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1
What actor/composer wrote Hamilton, In The Heights, and the cantina song from Star Wars 7?
Lin Manuel Miranda
Cole Porter
Robert Lopez
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What Jewish composer started the legacy of great American composers and wrote West Side Story?
Moss Hart
Leonard Bernstein
Jerome Robbins
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What choreographer developed dances based on character for shows such as Oklahoma!?
Cole Porter
Bob Fosse
Agnes DeMille
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Whose compositions can be found in Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, and The Pirate Queen?
Claude Michel-Schonberg
Stephen Schwartz
Julie Taymor
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What famous composer combined jazz with classical music and musicals to create Anything Goes?
Cole Porter
Noel Coward
Elton John
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Who was the lyricist for the "perfect combination" of musical theater with Richard Rogers?
Oystein Wiik
Alan Lerner
Oscar Hammerstein II
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Who wrote The Little Mermaid, Newsies, The Little Shop of Horrors, and Beauty and the Beast?
Alan Menken
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
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W.S. Gilbert and this guy created the first great American comic operas such as The Mikado.
Arthur Sullivan
Leonard Bernstein
Irving Berlin
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What famous composer wrote Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita?
Stephen Schwartz
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Leonard Bernstein
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What famous composer/lyricist duo wrote the song "Funny Face"?
Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein
Ira & George Gershwin
Andrew Lloyd Weber & Tim Rice
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Who directed The Lion King and Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark and the movie Across the Universe?
Arthur Sullivan
Julie Taymor
Agnes De Mille
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What two brothers challenged racist stereotypes with their outstanding dance and choreography?
Bob Fosse
Nicholas Brothers
Fred Astaire
13
Who fled Russia and wrote the musicals White Christmas and Annie Get Your Gun?
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Oystein Wiik
Irving Berlin
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Who is known for having composed the music for Frozen, Avenue Q, and Book of Mormon?
Moss Hart
Mel Brooks
Robert Lopez
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Who wrote the musical The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown?
Richard Rogers
Meredith Willson
Claude Michel-Schonberg
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What famous combination wrote the musicals Oklahoma!, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music?
Ira & George Gershwin
Alan Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein
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Who composed the music for The Lion King and Tommy?
Leonard Bernstein
Elton John
Jerome Kern
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Who lived in Jamaica, was English, and wrote, composed, and directed all his own shows?
Noel Coward
Irving Berlin
Moss Hart
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Who wrote Wicked and Godspell to become one of the hardest working composers of the aughts?
Richard Rogers
Stephen Schwartz
Leonard Bernstein
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What famous director and producer is known for directing the Pajama Game at St. James Theatre?
Ira Gershwin
Harold Prince
Jerome Robbins