\*cries\* there's a letter in Cross Road, telling Niccolo >!that his mother died.!<
And Cesare writes a letter to his father in Cesare: Il Creatore che ha distrutto. About wanting to change his career plans. His father... doesn't take it well.
I can think of She Loves Me, Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, and 36 Questions (though it’s only really one occurrence it makes up an entire song, I’m still counting it)
Including more than 5 because some of these are “character gets on or off train and train may not be included for budget reasons”: Starlight Express, Cats, Assassins, Company, Oklahoma, Young Frankenstein, The Mikado (I will include G&S because that is what I do and I am at over 5), Fiddler on the Roof
Yes Emmett definitely has a glow up and the female gaze is tongue in cheek. I Saw Sunset Boulevard recently and was reminded of how similar these scenes were!
As for Elle technically it was a supply closet but still magical.
(Since my other one was kind of heavy...)
Can anyone name a musical that features...
**The Sistine Chapel?**
(the actual place, or just the paintings. Bonus if it's a painting other than the Creation of Adam.)
Edit: Or we can say, **a Michelangelo work** -- any of them, because I'd love to hear about any musicals that talk about David.
Cross Road ([Amduscias](https://youtu.be/90MZUQgekSg?si=RMO6LAyT63wzZz96) is a devil and the only non-human character)
Frankenstein, though one could consider the monster human. He's made from human parts, after all.
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown has Snoopy. (So yeah, um, that actor who's that magnificent, gorgeous devil? He also played [Victor Frankenstein](https://youtu.be/hAhsQrO6PqI?si=OF68_h8aLXjBF9lj) and Snoopy.)
Ride the Cyclone (Karnak), Into the Woods (Milky-White), Annie (Sandy), Avenue Q (controversial perhaps but Kate and Trekkie are the only ones defined as monsters while all others are treated as regular humans), Cinderella (the Godmother is a fairy so I think this counts)
Mean Girls; the mascot is the North Shore Lion, various references are made to roaring, and Regina is referred to as “the apex predator”, a common descriptor for lions.
Wicked, Cinderella, Waitress (?? I remember them cleaning in some scenes)
That’s all I’ve got!
Unless Starkid musicals count in which case A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel also have brooms :)
If movie musicals count :
I remember seeing a Fred astaire musical where he danced with a broom but I can't remember which. There's also the titular broom in Bedknobs and Broomsticks!
Mrs. Doubtfire. Towards the end when he’s having a nightmare and is surrounded by all the Mrs. Doubtfires taunting him 😂 They’re all holding and twirling brooms.
Can anyone name 5 musicals that feature...
a **guillotine**?
(I thought of this game because I realized that, of the two musicals I was watching, not only did both have a character-1 who dies that way, both of them also have a character-2 who does not handle that death well. And another musical (musical 3) that I'm currently obsessed with features the actors who played those "character-2" roles in the proshots I was watching.
And actually, in the end of musical 3, the main character dies (not by guillotine) and the two "character-2" actors' characters both miss him pretty severely, and *they need to be friends*.
(Uhhh one character-2 is the title character. If you've seen it, "a musical where someone dies by guillotine and the title character does not handle it well" might immediately make you think of this one--)
The Cradle Will Rock
Damn Yankees
Evita
The Threepenny Opera
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Working (this should have been first)
Sunset Boulevard (sort of)
Newsies (this should have been second)
Jekyll and Hyde was how I realized that the commonality of shows my Baby Boomer mother enjoyed was that they had singing sex workers -- J&H, Caberet, Les Miz. I didn't take her to Pretty Woman but I'll bet she would have been all over it.
A **Devil**
(adding mine: [The Devil](https://youtu.be/iGIp12E_zww?si=qqxo3lCPaOyPUmqz) and [Cross Road](https://youtu.be/lDK1AJztZ6s?si=WJ7p_0MeQm6wYiNw).
Yes, there's a musical just called The Devil. It's a modernized Faust with rock music based on classical works).
[Frankenstein ](https://youtu.be/n8E6PUlGtfw?si=GiEHZRxkwwe5q-cD)(2014 Brandon Lee)
Frankenstein: A New Musical (2002-ish?)
