Musical Theater Study Guide

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Must-Know (46)

The King and I 29x 7.1% stumper $671 avg J:8 DJ:20 FJ:1

J $100 1992 The 1985 revival of this musical featured Yul Brynner's wife as the lead Royal Dancer

J $500 1996 "Getting to Know You"

DJ $1,000 1990 This show features a concubine from Burma named Tuptim

Fiddler on the Roof 27x 3.7% stumper $659 avg J:12 DJ:15

J $200 2007 Tevye, Golde, Yente

DJ $600 2001 Zero was my hero in this:"INFERRED FOOT HOLD"

J $1,000 DD 1997 (Hi, I'm Sharon Lawrence.) Before appearing on TV I appeared on Broadway in several musical revivals including this one set in Anatevka

West Side Story 25x 13.6% stumper $700 avg J:7 DJ:15 FJ:3

J $100 1995 Marni Nixon dubbed Natalie Wood's singing voice for this 1961 musical about rival gangs

DJ $600 1992 When it premiered in 1957, Mickey Callan played Riff & Ken LeRoy played Bernardo

DJ $1,000 1990 Action, Gee-Tar, Big Deal, Diesel, Tiger, Riff, Tony

Chicago 25x 8.7% stumper $722 avg J:12 DJ:11 FJ:2

J $200 2016 This show's "Six Merry Murderesses" do the "Cell Block Tango" in Chicago's Cook County Jail"They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming (They had it coming) / They had it coming all along..."

J $800 2023 "We Both Reached For The Gun" & "Roxie" are songs from this musical

J $1,000 DD 2016 The Cook County jail in the 1920s is the setting for much of this show

grease 24x $630 avg J:6 DJ:17 FJ:1

J $200 2022 This show is set in & around Rydell High School

J $500 1988 Barry Bostwick starred in this musical set at Rydell High, but Richard Gere was only an understudy

DJ $1,000 DD 1989 1 of the longest-running shows of all time, it gave us the following song:"Summer lovin', had me a blast/Summer lovin', happened so fast..."

Camelot 22x 10.0% stumper $490 avg J:8 DJ:12 FJ:2

J $100 1999 "CLAM TOE"

DJ $600 2000 "The Once and Future King"

J $1,000 2015 Lerner & Loewe adapted this musical from T.H. White's "The Once & Future King"

Guys and Dolls 21x 4.8% stumper $743 avg J:7 DJ:14

J $100 1988 Sky Masterson

J $500 1996 "A Bushel and a Peck" & "Luck Be A Lady"

DJ $1,000 1991 It's based on Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown"

The Man of La Mancha 21x 20.0% stumper $605 avg J:10 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $400 2011 Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza

J $500 1995 The barber; captain of the Inquisition; Pedro, head muleteer

DJ $2,000 DD 1998 The heroine of this musical tells of her life in thefollowing:"I was born in a ditch by a /Mother who left me there /Naked and cold and too hungry to cry..."

The Phantom of the Opera 20x 11.8% stumper $871 avg J:5 DJ:12 FJ:3

J $300 1998 "Specter Lurking in a Certain Paris Theatre"

DJ $800 2006 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew is upstaged by a chandelier in the Majestic Theatre in New York.) A real accident at the Paris Opera House in 1896 inspired the famousfalling chandelierin this musical

DJ $1,200 2018 More than a mere apparition, this Hal Prince-directed classic celebrated 30 years on Broadway in January

Cabaret 18x 5.6% stumper $561 avg J:4 DJ:14

J $200 2023 This 1966 musical collaboration between composer John Kander & lyricist Fred Ebb is set in a German nightclub

DJ $600 1991 Fraulein Schneider, Herr Schultz, Kit Kat Club kittens

DJ $1,200 2022 Sally Bowles &Fraulein Schneider

A Chorus Line 18x 22.2% stumper $800 avg J:10 DJ:8

J $200 2013 1976:It's about Broadway itself & its hopefuls

J $500 1984 100s of former cast members appeared onstage when it became longest-running show

J $1,000 2011 "The Music And The Mirror" &"One"

Oklahoma! 17x 12.5% stumper $675 avg J:5 DJ:11 FJ:1

J $200 2018 They did not give out a Drama award in 1944, but this stately Rodgers & Hammerstein musical won a special award

DJ $600 2000 Attempting to kill Curly on his wedding night, Jud falls on his own knife & dies in this ever-popular musical

DJ $1,000 2000 "Green Grow the Lilacs"

Annie 17x 6.2% stumper $438 avg J:6 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $200 2024 A spunky New York City street urchin gets adopted by a wealthy man

DJ $800 2022 Mean-spirited orphanage mistress Miss Hannigan

DJ $1,000 DD 1991 1977 musical in which Dorothy Loudon sang thefollowing:"Little girls, little girls/Everywhere I turn/I can see them..."

