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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 musical did the heroine “wash that man right out of her hair”?

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South Pacific

Who wrote ‘Look Back in Anger’?

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John Osbourne

What was the first show to be produced and directed by Hal Prince?

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She Loves Me.

From what musical did the song “I’m gonna wash that man right out of my hair” come ?

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South pacific

Who wrote The Beggar’s Opera in 1728?

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John Gay.

An opera written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal was first performed on December 24, 1871. What was it?

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Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi.

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?

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He played Charlie Brown in the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, in 1967.

How many Gilbert and Sullivan operas are there?

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13

What musical did author Jonathan Larson spend seven years working on, only to die ours before its pre-Broadway opening?

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Rent.

Who wrote the music for West Side Story?

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Leonard Bernstein.

What star-to-be appeared on Broadway in 1954 as the insolent homosexual Arab houseboy in Andre Gide’s The Immoralist?

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James Dean.

Which of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas is set in the Tower of London?

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Yeoman of the guard.

Who appeared in the Oxford revue Beyond The Fringe and went on to open a satirical nightclub called the Establishment?

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Peter Cook.

What famous playwright wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 movie Network?

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Paddy Chayefsky, who earlier gave us Marty.

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?

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Fingal’s Cave overture Mendelssohn’s overture popularized the cave as a tourist destination. It is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Its size and naturally arched roof, and the eerie sounds produced by the echoes of waves, give it the atmosphere of a natural cathedral.

Ping Pong and Pang are characters in which opera?

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Turendot – by Puccini

Which Greta Garbo classic was later remade as a musical?

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Ninotchka (as Silk Stockings)

An opera written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal was first performed on December 24, 1871. What was it?

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Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi.

Who wrote The Sound of Music?

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

From which show does Love Changes Everything come from?

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Aspects of Love.

Which musical featured the song Sit Down You’re Rockin’ The Boat?

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Guys and Dolls.

Who is the only playwright to have won four Pulitzer Prizes?

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Eugene O’Neill. He won the drama prize for Beyond the Horizon in 1920, for Anna Christie in 1922, for Strange Interlude in 1928 and for Long Day’s Journey Into Night in 1957.

Which musical phenomenon adapted from a 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux tells the story of Erik?

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The Phantom of the Opera It is now the longest running Broadway show in history and also the most lucrative entertainment enterprise of all time, with its worldwide box office over the past 20 years out-grossing even the highest grossing film in history, Titanic. The story is about a man named Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris, France. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.

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?

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Mrs Grundy Curiously for so famous a character, Mrs Grundy never actually appears in the play which introduced her.

What was the name of the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins?

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Bert

Which musical featured the song Ol’ Man River?

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Showboat.

What was the musical version of the Broadway show The Rainmaker called?

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110 in the Shade

Which prolific comic playwright wrote the trilogy The Norman Conquests?

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Alan Aychbourn.

In which of Aristophanes’ plays do the women of Athens refuse to make love to their husbands until a war is over?

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Lysistrata.

Which famous musical opens up with an auction underneath a Paris theatre?

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Phantom of the opera

What is the native language of English playwright Tom Stoppard, author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties and The Real Thing?

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Czech. He was born Thomas Straussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, 1937. Stoppard is the name of the British Army officer his mother married in 1946.

What city’s opera house does ” The Phantom of the Opera” prowl?

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Paris.

In which ‘Road’ comedy do Bob Hope and Bing Crosby ‘meet’ Humphrey Bogart?

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Road to Bali

Who wrote The Sound of Music?

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Rodgers & Hammerstein

Which musical star sang I Hate Men in the film version of Kiss Me Kate?

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Ann Miller

If I were a Rich Man, comes from which stage show?

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Fiddler on the Roof

The songs ‘Aquarius’, Good Morning Starshine’ and ‘Let The Sunshine In’ all featured in which musical?

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Hair

What ‘lb’ is the opera by Puccini based on Parisian artists’ lives?

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La Boheme

What is the title of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a collection of animal poems by T S Eliot?

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Cats.

Which musical was a reworking of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly?

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Miss Saigon.

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.?

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Cloud-Cuckoo-Land – or Nephelococcygia in Greek.

Who wrote and starred in Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Blithe Spirit?

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Noel Coward.

Which playwright Noel, whose centenary was celebrated in 1999, wrote Hay Fever and Private Lives which were revived in London that year?

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Coward.

IN WHICH CITY IS THE OPERA HOUSE OF 2004’S THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA?

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PARIS

IN BIZET’S “CARMEN” WHAT IS THE PROFESSION OF ESCAMILLO?

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BULLFIGHTER

MAYA ANGELOU MADE HERSELF UNAVAILABLE FOR REHEARSALS AFTER WORKING ON WHICH MUSICAL?

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KING – THE MUSICAL (1990)

What German’s operatic saga is retold Texas-style in Jim Luigs’ stage production, DAs Barbecue?

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Richard Wagner’s

Translate from Cockney slang: Lillian Gish

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Answer: Pish

Translate from Cockney slang: Terry Waite

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Answer: Late

Who had a UK number one with “On the Floor” in 2011?

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Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
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