PLAYS and MUSICALS Flashcards by Elena F.

Who are some British playwrights?

David Hare
Tom Stoppard
Caryl Churchill
Martin McDonagh

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Plenty
The Blue Room
Stuff Happens

David Hare

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

Tom Stoppard

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Cloud Nine

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Pillowman
The Cripple of Inishman

Martin McDonagh

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Who is Vaclav Havel?

Czechoslovakian playwright, prisoner, and later president

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Name a Chinese Opera

The Peony Pavillion

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Death and the Kings Horseman

Wole Soyenka

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

Athol Fugarel

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Name some Hispanic American Playwrights

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

Nilo Cruz

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Zoot Suit

Luiz Valdez

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Short Eyes

Miguel Pinero

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M. Butterfly

David Henry Hwang

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Name some productions featuring (dis)abled actors/companies

Big River

Spring Awakening

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Name some gay theatre pieces

Children’s Hour

Boys in the Band

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Children’s Hour

Lillian Hellman

Boys in the Band

Mort Crowley

Showboat

Jerome Kern

The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht

Of Thee I Sing

Porgy and Bess

George and Ira Gershwin

Oklahoma
Carousel
South Pacific
King and I
Sound of Music

Rodgers and Hammerstein

This is the Army

Irving Berlin

What is Kiss Me Kate based off of?

Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew

What two icons did My Fair Lady feature?

Julie Andrews and Rex Harrington

What is West Side Story based off of?

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

What is Carman, An Auto Erotic Thriller?

Midwest Carmen

What is the deal with Play Without Words?

It features multiple reincarnations of scenes and characters

Cabaret Chicago Curtains

Kander and Ebb

Pippin

- directed and choreoed by Bob Fosse, | - music by Stephen Schwartz

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

Stephen Sondheim

A Chorus Line

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

Why was Company such a big deal?

"concept" musical non-linear no happy ending

Cats Evita Phantom

Andrew Lloyd Weber

Name some musicals to do with youth culture

Hair Rent Spring Awakening

``` Beauty and the Beast Lion King Tarzan Mary Poppins Little Mermaid Aladdin Hunchback of Notre Dame ```

Musicals from Disney Movies

The Producers | Young Frankenstein

Musicals from Mel Brooks Movies

Name some Musicals based off of Movies

``` 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 ```

What are some Original Musicals?

Urinetown Spelling Bee Avenue Q Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

Serious Musicals

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

The Book of Mormon

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