South Pacific 16x 20.0% stumper $727 avg J:5 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $200 2015 It's set on an island during World War II:"S.P."

J $500 1984 Musical in which Lester Billis was Nellie Forbush's "honey bun"

J $1,000 2022 "Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger"

My Fair Lady 16x 13.3% stumper $520 avg J:8 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1998 It's the musical featuring the song heard here:

DJ $800 1997 Songs from this show include "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" & "Ascot Gavotte"

J $1,000 2025 Noël Coward was the first choice to play 'Enry 'Iggins in this musical but he turned it down

Cats 16x $507 avg J:8 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1999 "Scat"

J $600 2007 "I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then, I remember the time I knew what happiness was"

DJ $1,200 2009 "Rock This Town","Runaway Boys"

Damn Yankees 15x $786 avg J:7 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1989 A middle-aged baseball fan sells his soul to the devil to become a young star player

DJ $600 1999 "Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO","What Ever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)"

DJ $1,200 2015 Take a swing:"Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo" &"The American League"

Wicked 14x 7.7% stumper $1,077 avg J:3 DJ:10 FJ:1

DJ $400 2022 "One short day in the Emerald City... full of so much to do"

J $600 2009 Take a journey into Oz in this 2003 show; it's quite "popular"

J $1,000 DD 2012 "The Wiz" opened on January 5, 1975; this other Oz-set musical on October 30, 2003

Hair 14x 8.3% stumper $642 avg J:4 DJ:8 FJ:2

J $100 1996 "Aquarius"

J $600 2015 "Tresses"

DJ $1,000 1997 "Easy To Be Hard","Good Morning, Starshine","Let The Sunshine In"

Annie Get Your Gun 14x 7.7% stumper $977 avg J:3 DJ:10 FJ:1

DJ $200 1998 "Ms. Oakley Grab That Firearm"

J $600 2025 "Anything You Can Do" would include knowing 2 sharpshooters are singing that song in this show

DJ $1,200 2002 Ms. Oakley gives up her rifle & becomes an anti-gun activist (Charlton Heston hates the new show)

The Lion King 13x $458 avg J:4 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $100 1998 "Leonine Monarch"

DJ $800 2022 "Can you feel the love tonight? The peace the evening brings..."

FJ 2014 In 2013 this musical based on a movie became the first show to gross $1 billion on Broadway

rent 13x 8.3% stumper $1,100 avg J:5 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $200 1999 "Tern"

J $600 2018 Jonathan Larson posthumously won the 1996 Drama award for this musical

J $1,000 2004 (Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York City) "Out Tonight" is performed here at the Nederlander Theatre in this Jonathan Larson musical

Evita 13x 16.7% stumper $700 avg J:5 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $100 1998 "Senora Peron"

DJ $1,000 DD 2007 "High flying, adored, that's good to hear but unimportant... local girl makes good weds famous man"

FJ 2005 In Act II of this musical, an election victory is announced "on the balcony of the Casa Rosada"

Hello, Dolly! 12x 50.0% stumper $825 avg J:4 DJ:8

DJ $200 1988 Based on "The Matchmaker", this 1964 hit was conceived with Ethel Merman in mind

J $500 1999 Minnie Fay, Waiters, Horace Vandergelder

DJ $1,000 1994 Ermengarde, Minnie Fay, Cornelius Hackl

The Music Man 11x 10.0% stumper $580 avg J:4 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $200 2003 Ron Howard was a child when he sang about "The Wells Fargo Wagon" in this Robert Preston movie

DJ $500 DD 1993 "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" was Meredith Willson's second musical, this was his first

DJ $1,600 2019 "Professor" Harold Hill is the title character of this 1957 show

Show Boat 11x 30.0% stumper $800 avg J:3 DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $400 2002 The Cotton Blossom is the title vehicle in this Broadway musical that features the song "Ol' Man River"

DJ $600 1997 "Make Believe","Cotton Blossom","Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"

J $1,000 2010 Cap'n Andy &Magnolia Hawks Ravenal

Kiss Me, Kate 11x 12.5% stumper $750 avg J:5 DJ:3 FJ:3

J $300 1995 Lilli Vanessi, Lois Lane,"Taming of the Shrew" players

J $500 1995 "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" is a song from this Cole Porter musical

