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Broadway Flops Pub Quiz: 12 Trivia Questions
A ready-to-read Broadway flops quiz for pubs, parties, and theatre nights. Read a question aloud, take guesses, then reveal the answer.
1. Which notoriously expensive superhero musical featured music by Bono and The Edge of U2?
Answer: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
2. How many regular Broadway performances did Moose Murders complete before closing in 1983?
Answer: One
It opened and closed at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on the same night.
3. Which Stephen King horror novel inspired a famously disastrous 1988 Broadway musical?
Answer: Carrie
4. Who directed Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before leaving the production during previews?
Answer: Julie Taymor
5. Carrie the Musical is remembered for a climactic scene involving what substance?
Answer: Blood
A bucket of blood drenched the title character in the show's most infamous moment.
6. Which 1965 musical about a Brooklyn kid closed after a single performance?
Answer: Kelly
7. When Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark opened in 2011, it held what distinction regarding production cost?
Answer: The most expensive Broadway production ever made (at the time)
8. Which 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical closed after 16 performances but later became a cult favorite?
Answer: Merrily We Roll Along
9. Which vampire-themed Broadway musical, based on a Roman Polanski film, closed in 2003 after less than two months?
Answer: Dance of the Vampires
10. Which Broadway flop musical was inspired by the life of Boy George and featured the singer in the original cast?
Answer: Taboo
11. In what year did Carrie the Musical open on Broadway?
Answer: 1988
12. Which 1976 Leonard Bernstein Alan Jay Lerner musical about the White House closed after only seven performances?
Answer: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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