favorite comic character, and faced hardship due to elaborate stunts and expensive effects.
What is Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark?
This organization was founded in 1919 to protect the legal rights of working actors, directors, and technicians.
What is Actors Equity?
This musical was directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, and was the Herron Classical Schools musical this year.
What is “Chicago”?
This Sondheim musical tells a gritty story of the demon barber of Fleet Street.
What is Sweeney Todd?
This musical starts Patti LuPone as the wife of the Argentine dictator, Juan Peron.
What is Evita?
This is the longest running musical of all time. Name it, and an estimate for how many years it ran.
What is Phantom, 42 years.
This writing and directing duo are responsible for many golden age hits, including Oklahoma! and South Pacific.
What is Roger’s and Hammerstein?
This musical is based off the novel, Don Auixote.
Man of La Mancha.
This is a golden age writer who mentored Sondheim.
What is Oscar Hammerstein?
Julie Taymor, the first female Tony winner for best director, was made famous for her work on this show.
What is The Lion King?
Name the musical Mr Boyle did his senior year of high school, and the role he played. Options are: Grease, Anything Goes, Aida, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
What is Joseph and the Amazing…, Joseph.
This song comes from South Pacific, and speaks to racial tension and stereotyping in the United States.
What is ”You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”?
The wife of Bob Fosse, who served as his creative partner.
What is Gwen Verdon?
There are four characteristics of Sondheim we discussed. Label two of them.
What are Wordplay and Lyrics, Characterization, Harmonic Complexity, Syncopation and Rhythmic Variation
This Disney musical featured music by Elton John, was based on an opera of the same name, and faced many technical and preview flops before finally succeeding on Broadway.
What is Aida?
This is how many times they say the word Hamilton in the musical “Hamilton”.
What is 68? (4 Alex, 33 Alexander’s, 22 Alexander Hamilton)