Trivia Quiz
Five Key Songs from Broadway Musicals Which Were Left Out of the Movie Versions of Those Musicals
Send in your own suggestions. We’re just getting started. 1. “Free” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. About half the songs from the stage musical didn’t make it into Richard Lester’s film version, but this is the most maddening omission. Zero Mostel says the word, then seems about to sing … Continue reading
More Lou Harry Trivia Games
The first three rounds are here and the answers to those first three rounds are here For the uninitiated, these questions emanate from a pub quiz which the wonderful Lou Harry of the Indianapolis Business News put together one night for a bunch of theater journalists who were in L.A. as part of an NEA/Annenberg … Continue reading
Q&A, They’re The Monkees: Answers to the Monkees as Actors Quiz
The quiz is here. The answers are: 1. Oliver! 2. The Point 3. Grease 4. Pippin 5. The Prison 6. Vince Fontaine in Grease 7. Television Parts 8. The Uncle Floyd Show 9. “To Be Or Not to Be.” 10. Bugsy Malone 11. Fagin. 12. Videoranch 3D 13. Broadway Micky This also helps answer the … Continue reading
Monkees as Actors: A Quiz
What do you know about the stage (and quasi-stage) work of The Pre-Fab Four? 1. Davy Jones was in the original Broadway cast of this Dickens-based musical. (The cast appeared on the same Feb. 9, 1964 telecast of the Ed Sullivan show as the Beatles.) 2. David Jones and Micky Dolenz co-starred in the London … Continue reading
Lou Harry’s Theater Trivia Pub Quiz: The Answers!
The questions are here. These are the answers. At least two more rounds of questions coming later this week. ROUND ONE: WARM-UPS 1. Puckering musicals: Anyone Can Whistle and Whistle Down the Wind. 2. In the order in which they were produced: Oklahoma, Carousel, The King & I, Me & Juliet, The Sound of Music … Continue reading
Lou Harry’s Theater Trivia Pub Quiz: A New Haven Theater Jerk Exclusive
Strangest thing about traversing Los Angeles with a gaggle of other drama critics earlier this month was how everyone got my obscure theater jokes. I’m not used to communing with other arts journalist—at the paper I’m most associated with as a critic, I was pretty much a one-man arts department for 17 years. When I … Continue reading