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Test Your Knowledge: Broadway Edition!

Test Your Knowledge: Broadway Edition!
From HQSaadiqah, June 19th, 2024
Virtual Experience
Who doesn't love a word search? A challenge sure to engage your brain; we've designed a custom word to test your Broadway musical knowledge. Can you find them all? Good luck!...
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Ranking The Top 10 Moulin Rouge! Musical Soundtrack Songs

Ranking The Top 10 Moulin Rouge! Musical Soundtrack Songs

Breaking NewsKevin, June 12th, 2024
BroadwayMusicalTony Nominee
You may fall head over heels for the love story in Baz Luhrmann's audacious retelling of the classic tale, but the Montmartre Quarter of Paris isn't just filled with the scent of love and lust it's filled with banger after banger....
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Try Our Lion King Quiz!

Try Our Lion King Quiz!

From HQDaniel, June 4th, 2024
BroadwayMusicalFamily
Do you think you know your Lion King? Fan of the movie and the musical? Test your knowledge with our quick interactive Lion King Quiz!Still going strong after two incredible decades, this Tony Award-winning extravaganza will delight......
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A Brief History of Queer Theatre

A Brief History of Queer Theatre

From HQKevin, June 4th, 2024
Virtual Experience
Queer theatre has always had a rebellious nature, and isn't afraid to show its true colours. It's sparked important conversations during times when openly discussing LGBTQ+ issues was taboo or illegal, throughout history......
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Check Out The New Trailer For Beetlejuice 2

Check Out The New Trailer For Beetlejuice 2

Breaking NewsKevin, May 24th, 2024
MusicalMothers Day
Say his name thrice, and the mischievous bio-exorcist appears with his signature stripes. Say it twice, and you get the sequel everyone's been waiting for! The long-awaited new trailer for Beetlejuice 2 has finally arrived....
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Test Your Skills: Mamma Mia! Word Search

Test Your Skills: Mamma Mia! Word Search

From HQKevin, May 17th, 2024
BroadwayMusicalMothers Day
You can dance, you can jive and you can certainly complete this exciting Mamma Mia! word search....
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Thank You For The Music! Mamma Mia! is 25 years young

Thank You For The Music! Mamma Mia! is 25 years young

Kitty, April 11th, 2024
BroadwayMusicalMothers Day
Featuring a soundtrack of Swedish pop group ABBA's greatest hits set to a story of romance, mischief and misunderstandings on a sunny Greek Islands, Mamma Mia! has become one of the world's favorite musicals, spawning multiple productions.....
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Wicked Is The Tenth Longest-Running West End Show

Wicked Is The Tenth Longest-Running West End Show

Kevin, April 29th, 2024
BroadwayMusicalFamily
Popular, Wicked is popular! On 24 April, the modern classic (which continues its open-ended run at the Apollo Victoria Theatre) played its 6762nd performance overtaking No Sex Please, We're British, which ran from June 1971......
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New Season
Your Brand New Broadway Season Is Here!

Your Brand New Broadway Season Is Here!

Saadiqah, April 11th, 2024
Broadway in Costa Mesa add some extra sparkle to the start of the year and announce the shows that will be taking over the stage of the Segerstrom Center in 2024 and 2025....
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Awards
This Years Tony Award Nominations!

This Years Tony Award Nominations!

Scarlet, May 9th, 2023
Virtual Experience
The 76th Tony Award nominations have been announced! A total of 38 shows were eligible for nominations, with 27 making the cut. Funny Girl's Lea Michele and previous Tony Winner Myles Frost had the honor of announcing this years nods....
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The Story of Funny Girl

The Story of Funny Girl

From HQKitty, February 27th, 2024
This delectable revival of Isobel Lennart and June Styne's 1964 musical Funny Girl originated on Broadway in 2022 and is now stunning audiences across the country. Telling the extraordinary tale of Fanny Brice, one of the most famous......
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Elphabas Over The Years - Who's Your Favorite?

Elphabas Over The Years - Who's Your Favorite?

From HQKevin, February 27th, 2024
No one, in all of Oz, could ever have predicted that so many talented women would play Elphaba! From the OG Idina Menzel to the latest witch in school, Cynthia Erivo, over 46 actors have embodied the emerald-green queen....
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How Michael Jackson Became The King of Pop

How Michael Jackson Became The King of Pop

From HQKevin, February 9th, 2024
Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web, Thomas Edison discovered the lightbulb, and Michael Jackson invented the moonwalk! As a child, he outsang contemporaries four times his age....
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From Screen To Stage: The Magic of Mamma Mia!

From Screen To Stage: The Magic of Mamma Mia!

From HQKevin, February 1st, 2024
Suspected fathers, dancing queens, and men after midnight - Judy Craymer's iconic sun-soaked masterpiece, Mamma Mia! still holds up all these years later - but what's the secret? For over 25 years, the show has whisked 65 musical lovers alo...
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Beetlejuice: Movie vs Musical

Beetlejuice: Movie vs Musical

From HQKevin, January 29th, 2024
It's the mid-1980s, and author Michael McDowell has recently watched Poltergeist and Ghostbuster. Now, he wants to create his own house of horrors!...
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Thoughts On The New Mean Girls Movie!

Thoughts On The New Mean Girls Movie!

MediaSaadiqah, January 23rd, 2024
The Mean Girls franchise is iconic, and the excitement around the new musical movie was totally justified...
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Les Miserables Movie Re-Released In Cinemas!

Les Miserables Movie Re-Released In Cinemas!

Breaking NewsSaadiqah, January 15th, 2024
Universal Pictures and Cameron Mackintosh have announced the exciting news that the 2012 film adaptation of the musical will be showing in cinemas next month!...
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Get In Losers, We're Going To The Mean Girls Movie!

Get In Losers, We're Going To The Mean Girls Movie!

Breaking NewsScarlet, January 8th, 2024
Twenty years ago, our younger selves were blessed with Tina Fey's teen comedy film, Mean Girls. Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried became household names and the Burn Book became a thing to fear....
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Musicals that are perfect for a Christmas gift!

Musicals that are perfect for a Christmas gift!

From HQSaadiqah, December 8th, 2023
Find the perfect gift this Christmas with Theatreland! We know that finding new ideas every year can be challenging, so to give you a bit of inspiration, we found shows that you can give as a gift....
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Happy Wicked Day!

Happy Wicked Day!

From HQSaadiqah, October 30th, 2023
Join us, alongside millions of theater fans, in celebrating one of Broadway's longest-running musicals with National Wicked Day today! Wicked made its debut at Broadway's Gershwin Theatre on October 30, 2003...
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