Name that Person
Pt. 2
Pt. 2
She is often under-credited as simply Bob Fosse's "muse" rather than his collaborator.
Who was Gwen Verdon?
The name for the invisible separation between stage and audience.
What is the fourth wall?
Oklahoma!
Who is Curly?
Georges Seurat prioritizes his work over his personal life while, a century later, his great-grandson cannot connect with his work.
What is Sunday in the Park with George?
She choreographed Oklahoma and helped integrate dance and dramatic action.
Who was Agnes de Mille?
The device used in Sweeney Todd and Hamilton wherein the ensemble tells you what's going to happen in the opening number.
What is omniscient narration?
Urinetown
Who is Bobby Strong?
A Black girl-group similar to The Supremes achieves great professional success while dealing with heartache and struggles in their personal lives.
What is Dreamgirls?
Her compositions include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek, Kimberly Akimbo, and Fun Home.
Who is Jeanine Tesori?
This is the most important word (according to Brad) in the song "Losing my Mind" from the musical Follies.
What is "to?"
Dreamgirls
Who is Effie White?
A group of Broadway dancers audition for a new production while the director/choreographer asks them highly inappropriate questions in order to get to know them.
What is A Chorus Line?
He was a jazz musician who wrote the music for 1921's Shuffle Along.
Who was Eubie Blake?
Blackface performance was a convention of this first truly American "art form."
What is minstrelsy?
The Wiz
Who is Dorothy?
A group of 9 people from the same "neighborhood" sing songs by Lieber and Stoller that relate to their relationships.
What is Smokey Joe's Cafe?
He wrote Jelly's Last Jam and The Colored Museum, and directed bring in da noise bring in da funk and Angels in America, among other works.
Who is George C Wolfe?
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is an example of this type of song that repeats 8-ish bars with minor musical variations three separate times, with another 8-ish bars that do something completely different in the middle.
What is AABA?
The King & I
Anna Leonowens
A couple experiences their relationship from meeting to divorce with one party moving forward in time and the other moving backward.
What is The Last 5 Years?