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 fellowship in June. Good fun!
Round Four: Theater Math
1. The number of Angry Men plus the musical based on Fellini’s 8 ½.
2. The number of Men in a Boat divided by a song from A Chorus Line.
3. The number used twice in the title of a musical which starred Danny Kaye, times the number of girls used twice in a Kander & Ebb title.
4. A Jason Robert Brown musical, minus the number in the title of a musical which starred Tommy Tune.
5. Number of Frenchmen in the Cole Porter musical plus the number of Hoods with Robin in the upcoming Rat Pack-related musical.
Round Five: Roots
Name the book, play or opera on which each of these shows was based. (Some may have more than one source.)
1. Crazy for You
2. Timbuktu!
3. Play On
4. Mame
5. Rent
6. Angel
7. South Pacific
8. Cabaret
9. Sugar
10. Lestat
Round Six: Who Wrote…
1. The play You Never Can Tell
2. The book The Season
3. The play Crimes of the Heart
4. The book for Fiddler on the Roof
5. The lyrics for City of Angels
6. The music for The Goodbye Girl
7. The theme song for The Nanny
8. The play The Mercy Seat
9. The play Uncommon Women and Others
10. The music for The Capeman
Round Seven: Lyrics
Name the show from which these quotes come.
1. “Oh, it’s time to start livin’”
2. “It was the music of something beginning.”
3. “Joey, Joey, Joey. You’ve been too long in one place.”
4. “I’m quick on the trigger with targets not much bigger.”
5. “Don’t you carry nothin’ that might be a load.”
6. “I’m gonna be a mighty being, so enemies beware”
7. “Prepare ye the way of the lord.”
8. “Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.”
9. “Where is love?”
10. “Everyone’s a little bit…”