Broadway Quiz: The 24 Best Musicals of the First 25 Years of the 21st Century

As 2025 draws to a close, so does the first quarter of the 21st century. There have been 24 Tony Award-winning Best Musicals (thank you, pandemic) in that time, and that's what today's quiz is all about! Good luck!

Broadway Quiz:

The 24 Best Musicals of the First

25 Years of the 21st Century

 

The Producers (2001)     Hairspray (2003)

DIRECTIONS: Considering only the titles below, answer each question. Some of the questions will have multiple answers, and some titles will be used more than once.

 

Spring Awakening (2007)     Kinky Boots (2013)

The Producers        Thoroughly Modern Millie        Hairspray        Avenue Q

Spamalot        Jersey Boys        Spring Awakening        In the Heights

Billy Elliot        Memphis         The Book of Mormon        Once        Kinky Boots

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder        Fun Home        Hamilton

Dear Evan Hansen        The Band's Visit        Hadestown        Moulin Rouge!

A Strange Loop     Kimberly Akimbo     The Outsiders     Maybe Happy Ending

 

A Gentleman's Guide... (2014)     The Band's Visit (2018)

1. Which Best Musicals were based on a book or play?

2. Which Best Musicals were based on a film?

3. Which Best Musicals were based on a completely original idea?

4. How many Best Musicals won 10 or more Tony Awards?

5. How many Best Musicals started off-Broadway?

 

A Strange Loop (2022)     The Outsiders (2024)

6. How many Best Musicals played in London before arriving on Broadway?

7. How many Best Musicals take place outside of the United States?

8. Which Best Musicals have scores that represent the Broadway debut of their writers?

9. How many of these Best Musicals have had Broadway Revivals?

10. Which of these Best Musicals have been made into movies that have been released nationally in movie theaters?