Guess That Musical
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✨Broadway✨
Plays
Final Jeopardy
100
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What show is this from?
Mean Girls
100
What does a mystery play typically contain?
Biblical stories, lessons, etc.
100
All featuring in the new Broadway jukebox musical "& Juliet", the songs "Stronger", "Overprotected", and "...Baby One More Time", were all originally performed by which pop star and icon of the 1990s?
Britney Spears
100
This Shakespeare classic is a constant source of inspiration for contemporary works, containing the famous "balcony scene."
Romeo and Juliet
200
Although John Williams is known for writing original film scores (like Star Wars), he also won an Oscar for adapting the score in the 1971 film version of what Broadway musical that's set in a shtetl?
Fiddler on the Roof
200
Shakespeare's work is often structured in what rhythmic pattern of ten syllables alternating between stressed and unstressed?
(da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM)
Iambic Pentameter
200
The TKTS booth in Times Square, which has been around since 1973, offers what?
Discount theatre tickets
200
Currently running on Broadway, this play occurs nineteen years after and serves as the sequel to J.K. Rowling's The Deathly Hallows.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
300
With songs like "One" and "What I Did for Love," what classic 1970s musical centers around Broadway dancers auditioning for eight spots in a stage show?
A Chorus Line
300
As legend goes, this Grecian was the first to step out of the Greek chorus and recite portions of text alone, thus becoming the first actor.
Thespis
300
Which of these Musicals premiered first? Les Misérables, Hamilton, Oliver!, or West Side Story?
West Side Story (1957), Oliver! (1960), Les Mis (1987), Hamilton (2015)
300
Which Shakespeare classic does the line "To be or not to be" come from?
Hamlet
400
The antics of sailors who have 24 hours of shore leave in New York City are the premise for what classic 1940s Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein?
On the Town
400
Describe the mannerisms/personality of one of these commedia dell'arte characters:
Capitano, Pantalone, Dottore, Arlecchino, Pulcinella, Brighella, Innamorati
400
What is the minimum number of seats that a venue in the Theater District must have in order to be considered a "Broadway" theater, rather than "Off-Broadway"?
500 Seats
400
An absurdist play in which two guys sit on a bench and wait for a man for two acts.
Waiting for Godot
500
The first words in this show are "Good news! She's dead!"
Wicked
500
The wigs in Bunraku (traditional Japanese puppet theatre) are called what?
Katsura, Kazura, Spaghetti, or Kabuki?
Kazura
500
List 4 of the ten longest running shows on Broadway.
The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, Cats, Les Mis, A Chorus Line, Oh Calcutta!, Mamma Mia!, Beauty and the Beast
500
This groundbreaking 1960 play by Lorraine Hansberry was the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
A Raisin in the Sun
500
Name as many plays from August Wilson's century cycle as you can (100 pts per play).
1. Fences
2. Jitney
3. The piano lesson
4. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
5. Joe Turners Come and Gone
6. Gem of the Ocean
7. Seven Guitars
8. Radio Golf
9. Two Trains Running
10. King Headly II