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Quiz: How well do you know your Australian Musical casts?

Are you a musical theatre diva? Do you know all there is to know about the Aussie MT industry?

Take our quiz about Australian musical theatre casts – past and present – and see how you score!

Q 1. Who originated the role of Elphaba in the debut Australian season of WICKED, 2008?

Amanda Harrison

Pippa Grandison

Patrice Tipoki

Jemma Rix

Q 2. Who played the role of Grizabella in the 2010 Australian tour of CATS?

Debra Byrne

Silvie Palladino

Delia Hannah

Pippa Grandison

Q 3. Who played the title role in the 1974 Australian production of Pippin?

John Farnham

Reg Gorman

Reg Livermore

John Frost

Q 4. Which performer originated the role of Frankie Valli in the Australian production of Jersey Boys?

Gareth Keegan

Dion Billios

Jye Frasca

Bobby Fox

Q 5. Who starred as Charity Hope Valentine in the 1967 Australian production of Sweet Charity?

Verity Hunt-Ballard

Toni Lamond

Nancye Hayes

Jill Perryman

Q 6. Which Australian appeared in both Love Never Dies and Priscilla - Queen of the Desert?

Jeremy Stanford

Ben Lewis

Sharon Millerchip

Amelia Cormack

Q 7. How many of the Hannaford siblings appeared in King Kong in 2013?

One

Four

Three

Two

Q 8. Who played the role of Aldonza in Man of La Mancha when it opened in Melbourne in 2002?

Marina Prior

Marika Aubrey

Caroline O'Connor

Silvie Paladino

Q 9. Who was originally cast as Bobby in the 1996 Australian production of Crazy for You, opposite Georgie Parker?

David Atkins

Dein Perry

Todd McKenney

Jim Walton

Q 10. Who played Norma Desmond's love interest in the 1996 Australian production of Sunset Boulevard?

Hugh Jackman

Anthony Warlow

Alex Rathgeber

Peter Cousens

Q 11. Who played the lead role of Bobby in Kookaburra's production of Company in 2007?

Michael Falzon

David Campbell

Shaun Rennie

James Millar

Q 12. Who played Sean Flynn in the Australian production of Eureka! The Musical in 2004?

Peter Carroll

Michael Cormick

Simon Gleeson

Ian Stenlake

Q 13. Who played Jean Valjean in the original Sydney production of Les Miserables in 1987?

Philip Quast

Hugh Jackman

Rob Guest

Normie Rowe

Q 14. Which Australian performer has performed the role of Meg Giry in both The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies in Australia?

Nadia Komazec

Caroline O'Connor

Sharon Millerchip

Chelsea Gibb

Q 15. Who played the role of Désirée in Opera Australia's 2009 production of A Little Night Music?

Noni Hazlehurst

Sigrid Thornton

Lisa McCune

Nancye Hayes

Q 16. Who performed the role of Anita in the 2010 Australian tour of West Side Story?

Alinta Chidzey

Monique Montez

Stephanie Grigg

Rowena Vilar

You're A Diva!

Congratulations! You've either studied your history of music theatre notes from drama school, seen every show on the list, or listened to every cast album you can get your hands on (and you're still searching for more!). You're a DIVA!

You're a Leading Player!

You've definitely stood at stage door to meet one of your favourite performers at least once and have listened to a recording of RENT/ Bernadette Peters singing Unexpected Song/Les Miserables/Phantom of the Opera/Miss Saigon/Next To Normal (on tape, CD, mini disk or mp3) at SOME point in your life.

My mum buys me tickets for Christmas

You love the Australian music 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 cast list.

Musical What?

Did you find this quiz by mistake? Perhaps a crash course in Aussie music theatre history wouldn't go astray before you attempt the quiz again. (That's Nancye with an E, folks)

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