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200

All 14 Broadway theatres shut down on March 12, 2020 because of this

COVID-19/Coronavirus

200

He created In the Heights and Hamilton

Lin Manuel Miranda

200

Taylor Swift played Bombalurina in the 2019 movie adaptation of this musical

Cats

200

The musical Six is a retelling of the wives of this king

Henry 8

200
An actor might use this in a scene to clean the floor

Prop mop

400

Rodgers and Hammerstein ushered in the book musical with this musical

Oklahoma

400

Arthur Miller based this play off the McCarthy hearings, substituting witches for communists

The Crucible

400

The Lion King is a re-telling of this Shakespeare play

Hamlet

400

Arr, the musical Blackbeard is about a notorious one of these

Pirate

400

A rodent running loose in the audience might be called this

House mouse

600

He's the Greek god of theatre...also wine and debauchery 

Dionysus

600

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf has a couple hosting an ill-fated this

Dinner party

600

Then-Vice President Pence made headlines when he attended a performance of this hit musical

Hamilton

600

The musical about this real event includes songs like "I Must Get on That Ship" and "To The Lifeboats"

Titanic

600

A unit of action in a play that doesn't have any bad words in it might be called this

Clean scene

800

This award for achievement in Broadway theatre was first given in 1947

Tony Award

800

He stabbed his own eyes out after he found out he murdered his father and married his mother

Oedipus

800

This hit Netflix series was adapted into a play, subtitled The First Shadow, in 2023

Stranger Things
800

The musical 1776 dramatizes events leading up to the signing of this

Declaration of Independence

800

Add some light to the area where the orchestra plays and you'll have this

Lit pit

1000
He described a formula for good drama, which includes a fatal flaw that leads to a downfall

Aristotle

1000

Rajiv Joseph wrote this play, about two childhood friends who experience the brutality of love

Gruesome Playground Injuries

1000
This former First Lady and theatre fan was a producer for the 2024 Broadway musical Suffs, about the fight for women's suffrage

Hillary Clinton

1000

Peter Morgan wrote a play about this former President's dramatic interview with David Frost about the Watergate scandal

Richard Nixon

1000

Your show will probably get these if not many critics come to see it

Few reviews