Musicals
This musical is a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet with rival gangs and includes the song "Tonight"
What is West Side Story?
This composer is known for ambivalence, complex music, complex lyrics, and weird topics for shows such as a barber who murders people and makes them into meat pies.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
This was the period of economic instability in the 1930s which caused many composers to move to Hollywood.
What is the Great Depression?
Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Miss Saigon, Les Mis, Chess, and Starlight Express are all examples of what trend that ran through the 80s?
What are megamusicals?
This musical is considered the starting point of the Golden Age and the first integrated musical.
What is Oklahoma?
This composer wrote "On the Town" and "West Side Story" and was also the first American conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
This war in the late 1910's was initiated by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War 1?
This Broadway predecessor is similar to vaudeville, but the variety acts are united by a shared theme.
What are revues?
This 1960s musical is based on the legend of King Arthur and includes the song "If Ever I Would Leave You."
What is Camelot?
This composer collaborated with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein.
Who is Richard Rodgers?
This book is considered the launching off point of Second Wave Feminism.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
This was the director of Lion King on Broadway.
Who is Julie Taymour?
This 1930s musical addresses the contemporary (at the time) issue of unionization.
What is Cradle Will Rock?
This composer wears his wife's deodorant.
Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
This president was controversial for spying on his Democratic opponents, delaying getting out of Vietnam, and invading Cambodia.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This early style of jazz is most commonly associated with New Orleans and predates even ragtime.
What is Dixieland?
This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, whose title is also the name of a musical tempo, is considered by some to be the first concept musical.
What is Allegro?
This is the composer of Hair.
Who is Galt MacDermot?
World War II officially became a war in 1939 when this event happened.
What is Germany invading Poland?
Disney, Livent, Sony, and Dreamworks are all examples of which way to fund musicals in the 90s and 2000s when individual investors became insufficient.
What is corporate funding?