Musicals

Question 1

Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs

Answer 1

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 2

the Jets (blue-collar) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican)

Answer 2

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 3

Tony, a former Jet, falls in love with Bernardo’s sister Maria

Answer 3

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 4

“Maria” begins with a tritone

Answer 4

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 5

“America” features alternating measures of 6/8 and 3/4 time signatures

Answer 5

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 6

Anita and Rosalia argue about whether the US or PR is better

Answer 6

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 7

“Tonight” sung by Tony & Maria on a fire escape

Answer 7

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 8

“I Feel Pretty”

Answer 8

West Side Story (by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

Question 9

soprano Christine Daaé falls in love with the opera’s new patron, Raoul

Answer 9

The Phantom of the Opera (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 10

premier of Don Juan Triumphant

Answer 10

The Phantom of the Opera (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 11

adapted from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot

Answer 11

Cats (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 12

Jellicle tribe

Answer 12

Cats (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 13

Jennyanydots, Rum Tum Tugger, Macavity, Mr. Mistoffelees, Old Deuteronomy

Answer 13

Cats (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 14

“Memory” sung by Grizabella

Answer 14

Cats (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 15

the life story of Eva “Evita” Perón

Answer 15

Evita (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 16

Rainbow Tour

Answer 16

Evita (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 17

“descamisados”

Answer 17

Evita (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 18

Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

Answer 18

Evita (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Question 19

adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion

Answer 19

My Fair Lady (by Lerner and Loewe)

Question 20

The Rain in Spain

Answer 20

My Fair Lady (by Lerner and Loewe)

Question 21

Wouldn’t it be Loverly?

Answer 21

My Fair Lady (by Lerner and Loewe)

Question 22

I Could Have Danced All Night

Answer 22

My Fair Lady (by Lerner and Loewe)

Question 23

Get Me to the Church on Time

Answer 23

My Fair Lady (by Lerner and Loewe)

Question 24

The Mikado (Emperor of Japan) has made flirting a capital crime

Answer 24

The Mikado (by Gilbert & Sullivan)

Question 25

the people appoint an executioner named Ko-Ko

Answer 25

The Mikado (by Gilbert & Sullivan)

Question 26

Yum-Yum marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo

Answer 26

The Mikado (by Gilbert & Sullivan)

Question 27

Grand Pooh-Bah

Answer 27

The Mikado (by Gilbert & Sullivan)

Question 28

Maria, studying to be a nun, becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp

Answer 28

The Sound of Music (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 29

a flibbertigibbet, a will-‘o-the-wisp, a clown

Answer 29

The Sound of Music (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 30

Sixteen Going on Seventeen

Answer 30

The Sound of Music (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 31

includes the nuns The Mother Abbess, Sister Bertha, Sister Margareta, Sister Sophia

Answer 31

The Sound of Music (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 32

Von Trapp children: Liesl (16), Friedrich (14), Louisa (13), Kurt (11), Brigitta (10), Marta (7), Gretl (5)

Answer 32

The Sound of Music (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 33

Tevye, a poor milkman with five daughters

Answer 33

Fiddler on the Roof

Question 34

daughters Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava

Answer 34

Fiddler on the Roof

Question 35

cowboy Curly McLain and farmhand Judd compete for the love of Laurey

Answer 35

Oklahoma! (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 36

Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’

Answer 36

Oklahoma! (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 37

the seedy Kit-Kat Klub in Berlin

Answer 37

Cabaret (by by Fred Kander; John Ebb)

Question 38

lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with Cliff Bradshaw

Answer 38

Cabaret (by by Fred Kander; John Ebb)

Question 39

risqué Master of Ceremonies presides over the action

Answer 39

Cabaret (by by Fred Kander; John Ebb)

Question 40

Harold Hill attempts to con the families of River City, Iowa, by starting a boys’ band

Answer 40

The Music Man (by Wilson and Lacey)

Question 41

an adaptation of Giacomo Puccini’s opera La bohème

Answer 41

Rent (by Jonathan Larson)

Question 42

"I Dreamed a Dream" sung by Fantine

Answer 42

Les Misérables (by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg)

Question 43

"On My Own" sung by Éponine

Answer 43

Les Misérables (by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg)

Question 44

includes Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert, Fantine, Marius, Cossette, Éponine, Gavroche

Answer 44

Les Misérables (by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg)

Question 45

Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher, travels to Siam

Answer 45

The King and I (by Rodgers and Hammerstein)

Question 46

The Connor Project

Answer 46

Dear Evan Hanson (by Pasek and Paul)

Question 47

includes Velma Kelly

Answer 47

Chicago (by Kander and Ebb)

Question 48

Roxie Hart murders Fred Casely

Answer 48

Chicago (by Kander and Ebb)

Question 49

"Mama" Morton is the Matron of the cell block

Answer 49

Chicago (by Kander and Ebb)

Question 50

Annie lives at an orphanage run by Miss Hannigan

Answer 50

Annie

Question 51

stray dog called Sandy

Answer 51

Annie

Question 52

Grace Farrell is the assistant to the billionaire Oliver ‘Daddy’ Warbucks

Answer 52

Annie