Plays and Musicals
All the world's a stage, and all the world's best trivia buffs know their plays and musicals. Take a chance on some of these questions and find out if you're worthy of a standing ovation. Break a leg!
In which year did New York have its very first premiere of a musical version of Peter Pan?
Which of Eugene O’Neill’s plays was first seen 15 years after it was written and after he had died?
WHICH MUSICAL POLICE SHOW WAS THE BRAIN CHILD OF WRITER/PRODUCER STEVEN BOCHCO?
WHO COMPOSED THE OPERA TURANDOT?
WHICH SWEET MUSICAL HAD THE SHOW-STOPPER RHYTHM OF LIFE?
WHICH OPERA DOES “PAVAROTTI’S” “NESUN DORMA” ACTUALLY COME FROM?
Which musical features the song, Talk to the Animals?
Which cult musical features the song Dammit Janet?
Who composed the opera Don Giovanni?
What was Mary Martin’s first Broadway success?
Julius Caesar Hamlet Macbeth Richard III links not Obvious?
What was the second Oscar Hammerstein show to win the Pulitzer Prize?
Which musical contains the song Kansas City? a) Calamity Jane, b) Oklahoma!, or c) Annie Get Your Gun?
WHAT LIGHT OPERAS NAME LITERALLY MEANS HONOURABLE GATE?
FROM WHICH RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN MUSICAL DOES THE SONG GETTING TO KNOW YOU COME? A) CAROUSEL, B) THE KING AND I, OR C) THE SOUND OF MUSIC?
THE BALLAD OF MACKIE MESSER’ IS THE OPENING AND CLOSING LAMENT OF THE THREEPENNY OPERA (DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER) BY BERTOLT BRECHT AND KURT WEILL. BY WHAT NAME IS IT POPULAR IN VERSIONS BY LOUIS ARMSTRONG, BOBBY DARIN AND OTHERS?
WHICH GROUND-BREAKING AMERICAN MUSICAL WAS BASED ON THE BOOK GREEN GROW THE LILACS?
Which comedian played the role of Yorick in Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 version of Hamlet?
Which 1961 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was set in San Francisco’s Chinatown?
Who wrote the play on which the musical My Fair Lady was based?
What British duo’s works are referred to as the Savoy Operas?
Which Line was the longest running musical in Broadway history?
Complete the title of this Ionesco play: The Bald…
The song ‘If I were a rich man’ comes from which musical?
WHAT ‘MB’ WAS THE PUCCINI OPERA FIRST PERFORMED IN 1904?
WHAT ‘D’ IS AN AUTHOR OF PLAYS?
WHO WROTE ‘PRIVATE LIVES’ IN 1930 AND ‘BLYTH SPIRIT’ IN 1941?
In which town is the Mikado set?
In which country is the opera The Magic Flute set?
Which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is set in Venice?
What word is defined as a speech that introduces a play?
Who co-founded the Renaissance theatre Company with David Parfitt in 1987?
Who wrote the play on which Porgy & Bess was based?
In London, the Cambridge, the Lyric and the Adelphi are all what?
The title of what play comes from what Vladimir and Estragon were doing?
WHAT ‘O’ PRECEDES AN OPERA?
“OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING” IS THE OPENING SONG TO WHICH FAMOUS MUSICAL?
WHO COMEDIAN WROTE THE MUSICAL (WE WILL ROCK YOU) IN COLLABORATION WITH QUEEN MEMBERS BRIAN MAY AND ROGER TAYLOR?
WHAT ‘TOTH’ IS THE PLAY FROM THE BOOK THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS?
What was Oscar Wilde referring to when he said, “it requires one to assume such indecent postures”?
Which 1971 musical starring Twiggy was set in the town on Portsmouth in the late 1920s?
Which Oscar winning musical features the song, As Long As He Needs Me?
Which pantomime features the character of Alice Fitzwarren?
Who created the role of finicky Felix Ungar in 1965 in the original Broadway production of The Odd Couple?
The first national theatre was founded in Paris by Louis XIV in 1680. What is its name?
What Rodgers and Hammerstein show is the most often-performed musical in U.S. high schools?
What was the title of George Bernard Shaw’s play about Joan of Arc?
IN WHICH BAVARIAN TOWN IS THE PASSION PLAY PERFORMED EVERY TEN YEARS?
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE DOG THAT BELONGS TO PUNCH AND JUDY?
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