Frankenstein (more recent American one)
Young Frankenstein
Rocky Horror Picture Show
[Marie Curie](https://youtu.be/Adzr5xjdhao?si=2uXQOp92VekEMU_D)
Writing letters/emails
the great comet, hamilton
Yeah, my first thought was "In 19th century Russia, we write letters". Phantom and DEH would work as well.
Daddy Long Legs is nothing but letters practically the whole show.
She loves me!
Heathers if you count the suicide note
last 5 years, american idiot, operation mincemeat, les mis, spring awakening
dear evan hansen
*Most honorable Judge Turpin*
Six (I Don't Need Your Love starts as a letter to Thomas Seymour, the man Catherine Parr loved when Henry proposed.)
Passion - Sondheim
Les Mis could count
legally blonde (dear Elle, he's a lucky guy)
\*cries\* there's a letter in Cross Road, telling Niccolo >!that his mother died.!< And Cesare writes a letter to his father in Cesare: Il Creatore che ha distrutto. About wanting to change his career plans. His father... doesn't take it well.
Little Women
Waitress (Dear Baby)
Phantom of the Opera!
Wicked. "Dearest darlingest Momsie and Popsical..."
I can think of She Loves Me, Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, and 36 Questions (though it’s only really one occurrence it makes up an entire song, I’m still counting it)
36 Questions in the last act has a whole song about Jase writing emails to Judith!!!
Dear Evan Hansen (sincerely me)
The outsiders
Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Daddy Long Legs…
Billy Elliot (literally has a song and a reprise called The Letter)
Sweeney Todd - The Letter (Also gives me nightmares from performing it because it was so hard)
Email in DEH
1776 with the dispatches from G. Washington to the Continental Congress. And John and Abigail’s letters (Till Then/Yours, Yours, Yours/Compliments)
Sweeney Todd, Hamilton, DEH… that’s all I got
Trains.
Starlight Express Music Man, the first scene is on a train. Anastasia
Hello Dolly
Including more than 5 because some of these are “character gets on or off train and train may not be included for budget reasons”: Starlight Express, Cats, Assassins, Company, Oklahoma, Young Frankenstein, The Mikado (I will include G&S because that is what I do and I am at over 5), Fiddler on the Roof
Hadestown
Chugga chugga chugga chugga.
Music Man, Polar Express,
Anna Karenina.
Water for elephants
The outsiders
On the Twentieth Century
Meet Me in St. Louis has The Trolley Song which I think counts as a train.
Hadestown Water for Elephants Fiddler on the Roof Cabaret Anastasia
42nd Street, Starlight Express, Music Man, Hadestown, On the Twentieth Century
On the 20th Century
An on stage wardrobe power up!
Elsa's transition to the Let it Go dress?
Legally Blonde
Yes Emmett definitely has a glow up and the female gaze is tongue in cheek. I Saw Sunset Boulevard recently and was reminded of how similar these scenes were! As for Elle technically it was a supply closet but still magical.
Wicked during “Popular”?
And even defying gravity with the robe and the broom! Nessa with her slippers. Boq turning... Metal. Quite a few.
Veronica in Heathers?
Into the Woods, witch's transformation
Would Anne of Cleves' quickchange in Get Down count? Six the musical
Do we get bonus points for Sister Act where the same character powers both up and then down again in one song?
Like Cinderella? Does[ taking out a ponytail ](https://youtu.be/-3B1_tpmCmk?si=rWDvgK32qOd7F2tS&t=75)count?
i don’t know if this counts but harry potter + the cursed child with all the quick changes/polyjuice potion?
Phantom of the Opera when Christine goes from chorus girl to star in remember me.
Strongest Suit - Aida, kind of? More of a brag on the already powered wardrobe lol
(Since my other one was kind of heavy...) Can anyone name a musical that features... **The Sistine Chapel?** (the actual place, or just the paintings. Bonus if it's a painting other than the Creation of Adam.) Edit: Or we can say, **a Michelangelo work** -- any of them, because I'd love to hear about any musicals that talk about David.
