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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?

Arms and the Man

Pygmalion

Candida

My Fair Flopsy

Q 2. Handspring Puppet Company achieved critical acclaim for their work on which internationally renowned production?

The Lion King

Avenue Q

War Horse

Wolverine The Musical

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.”

The Taming of the Shrew

Much ado about Nothing

Romeo and Juliet

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

We Will Rock You

Summer Rain

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?

Kid Stakes

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

The Piccadilly Bushman

Other Times

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

The Rose Tattoo

The Glass Menagerie

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

A Streetcar Named Desire

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

Don Giovanni

Aida

La Traviata

Turandot

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?

Legally Blonde

You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Bat Boy

Ghost

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

Dolly Parton

Cyndi Lauper

Lady Gaga

Carole King

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

Songs For A New World

The Last Five Years

Into The Woods

Parade

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.

Porgy and Bess

The Threepenny Opera

The Book of Mormon

Show Boat

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

Once on this Island

Salad Days

Once We Lived Here

Once

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

Turandot

Tosca

La bohème

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

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

LoveMusik

The Threepenny Opera

Mack and Mabel

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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