Composers
This is the composer of Fun Home.
Who is Jeanine Tesori?
This historically inaccurate musical was written by Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields.
What is Annie Get Your Gun?
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"?
This is the most common song form of Golden Age musical theatre songs.
What is AABA?
This is the composer of West Side Story and Candide.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
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?
This signature song from Showboat is sung by Julie, which surprises Queenie who has heard the song elsewhere.
What is "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"?
This is the decade of the Great Depression and many Broadway composers moving to Hollywood.
What is the 1930s?
This is the composer of Showboat.
Who is Jerome Kern?
This musical/opera, composed by George Gershwin, is about a disabled black street beggar living in Charleston.
What is Porgy and Bess?
This Cole Porter song starts with the lyric "Birds Do it".
What is "Let's fall in love"?
This predecessor to Broadway musicals is the origin of 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?
This is the writing team that created My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Brigadoon.
Who are Lerner and Loewe?
This musical was composed by Galt MacDermot and started at the Public, eventually moving to Broadway in 1968.
What is Hair?
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"?
This genre of music, pioneered by BB King, is the most immediate predecessor to rock 'n' roll.
What is R&B?
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?
This Stephen Sondheim musical includes an all-Asian cast as fell as Sondheim's personal favorite of his songs, "Someone in a Tree."
What is Pacific Overtures?
This duet between Nellie and Emile in South Pacific uses underscoring to show their underlying affection towards one another, even if on stage their blocking is very minimal.
What is "Twin Soliloquies"?
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?