Style
"Out, Out, Damned Spot"
"Let's Get Physical"
Musicals
Tony Awards
100
The pretty boy of Restoration Theatre
What is a Fop?
100
Hamlet knew him, well.
Who is Yorick?
100
An audience on three sides.
What is thrust stage?
100
A decidedly American arts option that held sway from the 1880's to the 1940's.
What is Vaudeville?
100
It won best musical in 1988 and you can still see it.
What is "Phantom"?
200
Waiting for Godot, The Bald Soprano, et al
What is Theatre of the Absurd?
200
"Lend Me Your Ears"
What is Julius Ceasar"?
200
Where the audience sits.
What is house?
200
The first book musical.
What is "Showboat"?
200
When it comes to hosting the Tony's, she is the "The Hostess with the Mostess".
Who is Angela Lansbury?
300
Seven doors and a laugh
What is Farce?
300
He tells Macduff to lay on.
Who is Macbeth?
300
All upstage measurements are taken from this invisible line.
What is plaster line?
300
She was Nellie Forbush, Maria von Trapp and Peter Pan.
Who is Mary Martin?
300
This director has won more Tony's than anyone.
Who is Hal Prince?
400
You will meet Arlecchino, Pulcinella and Colombina
What is "Commedia dell'arte"?
400
They are dead.
Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
400
Anything in the audience area (sometimes the ushers and box office staff as well)
What is Front of House?
400
The first musical to use dance to further the plot.
What is "Oklahoma"?
400
He is the only director to win a Tony, Oscar and an Emmy in the same year.
Who is Bob Fosse (in 1977). "Pippin", "Cabaret" and "Liza with a Z".
500
is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete, and possesses magnitude; in language made pleasurable, each of its species separated in different parts; performed by actors, not through narration; effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions.
What is Greek Tragedy?
500
The Sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet" was based on this play.
What is "The Tempest"?
500
An entry way to the stage underneath the audience's seats.
What is a Vom or vomitorium?
500
The only musical theatre performer to have a statue in Times Square.
Who is George M. Cohan?
500
The 1978 Tony Award for best play. It also has the shortest title in Tony history.
What is "Da"?
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