J $1,000 DD 2013 1949:Based on a Shakespearean romantic comedy

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 11x $500 avg J:6 DJ:5

DJ $400 2014 A satire of corporate America:"How to Succeed in Business ____ ____ ____"

J $500 1998 "The Way to Reach the Top of the Commerce Field Sans True Effort"

J $1,000 2018 There are 8 words in the title of this Frank Loesser musical that won in 1962

The Sound of Music 10x $680 avg J:6 DJ:4

J $200 2025 "My Favorite Things" are shared by Maria in this show

J $500 1999 "O CUTE FISH MOUNDS"

J $1,000 2011 Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey

The Producers 10x 20.0% stumper $920 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $200 2016 Max Bialystock, Franz Liebkind, Hold-Me Touch-Me

DJ $800 2018 "Prisoners Of Love" & "Springtime For Hitler"

DJ $1,200 2022 Bialystock & Bloom! Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick were Bialystock & Bloom in this Broadway show about a Broadway show

Mamma Mia! 10x $880 avg J:3 DJ:7

J $200 2025 In 2025 this ABBA-solutely fabulous musical returned to Broadway for a limited run

J $600 2022 "You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life"

DJ $1,200 2024 "Honey, Honey" & "Money, Money, Money"

carousel 10x 10.0% stumper $760 avg J:5 DJ:5

J $100 1991 Title amusement park ride owned by Mrs. Mullin

J $500 1993 This 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was based on "Liliom", a Hungarian play by Ferenc Molnar

DJ $1,600 2022 At the carnival, it's also known as a whirligig

Brigadoon 10x $888 avg J:4 DJ:4 FJ:2

J $300 1999 Lerner & Loewe's Scotstravaganza:"A GOON BIRD"

DJ $700 DD 1997 Lerner & Loewe's first hit musical, it was inspired in part by the works of Scotsman James Barrie

J $1,000 2007 2 Americans are in a misty Scottish glen when they encounter a village that comes alive one day every century

Peter Pan 9x 11.1% stumper $456 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $200 1993 Liza, Nana, ostrich, crocodile

J $500 1987 Musical in which the title character sings, "I will never grow a moustache, or a fraction of an inch"

DJ $200 1993 "Waltz for Eva and Che" is a musical number from "Evita" & "Hook's Waltz" is featured in this show

Oliver! 9x 11.1% stumper $278 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $100 1999 "Or Live!"

DJ $800 1991 Mr. Brownlow, Bet, Mrs. Bumble

DJ $200 2001 The young orphan boys of the workhouse sing "Food, Glorious Food" in Act 1 of this '60s musical

Little Shop of Horrors 9x $844 avg J:5 DJ:4

J $100 1997 In Paris this American musical is known as "La Petite Boutique Des Horreurs"

J $500 1995 Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops was the voice of Audrey II, the bloodthirsty plant in this musical

DJ $1,200 2024 Mr. Mushnik gets gobbled up by a plant in his own store in this musical

Jersey Boys 9x 12.5% stumper $650 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:1

J $200 2009 "Sherry" &"December 1963(Oh, What A Night)"

J $600 2016 Nick Massi, Mary Delgado, Frankie Valli

DJ $1,200 2008 4 blue-collar guys work their way up from the streets of Newark to the heights of stardom in this 2005 smash

Gypsy 9x 11.1% stumper $1,178 avg J:3 DJ:6

J $200 1995 Tulsa, Baby Louise, Baby June

J $500 1988 Baby June & Her Newsboys

DJ $1,200 2024 Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters & Patti Lu Pone are among the actresses who have played Mama Rose in this musical

Funny Girl 9x $500 avg J:2 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 Barbra Streisand introduced the song "People" in this musical

DJ $600 1990 This show opens with a Ziegfeld star waiting for her husband to be released from prison

FJ 2013 Before this show hit Broadway in 1964, one of its working titles was "The Luckiest People"

Auntie Mame 9x 22.2% stumper $878 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $300 1988 Patrick Dennis

J $800 2002 In a 1966 musical, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, husband of this title "Auntie", falls off an Alp

DJ $1,000 1989 Title character who's "given us the drive again, to make the south revive again"

Sweet Charity 8x 25.0% stumper $1,012 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $200 1995 It's the film in which Shirley MacLaine sings "If My Friends Could See Me Now"

J $500 1999 "Itchy Sweater"

DJ $2,000 2021 Shirley MacLaine sang "If My Friends Could See Me Now" in this musical