The song "It's an Art" in "Working" contains the lyrics, "Maybe I'm not quite Michelangelo, but I'm not just a waitress, I'm a one-woman show."
Not specific, but Light in the Piazza
🎵 i*t's the land of naked marble booooys *🎵
**A character who is not human in a mainly human cast.**
Milky White in Into the Woods
Aladdin has several, and I'm counting Wicked for Doctor Dillamond
Dillamond is one of the characters I had in mind when I wrote this :)
Little shop of horrors, Audrey 2
Ride the Cyclone! Karnak’s a fortune-telling machine
Does Legally Blonde count with the dogs? 😂
Cross Road ([Amduscias](https://youtu.be/90MZUQgekSg?si=RMO6LAyT63wzZz96) is a devil and the only non-human character) Frankenstein, though one could consider the monster human. He's made from human parts, after all. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown has Snoopy. (So yeah, um, that actor who's that magnificent, gorgeous devil? He also played [Victor Frankenstein](https://youtu.be/hAhsQrO6PqI?si=OF68_h8aLXjBF9lj) and Snoopy.)
Ride the Cyclone (Karnak), Into the Woods (Milky-White), Annie (Sandy), Avenue Q (controversial perhaps but Kate and Trekkie are the only ones defined as monsters while all others are treated as regular humans), Cinderella (the Godmother is a fairy so I think this counts)
Lions, but you Can’t say Lion King
Wicked and the Wizard of Oz
And The Wiz!
Mean Girls; the mascot is the North Shore Lion, various references are made to roaring, and Regina is referred to as “the apex predator”, a common descriptor for lions.
Water for Elephants
Cinderella, anything Oz related, The Magic Show, A Very Potter Musical, Androcles and the Lion
RUMBLEROAR
The Wizard of Oz.. technically just the one.
Name a musical that features… **A BROOM!** This could be a magic broom, a cleaning broom, any and all kinds of brooms!
Wicked, Cinderella, Waitress (?? I remember them cleaning in some scenes) That’s all I’ve got! Unless Starkid musicals count in which case A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel also have brooms :)
Beauty and the Beast?
If movie musicals count : I remember seeing a Fred astaire musical where he danced with a broom but I can't remember which. There's also the titular broom in Bedknobs and Broomsticks!
Fiddler on the roof?
Mrs. Doubtfire. Towards the end when he’s having a nightmare and is surrounded by all the Mrs. Doubtfires taunting him 😂 They’re all holding and twirling brooms.
Les mis
Of course! The iconic picture!
Can’t believe no one has said Annie!
This one is easy; blood
Little shop of horrors
Sweeney Todd, Hamilton, Assassins, Heathers, Les Mis
Evil Dead; there’s actually a splatter zone.
American psycho
Carrie
Pippin !
The outsiders by the end everyone is covered in it
Oklahoma! Especially the 2019 revival. Carrie
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Can anyone name 5 musicals that feature... a **guillotine**? (I thought of this game because I realized that, of the two musicals I was watching, not only did both have a character-1 who dies that way, both of them also have a character-2 who does not handle that death well. And another musical (musical 3) that I'm currently obsessed with features the actors who played those "character-2" roles in the proshots I was watching. And actually, in the end of musical 3, the main character dies (not by guillotine) and the two "character-2" actors' characters both miss him pretty severely, and *they need to be friends*. (Uhhh one character-2 is the title character. If you've seen it, "a musical where someone dies by guillotine and the title character does not handle it well" might immediately make you think of this one--)
I don’t know about five, but I can name SIX
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Tale of Two Cities
1789 les amants de la bastille, le rouge et le noir
So excited to see the tale of two cities and scarlet pimpernel replies! I love both of those.
A large-scale attack; either battle or simply an attack
Hamilton, come from away, Les mis?
The last chord of Little Shop of Horrors
Wicked when they’re hunting for Elphaba?
Someone playing accordion onstage
the great comet
Ride the Cyclone
Hadestown, I believe one of the fates plays accordion though I may be wrong
Sweeney Todd
Roads !!
