Composers
Musicals
Songs
Miscellaneous
100

This is the composer of Fun Home.

Who is Jeanine Tesori?

100

This historically inaccurate musical was written by Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields.

What is Annie Get Your Gun?

100

This Cole Porter song starts with the lyric "Birds Do it".

What is "Let's fall in love"?

100

This is a collection of music publishers that dominated the musical theatre market in New York City in the 20s.

What is Tin Pan Alley?

200

This is the writing team that created My Fair LadyCamelot, and Brigadoon.

Who are Lerner and Loewe?

200

This 1957 musical is the first major musical that took the "Dream Ballet" idea from Oklahoma of using dance to move the plot forward and incorporated that throughout the show.

What is West Side Story?

200

This signature song from Showboat is sung by Julie, which surprises Queenie who has never heard the song sung by a white person before.

What is "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"?

200

This was the most famous performer during the early to mid-1900s, with all major composers clamoring to write songs for her. 

Who is Ethel Merman?

300

This is the composer of Showboat.

Who is Jerome Kern?

300

This musical/opera, composed by George Gershwin, is about a disabled black street beggar living in Charleston.

What is Porgy and Bess?

300

This is the main "I want" song from from My Fair Lady, in which Eliza Doolittle sings about wishing more a more comfortable life that includes comfy chairs and chocolates.

What is "Wouldn't it be Loverly"?

300

This genre of music, pioneered by BB King, is the most immediate predecessor to rock 'n' roll.

What is R&B?

400

This is the writing team that wrote The Boys of Syracuse, On Your Toes, a Connecticut Yankee, and Pal Joey.

Who are Rodgers and Hart?

400

This musical was composed by Galt MacDermot and started at the Public, eventually moving to Broadway in 1968.

What is Hair?

400

This is Stephen Sondheim's most famous song, starting with the lyric "Isn't it rich? Are we a pair?"

What is "Send in the Clowns"?

400

This predecessor to Broadway musicals was started at the Bowery Theatre in the mid-1800s and includes frequent use of blackface, championing performers such as Thomas Dartmouth Rice.

What are minstrel shows?