Sunset Boulevard 8x 28.6% stumper $857 avg J:2 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $400 2005 Glenn Close was dazzling as Norma Desmond in this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical

J $600 2015 This musical about a silent screen star eager for a comeback was based on a Billy Wilder film

J $1,000 2022 1995:"Every Movie's A Circus", along with "As If We Never Said Goodbye"

Jesus Christ Superstar 8x 12.5% stumper $850 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $100 1995 Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene

J $500 1989 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's 2nd Biblical musical depicted his last 7 days on earth

DJ $1,200 2022 "Hey sanna, hosanna, hey, JC, JC, you're alright by me"

Bye Bye Birdie 8x 12.5% stumper $588 avg J:4 DJ:4

DJ $200 1990 "Bring Back Birdie", a sequel to this musical, opened March 5, 1981 & closed 2 days later

J $1,000 2009 "Kids" &"Put On A Happy Face"

DJ $200 1987 "Bring Back Birdie", a sequel to this musical, said bye-bye after only 4 performances

Beauty and the Beast 8x 12.5% stumper $550 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2019 Disney's first-ever Broadway adaptation was this one based on a movie & a fairy tale"Be our guest, be our guest /Our command is your..."

J $600 2008 Chip is a chip off the old teapot in this musical based on a Disney film

DJ $1,600 2018 "The Little Mermaid" preceded this show as a Disney movie, but followed it at the Lunt-Fontanne as a musical

Into the Woods 8x 12.5% stumper $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $800 2024 Cinderella, Jack, of beanstalk fame, & others all learn to be careful what they wish for

DJ $1,000 1996 Cinderella's prince & Rapunzel's prince sing about their "Agony" in this Stephen Sondheim musical

DJ $800 2017 Meryl Streep landed a record 19th Oscar nomination for her role as the Witch in this musical

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The Book of Mormon 7x 33.3% stumper $833 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2022 "Joseph Smith American Moses" is a song in this musical

J $1,000 2022 As of 2022, it's the longest-running current show with Northern Uganda as a setting

FJ 2013 The last song in this musical is "Tomorrow Is A Latter Day"

Sweeney Todd 7x $1,114 avg J:2 DJ:5

DJ $400 1999 This "demon barber" had his victims baked into pies (no one could accuse him of good taste)

J $600 2025 The tender ballad "Not While I'm Around" is from this musical about a murderous barber

DJ $1,000 1987 Ironically, this 1979 musical about "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" flopped in London

Miss Saigon 7x 14.3% stumper $757 avg J:3 DJ:4

DJ $200 1997 In 1996 this musical set in Vietnam celebrated its fifth year on Broadway

J $500 1999 "Go Sin Amiss"

J $1,400 DD 2021 "The Morning Of The Dragon" was one of the songs from this Puccini-based Broadway musical

Flower Drum Song 7x 50.0% stumper $1,167 avg DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $200 1989 Gene Kelly directed this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical set in San Francisco's Chinatown

DJ $800 1999 "I Enjoy Being A Girl","A Hundred Million Miracles"

DJ $1,600 2004 This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "bloomed" again on Broadway in 2002, with Lea Salonga as Mei-Li

Paint Your Wagon 7x 14.3% stumper $629 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $200 1992 In this 1969 musical, Clint Eastwood & Lee Marvin were prospectors in No Name City, California

DJ $600 1988 This Lerner & Loewe show set in Calif. features a ballet number called "Hand Me Down That Can O' Beans"

DJ $800 1998 "Decorate One's Prairie Conveyance"

Stephen Sondheim 7x 16.7% stumper $567 avg J:4 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2018 "Merrily We Roll Along" ran just 16 shows in 1981 despite a score by this alliterative king of Broadway songwriters

J $1,000 2007 "The Ladies Who Lunch" love this composer's "Company", which began keeping company on B'way again in 2006

FJ 2007 He's the only songwriter to have Broadway premieres in every decade from the '50s to the present; his first was in 1957

The Wiz 6x $700 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2015 It was a 75-year journey, but "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" stepped out as this musical with an all-black cast

J $600 2015 Ease on down the road with this musical:"T.W."

