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?
Candida
Arms and the Man
Pygmalion
My Fair Flopsy
Q 2. Handspring Puppet Company achieved critical acclaim for their work on which internationally renowned production?
Wolverine The Musical
The Lion King
Avenue Q
War Horse
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.”
Much ado about Nothing
Romeo and Juliet
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?
Mary Bryant
We Will Rock You
Miracle City
Summer Rain
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?
The Piccadilly Bushman
Kid Stakes
Other Times
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Q 6. "Stella!" is a famous quote from which play?
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie
The Rose Tattoo
Q 7. Commercial advertising favourite 'Nessun Dorma' is an aria from which opera?
Turandot
La Traviata
Don Giovanni
Aida
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?
Cyndi Lauper
Dolly Parton
Carole King
Lady Gaga
Q 10. Which musical by Jason Robert Brown has recently been made into a feature film starring Anna Kendrick?
Parade
Into The Woods
The Last Five Years
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
Once on this Island
Salad Days
Once We Lived Here
Q 13. Which Puccini opera was adapted into Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's 1989 smash, Miss Saigon?
Madama Butterfly
Turandot
Tosca
La bohème
Q 14. Which Mozart opera has received acclaim worldwide in a new production featuring the puppetry of The Lion King's Julie Taymor?
The Marriage of Figaro
The Enchanted Lute
Don Giovanni
The Magic Flute
Q 15. Mack The Knife, made famous as a jazz standard by Ella Fitzgerald, originally featured in which work?
The Threepenny Opera
LoveMusik
Mack and Mabel
Some Like It Hot
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!