| SAIGON | Miss - - -, award-winning stage musical (6) |
| COME | - From Away, award- winning stage musical (4) |
| UPTURN | Improvement in winning stage act |
| GRINT | Harry Potter star, award-winning stage actor Rupert _ (5) |
| OLIVIER | Actor known for his award-winning stage and film work and his marriage to Vivien Leigh, Sir Laurence |
| CRUZ | Nilo -, author of 2003 Pulitzer Prize for drama-winning stage play Anna in the Tropics (4) |
| JESSIE | Miss Matthews, English singer/ dancer who appeared in the 1930 stage musical comedy Ever Green (6) |
| WICKED | Stage musical based on The Wizard of Oz. (6) |
| HORROR | The Rocky - - - Show, stage musical by Richard O'brien (6) |
| OLIVER | Stage musical and film based on a Dickens novel (6) |
| NATHAN | And 4 Sweetheart of Adelaide in the stage musical Guys and Dolls (6,7) |
| SUNSET | _ Boulevard, Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on the 1950 film of the same name (6) |
| OHWHAT | 1963 stage musical devised by Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop (2,4,1,6,3) |
| AVENUE | _ Q, stage musical featuring human actors as well as puppets (6) |
| GREASE | 1971 Jim Jacobs/Warren Casey stage musical made into a 1978 film (6) |
| ALFRED | ____ Doolittle, father of flower girl Eliza in the play Pygmalion and stage musical My Fair Lady (6) |
| GLINDA | Sorceress and friend of Elphaba in the stage musical Wicked that premiered in 2003 (6) |
| LATEST | "Peron's ___ Flame", song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1978 stage musical Evita (6) |
| BIRDIE | Stage musical, Bye Bye ___ |
| THEYRE | ___ Playing Our Song (Stage musical) |