DJ $1,200 2018 "Ease On Down The Road" &"If You Believe"

Sunday in the Park with George 6x 66.7% stumper $1,100 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $600 2017 Let's paint the picture:Jake Gyllenhaal worked Sundays on Broadway in this revival

DJ $1,000 2001 Sondheim said que Seurat, Seurat:"EDGE PRAISEWORTHY GIANT HUNK"

DJ $1,000 1991 George, an artist, Dot his mistress, young man sitting on the bank, boy bathing in the river

La Cage aux Folles 6x 33.3% stumper $1,750 avg J:4 DJ:2

DJ $400 1989 "Just who is who, and what is what, is quite the question at" this offbeat St. Tropez nightclub

J $500 1995 When this play opened at NYC's Palace Theatre on August 21, 1983, Georges was played by Gene Barry

J $1,000 2015 It's a gay old time:"L.C.A.F."

Hairspray 6x $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $600 2022 This musical gets its dance on in 1962 Baltimore

J $1,000 2007 Velma Von Tussle, Tracy Turnblad, Corny Collins

DJ $800 2024 "Good Morning Baltimore" &"Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now"

Dreamgirls 6x 16.7% stumper $1,367 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $800 2024 (Sheryl Lee Ralph presents the clue.) I originated the role of Deena Jones on Broadway, alongside Loretta Devine & Jennifer Holliday as Lorrell & Effie in this musical with a lot of soul that follows a trio of singers & their rise to stardom

J $1,000 2012 On Dec. 20, 1981 Jennifer Holliday's Effie sang "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" in this show's premiere at the Imperial

DJ $1,600 2022 Lorrell Robinson, Deena Jones, Effie White

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 6x $867 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1987 1962's racy Roman romp in which Zero Mostel played a "social zero"--a slave

J $1,000 DD 2023 With a 10-word title, "Comedy Tonight" & "The House Of Marcus Lycus"

J $400 1989 A Roman slave tries to buy his freedom by finding a courtesan for his master

1776 6x $717 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $300 1991 William Daniels played John Adams & Ken Howard Thomas Jefferson in the 1st run of this musical

DJ $600 1994 Caesar Rodney, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Franklin

J $1,000 2023 "The Lees Of Old Virginia" & "But, Mr. Adams"

The Piano 6x 16.7% stumper $767 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2019 Alicia Keys

DJ $800 2008 Holly Hunter played it:"The ____"

J $1,000 2008 A musical direction meaning to play softly

Yul Brynner 5x $680 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2007 In 1951 he was "The King"; Gertrude Lawrence was "I"

DJ $600 1998 In 1976 he starred in "Home Sweet Homer", a musical based on "The Odyssey"; he should have stayed in Siam

DJ $1,600 2006 According to her daughter, Marlene Dietrich secretly romanced this man between matinees & evening shows of "The King & I"

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 5x 20.0% stumper $860 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 1996 Lucy, Linus, Snoopy

J $800 2023 "Snoopy","Dr. Lucy","The Red Baron"

J $1,000 2007 "All I need is one more try, gotta get that kite to fly"

The Pajama Game 5x 20.0% stumper $1,120 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 1987 "Say Darling" was a musical based on the making of this musical about a sleepwear factory

DJ $800 2011 "Sleep Tite" is a number from this musical with sleepwear in the title

DJ $1,000 1997 Bob Fosse made his choreographic debut with this musical about a threatened strike in a sleepwear factory

The Fantasticks 5x 25.0% stumper $900 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $600 1991 This longest-running musical in theater history is based on Edmond Rostand's play "Les Romanesques"

DJ $1,600 2013 "Try To Remember"

FJ 2004 When this Off-Broadway show closed in 2002, its lyricist said, "You can't be sad for a show that has run 42 years"

The Color Purple 5x 20.0% stumper $520 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $200 2025 Producer Oprah was one of the people Cynthia Erivo thanked when she won a Tony for playing Celie in this musical

J $600 2007 In 2007 Fantasia of "American Idol" took over the role of Celie in the musical based on this Alice Walker novel

DJ $1,200 2021 Oprah was one of the original producers of this musical based on an Alice Walker novel

Spamalot 5x 20.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 2013 2005:A very silly tale of knights & coconuts

DJ $1,200 2008 The French Taunter, Tim the Enchanter, Concorde

J $400 2007 (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Shubert Theatre.) The Lady of the Lake & the Knights of the Round Table sing the showstopping number "Find Your Grail" in this Tony-winning musical

Ragtime 5x $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2020 Though lesser known than Joplin, African American James Scott was one of the great composers in this musical style

DJ $1,000 1999 "Wheels Of A Dream" is one of the big numbers from this musical set in the early 20th century

FJ 2003 In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: "Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began"

Once Upon a Mattress 5x 20.0% stumper $1,000 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $500 DD 1998 (Hi, I'm Carol Burnett.) I made my Broadway debut in this musical based on a fairytale

J $1,000 2024 A princess has bedding-based sleeping trouble

J $500 1991 1959 musical based on the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea"

Mary Poppins 5x $480 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2009 On Nov. 16, 2006 this supercalifragilis-ticexpialidocious musical opened on the Great White Way

J $600 2019 The Sherman brothers turned a mouthful into a catchy song, a delightful scene in this musical"Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious /Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious /If you say it loud enough..."

