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!
Who wrote ‘Look Back in Anger’?
What was the first show to be produced and directed by Hal Prince?
From what musical did the song “I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair” come ?
Who wrote The Beggar’s Opera in 1728?
An opera written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal was first performed on December 24, 1871. What was it?
What comic strip character did Gary Burghoff play off-Broadway before he became known to moviegoers and TV viewers as Corporal Radar O’Reilly of M*A*S*H?
How many Gilbert and Sullivan operas are there?
What musical did author Jonathan Larson spend seven years working on, only to die ours before its pre-Broadway opening?
Who wrote the music for West Side Story?
What star-to-be appeared on Broadway in 1954 as the insolent homosexual Arab houseboy in Andre Gide’s The Immoralist?
Which of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas is set in the Tower of London?
Who appeared in the Oxford revue Beyond The Fringe and went on to open a satirical nightclub called the Establishment?
What famous playwright wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 movie Network?
Which overture written by Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by the echoes of a Scottish sea cave that he visited in 1829 and was named for it?
Ping Pong and Pang are characters in which opera?
Which Greta Garbo classic was later remade as a musical?
An opera written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal was first performed on December 24, 1871. What was it?
Who wrote The Sound of Music?
From which show does Love Changes Everything come from?
Which musical featured the song Sit Down You’re Rockin’ The Boat?
Who is the only playwright to have won four Pulitzer Prizes?
Which musical phenomenon adapted from a 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux tells the story of Erik?
Which character from Thomas Morton’s play Speed the Plough (1798) was considered to be the personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety and has now come to mean a priggish person?
What was the name of the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins?
Which musical featured the song Ol’ Man River?
What was the musical version of the Broadway show The Rainmaker called?
Which prolific comic playwright wrote the trilogy The Norman Conquests?
In which of Aristophanes’ plays do the women of Athens refuse to make love to their husbands until a war is over?
Which famous musical opens up with an auction underneath a Paris theatre?
What is the native language of English playwright Tom Stoppard, author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties and The Real Thing?
What city’s opera house does ” The Phantom of the Opera” prowl?
In which ‘Road’ comedy do Bob Hope and Bing Crosby ‘meet’ Humphrey Bogart?
Who wrote The Sound of Music?
Which musical star sang I Hate Men in the film version of Kiss Me Kate?
If I were a Rich Man, comes from which stage show?
The songs ‘Aquarius’, Good Morning Starshine’ and ‘Let The Sunshine In’ all featured in which musical?
What ‘lb’ is the opera by Puccini based on Parisian artists’ lives?
What is the title of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a collection of animal poems by T S Eliot?
Which musical was a reworking of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly?
What is the name of the imaginary city built in the air in The Birds, the comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristophanes in 414B.C.?
Who wrote and starred in Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit?
Which playwright Noel, whose centenary was celebrated in 1999, wrote Hay Fever and Private Lives which were revived in London that year?
IN WHICH CITY IS THE OPERA HOUSE OF 2004’S THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA?
IN BIZET’S “CARMEN” WHAT IS THE PROFESSION OF ESCAMILLO?
MAYA ANGELOU MADE HERSELF UNAVAILABLE FOR REHEARSALS AFTER WORKING ON WHICH MUSICAL?
What German’s operatic saga is retold Texas-style in Jim Luigs’ stage production, DAs Barbecue?
Translate from Cockney slang: Lillian Gish
Translate from Cockney slang: Terry Waite
Who had a UK number one with “On the Floor” in 2011?
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