| Historically Significant Musicals | Broadway Composers | Finish the Lyric | About the Musicals | Tony Winners |
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What is Hair
This musical is marked as the cutoff between classical musical theatre and contemporary musical theatre
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Who is Lin Manuel Miranda
This composer wrote for such award winning musicals as Hamilton, In The Heights, and Encanto
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...Not a footprint to be seen
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight...
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Who is Thomas Jefferson
The musical Hamilton double casts many of it's roles, for instance the person playing Lafayette in Act 1 also plays this role in Act 2
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What is A Strange Loop
This year's winner for Best Musical
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What is Oklahoma
This Rogers and Hammerstein musical is the first to fully integrate plot, character development, music, lyrics, and dance, all while holding equal weight in moving the story forward
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What is The Prince of Egypt
Alan Menken is credited for writing many songs for Disney, but he also composed for this movie-musical
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...Little ways to flirt and flounce
I'll teach you the proper poise when you talk to boys...
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What is Uganda
In the Book of Mormon, Elder Price and Elder Cunningham are sent on their two year mission to this African country
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What is Hamilton
In 2016, this musical phenomenon swept the Tony's with a record breaking 16 nominations and 11 wins, including Best Musical
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What is a concept musical
The 1970 musical "Company" opened the door for a new way of musical theatre storytelling, which we now know as this
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Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber
This composer gave birth to the Rock Musical genre with such musicals as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar
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...Doorbells and sleighbells and schnitzel with noodles
Cream colored ponies with crisp apple strudel...
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What is an E6
This is Christine Daae's highest note in Phantom of the Opera
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Who is Patti Lupone
This Broadway Diva won her third tony this year for her breath taking performance in the revival of Company
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What is Taming of the Shrew
The first musical to win the Tony Award for Best Musical, Kiss Me Kate, is based off of this Shakespearean play
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Who is Rogers and Hammerstein
This composer/lyricist duo is known for such classical musicals as The King and I, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music
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...Battles, Barbarous and Bloody
Illusion, Fantasy to Study...
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Who is Lucy Barker
At the end of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the beggar woman who has been present during the entire show turns out to be this person
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What is Into the Woods
During the 1986 Tony Awards, Phantom of the Opera beat out this musical for several Tony awards including Best Musical
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What is The Black Crook
This 1866 piece is credited as Broadway's first musical
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Who is Jason Robert Brown
This composer is known for writing such musicals as Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years, and 13 the Musical
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...red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue
Such a dazzling coat of many colors, How I love my coat of many colors, It was...(yes, name all the colors)
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What is Cholera
In the Secret Garden, both of Mary's parents die from this disease
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What is Come From Away and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Regarding the 2017 Tony Awards, there are two camps of people who believe that one of these two musicals should have won best musical instead of Dear Evan Hansen
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