Quiz: Guess the show!
Have you seen every show that comes to town, and then some?
Have you read all of Shakespeare’s plays (and do you keep them in a handy app on your iphone for quick reference)?
Are you a walking music theatre encyclopaedia?
Take our quiz below and see how you score!
Q 1. On which play by George Bernard Shaw is the musical My Fair Lady based?
My Fair Flopsy
Pygmalion
Arms and the Man
Candida
Q 2. Handspring Puppet Company achieved critical acclaim for their work on which internationally renowned production?
Wolverine The Musical
War Horse
Avenue Q
The Lion King
Q 3. In which of Shakespeare's plays would you find this famous quote? “When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
Romeo and Juliet
All's Well that Ends Well
Much ado about Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
Q 4. Which Australian musical with book and lyrics by Nick Enright begins its narrative on Boxing Day 1945 in outback Australia?
Mary Bryant
Miracle City
Summer Rain
We Will Rock You
Q 5. Which Ray Lawler play opened at the Union Theatre Repertory Company in 1955, sparking a change in the way Australian playwrights told Australian stories on stage?
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
The Piccadilly Bushman
Kid Stakes
Other Times
Q 6. "Stella!" is a famous quote from which play?
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie
The Rose Tattoo
A Streetcar Named Desire
Q 7. Commercial advertising favourite 'Nessun Dorma' is an aria from which opera?
La Traviata
Turandot
Aida
Don Giovanni
Q 8. Which musical, with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe, explores the concepts of acceptance and love and was performed off Broadway in 2001?
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Bat Boy
Ghost
Legally Blonde
Q 9. The Tony Award winning musical Kinky Boots features music by which American pop star?
Carole King
Lady Gaga
Cyndi Lauper
Dolly Parton
Q 10. Which musical by Jason Robert Brown has recently been made into a feature film starring Anna Kendrick?
Into The Woods
Parade
Songs For A New World
The Last Five Years
Q 11. Which 1927 American musical is said to be a seminal work in the musical theatre canon because of its departure from the 'musical comedy' format and its focus on storytelling.
The Book of Mormon
Porgy and Bess
Show Boat
The Threepenny Opera
Q 12. Which musical's lead characters are simply known as "Girl" and "Guy"?
Once
Salad Days
Once We Lived Here
Once on this Island
Q 13. Which Puccini opera was adapted into Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's 1989 smash, Miss Saigon?
Turandot
La bohème
Tosca
Madama Butterfly
Q 14. Which Mozart opera has received acclaim worldwide in a new production featuring the puppetry of The Lion King's Julie Taymor?
The Enchanted Lute
Don Giovanni
The Magic Flute
The Marriage of Figaro
Q 15. Mack The Knife, made famous as a jazz standard by Ella Fitzgerald, originally featured in which work?
Mack and Mabel
The Threepenny Opera
Some Like It Hot
LoveMusik
Theatrical Know-It-All
Congratulations! You've either studied your history of theatre notes from drama school, seen every show on the list, listened to every cast album you can get your hands on (and you're still searching for more!), or read every script and libretto in Perth's Alexander library. You're a theatrical know-it-all!
You're a Leading Player!
You've definitely stood at stage door to meet one of your favourite performers at least once and have belted out Nessun Dorma/recited Shakespeare to unsuspecting relatives/practiced your bevel at SOME point in your life.
My mum buys me tickets for Christmas
You love the theatre scene, and enjoy watching the shows when they come to town, but you don't have enough room in your brain to remember EVERY detail about EVERY genre!
Theatrical what?
Did you find this quiz by mistake? Perhaps a crash course in the history of the arts wouldn't go astray before you attempt the quiz again!