Musicals
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Terms
History
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This musical started as a movie featuring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross
What is the Wiz?
100
This play is often cited as the greatest love story ever told
What is Romeo & Juliet?
100
Referred to as the greatest award in American Theatre
What is the Tony?
100
This is the term for the person in charge of a production: blocking, casting, and overall vision.
What is the director?
100
The first actor, where the term Thespian comes from
Who is Thespis?
200
This musical is based on the opera "La Boheme"
What is Rent?
200
This play that premiered in 1959 takes its title from Langston Hughes' "A Dream Deferred"
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
200
This is the UK equivalent of the Tony
What is the Olivier award?
200
This is creating a scene and acting without the use of words.
What is pantomime?
200
The most famous playwright
Who is Shakespeare?
300
This is the longest running Disney musical
What is Lion King?
300
In this play said to be the greatest revenge play, a mother kills her own children to spurn her husband
What is Medea?
300
This is when an individual wins the American awards for music, television, movies, and theatre.
What is an EGOT?
300
This is the term for a door put into the stage that leads to underneath the stage
What is a trap?
300
This composer was one of the first people to write an opera in German
Who is Mozart?
400
This winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical was based on the book 'Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'
What is A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder?
400
This play about the Salem Witch Trials is actually a thinly-veiled critique of McCarthyism
What is The Crucible?
400
This musical has the most Tony nominations of any show in history
What is Hamilton?
400
This is term for when the stage is angled
What is raked?
400
The Greeks performed in this type of theatre
What is an amphitheatre?
500
This ensemble musical is said to have began the workshopping process
What is A Chorus Line?
500
This play has the most Tony Awards
What is the Coast of Utopia?
500
This is a French equivilent of a Tony?
What is a Moliere?
500
Plays in the Middle Ages were mainly about this historical characer
Who is Jesus?
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