Quiz: 'Hamilton' for Musical Theater Geeks
Quiz: 'Hamilton' for Musical Theater Geeks
“Hamilton” has been credited with flipping the script on traditional musical theater, but it also borrows from that tradition. Lin-Manuel Miranda grew up loving both Big Pun and “Les Miz,” and for every hip-hop homage in “Hamilton,” there’s a nod to a musical theater lover’s inner geek. Can you spot the Rodgers and Hammerstein and Sondheim in “Hamilton”?
“Hamilton” has been credited with flipping the script on traditional musical theater, but it also borrows from that tradition. Lin-Manuel Miranda grew up loving both Big Pun and “Les Miz,” and for every hip-hop homage in “Hamilton,” there’s a nod to a musical theater lover’s inner geek. Can you spot the Rodgers and Hammerstein and Sondheim in “Hamilton”?
What musical does the opening number of “Hamilton” take as inspiration?
In “My Shot,” what classic musical is referenced in Aaron Burr’s lines: “I’m with you, but the situation is fraught. / You’ve got to be carefully taught.”
What song in “Hamilton” takes its cue from Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along?”
The song “The Schuyler Sisters” is the “Hamilton” version of this song from Stephen Schwartz’ “Wicked”:
When Miranda performed at the 2012 Lincoln Center American Songbook concert, he opened the program with a combination of Jay Z and Alicia Key’s “Empire State of Mind” and this Sondheim song:
In “Right Hand Man,” Washington raps, “Now I’m the model of a modern major general.” This line first appeared in what Gilbert-and-Sullivan opera?
In the original “Hamilton” casting notice, Angelica Schuyler was described as a mix between rapper Nicki Minaj and this Sondheim leading lady:
In “Hamilton: The Revolution,” Miranda, a huge “Les Miz” fan, notes that he was “trying to out-Eponine Eponine up in this piece”:
This musical theater composer was one of the first major supporters of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s work.
This musical theater composer originally had no clue what a “mixtape” was:
“Say No To This” ends with an exact phrase taken from this 2000s musical:
The soundtrack to “Hamilton” charted higher in its first week of release than any Broadway cast recording since this musical:
Show director Thomas Kail says these four musicals are the grandparents of “Hamilton”:
What musical ends with a character other than its protagonist, like in “Hamilton”?