Musical By Opening Night Cast
Leslie Odom Jr.
Phillipa Soo
Renee Elise Goldsberry
Jasmine Cephas Jones
Hamilton
Simba
Nala
Mufasa
Timon
Pumbaa
The Lion King
Good Morning, Baltimore
Hairspray
I am loath to tell people to mortgage their houses and lease their children to acquire tickets to a hit Broadway show. But “?,” directed by Thomas Kail and starring Mr. Miranda, might just about be worth it — at least to anyone who wants proof that the American musical is not only surviving but also evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive and transmogrify in years to come.
Hamilton
How many Von Trapp children are there? Name them. Bonus points if you name them in order.
Liesl
Fredrich
Louisa
Kurt
Brigitta
Marta
Gretl
Harvey Fierstein
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Laura Bell Bundy
Kerry Butler
Hairspray
Madeline Ashton
Helen Sharp
Ernest Menville
Viola Van Horn
Death Becomes Her
Omigod You Guys
Legally Blonde
Rejoice, my theatergoing comrades. The children’s revolution has arrived on these shores, and it is even more glorious than we were promised. Rush now, barricade stormers of culture, to the Shubert Theater, and join the insurrection against tyranny, television, illiteracy, unjust punishment and impoverished imaginations, led by a 5-year-old La Pasionaria with a poker face and an off-the-charts I.Q.
Matilda
Finish the Broadway lyric:
I'm coming, wait for me
I hear the walls repeating
The fallin' of my feet and
It sounds like ?
And I am not alone
I hear the ? and ?
Drummin', rocks, stones
Erika Henningsen
Taylor Louderman
Barrett Wilbert Weed
Grey Henson
Mean Girls
Natasha Rostova
Pierre Bezukhov
Anatoly Kuragin
Sonya Rostova
Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. (Great Comet is also acceptable)
Tulsa '67
The Outsiders
This is a show that turns an Ohio senior class in-crowd into a lineup of piñatas, waiting to be busted open. And when I say busted open, I am not speaking metaphorically.
Heathers
Which of these Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals has NOT gotten a film version?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Phantom of the Opera
Starlight Express
Starlight Express
Stephanie J. Block
Teal Wicks
Micaela Diamond
Jarrod Spector
The Cher Show
Nellie Forbush
Emile de Becque
Lt. Joseph Cable
Seabee Luther Billis
Bloody Mary
South Pacific
Fugue for Tinhorns
Guys and Dolls
If you have ever searched Times Square to find that vanished Broadway of lovable gangsters, wisecracking dolls and neon-splashed dawns, you must not miss the "?" that roared into the old neighborhood last night.
Guys and Dolls
Which of these Broadway divas has NOT played the role of The Witch in Into the Woods?
Bernadette Peters
Donna Murphy
Patina Miller
Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone
Barbra Streisand
Sydney Chaplin
Kay Medford
Jean Stapleton
Funny Girl
Rusty
Greaseball
Pearl the Observation Car
Dinah the Dining Car
Ashley the Smoking Car
Starlight Express
Not For The Life of Me
Thoroughly Modern Millie
This is to all the doubters and deniers out there, the ones who say that heaven on Broadway does not exist, that it’s only some myth our ancestors dreamed up. I am here to report that a newborn, old-fashioned, pleasure-giving musical has arrived at the Eugene O’Neill Theater, the kind our grandparents told us left them walking on air if not on water. So hie thee hence, nonbelievers (and believers too), to “?,” and feast upon its sweetness.
The Book of Mormon
Who is the famous songwriting duo behind such shows as Ragtime, Seussical, Once On This Island, and Anastasia?
Audra McDonald
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Marin Mazzie
Judy Kaye
Ragtime
Deloris VanCartier
Sister Mary Patrick
Sister Mary Francis
Sister Mary Lazarus
Sister Act
Just Another Day
Next to Normal
If you stroll down to the Richard Rodgers Theater, where the spirited musical “?” opened on Sunday night, you’ll discover a singular new sensation, Lin-Manuel Miranda, commanding the spotlight as if he were born in the wings.
In the Heights
What musical opened in 2013 and focused on 10 Texans who had to hold on to a vehicle for days on end.
Hands on a Hardbody
Maleah Joi Moon
Shoshana Bean
Brandon Victor Dixon
Kecia Lewis
Hell's Kitchen
Francesca Johnson
Robert Kincaid
Bud Johnson
Marge
Marion
The Bridges of Madison County
We Are What We Are
La Cage Aux Folles
For a show with a snarling title, “?” is surprisingly docile. This intimate, carefully tended new musical, which opened on Monday night at Second Stage Theater, takes on some of the nastier aspects of rowdy young servicemen stewing in testosterone, including a woman-humiliating ritual that gives the work its name.
Dogfight
What is the name of the railway cat, the cat of the railway train, in the musical Cats
Mungojerrie
Rumpleteazer
Skimbleshanks
Jennyanydots
Jellylorum
Skimbleshanks
Reeve Carney
Jennifer Damiano
Patrick Page
T.V. Carpio
Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark
Lieutenant Frank Cioffi
Niki Harris
Georgia Hendricks
Carmen Bernstein
Aaron Fox
Curtains
Prologue
West Side Story
If the lyrics were often little more than doggerel, and if the score often seemed the musical equivalent of doggerel...in a few of the supporting performances, in the scenery and lighting, and, every now and then, in a genuinely striking dramatic effect. But none of it added up to Victor Hugo.
Les Miserables
What is the name of the musical based on a popular Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore movie, with music and lyrics from the team that brought you Elf and The Prom, with songs like "Come Out of the Dumpster?"
The Wedding Singer
Patti LuPone
Mandy Patinkin
Bob Gunton
Evita
Lawrence Jameson
Freddy Benson
Christine Colgate
Muriel Eubanks
Inspector Andre Thibault
Jolene Oakes
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Statues and Stories
The Light in the Piazza
It seems safe to say that such a good time is being had by so many people (including the cast) at the Shubert Theater that this fitful, eager celebration of inanity will find a large and lucrative audience among those who value the virtues of shrewd idiocy, artful tackiness and wide-eyed impiety. That includes most school-age children as well as grown-ups who feel they are never more themselves than when they are in touch with the nerdy, nose-thumbing 12-year-olds who reside within.
Spamalot
In the musical Heathers, what are Heather Chandler's last words?
Corn nuts
Jessica Vosk
Kelli Barrett
Beaches the Musical
Clara
Giorgio
Fosca
Colonel Ricci
Doctor Tambourri
Passion
The Old Red Hills of Home
Parade
First: Bring earplugs.
Not just because the songs in “?,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that opened on Thursday at the Imperial Theater, are so crushingly loud. The dialogue, too, would benefit from inaudibility.
For that matter, bring eye plugs: The sets and costumes are as loud as the songs. If there were such a thing as soul plugs, I’d recommend them as well.
Bad Cinderella
DAILY TRIPLE:
Name all the colors of Joseph's dreamcoat in order
It was red and yellow and green and brown
And scarlet and black and ochre and peach
And ruby and olive and violet and fawn
And lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve
And cream and crimson and silver and rose
And azure and lemon and russet and grey
And purple and white and pink and orange
And red and yellow and green and brown and blue