Musical Theatre
This iconic Broadway belter, known as the First Lady of Musical Comedy, originated the roles of Mama Rose in Gypsy and Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun among others.
Who is Ethel Merman?
This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is the longest-running Tony Award winner on Broadway, in production since 1988.
What is Phantom of the Opera?
This Puerto Rican actress, whose career spans eight decades, was the first Latina to have achieved EGOT status.
Who is Rita Moreno?
This popular Kander and Ebb musical is based on the much-less-well-known play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten.
What is Cabaret?
These intermission-free plays are often performed at fringe festivals and for high school competitions.
What are one-act plays?
This duo is considered the most important musical theatre partnership of the 20th century, creating hits like State Fair, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.
Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?
This Tony-winning musical was co-written by Frozen songwriter Robert Lopez and Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park.
What is The Book of Mormon?
Lin Manuel Miranda, Ben Platt, and Hugh Jackman are all lacking only this award for achieving EGOT status.
What is the Oscar/Academy Award?
While The Lion King is the most iconic Disney stage adaptation, this was the first Disney musical to make it from film to Broadway.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
This is the longest of Shakespeare's plays, with the uncut original clocking in at over 4 hours. The title character's role alone would take nearly 90 minutes to perform!
What is Hamlet?
The most expensive Broadway flop of all time lost $60 million dollars and featured this superhero.
Who is Spider-Man? (in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark)
This musical, which won a record-breaking 12 Tony awards in 2001, was based on a 1967 film and was then adapted into a musical film in 2005.
What is The Producers?
Robert Lopez, the only double-EGOT holder, won his first award for this Broadway musical described as an adult parody of Sesame Street.
What is Avenue Q?
The student-written musical parody of this book series became a viral YouTube sensation and propelled Darren Criss to fame.
What is Harry Potter?
This 60s rock musical was widely protested for its portrayal of drug use, free love and nudity, and its anti-war stance.
What is Hair?
This song, performed by Lafayette in Hamilton, is considered the fastest song in Broadway history, with the performer rapping at approximately 6.3 words per second.
What is "Guns and Ships?"
This musical loosely based on Puccini's La Bohème won its creator a posthumous Tony award in 1996.
What is Rent?
This film director finally achieved EGOT status in 2026 with his Grammy win for Best Music Film with Music by John Williams. He had already won 13 Emmys, 3 Oscars, and a Tony Award.
Who is Steven Spielberg?
This horror musical based on a Stephen King novel was a notorious flop, closing on Broadway after only 5 performances.
What is Carrie/Carrie: The Musical?
This orchestral piece, common in musicals from the Golden Age, is played prior to the start of a show to set the mood and transition the audience into the story.
What is the overture?
A musical that uses previously released popular songs instead of an original score is known as this.
What is a jukebox musical?
This musical won Lin-Manuel Miranda his first Tony Award in 2008, 8 years before his win for Hamilton.
What is In the Heights?
This musical legend achieved his EGOT status simultaneously with Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice with their Emmy win for Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert.
Who is John Legend?
Rosenkranz and Guildenstern Are Dead uses two minor characters to reimagine this theatre classic.
What is Hamlet?
The longest-running play in history, this Agatha Christie whodunit has been running continuously since 1952 and has had more than 30,000 performances.
What is The Mousetrap?