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Who are some British playwrights?

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David Hare
Tom Stoppard
Caryl Churchill
Martin McDonagh

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Plenty
The Blue Room
Stuff Happens

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David Hare

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Arcadia 
The Real Thing
Coast of Utopia
Rock n' Roll
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Tom Stoppard

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Cloud Nine

Top Girls

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Caryl Churchill

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Pillowman
The Cripple of Inishman

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Martin McDonagh

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Who is Vaclav Havel?

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Czechoslovakian playwright, prisoner, and later president

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Name a Chinese Opera

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The Peony Pavillion

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Death and the Kings Horseman

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Wole Soyenka

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Blood Knot
Master Harold…and the boys
Road to Mecca
The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek

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Athol Fugarel

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Name some Hispanic American Playwrights

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Maria Irene Fornes (Cuban)
Nilo Cruz (Cuban)
Luiz Valdez (Chicano)
Miguel Pinero (Puerto Rican)
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Anna in the Tropics

Hortensio & the Museum of Dreams

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Nilo Cruz

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Zoot Suit

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Luiz Valdez

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Short Eyes

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Miguel Pinero

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M. Butterfly

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David Henry Hwang

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Name some productions featuring (dis)abled actors/companies

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Big River

Spring Awakening

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Name some gay theatre pieces

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Children’s Hour

Boys in the Band

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Children’s Hour

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Lillian Hellman

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Boys in the Band

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Mort Crowley

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Showboat

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Jerome Kern

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The Threepenny Opera

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Bertolt Brecht

21
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Of Thee I Sing

Porgy and Bess

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George and Ira Gershwin

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Oklahoma
Carousel
South Pacific
King and I
Sound of Music
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Rodgers and Hammerstein

23
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This is the Army

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Irving Berlin

24
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What is Kiss Me Kate based off of?

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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew

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What two icons did My Fair Lady feature?

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Julie Andrews and Rex Harrington

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What is West Side Story based off of?

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Romeo and Juliet; set in West Side NYC, gang conflict

27
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What is Carman, An Auto Erotic Thriller?

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Midwest Carmen

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What is the deal with Play Without Words?

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It features multiple reincarnations of scenes and characters

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Cabaret
Chicago
Curtains

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Kander and Ebb

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Pippin

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  • directed and choreoed by Bob Fosse,

- music by Stephen Schwartz

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Company 
Follies
Sunday in the Park With George
Sweeney Todd
Assasins
Into the Woods
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Stephen Sondheim

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A Chorus Line

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“concept” musical
Michael Bennett
- all about people just outside of the spotlight

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Why was Company such a big deal?

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“concept” musical
non-linear
no happy ending

34
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Cats
Evita
Phantom

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Andrew Lloyd Weber

35
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Name some musicals to do with youth culture

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Hair
Rent
Spring Awakening

36
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Beauty and the Beast
Lion King
Tarzan
Mary Poppins
Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Musicals from Disney Movies

37
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The Producers

Young Frankenstein

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Musicals from Mel Brooks Movies

38
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Name some Musicals based off of Movies

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Carrie: The Musical
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Legally Blonde
The Wedding SInger
High Fidelity
Xanadu
Shrek
Addams Family
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Ghost
Flashdance
Dirty Dancing
Hairspray 
American Psycho
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark
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What are some Original Musicals?

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Urinetown
Spelling Bee
Avenue Q
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

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Serious Musicals

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In the Heights
Spring Awakening
Billy Elliot
Next to Normal
Fun Home
The Book of Mormon
Hamilton
41
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The Book of Mormon

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Book, Lyrics and Music by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez
Directed by Casey Nicholaw

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