ACROSS
1. Adaptation (2002) was written by _______ _______
8. Exclamation sung at the end of “The Rain in Spain”
9. Nvm
11. Final musical number in A Chorus Line
13. Most movie musicals originate in the ______
17. Negative
18. Grief
20. Grumpy
21. A character’s emotional journey
23. Dustin ____ who plays Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (1985)
25. Snoopy’s alter ego is the World War I Flying ___
28. ___(x2) Land is one of the few modern movie musicals not based on a stage show
29. Star
32. Annoying
35. Type of fruit
36. Sweeney ____
37. Cross-country
38. Fairy ____
39. Dorothy’s aunt in The Wizard of Oz
41. The Polar Express takes place on Christmas ___
42. Clever
44. Replication
46. Initials of A Clockwork Orange author
48. Broadway musical based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
51. Though, abbreviated
52. Teacher’s assistant
54. Goal of a wedding
56. Stink
57. The mayor of Thneedville
59. A melodrama may feature the line “Oh, ___ is me”
60. In my opinion
62. Who was on the roof in 1971?
63. British composer of opera Turn of the Screw
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2. Award, such as the Oscars
3. Beer, rhymes with 38 across
4. Prefix for “again”
5. Sculptures, music, and film are part of this category
6. Action before playing poker
7. Who tells the audience the story
10. Salutation
11. Where is the cat in Tennessee Williams’ 1955 play?
12. Cinder
14. Fun ____, musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir
15. Age
16. 1982 and 2014 movie-musicals about an orphan
19. The TV show Fleabag was based on a ____ show
22. Light source
24. Type of fur
26. Video game creator
27. Ramona Flowers has seven of these
30. Bird associated with bad luck
31. Home of Broadway
33. The Boys in the ____ (2023)
34. Equivalent of a chapter in a movie
35. Inhale, exhale
39. Place beyond the heavens
40. Main character in La La Land (2016)
43. Musical based on La bohème
45. Song of praise
47. The ____ was better
49. Take the wheel
50. Shakespeare’s nickname
53. 1957 ballet by Stravinsky and Balanchine
54. Angry
55. Theologian’s subj.
56. Actor ___ Lowe
58. Synonym for 10 down
60. Stephen King novel
61. Myself
