Broadway Flashcards
Musical about Henry VIII wives
Six
Talking Heads musical (2021)
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Sarah Bareilles musical
Waitress
Play - riff on Waiting for Godot, black men on a street corner
Pass Over
Rock musician acoustic show, 2021
Springsteen on Broadway
Mamet play about a coin (2020)
American Buffalo
Best Musical, 2021 Tony
Moulin Rouge
British mentalist/magician show 2019
Derren Brown: Secret
Pinter play looking at affair in backwards chronology, 2019 production with Tom Hiddleston
Betrayal
Meet Alex, a photographer on a holiday with his family in the south of France. Meet Abe, a music producer with a baby on the way. Two men – both fathers, husbands, and sons – take us on a journey you will never forget. (2019)
Sea Wall/A Life - Jake Gyllenhaal
The play follows a couple looking back at 50 years of marriage, and realising their relationship may not be as perfect as they expected. The play opened on Broadway on 10 September 2019 starring Pryce and Atkins.
The Height of the Storm, Florian Zeller
2019 play about LBJ starring Brian Cox
The Great Society
Performers take the crowd on a non-stop, hiphop improv ride, spinning cues from the audience into instantaneous riffs and fully realized musical numbers. No two shows will ever be the same. 2019-20
Freestyle Love Supreme
Couples plantation retreat play
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts takes a brutally comedic look at Wheeler, a 50-year-old divorcee in the throes of a mid-life spiral.
Linda Vista
A Sicilian seamstress mourning her husband’s death finds love again with a passionate truck driver.
Tennessee Williams
The Rose Tattoo
Alanis Morrissette musical
Jagged Little Pill
_____ has newly discovered powers he can’t control, monsters on his trail, and he is on a quest to find Zeus’s lightning bolt and prevent a war between the Greek gods.
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Bella Baird is an accomplished professor at an Ivy League university who prizes her solitude. But when she faces a challenge she cannot tackle alone, she allies herself with a brilliant and mysterious student. 2019
The Sound Inside, Mary Louise Parker
From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her transformation into the global Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Adrienne Warren)
Re-envisioning E. M. Forster’s masterpiece “Howards End” to 21st-century New York
The Inheritance
2019 solo play with Laura Linney
My Name is Lucy Barton
In this drama about black/ white race relations, no easy answers about cause or blame are provided, when in 1944 in a segregated army camp in Louisiana, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out “They still hate you.” 2019
A Soldier’s Play
Reimagining the music of Bob Dylan as roof-raising ensemble pieces and soul-stirring solos
Girl From The North Country
Edward Albee won the Tony Award for his first major play, in which a college professor and his wife invite a younger academic and his wife over for drinks after a late-night party
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Based on the hit film, ______ is a modern Cinderella story. A businessman hires an escort to spend the weekend with him, but before long, the two learn that their connection goes beyond a simple transaction.
Pretty Woman: The Musical
In 1899, this international stage celebrity set out to tackle her most ambitious role yet: Hamlet.
Sarah Bernhardt (2019 play with Janet McTeer)
Rural Derry, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor. 2019
The Ferryman
Kenneth Lonergan/Elaine May play about Alzheimer’s
The Waverly Gallery
Harvey Fierstein play about man and his mother
Torch Song Trilogy (cut down version as Torch Song, 2018)
A Florida police station in the middle of the night; a mother searching for her missing teenage son. 2018
American Sun
2018 musical about Skull Island
King Kong (the musical)
We’ve got trouble, folks, right here in Indiana and when Broadway’s brassiest hear a student is unceremoniously sidelined from a small-town Indiana dance—and the press is involved—they are ready to kick-ball-change the world.
The Prom
Three-actress musical about the glam TV star who quits at the top. The would-be actress with an Oscar. The rock goddess with a hundred million records sold.
The Cher Show
Bryan Cranston as Howard Beale, news anchor-man, isn’t pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen.
Network
Aaron Sorkin play of Harper Lee novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
For half a century, the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys has been dedicated to the education of strong, ethical black men. One talented student has been waiting for years to take his rightful place as the leader of the legendary gospel choir.
Choir Boy, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight)
Holed up in their mother’s California house, screenwriter Austin and lowlife Lee wrestle with big issues—and each other, leading to the airing of old resentments and some unexpected twists in the relationship.
True West, Sam Shepard - 2018 revival with Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano
Achieving that elusive “perfect life” is now possible thanks to some mysterious new technology-but it comes at a cost that’s not as easy to swallow. 2019 musical
Be More Chill
Two divorced — and flamboyantly egocentric — performers find themselves starring opposite each other in a musical version of Taming of the Shrew in Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack’s tribute to the theatre, in all its greasepaint and glory.
Kiss Me, Kate
This thrilling story of brotherhood, family, loyalty, and betrayal is set to the beat of the group’s treasured hits, including “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and so many more.
Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations
In her boundary-breaking new play, the Obie Award winner resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women in her own family and the founding document that dictated their rights and citizenship.
