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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?

Pygmalion

Arms and the Man

My Fair Flopsy

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

Much ado about Nothing

The Taming of the Shrew

All's Well that Ends Well

Q 4. Which Australian musical with book and lyrics by Nick Enright begins its narrative on Boxing Day 1945 in outback Australia?

Miracle City

Summer Rain

We Will Rock You

Mary Bryant

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?

Other Times

The Piccadilly Bushman

Kid Stakes

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Q 6. "Stella!" is a famous quote from which play?

The Glass Menagerie

The Rose Tattoo

A Streetcar Named Desire

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Q 7. Commercial advertising favourite 'Nessun Dorma' is an aria from which opera?

Don Giovanni

Aida

Turandot

La Traviata

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?

Bat Boy

Legally Blonde

Ghost

You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Q 9. The Tony Award winning musical Kinky Boots features music by which American pop star?

Lady Gaga

Carole King

Cyndi Lauper

Dolly Parton

Q 10. Which musical by Jason Robert Brown has recently been made into a feature film starring Anna Kendrick?

The Last Five Years

Parade

Into The Woods

Songs For A New World

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.

Show Boat

Porgy and Bess

The Threepenny Opera

The Book of Mormon

Q 12. Which musical's lead characters are simply known as "Girl" and "Guy"?

Once We Lived Here

Once

Salad Days

Once on this Island

Q 13. Which Puccini opera was adapted into Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's 1989 smash, Miss Saigon?

La bohème

Madama Butterfly

Turandot

Tosca

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

The Marriage of Figaro

Don Giovanni

The Magic Flute

Q 15. Mack The Knife, made famous as a jazz standard by Ella Fitzgerald, originally featured in which work?

Some Like It Hot

Mack and Mabel

The Threepenny Opera

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!

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