Musicals Flashcards
1776 (Musical)
Musical by Sherman Edwards - Premiered on Broadway 1969 - Won Tony for Best Musical - Dramatizes the efforts of John Adams to persuade his colleagues to vote for American Independence and to sign the Declaration of Independence - Songs “Sit Down, John”; “The Lees of Old Virginia”
American Idiot
2010 musical adaptation of Green Day’s rock opera album American Idiot - Written by BJ Armstrong - 2011 Grammy Best Musical
Annie Get Your Gun
1946 musical by Irving Berlin - Fictionalized version of life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show - Songs: Anything You Can Do; There’s No Business Like Show Business; They Say it’s Wonderful; You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun
Bye Bye Birdie
1960 Broadway musical with music by Charles Strouse - Rock superstar Conrad Birdie is drafted into the Army - Based on Elvis being drafted - Won Tony for best musical
Chess (musical)
1986 musical by Benny Andersson y Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA - American grandmaster Freddie Trumper plays a politically-driven Cold War era chess tournament against Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Sergievsky, y they fight over the lovely Florence Vassy - 1988 American version was heavily altered, y critically panned - Songs: One Night in Bangkok; I Know Him So Well; Endgame
Damn Yankees
1955 Broadway musical - Based on Faust legend, set in 1950s Washington DC, when the Yankees dominated baseball - Won Tony for best musical - Songs: “Whatever Lola Wants”; “Six Months Out of Every Year”
Funny Girl
1964 Broadway musical about the life of Broadway star Fanny Brice - Produced by Ray Stark, her son-in-law - Starred Barbara Streisand - Songs: “I’m the Greatest Star”; “Don’t Rain on my Parade”
Guys and Dolls
1950 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser based on the short stories of Damon Runyon - Gamblers Nathan Detroit y Sky Masterson make a bet that Sky can’t take Save a Soul Mission leader Sarah Brown on a date to Havana so Nathan can run an illegal craps game - Won Tony for Best Musical - Songs: Luck be a Lady; Adelaide’s Lament; A Bushel and a Peck; If I Were a Bell
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
1968 Broadway pioneering rock musical - Tells the story of the “tribe”, a group of long-haired hippies of the “Age of Aquarius” living a bohemian life in NYC, y fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War - Songs: “Aquarius”; “Good Morning Starshine”
Hairspray (musical)
2002 Broadway musical by Marc Shaiman - Based on 1988 film by John Waters - In 1962 Baltimore, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program - Tony 2003 Best Musical - Songs: “Good Morning Baltimore”; “Big Blonde and Beautiful “
Hello Dolly!
1964 Broadway musical - Based on The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder - About meddling matchmaker Dolly Levi - Produced by David Merrick - Won a then record 10 Tonys, including Best Musical
Jersey Boys
2005 jukebox musical - Dramatizing the career of The Four Seasons - Won 2006 four Tony’s including Best Musical
Kismet (musical)
1953 Broadway musical by Robert Wright y George Forrest - About a wily poet named Hajj who talks his way out of trouble several times; meanwhile, his beautiful daughter meets y falls in love with the young Caliph - Won Tony award for best musical - Adapted from music of Alexander Borodin
Of Thee I Sing (Musical)
1931 Broadway musical - Music by George y Ira Gershwin - Book by George Kaufman - 1st musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Political satire about John Wintergreen running for president on the “Love” platform
Oh! Calcutta!
1969 theatrical revue by Kenneth Tynan - Consists of sketches on sex-related topics - One of longest running shows in history - Controversial for many scenes with full nudity - Title comes from a French pun “O quel cul t’as!” (“What an ass you have!”)