The Wiz
Road Show
Starry, The Wiz, Hadestown, A Goofy Movie, Big Fish Decidedly *not* Back to the Future
An intended bilingual bonus, either as plot point or lyric
Six! You get French in Don't Lose Ur Head, and a couple German jokes in both Haus of Holbein and Get Down
Water for Elephants In the Heights Hamilton (Lafayette) The Great Comet (some Russian) Fiddler on the Roof (Some Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian)
The light in the piazza
West Side Story is first to come to mind
Great Comet has some French and Russian sprinkled in.
A board game
Chess South Pacific?
Falsettos is all I can think of :/
Clue!
Disabled Representation!
Ride The Cyclone and Wicked.
Be More Chill and Lightning Thief
A labor dispute
Newsies!
9 to 5?
Ragtime
The Cradle Will Rock Damn Yankees Evita The Threepenny Opera The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Working (this should have been first) Sunset Boulevard (sort of) Newsies (this should have been second)
Great! I was thinking of The Pajama Game
Also Billy Elliot!
Pajama Game
Trains
Hadestown
7/11 edit: Convenience store
Heathers!
In The Heights
The convenience store? edit: Okay. I'm not sure what chain they mentioned, or if they used a real one at all, and it's really dark, but. Trace U.
Be More Chill!
An animal puppet character. Bonus points if you name a non-Disney show.
The squirrel in Percy Jackson
Altar Boyz.
How has no one said Avenue Q yet?
Prostitutes!
Sweet Charity
Les Mis! I also assume Pretty Woman (never saw the musical or movie).
Les Mis
Jekyll and Hyde!
Jekyll and Hyde was how I realized that the commonality of shows my Baby Boomer mother enjoyed was that they had singing sex workers -- J&H, Caberet, Les Miz. I didn't take her to Pretty Woman but I'll bet she would have been all over it.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas!
Ride The Cyclone
A **Devil** (adding mine: [The Devil](https://youtu.be/iGIp12E_zww?si=qqxo3lCPaOyPUmqz) and [Cross Road](https://youtu.be/lDK1AJztZ6s?si=WJ7p_0MeQm6wYiNw). Yes, there's a musical just called The Devil. It's a modernized Faust with rock music based on classical works).
Book of Mormon during spooky Mormon hell dream
Damn Yankees
Does Hadestown count?
Devils Carnival and Devils Carnival Alleluia! I'll throw in Pick of Destiny just for funsies cause I love Tribute so much
Name 5 musicals that are non-stop music (Breaks in the music are allowed if they're infrequent and only occur 1 or 2 times)
Les Mis and Come From Away if talking while music is playing counts!
Hamilton is the definition of of this. There's like 3 spoken sentances
Falsettos
I don't know if you'll have any for this but characters that are aware they are in a musical
The guy who didn't like musicals
Hmmm... fruit. I'm really hungry, so that was the first hung that came to mind.
Aladdin (Jasmine inadvertently steals an apple from the marketplace)
High school loser protagonist
The theme of justice
Legally Blonde, Wicked
Les Mis
Name five musicals featuring science
[Frankenstein ](https://youtu.be/n8E6PUlGtfw?si=GiEHZRxkwwe5q-cD)(2014 Brandon Lee) Frankenstein: A New Musical (2002-ish?) Frankenstein (more recent American one) Young Frankenstein Rocky Horror Picture Show [Marie Curie](https://youtu.be/Adzr5xjdhao?si=2uXQOp92VekEMU_D)
A witch
This might be cheating, but: - The Wizard of Oz - The Wiz - Wicked - A Very Potter Musical - A Very Potter Sequel
Big Fish
Into the woods!
Characters that play guitar!
Rent, Sound of Music
Hadestown
Wedding singer
5 musicals featuring explosions!
Heathers
Hamilton
SpongeBob was GOING to have an explosion
Chocolate
My Fair Lady. "Lots of chocklit for me to eat"
Wonka
Black mail
Sweeney todd
Hamilton
stars (without saying starry, starlight express or any starkid show)
First thought was Les Mis bc of Stars
Merrily We Roll Along
in the heights, les mis, songs for a new world
Mean Girls (I See Stars)
Musical within a Musical: I've give the first - Bare: A Pop Opera
5 musicals that feature someone trying to solve a murder!