Musicals
This musical roared its way onto Broadway in 1997 and became the highest-earning Broadway show of all time
The Lion King
Shakespeare used this meter for his verse
On the outside always looking in/Will I ever be more than I've ever been?
Dear Evan Hansen
Don't say the name of this Shakespeare play in a theatre
Team pink or team green? These unlikely friends have been charming Broadway audiences since 2003
Galinda/Glinda and Elphaba
Of Newsies, Carousel, and The Sound of Music, it's the one not based on real events
The movement of actors in a scene is called this
Blocking
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes/How do you measure a year in the life?
It's bad luck to say 'good luck' before a show, so instead we use this 3-word phrase to wish actors a good show
Break a leg
Mismatched missionaries Elder Price and Elder Cunningham lead this musical from the creators of South Park
Book of Mormon
In 2004, Avenue Q beat this gravity-defying musical for the Tony Award
This is the term for the frame surrounding a traditional theatre stage
Proscenium
I'm lookin for a mind at work
Hamilton
It's considered back luck to give an actor these before a show, but after the show is perfectly acceptable
Flowers
This playwright gave us romantic duos like Petruchio and Kate, Benedick and Beatrice, and the famous star-crossed lovers
In 2016, this musical broke the record for most Tony Award nominations by a single production
This type of theatre space usually has audience on 3 sides of the stage
Step into my candy store/Time for you to prove you're not a loser anymore
Heathers
According to the old superstition, a bad this means a show will have a good opening night
Seymour and Audrey are the unlikely romantic duo anchoring this hit musical
Little Shop of Horrors
A Broadway musical based on this superhero lost an estimated $60 million, one of the largest flops in history
Do you know all your lines? You can say you are this
Off book
Welcome to the show/To the historemix/Switching up the flow/As we add the prefix
Supposedly born from the method stagehands once used to cue each other to lift heavy scenery, it's considered back luck to do this in a theatre
Tracy and Penny are two of the "nicest kids in town" in this 2002 musical
Hairspray