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Golden Age Musicals Pub Quiz: 12 Trivia Questions
A ready-to-read golden age Broadway quiz for pubs, parties, and theatre nights. Read a question aloud, take guesses, then reveal the answer.
1. Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opens with the song "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'"?
Answer: Oklahoma!
2. What Shakespeare tragedy inspired West Side Story?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
3. Who composed the music for West Side Story?
Answer: Leonard Bernstein
4. Who wrote the lyrics for West Side Story?
Answer: Stephen Sondheim
It was his Broadway debut as a lyricist.
5. What George Bernard Shaw play is My Fair Lady based on?
Answer: Pygmalion
6. Which musical features the songs "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"?
Answer: Guys and Dolls
7. What real Austrian family does The Sound of Music dramatize?
Answer: The von Trapp family
8. Who wrote the music for My Fair Lady?
Answer: Frederick Loewe
Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics and book.
9. In Guys and Dolls, what is Nathan Detroit trying to find a location for throughout the show?
Answer: A venue for his floating crap game
10. Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical includes the song "You'll Never Walk Alone"?
Answer: Carousel
11. In what year did Oklahoma! premiere on Broadway?
Answer: 1943
12. Who originated the role of Eliza Doolittle in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady?
Answer: Julie Andrews
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