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This 2017 Tony-winning musical tells the true story of 7,000 stranded airline passengers in Newfoundland after 9/11.

What is Come from Away

100

This comedy hit, subtitled “the funniest play Broadway has ever seen,” follows a disastrous amateur production where everything that can go wrong does.

What is The Play That Goes Wrong?

100
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
100
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
100
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"
200
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
200

This play adaptation of the popular novel tells the story of a young girl growing up in Maycomb, Alabama, and was adapted for Broadway by Aaron Sorkin in 2018.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

200
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
200
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
200
Mama who bore me, Mama who gave me, No way to handle things who made me so sad. Mama, the weeping, Mama, the angels, No sleep in Heaven Or Bethlehem
What is "Mama Who Bore Me" from Spring Awakening
300
Duncan Sheik won two Tony Awards for composing and orchestrating this musical, based on the banned German play of the same name by Frank Wedekind. Florida Players recently produced this show on campus.
What is Spring Awakening
300

This 1959 drama by Lorraine Hansberry was the first play by an African-American woman produced on Broadway, following the Younger family as they pursue their dreams in Chicago.

What is A Raisin in the Sun

300

This actress won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton.

Who is Renée Elise Goldsberry 

300

This Stephen Schwartz mega-musical became the second-highest grossing show in Broadway history, sitting just behind The Lion King.

What is Wicked

300

There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone. Here they talked of revolution. Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about 'tomorrow'. And tomorrow never came.

What is 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables' from Les Misérables 

400

This musical, adapted from a classic film, asks the audience to “close their eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams.”

What is Phantom of the Opera

400

This play, which premiered in London in 2016, is performed in two parts and won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play.

What is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

400
This composer, nominated tonight for "Aladdin", has won eight Oscars for scoring Disney animated musicals.
Who is Alan Menken
400
This composer won eight Tony awards, the most a composer has ever won.
Who is Stephen Sondheim
400

Maybe this time I’ll be lucky, maybe this time he’ll stay. Maybe this time, for the first time, love won’t hurry away. He will hold me fast, I’ll be home at last, not a loser anymore, like the last time and the time before.

What is 'Maybe this Time' from Cabaret

500

This contemporary musical features the songs “Requiem,” “Sincerely, Me,” and “You Will Be Found.” It won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical.

What is Dear Evan Hansen

500

This Edward Albee play from 1962 introduces George and Martha, a volatile middle-aged couple who invite younger guests into their home for a night of psychological mind games and emotional warfare.

What is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

500

This actress made her Broadway debut at 18 as Kim in Miss Saigon, earning a Tony Award. She later provided the singing voices for both Jasmine in Aladdin and Mulan in Disney’s animated films, becoming the first Asian woman to win a Tony Award.

Who is Lea Salonga

500

This musical won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in 2021.

What is Moulin Rouge

500
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