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Musical Theater

Musical Theater 2025-06-12 (Season 41)

BROADWAY CAST ALBUMS

In 2024, 21 years after it was first released, the original cast album for this show made the Top 40 for the first time

Musical Theater 2025-05-13 (Season 41)

BROADWAY PREMIERES

To avoid licensing fees, this play used bits of "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" in place of the Disney tune that inspired its title

Musical Theater 2024-10-28 (Season 41)

STAGE MUSICAL SETTINGS

Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place

Musical Theater 2022-11-22 (Season 39)

MUSICAL THEATER

The pair at the center of tumult in this long-running show were originally to be a Jewish girl & a Catholic boy

Musical Theater 2022-07-11 (Season 38)

MUSICAL THEATER

It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina

Musical Theater 2022-04-29 (Season 38)

MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS

"Tuileries" & "The Great Gate of Kiev" were 2 of the artworks that inspired this classical work completed in 1874

Musical Theater 2022-03-08 (Season 38)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

Characters Mark, Roger & Maureen in this musical were inspired by Marcello, Rodolfo & Musetta in another work

Musical Theater 2022-01-11 (Season 38)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name

Musical Theater 2021-03-18 (Season 37)

BROADWAY ROLES

Of the more than 15 actors to play the lead in this musical, Howard McGillin holds the record with over 2,500 performances

Musical Theater 2021-01-07 (Season 37)

MUSICALS

4 songs from this 1968 musical made the Billboard Top 10, including one with an astrological theme that was No. 1 for 6 weeks

Musical Theater 2020-12-11 (Season 37)

BROADWAY REVIVALS

Ads for the 2020 revival of this musical said, "Something's coming. Something good"; a new movie version is also coming

Musical Theater 2020-11-20 (Season 37)

MUSICAL THEATER

The word "Practical" was dropped from the title of this hit musical not long before it premiered in 1981 on London's West End

Musical Theater 2020-03-16 (Season 36)

MOVIE MUSICALS

Water pressure issues in Culver City, home to MGM, impacted the filming of an iconic scene in this 1952 movie musical

Musical Theater 2019-07-04 (Season 35)

ON BROADWAY

This play opens in Vienna in 1823, 32 years after the death of its title character

Musical Theater 2019-02-19 (Season 35)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

The title of this musical that opened in 1956 came from the last line of a nursery rhyme about a structure that spanned the Thames

Musical Theater 2019-01-21 (Season 35)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

Premiering in 2005, its story is divided into spring, summer, fall & winter, each narrated by one of the 4 male leads

Musical Theater 2018-10-11 (Season 35)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

The title of this 1947 Lerner & Loewe musical may come from the construction seen here

Musical Theater 2018-03-28 (Season 34)

MUSICAL THEATER

This show has songs that weren't in the 1992 film it's based on, like "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" & "How Will I Know"

Musical Theater 2017-12-29 (Season 34)

BROADWAY

Following a show's success in 2011, this group began advertising, "You've seen the play... now read the book"

Musical Theater 2017-03-30 (Season 33)

MUSICAL THEATRE

One of the world's longest-running musicals, in 2015 it celebrated "30 years of revolution!"

Musical Theater 2015-12-03 (Season 32)

SONGS FROM MUSICALS

This song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was once simply titled "First Singing Lesson"

Musical Theater 2015-01-13 (Season 31)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

"Iowa Stubborn" was the second song heard in this show when it opened on Broadway in 1957

Musical Theater 2014-09-17 (Season 31)

MUSICAL THEATER

In "Godspell" this character leads the company in singing, "Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord"

Musical Theater 2014-06-23 (Season 30)

BROADWAY

In 2013 this musical based on a movie became the first show to gross $1 billion on Broadway

Musical Theater 2014-01-06 (Season 30)

BROADWAY ACTRESSES

She originated 2 famous Broadway roles: one later played on film by Marilyn Monroe, another by Barbra Streisand