What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck
Oklahoma! is by
Rodgers and Hammerstein
When a mysterious death brings together two unlikely strangers, their explosive connection sparks a chemistry too fiery to ignore. Lanford Wilson play
Burn This
Orpheus & Eurydice musical
Hadestown, Anais Mitchell
2018 play about Hillary campaign
Hillary and Clinton
Taylor Mac 2018 Shakespeare sequel with Nathan Lane
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Arthur Miller play - In the aftermath of WWII, the Keller family struggles to stay intact and to fight for their future when a long-hidden secret threatens to emerge—forcing them to reckon with greed, denial, repentance, and post-war disenchantment across generations.
All My Sons
Michael Dorsey is a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until an audacious, desperate stunt lands him the role of a lifetime. 2019 musical
Tootsie
SYNOPSIS: It’s 1969 London. The brash young Rupert Murdoch purchases a struggling paper, The Sun, and sets out to make it a must-read smash which will destroy - and ultimately horrify - the competition. 2019
Ink
SYNOPSIS: Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager who is obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, her new house is haunted by a recently deceased couple and a degenerate demon who happens to have a thing for stripes. 2019
Beetlejuice (musical)
When a diner waitress and a short order cook meet for a night of fiery passion, they expect a return to loneliness. But as desire turns into the possibility of love, they realize that true connection means being unafraid to reach for the moon.
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth, rewriting newspaper articles so that history always supports the views of the Party. But when Winston has a thought, writes a diary and falls in love, he does so under the ever watchful eye of Big Brother.
1984 - 2018 play
Lee is a single mother who’s been busy raising her troubled teenage son, Hank. Her estranged sister Bessie has her hands full with their elderly father. Now the women are about to reunite for the first time in 18 years.
Marvin’s Room (Garofalo/Taylor, also Streep/Keaton/Leo movie)
_____is a legend in the American theatre—the acclaimed director and producer behind a long list of America’s most iconic musicals and the winner of a staggering, record-breaking 21 Tony Awards.
Harold Prince
A French diplomat falls in love with a Chinese opera singer, who turns out to be a spy—and a man—in David Henry Hwang’s Tony Award-winning play, which is based on a real-life incident.
M. Butterfly
In an Israeli desert town where every day feels the same, something different is suddenly in the air. Dina, the local café owner, had long resigned her desires for romance to daydreaming about exotic films and music from her youth.
The band’s Visit
Latin History for Morons show by
John Leguizamo
Jimmy Buffett musical
Escape to Margaritaville
Tina Fey musical
Mean Girls
Kenneth Lonergan play about security guards and cops in lobby
Lobby Hero
Albee - Three women of different ages talk about their lives and their relationships with their families. Gradually it emerges that they may all be the same woman.
Three Tall Women
A unconventional speech therapist who works at a school for the deaf attempts to teach the school’s deaf cleaning woman to speak and read lips. As their relationship heats up, so does their need for control, igniting a thrilling exploration of passion, intimacy, and connection.
Children of a Lesser God
Brash carousel barker Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, a quiet girl who works in the mill, fall in love, marry, and have a stormy relationship that leads to tragedy and an attempt at mending old wounds from beyond the grave
Carousel, Rodgers & Hammerstein
“I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “On the Street Where You Live,”
My Fair Lady, Lerner & Loewe
Harry Potter play
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
“She works hard for the money” musical
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
play about Joan of Arc
Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw
Set in the summer of 1912 at Harry Hope’s saloon on New York’s lower west side, this is O’Neill’s classic story of a freespending, boisterous salesman who compels his fellow barflies to confront their pipe dreams.
The Iceman Cometh
________ charts _________’s journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and many more.
Motown the Musical, Berry Gordy
Russian aristocrat Lyubov returns from Paris to her childhood estate, which is due to be sold. Anton Chekhov’s 1903 play highlights the growing irrelevancy of the Russian upper classes as the former peasant class begins to gain power.
The Cherry Orchard
A managing editor of a Chicago newspaper fights to keep his star reporter on the story of a condemned anarchist’s jailbreak, when the reporter is ready to quit and get married.
The Front page
the story of a gay man named Marvin, his lover Whizzer, Marvin’s wife Trina and their extended family from the early ‘80s through the early days of the AIDS crisis.
Falsettos, William Finn and James Lapine
Former lovers, La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont compete in games of seduction and revenge.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Natasha is a beautiful ingénue visiting Moscow while she waits for her beloved fiancé Andrey to return from the war. In a moment of indiscretion, she is seduced by the dashing (but already married) Anatole and her position in society is ruined.
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Based on the one-man show that inspired the now classic film, this streetwise musical will take you to the stoops of the Bronx in the 1960s—where a young man is caught between the father he loves and the mob boss he’d love to be.
A Bronx Tale
All his life, Evan Hansen has felt invisible. But when a tragic event shocks the community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else.
Dear Evan Hansen, Pasek & Paul, Ben Platt
Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden defined beauty standards for the first half of the 20th Century.
War Paint
Southern belle Regina Giddens and her brothers scheme to outwit Regina’s husband Horace, who opposes their attempts to profit from a cotton factory in partnership with a Chicago businessman, in Lillian Hellman’s look at the power of money to destroy lives.
The Little Foxes
Hello Dolly music by
Jerry Herman
Inspired by a true story, a group of wealthy New Yorkers are taken in by a conman who claims to be the son of actor-director Sidney Poitier. His victims turn detective and try to piece together the connections that gave him access to their lives.
Six Degrees of Separation