DJ $400 2010 "The Perfect Nanny"by Jane & Michael Banks

Maria 5x $240 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 1991 "The rain is Tess, the fire Joe and they call the wind" this

J $100 1991 In a song from "Paint Your Wagon", "The rain is Tess, the fire Joe, & they call the wind" this

DJ $200 1989 In "The Sound of Music" the nuns asked, "How do you solve a problem like" her

Julie Andrews 5x $400 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1998 She opened as Eliza Doolittle on March 15, 1956

DJ $800 2015 She made her Broadway debut in "The Boy Friend" in 1954; starring roles in "My Fair Lady" & "Camelot" were soon to come

J $200 1984 Rex Harrison's "Fair Lady" and Burton's Guinevere

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 5x 20.0% stumper $1,360 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $600 2003 Rip Torn started out understudying the role of Brick in this Tennessee Williams play & later took over the role

J $1,000 2004 Jason Patrick & Ashley Judd are seenherein the acclaimed revival of this Tennessee Williams classic

DJ $1,200 2016 Terrence Howard made his debut in 2008 as Brick in an all-black production of this Tennessee Williams play

Applause 5x $600 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1999 Let's clap for this one:"LAP PAUSE"

DJ $1,000 1995 This 1970 show starring Lauren Bacall was based on the 1950 movie "All About Eve"

DJ $400 1999 Based on "All About Eve", it featured Lauren Bacall as Margo Channing

A Raisin in the Sun 5x $800 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 1988 The musical "Raisin" was based on this non-musical play

DJ $800 2006 One of the major hits of 1973, "Raisin" was a musical version of this 1959 Lorraine Hansberry play

J $1,000 2016 (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) I shared the stage with Sean Combs & Phylicia Rashad in a 2004 revival of this Lorraine Hansberry drama

42nd Street 5x 25.0% stumper $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 1984 "The avenue we're taken to" in this long-running toe-tapper

DJ $1,200 DD 1994 Sadly, this nostalgic musical was Gower Champion's last; he died just hours before its 1980 premiere

FJ 2006 A play-within-a-play, called "Pretty Lady", suddenly needs a new leading lady in this ever-popular musical

Hugh Jackman 5x $800 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2015 2003 was a great year for this boy from Oz: he debuted in "The Boy from Oz" & hosted the Tony Awards

DJ $800 2018 Irony! This future Jean Valjean film actor bumped "Les Miserables" from the Imperial Theatre with "The Boy From Oz"

DJ $1,600 2010 In 2009 the entire cast of "A Steady Rain" was Daniel Craig & this Australian as Chicago cops

horn 5x 20.0% stumper $780 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1988 "You coax the blues right out of this, Mame"

J $1,000 2021 To make yourself look good, sometimes you have to do this, sound a brass instrument with a flared bell

DJ $400 2008 Sinatra as a swinger (What a stretch!):"Come Blow Your ____"

a flute 5x $1,000 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2016 It must have been magic; a platinum one of these woodwinds with silver keys sold for $187,000 in 1986

J $600 2023 Lizzo

DJ $1,600 2007 A tall, narrow champagne glass

Rodgers & Hammerstein 4x $225 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1995 In 1993 "A Grand Night for Singing!" celebrated 50 years of music by this pair

J $200 1996 Their first professional musical collaboration was the score for "Oklahoma!"

DJ $200 1989 Song writing team whose "Flower Drum Song" featured a real flower drum in one of its numbers

Richard Rodgers 4x 25.0% stumper $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1987 The music for "Once Upon a Mattress" was composed by Mary Rodgers, this man's daughter

J $600 2005 "The Light in the Piazza" features a Tony-winning score by Adam Guettel, grandson of this "Carousel" composer

DJ $400 1999 I hear "Do I Hear A Waltz?" had lyrics by Stephen Sondheim & music by this Hammerstein collaborator

Pippin 4x 25.0% stumper $1,075 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $500 1990 John Rubinstein had the title role in this musical set in the Holy Roman Empire & thereabouts