Musical Theater 2013-04-05 (Season 29)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

The last song in this musical is "Tomorrow Is A Latter Day"

Musical Theater 2013-01-25 (Season 29)

MUSICAL THEATRE

Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was "The Luckiest People"

Musical Theater 2012-11-05 (Season 29)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history

Musical Theater 2012-03-08 (Season 28)

TONY-WINNING MUSICALS

These 2 back-to-back Tony winners for Best Musical (1987 & 1988) were both set in Paris

Musical Theater 2010-11-26 (Season 27)

MUSICAL THEATER

The basis of this show that won a Best Musical Tony & a Pulitzer was a collection of stories that won the Pulitzer in 1948

Musical Theater 2010-10-05 (Season 27)

BROADWAY STARS

In 1955 she became the first & so far only actress to win a Tony for playing a male role in a musical

Musical Theater 2010-09-13 (Season 27)

MUSICAL THEATER

A Hollywood venue was renovated & renamed the Aquarius Theater to host this musical in 1968

Musical Theater 2009-01-28 (Season 25)

MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS

The libretto for Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" was based on this epic English poem

Musical Theater 2009-01-08 (Season 25)

MUSICAL THEATRE

It opens with a widow & her son arriving by boat from Singapore to accept a job that pays 20 pounds a month

Musical Theater 2008-12-11 (Season 25)

MUSICAL THEATER

The set for this 1878 work was a reproduction of the quarterdeck of Lord Nelson's flagship

Musical Theater 2008-10-15 (Season 25)

MUSICALS

Profession of the title character of "Little Johnny Jones", featuring the song "The Yankee Doodle Boy"

Musical Theater 2007-11-01 (Season 24)

MUSICAL THEATER

He's the only songwriter to have Broadway premieres in every decade from the '50s to the present; his first was in 1957

Musical Theater 2007-10-18 (Season 24)

BROADWAY

The original 1994 Broadway cast of this musical based on a film featured Alan Oppenheimer as Cecil B. DeMille

Musical Theater 2006-12-29 (Season 23)

BROADWAY

In 2006 this show based on a 1911 work became the longest-running show in Broadway history

Musical Theater 2006-10-16 (Season 23)

FROM MOVIE TO MUSICAL

A play-within-a-play, called "Pretty Lady", suddenly needs a new leading lady in this ever-popular musical

Musical Theater 2005-09-12 (Season 22)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

"No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question" is from this show

Musical Theater 2005-06-29 (Season 21)

MUSICAL THEATER

In Act II of this musical, an election victory is announced "on the balcony of the Casa Rosada"

Musical Theater 2004-10-11 (Season 21)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

Legend says this musical was inspired by Lunt & Fontanne's backstage bickering during a Shakespeare play

Musical Theater 2004-03-16 (Season 20)

MUSICAL THEATRE

When this Off-Broadway show closed in 2002, its lyricist said, "You can't be sad for a show that has run 42 years"

Musical Theater 2003-11-28 (Season 20)

TONY-WINNING MUSICALS

2 of the 3 Tony winners for Best Musical with titles just 4 letters long

Musical Theater 2003-05-26 (Season 19)

INSPIRATIONS FOR MUSICALS

In 2002 this novel by C.Y. Lee, first published in 1957, was re-released with a new introduction by David Henry Hwang

Musical Theater 2003-04-22 (Season 19)

MUSICALS

The 2 longest-running musicals in Broadway history; Cameron Mackintosh produced both of them

Musical Theater 2003-01-17 (Season 19)

BROADWAY MUSICALS

In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began"

Musical Theater 2002-10-02 (Season 19)

BROADWAY STARS

This Tony-winning actor with the real name Joseph took part of his stage name from a role in "Guys and Dolls"

Musical Theater 2002-03-07 (Season 18)

MUSICAL THEATER

"Il Muto" & "Don Juan Triumphant" are shows within this show that premiered on Broadway in 1988