MUSICALS
DANCE NUMBERS
PEOPLE IN THE BIZ
RECORD BREAKERS
NAME THAT TUNE
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This 1977 Tony winner, based on a comic strip, features a red-headed orphan girl in the Great Depression searching to find her parents.
What is Annie
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Found midway through Newsies, this iconic dance number has actors using slips of newspaper to add extra slide to their step.
What is 'Seize the Day'
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This high-flying Tony Award winning actress recently sang the voice of Elsa in the movie Frozen. At the Oscars, her name was mispronounced "Adele Dezeem" by John Travolta.
Who is Idina Menzel
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This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, currently running at the Majestic Theatre, ran over 10,000 performances as of 2014, making it the longest running musical on Broadway
What is The Phantom of the Opera
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Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.
Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.
How do you measure, measure a year?
What is Seasons of Love from "RENT"
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Winner of the 1965 Tony Award for Best Musical, this show is based on Shalom Aleichem's "Tevye and His Daughters".
What is Fiddler on the Roof
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An exciting romp with chimney sweeps, this energetic dance number takes place in late Act 2 of Disney's Mary Poppins.
What is 'Step in Time'
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This actor, rapper, composer, playwright, and producer created and starred in one of the biggest modern Broadway hits- a fresh take on the story of America's founding told through rap and hip hop.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda
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This Kander and Ebb musical, running over 7200 performances since 1997, is the longest running American Musical and the longest running musical revival on Broadway
What is Chicago
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I'm not a loser, I don't secretly hate myself. I'm not singing this to no one. It's not the case that no one cares. I'm not a failure, I don't not have talent. When others see me they can't see the nobody that isn't there.
I'm Not a Loser from 'The Spongebob Squarepants, the New Musical'
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The image above is from this musical.
What is Miss Saigon.
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Used as a way to establish the relationship between two rival gangs, West Side Story opens with this tense, story-filled dance number.
What is 'Prologue'
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This multi-Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter won a Tony for Best Score last year for the musical "Kinky Boots", making her the first female composer/lyricist to win a Tony for Best Original Score solo.
Who is Cyndi Lauper
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This Mel Brooks musical garnered the most Tony Awards (12) and the most nominations (15) in Broadway history.
What is The Producers
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Everything has its season, Everything has its time. Show me a reason and I'll soon show you a rhyme. Cats fit on the windowsill, Children fit in the snow Why do I feel I don't fit in anywhere I go? Rivers belong where they can ramble, Eagles belong where they can fly. I've got to be where my spirit can run free. Got to find my corner of the sky!
Corner of the Sky from 'Pippin'
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Appearing on Broadway in 2016, this musical is the first to have an all-female creative team (writer, composer, director, and choreographer).
What is Waitress
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This opening number to 'A Chorus Line' uses an open dance audition to establish the characters and the stakes of the scene.
What is 'I Hope I Get It'
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This composer, nominated tonight for "Aladdin", has won eight Oscars for scoring Disney animated musicals.
Who is Alan Menken
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This composer won eight Tony awards, the most a composer has ever won.
Who is Stephen Sondheim
400
I've heard of evil in the world, but you and I are flesh and blood. He was just a baby. He was my son. There goes our chance for happiness, and all our hopes and dreams. I'll never get to see his face, or know the boy he'd be.
Heartbreaker from "Bright Star"
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This 2012 Tony Award winning musical, based on the 2007 movie of the same name, tells the story of an Irish and Czech musician falling in love in Dublin. The entire cast of this musical also plays at least one instrument in the show.
What is Once
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This is one of the incredible dance numbers found throughout Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit show Cats, taking place when a magician cat uses his magic to rescue Old Deuteronomy.
What is 'Magical Mr. Mistoffellees'
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This actress, nominated tonight for "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grille," has won five Tony Awards. The only other two actresses to have achieved this accomplishment were Angela Lansbury and the late Julie Harris.
Who is Audra McDonald
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Earning close to to $1.4 billion in the 20 years it has played on Broadway, this musical is the highest-grossing musical of all time.
What is The Lion King
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Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water, so they say
Their subsequent fall was inevitable
They never stood a chance, they were written that way.
Innocent victims of their story.
Like Romeo and Juliet
T'was written in the stars before they even met
That love and fate, and a touch of stupidity
Would rob them of their hope of living happily
The endings are often a little bit gory
What is "Naughty" from Matilda