DJ $1,000 1997 In 1973 Ben Vereen won a Tony for his performance in this musical about Charlemagne's son

J $800 2014 This musical that returned to NYC in 2013 tells of Charlemagne's son, on a quest to find his true calling in life

Nathan Lane 4x $467 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2016 2001:As Max Bialystock in "The Producers"

DJ $1,000 1997 "A Funny Thing Happened" to this star; he was named 1996's Best Leading Actor in A Musical

FJ 2002 This Tony-winning actor with the real name Joseph took part of his stage name from a role in "Guys and Dolls"

Li'l Abner 4x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1993 Dogpatch is almost hit by an atom bomb in this 1956 musical

J $600 2004 In this show's first scene, "It's a typical day in Dogpatch, U.S.A."

DJ $400 1993 Ernie Kovacs' wife Edie Adams was the first actress to play Daisy Mae in this musical

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 4x 25.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1989 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's 1st Biblical musical was about this man & his brothers

DJ $800 2017 "Sad to say your dream is not the kind of dream I'd like to get, Pharaoh has it in for you"

DJ $1,600 2014 Reuben & Brothers:"Those Canaan Days"

Hamilton 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 2025 (Paul Tazewell presents the clue.) A large amount of research, including studying paintings of the time, went into creating the costumes for this stage musical; those of the Schuyler Sisters were among my favorites

DJ $400 2022 Tanned actor George or "Terminator" actress Linda

DJ $400 2018 "The Schuyler Sisters" & "Ten Duel Commandments"

George M! 4x 75.0% stumper $875 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $500 1998 "Cohan!"

DJ $1,000 2001 This 1968 musical was a biography of the composer of "Over There" & "Give My Regards To Broadway"

DJ $800 1990 1968 musical that featured "45 Minutes From Broadway", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" & "Harrigan"

Footloose 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2017 Kenny Wormald & Julianne Hough starred in this remake in which rock music & dancing are banned in a small town

DJ $1,200 2014 1984 & 2011:"Almost Paradise" &"Let's Hear It For The Boy"

DJ $400 1999 Jeremy Kushnier cuts loose in the Kevin Bacon role in the musical based on this 1984 film; "Let's Hear It for the Boy"

drums 4x 50.0% stumper $850 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $800 2019 Rock Hall of Famer Hal Blaine

J $1,000 2003 In 1950 music stand maker Katsumi Yanagisawa started making these instruments under the Pearl brand name

J $800 2009 Timpani are multiple mounted ones of these instruments

Carol Channing 4x 33.3% stumper $433 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 "Hello, Dolly!" was conceived with Ethel Merman in mind, but this actress was the first to play the title role

J $800 2019 In 2019, the lights on Broadway dimmed in memory of this legend who passed away at the age of 97

FJ 2014 She originated 2 famous Broadway roles: one later played on film by Marilyn Monroe, another by Barbra Streisand

Blues 4x $525 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2019 This "colorful" genre has subgroups named for Chicago & Memphis

J $800 2022 Ma Rainey & Bessie Smith were among the first women to record music in this genre

J $300 2001 Chicago's area for this genre moved from the south side to north side clubs like Kingston Mines

Billy Elliot 4x $750 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2014 This musical about a boy born to dance features a catchy protest number, "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher"

J $600 2013 It's more than a "miner" problem when a boy in a mining town wants to dance ballet rather than fight

DJ $1,200 2011 In 2010 this Broadway dancing title tot was played by Liam Redhead (& 3 other boys, on different nights)

bells 4x $325 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $100 1995 Exodus 28 said these jingling instruments were to be hung on the robes of priests

J $600 2025 Partner of "whistles" when talking about something with every possible accessory

J $200 2006 The breakup of AT&T created 7 Baby ones in 1984

Amadeus 4x $733 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $400 2018 1980:Tim Curry as Mozart, Ian McKellen as Salieri

DJ $600 1999 (Hi, I'm Jane Seymour.) I starred on Broadway as Mozart's wife in this acclaimed drama

DJ $1,200 2013 Salieri & the Emperor of Austria were music to our ears

A Little Night Music 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1987 Sondheim musical based on a Bergman film, not Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"

DJ $800 1990 Sondheim musical suggested by the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night"

DJ $1,000 1997 This Stephen Sondheim musical was based on the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night"

an accordion 4x $650 avg J:4

J $400 2010 Squeezebox is another name for this instrument

J $800 2006 (Kelly of the Clue Crew files away her notes.) This type of organizer conveniently separates my polka music

