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Stephen Sondheim Pub Quiz: 12 Trivia Questions
A ready-to-read Stephen Sondheim quiz for pubs, parties, and theatre nights. Read a question aloud, take guesses, then reveal the answer.
1. Who was Stephen Sondheim's mentor and surrogate father figure in musical theatre?
Answer: Oscar Hammerstein II
2. Which 1962 musical was Sondheim's first Broadway show as both composer and lyricist?
Answer: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
3. For which 1957 musical did Sondheim write only the lyrics, not the music?
Answer: West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein composed the score.
4. Which Sondheim musical features the song "Send in the Clowns"?
Answer: A Little Night Music
5. What 1979 musical about a London barber is one of Sondheim's most frequently revived works?
Answer: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
6. Which 1984 musical about painter Georges Seurat won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
Answer: Sunday in the Park with George
7. In which 1970 musical does Bobby sing "Being Alive"?
Answer: Company
8. Which Sondheim musical weaves together fairy-tale characters like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood?
Answer: Into the Woods
9. Which Sondheim musical is built around historical figures who attempted or committed presidential assassination?
Answer: Assassins
10. Which Broadway theatre was renamed in Sondheim's honor on West 43rd Street?
Answer: The Stephen Sondheim Theatre
Formerly Henry Miller's Theatre.
11. On what date did Stephen Sondheim die?
Answer: November 26, 2021
12. For which 1959 Jule Styne musical did Sondheim write the lyrics, including "Everything's Coming Up Roses"?
Answer: Gypsy
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