Theatre Production 1 (Vocab Quiz #4)

According to the Ancient Greeks, he was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play.

• Thespis

• Alan Menken

• Shakespeare

• Walt Disney

One of the greatest American composers and lyricists who has one an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His major musicals include Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Sunday in the Park with George. He also wrote the lyrics to West Side Story and Gypsy.

• Alan Menken

• Stephen Sondheim

• Stephen Schwartz

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

An American musical theatre lyricist and composer who has won Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and a Tony Award. His shows include Wicked, Pocahaontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Enchanted.

• Stephen Schwartz

• Pasek & Paul

• Rodgers & Hammerstein

• Stephen Sondheim

A composer and lyricist of Broadway musicals that wrote Oklahoma, Sound of Music, South Pacific, Carousel, King and I, and Cinderella.

• Stephen Sondheim

• Rodgers & Hammerstein

• Stephen Schwartz

• Pasek & Paul

An American songwriting duo and composing team for musical theatre, films, and television. They have received and Academy Award and a Tony Award for their writing. Their shows include Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, and The Greatest Showman.

• Rodgers & Hammerstein

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Alan Menken

• Pasek & Paul

An American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor widely known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In The Heights and Hamilton. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award.

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Alan Menkin

• Pasek & Paul

An English composer of musical theatre who has won six Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award. His musicals include Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Jesus Christ Superstar.

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Stephen Sondheim

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Stephen Schwartz

An American musical theater and film composer who has won eight Academy Awards, a Tony Ward and has been awarded as a Disney Legend. His musicals include Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast.

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Walt Disney

• Thespis

• Alan Menken

An English playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and at least 34 other plays that were printed in the First Folio.

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Walt Disney

• Thespis

• Shakespeare

An American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards for an individual having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations.

• Walt Disney

• Thespis

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Stephen Sondheim