musical theatre final!

Rocky Horror Picture Show

becomes popular with midnight screenings and shadow casts in US

Dreamgirls

Broadway’s first computerized set

Michael Bennett

Dreamgirls was a farewell for

Sunday in the Park with George

based on painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by George Seurat

Sunday in the Park with George themes

artistic struggle, undeterred drive, creative process

pointilism

painting style of A Sunday Afternoon (small dots)

Into the Woods

intertwines Brothers Grimm plots

Passion

shortest run musical that won Best Musical

Assassins

about 9 assassins or attempts on Presidents

9/11

Assassins was supposed to go on in 2001 but was pushed to 2004 because of

Here We Are

final Sondheim show he was working on

country music

has a trend of not being successful on Broadway

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

exception of being successful with country music score

Texas

All 4 creators of the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas are from

The Producers

show with most Tony award wins in history

kickstart

The Producers was the __ that Broadway needed

premium seating

first sold in house for The Producers

Hairspray

based on real life story of Buddy Deane show because they refused to racially integrate

fun musical

needed on Broadway post 9/11 world (Hairspray)

Next to Normal

about mom that is bipolar

Michael Greif

only director to ever direct 2 Pulitzer Prize winning musicals (Rent and Next to Normal)

Sara Bareilles

wrote all of the music and lyrics for Waitress

Waitress

first time we had all female creative team on Broadway

Dear Evan Hansen

directed by Michael Greif with original star of Ben Platt

Pasek and Paul

winners of Jonathan Larson Grant

stop clause

if box office fails below preset, theater has right to evict the show

Beetlejuice

stop clause enacted even after success

A Strange Loop

follows Usher, a Queer black man writing a musical about a Queer Black man writing a musical

How to Dance in Ohio

first time that all principal actors were openly autistic

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

most expensive revival in Broadway history

Sunset Boulevard 2024

minimalistic and combination of stage and screen for set

Suffs

book, lyrics, and music all by Shaina Laub who also stars

Hell’s Kitchen

Alicia Keys jukebox musical

profit

only 20-30% of Broadway shows see a

Pulitzer Prize Winners

1. Of Thee I Sing (folly of politics)

2. South Pacific (social issues)

3. Fiorello! (folly of politics)

4. How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (individual drive)

5. A Chorus Line (artistic struggle)

6. Sunday In the Park with George (artistic struggle)

7. Rent (social issues)

8. Next to Normal (social/mental issues)

9. Hamilton (politics and the individual)

10. A Strange Loop (social issues)

Broadway 2022 season

attendance topped the 10 pro sport NY and NJ teams combined

middle-aged white woman

Broadway will try to serve and cater to a

Off off Broadway

99 seats or less

Off Broadway

100-499 seats

Broadway

500 or more seats but there’s still only 41 Broadway theaters

10

how many musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize?

Maybe This Time

audience gets to hear Sally’s unspoken thoughts during this song

Promises, Promises

brought pop music (new sound and style) to Broadway

engineered/amplified

Promises, Promises sound is special because it was one of the first time that it was (microphones)

pop music

composer style that wrote for Promises, Promises

concept albums

Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita both started as

British invasion

Jesus Christ Superstar led the way for the

Jesus Christ Superstar plot

the last 7 days of Christ on earth

Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat

collaboration between Webber and Tim Rice before Jesus Christ Superstar

pop opera

Evita genre

Evita plot

about Eva Duarte/Peron (most powerful woman in South America)

Starlight Express

called Cats on wheels

Sunset Boulevard

marked end of British Invasion in Broadway

dry spell

Sunset Boulevard was the beginning of Webber’s

School of Rock

kids are actually playing the instruments

sung through

mega musicals are musical dramas that are fully or almost entirely

standardization

mega musicals intended to be mass produced worldwide

equally important

in mega musicals, staging/sequence/special effects and content of musical itself are

Cats lyrics

from T.S Eliot’s book of children’s poems

Cats plot

Jellicles (tribe of cats) meet to choose one to ascend

Memory

most famous song from Cats

Beautiful Ghosts

new song added to feature film of Cats by Taylor Swift and ALW

Les Miserables

based on Victor Hugo’s historical novel

critic proof

Les Miserables was disliked by critics but audiences still loved it so it was

Phantom of the Opera

longest running Broadway show in history at 35 years

Miss Saigon

based on the Puccini opera, Madama Butterfly

Lea Salonga

played Kim in Miss Saigon and became the first Asian Woman to win Tony and first Filipino woman to sign with international record label

Get Me Bodied (Beyonce)

Rich Man’s Frug + Fosse + Hip Hop =

Elvis

Bye Bye Birdie has a parody of

Bye Bye Birdie plot

about clean cut side of 1960s (hair is about counterculture, BBB is about what the culture is)

never work

in musical theatre, sequels

graduate thesis project

Godspell began as

Stephen Schwartz

took over Godspell (also known for Wicked, Pippin)

Godspell

based on biblical parables from Gospel of St. Matthew

Day by Day

most popular song from Godspell

Jesus Movement

surge of Christianity/going to church/the Bible

Grease original

musical was very raw and raunchy

Grease movie

highest grossing musical movie of all time

You’re The One That I want

2007 reality show to find new leads for Grease on Broadway

Disney’s success

message to corporate america to invest in Broadway

Disney

renovated the New Amsterdam Theater and gets 99 year license to use

Beauty and the Beast

first successful Disney animated movie musical on Broadway

The Lion King

highest grossing show in Broadway history

Beauty and the Beast

hit

The Lion King

hit

Mary Poppins

hit

Newsies

hit

Aladdin

hit

Frozen

hit

Tarzan

fail

The Little Mermaid

fail

Sister Act

fail

High school musical

Grease of modern era

Spiderman Turn of the dark

biggest Broadway flop in history

SpongeBob the musical

songs written by various artists

inclusiveness

High school musical was unique because it had a message of

Rock music

Hair was the first Broadway musical to have a soundtrack of all

all of America’s youth

Hair was the first musical to speak to

1960s America

Hair was the first musical to address problems of

Hair plot

group of politically active hippies living in Bohemian life in NYC, fighting against the draft