History and Politics
This Broadway musical started as a student production.
What is In The Heights?
This term refers to a musical figure (sometimes a rhythm, sometimes a melody and a rhythm) repeated over and over, usually as an accompaniment.
What is ostinato?
Hamilton is based on this book by this author.
What is a biography on the first Secretary of the Treasury and who is Ron Chernow?
The "Unlimited Motive" is a musical quotation of this song.
This person works closely with the choreographer and arranges the music either to enhance the dancers' movements or make sure that the dance sequences and the musical scores are compatible.
Who is the dance arranger?
Dr. Dillamond is a physical representation of this term.
What is a scapegoat?
The insult "whatever the hell it is you do in Monticello" is found in this song and directed at this character?
What is "Cabinet Battle #1" and who is Thomas Jefferson?
This person composed the music, wrote the lyrics, and wrote the book for Hamilton.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
This song alludes to Eminem's battle raps.
What is "Cabinet Battle #1"?
This historical figure's son died in a duel, he was born in the Caribbean out of wedlock, and he was one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What is the first Secretary of the Treasury?
This instrument appears in "You'll Be Back" to communicate the singing character's historical period and socio-political class.
What is a harpsichord?
This served as inspiration for Gregory Maguire to name his character Elphaba.
What is the initials of the author of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
The Schuyler Sisters are modeled after this musical performance tradition.
What is girl groups in U.S. popular music?
Using the word "Moses" to refer to "Harriet Tubman" or the word "shot" to convey multiple meanings (as in "My Shot") is an example of this term.
What is signifying?
This term refers to the study of the ways in which history is written and the perspectives from which historical facts are asserted.
What is historiography?
The banjo, elements of Tin-Pan Alley, jazz, and R & B are found in this song.
What is "The Room Where It Happens"?
The below options reflect ways Wicked is connected to this source material:
- Showing the origin story for the Scarecrow
- Musical quotations
- Visual imagery reflecting key symbols
What is the 1939 Wizard of Oz film?
This song contains an allusion to Jay-Z.
What is "The Schuyler Sisters"?
What is "Shipoopi"?
This political system is defined by a focus on a single, all-powerful leader and that individual's enablers, dependent on propaganda, and stifles freedom of speech.
What is fascism?
These quotations and allusions to songs or motives heard elsewhere in the musical appear in "Defying Gravity." (List at least two)
What are the "unlimited motive," "The Wizard and I" melody, quotations from "What is this Feeling," and "No One Mourns the Wicked"?
This person composed the music for Wicked.
Who is Stephen Schwartz?
This song alludes to both the Bible and a hit song by the Notorious B.I.G.
What is "Ten Duel Commandments"?
"Dancing Through Life" is sung by this character in this musical.
Who is Fiyero and what is Wicked?