Closed on Opening Night
This infamous 1988 musical adaptation of a Stephen King novel closed after just five official Broadway performances, becoming one of theater's most legendary flops
Carrie
"To standard calculation, he has a aberration" is a line sung by the street urchins to describe this title character in a classic Lionel Bart musical
Oliver Twist
The smash hit Wicked is directly based on a 1995 revisionist novel written by the American author
Gregory Maguire
This 2003 irreverent puppet musical shocked the theater world by beating out the massive favorite Wicked to win the Tony Award for Best Musical
Avenue Q
The 2016 pop-opera Natasha, Pierra & The Great Comet of 1812 sets its high-energy, immersive romance in this specific Russian city during the Napoleonic wars
Moscow
This 2011 rock musical plagued by technical mishaps, actor injuries, and a budget of over $75 million holds the record for the longest preview period in Broadway history
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
In Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler sings that she is reading this legendary 188th-century political essay collection by Thomas Paine while looking for a mind at work
Common Sense
Jonathan Larson's rock opera Rent is a modern modernixation of this specific 1896 Giacomo Puccini opera
La Boheme
This show holds the absolute record for the most Tony Award wins in history, taking home 12 trophies in 2001
The Producers
The dark, twisted musical Sweeney Todd features a bloodthirsty barber who sets up his razor shop directly above a bakery on this London street
Fleet Street
Stephen Sondheim's 1981 musical about the reverse-chronological life of three creative friends famously closed after just 16 performances, though it later became a cult classic
Merrily We Roll Along
"With a bit of a mind, and a bit of a chic, and a bit of a boo-hoo-hoo" is an eccentric lyric sung by a character named Madame Thenardier in this show
Les Misérables
The long-running musical Cats is an adaptation of a whimsical 1939 poetry collection written by this legendary British poet
T.S. Eliot
She is the only actress in history to win six competitive Tony Awards for her performance in plays and musicals on Broadway
Audra McDonald
This 2019 Tony-winner Hadestown splits its mythical setting between a bleak, train-bound industrial underworld and this lush, surface-world Greek valley
Vale of Tempe
This 2008 musical adaptation of a hit comedy movie starring Reese Witherspoon managed to run on Broadway for over a year, but its West End counterpart shuttered early due to low ticket sales
Legally Blonde
This specific, multi-word astronomical phrase is repeated constantly by the narrator in the opening track of the 1967 tribal rock musical Hair
Age of Aquarius
The 2006 rock musical Spring Awakening is based on a highly controversial, heavily banned 1891 German play written by this dramatist
Frank Wedekind
This 2015 musical made history by featuring the first all-female writing team-Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron-to win the Tony for Best Original Score
Fun Home
The emotional musical Come from Away is set entirely in this small, remote Canadian island town following the airspace closures of September 11
Gander (Accept: Newfoundland)
This 1972 legendary Broadway bomb about the life of an infamous French queen closed on its very first night after being universally panned by critics
Marie Antoinette (Accept: Marie)
In the song "The Schmuel Song" from The Last Five Years, Jamie sings about a lonely tailor from this specific Ukrainian city who dreams of making a perfect dress
Klimovich
The tragic musical Miss Saigon relocates the plot of this classic opera from late 19th-century Japan to the Vietnam War
Madama Butterfly
This 1998 dynamic dance musical created by director-choreographer Bob Fosse won the Best Revival of a Musical Tony despite being a compilation of old choreography
Fosse
The 1993 Kander and Ebb musical Kiss of the Spider Woman takes place entirely inside a bleak, high-security prison located in this South Americam country
Argentina