J $1,000 2023 "Weird Al" Yankovic

second fiddle 4x 25.0% stumper $650 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2025 As a verb it means to make unskilled efforts at repairing or improving something

J $800 2008 To move your fingers or hands in a nervous fashion

J $600 2021 Playing this stringed instrument means to take a subordinate role

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Zero Mostel 3 Waitress 3 Victor/Victoria 3 The Unsinkable Molly Brown 3 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 3 Silk Stockings 3 Pal Joey 3 On the Town 3 Noah 3 midnight 3 Michael Crawford 3 Matthew Broderick 3 Madonna 3 M. Butterfly 3 love 3 Les Miserables 3 Kismet 3 Kinky Boots 3 Jumbo 3 Harp 3 Hamlet 3 Finian's Rainbow 3 Elvis Presley 3 Death of a Salesman 3 Chess 3 Carole King 3 Bruce Springsteen 3 Bloody Mary 3 Billy Joel 3 Big River 3 Bessie Smith 3 Bells Are Ringing 3 Barnum 3 Avenue Q 3 Andrew Lloyd Webber 3 Aida 3 "Sunrise, Sunset" 3 "Oklahoma!" 3 "My Funny Valentine" 3 Violin 3 Prince 3 Millie 3 guitar 3 bass 3 Young Frankenstein 2 whistle a happy tune 2 W.C. Handy 2 Venice 2 trombone 2 Tommy Tune 2 Tommy 2 Tim Curry 2 Three Dog Night 2 The Wizard of Oz 2 the Thompson Twins 2 The Temptations 2 the surrey with the fringe on top 2 The Secret Garden 2 The Seagull 2 The Scarlet Pimpernel 2 The Odd Couple 2 The Muppet Show 2 The Miracle Worker 2 the Marx Brothers 2 The Great White Hope 2 the Gershwins 2 The Four Seasons 2 The Elephant Man 2 The Carpenters 2 The Byrds 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2 Texas 2 Tchaikovsky 2 Taylor Swift 2 Syracuse 2 ska 2 Singin' in the Rain 2 Sibelius 2 September 2 School of Rock 2 Saturday Night Fever 2 Russia 2 Roses 2 Rihanna 2 reggae 2 Rasputin 2 Rap 2 Radiohead 2 R.E.M. 2 Promises, Promises 2 Pride and Prejudice 2 Pictures at an Exhibition 2 P.G. Wodehouse 2 Oliver 2 Noel Coward 2 No, No, Nanette 2 Neil Simon 2 my cup of tea 2 Mozart 2 Moulin Rouge! 2 Moe 2 Meet Me in St. Louis 2 May 2 Marvin Hamlisch 2 Liza Minnelli 2 Little 2 Liam Neeson 2 Kentucky 2 Kansas 2 Judy Garland 2 Johnny Cash 2 Joel Grey 2 Jimmy Buffett 2 iron maiden 2 Irene Cara 2 In the Heights 2 Idina Menzel 2 I Do! I Do! 2 Harvey Fierstein 2 grunge 2 Green Day 2 Grand Hotel 2 Godspell 2 Glocca Morra 2 Glengarry Glen Ross 2 Gigi 2 George Bernard Shaw 2 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 2 Fred Gwynne 2 Fred Astaire 2 Florence Henderson 2 Fiddle Faddle 2 Federico Fellini 2 Equus 2 dulcimer 2 Duke Ellington 2 Dracula 2 Dr. Dre 2 Damn Yankees! 2 Cynthia Nixon 2 Country 2 comedy 2 Coco 2 Chita Rivera 2 Carol Burnett 2 Carmen Jones 2 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2 Bootsy 2 Billy Crystal 2 Benny Goodman 2 Barefoot in the Park 2 Bali Hai 2 Bali Ha'i 2 Bachman-Turner Overdrive 2 Assassins 2 Around the World in Eighty Days 2 Anastasia 2 an octave 2 An American in Paris 2 Amy 2 All That Jazz 2 All About Eve 2 Al Jolson 2 Ain't Misbehavin' 2 AC/DC 2 ABBA 2 a triangle 2 A Star is Born 2 a melody 2 a drum 2 A Doll's House 2 a clavichord 2 4 2 (Irving) Berlin 2 "What'd I Say" 2 "Some Enchanted Evening" 2 "Send In The Clowns" 2 "Hello, Dolly!" 2 "Hair" 2 "Edelweiss" 2 "Camelot" 2 "American Pie" 2 The Will Rogers Follies 2 unring that bell 2 to trumpet 2 The Little Mermaid 2

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