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Written by: Mike Palzes of the University of California Irvine
Final editing: by Ray Anderson of the University of California - Irvine
Description: All questions in this packet involve things related to state productions.
Tossups
1. This play, which opened in May of 1944 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier (thee-at-tra duh vee-uhcol-um-bee-ay), is set in a drawing room decorated with Second Empire style furniture. There is a
massive immovable bronze ornament on the mantelpiece, and the room lacks windows, mirrors, and
beds. There is a bell by the door used to call the valet, but by the valet’s own admission, the wiring is
bad and it doesn’t always work. Garcin, Estelle, and Inez live together in the room together much to
their own dismay, an arrangement which prompts Garcin to proclaim the play’s most famous line “Hell
is- other people!” FTP name this one act play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
ANS: No Exit or Huis Clos (hu-wee cloh)
2. She began her career as a director in 1928. She became a producer shortly after, teaming up with
Brock Pemberton to produce several successful plays including Divorce Me Dear, Kiss the Boys
Goodbye, and the 1945 Pulitzer-prize winning Harvey. In 1940 she helped create the American Theatre
Wing, an organization that provided entertainment for American and British troops during World War II
and now manages the Tony awards. FTP name this woman, for whom the Tony awards are named.
ANS: (Mary) Antoinette Perry
(Editor’s note: the Tony award is officially called the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre)
3. This term was supposedly invented by Village Voice columnist Jerry Tallmer in the early 1960’s.
Shows in this genre range from highly stylized art pieces to semi-professional productions. At the
movement’s onset, shows of this variety were primarily staged in coffee houses and on temporary stages
in New York City’s Greenwich Village. However, several small permanent theatres dedicated to genre,
such as the Manhattan Theatre Source, the La MaMA Experimental Theater Club, and the Flea Theater,
are now in use. FTP name this classification of theatre productions, noted for being much more risqué
than Broadway and off-Broadway productions.
ANS: Off-Off-Broadway
4. The plot for this musical, which revolves around an old west era romance between Curly Mclain and
Laurey Williams, is based on a Lynn Riggs play entitled Green Grow the Lilacs. It debuted on
Broadway on March 31st 1943 at the St. James Theatre where it would run for a then unprecedented five
years. The production marks the first collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein, and is often
cited as the beginning of the “golden age” of Broadway musicals. FTP name this musical drama whose
title song became the official state song of the Sooner state in 1953.
ANS: Oklahoma!
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5. This opera, which shares its name with the two works that inspired it, is based on the 1900 drama by
David Belasco, and the 1898 short story by John Luther Long. It opened on February 17 1904 at Milan’s
La Scala Opera house. The opera has been adapted into several different variations, most notably the
early Technicolor film The Toll of the Sea and the 1989 Broadway musical Miss Saigon. It chronicles
the romantic disillusionment of a young Japanese girl who becomes infatuated with and humiliated by
an American naval officer in early 20th century Japan. According to Opera America it is the most
preformed opera in North America. FTP name this Giacomo Puccini Opera.
ANS Madame Butterfly
6. According to the Guinness Book of Records, her rendition of “I Know Him So Well” with Barbara
Dickson on the concept album for the musical Chess is the best selling record by a female duo. She
made her West End debut in 1967 in the London production of the musical Hair. In 1981 she originated
the part of Grizabella in the musical Cats, but is probably much more famous for starring as the title role
in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Evita. FTP name this British actress, often called the “first lady of British
musical theatre.”
ANS: Elaine Paige
7. This play tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful entrepreneur who framed his business partner for
knowingly selling faulty airplane parts to the army during World War II. Joe is forced to confront his
deceitful business practices years later when his son becomes engaged to his former partner’s daughter.
Joe’s perverse version of the American dream, which inspires him to sell faulty equipment, is one of the
contributing factors to author Arthur Miller’s summons before the House Un-American Activities
Committee. The play is loosely based on both factual events that Miller read in an Ohio newspaper.
FTP, name this play, which in 1947 received the first ever Tony Award for Best Play.
ANS: All My Sons
8. Scholars believe that he wrote ninety-two plays in his lifetime, with eighteen in their entirety and
substantial fragments of several others surviving today. His works, which focus on character
development and portray intelligent slaves, strong heroines, and satirized mythological heroes, are
considered the most modern of his colleagues’ work. He competed in the Dionysian play festivals but
won first prize only once in his lifetime, for the play Hippolytus, and once posthumously for the play
Bacchae. FTP, name this Greek playwright, considered to be the last of the three great tragedians.
ANS: Euripides
9. Two answers required: On October 10 1881 Richard D’Oyly Carte opened the Savoy Theater in
London as a venue to showcase this pair’s comedic operas. They would debut the majority of their
works at Savoy, and employed D’Oyly Carte as their producer and unofficial piece keeper for the
majority of their career together. The pair is known for their pleasant operatic melodies and witty
satirical lyrics, most notably found in The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore. FTP, name this duo responsible
for fourteen operatic comedies including The Pirates of Penzance.
ANS: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
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10. Unlike other major works about the same or similar subjects, including Gaston Leroux’s 1910
original novel, this play includes Erik and Christine’s origin stories and explains how Erik came to love
Christine. In 1982 when Geoffrey Holder approached Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit about producing
a musical based on Leroux’s novel, Holder had received permission from Leroux’s estate, making this
production the only adaptation of the novel to have done so. However, because the novel’s copyright
expired shortly after Holder had received permission to produce the musical, several other productions
sprouted up which prompted investors to pull their funding from the Yeston and Kopit musical, which
eventually debuted on NBC as a miniseries in 1990. The play opened at Houston’s Theater Under the
Stars in January of 1991, and was immediately successful. Thousands of independent productions of this
musical have since debuted across the globe, but notably none of them on Broadway. FTP, name this
most successful musical to never have played on Broadway.
ANS: Phantom (do not accept Phantom of the Opera or any other variations)
11. This Tom Taylor comedy premiered at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City on October 15,
1858. The plot is centered on the introduction of a working-class American into an aristocratic English
family, both of whom find the other’s behavior absurd. The play’s most popular character, the dimwitted
Lord Dundreary, was noted for speaking in jumbled nonsensical sayings, which were commonly called
Dundrearyism during the play’s popularity. FTP, name this play, which was playing at Ford’s Theatre in
Washington DC on April 14, 1865, serving as the backdrop for the Lincoln assassination.
ANS: Our American Cousin
12. This acting troupe began in the 1950’s as a group of University of Chicago undergraduates known as
the Compass Players. Various cities, including Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Toronto
have clubs that are home to the troupe’s unique style of comedic improvisation. