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Dance Musicals Pub Quiz: 12 Trivia Questions
A ready-to-read dance musicals quiz for pubs, parties, and theatre nights. Read a question aloud, take guesses, then reveal the answer.
1. A Chorus Line follows Broadway dancers auditioning for spots in what kind of production?
Answer: A chorus line (an ensemble for a new Broadway show)
The 1975 musical was conceived and directed by Michael Bennett.
2. Which legendary choreographer shaped the slinky, jazz-hands style of the musical Chicago?
Answer: Bob Fosse
3. Jerome Robbins choreographed the finger-snapping gang fights in which Shakespeare-inspired musical?
Answer: West Side Story
4. Cats is famous for dancers portraying felines in elaborate costumes. Who choreographed the original production?
Answer: Gillian Lynne
5. Billy Elliot follows a boy who discovers a passion for ballet in a northern England mining town. Who wrote the score?
Answer: Elton John
6. Newsies features high-energy leaps and tumbling in which signature rally song?
Answer: Seize the Day
7. 42nd Street is built around a show-within-a-show and the mantra that the show must go on. What is its famous closing title?
Answer: 42nd Street
The finale is a tap-dancing spectacle celebrating the Great White Way.
8. In A Chorus Line, what is the name of the hard-driving director who runs the audition?
Answer: Zach
9. Which dance-heavy musical uses the song The Dance at the Gym and the Mambo?
Answer: West Side Story
10. The 2015 Broadway musical An American in Paris was adapted from the Gene Kelly film and is built around what kind of dance?
Answer: Ballet
11. Fosse is a revue celebrating the work of which Broadway choreographer and director?
Answer: Bob Fosse
12. In Billy Elliot, what is the name of the dance teacher who encourages Billy to audition for the Royal Ballet School?
Answer: Mrs. Wilkinson
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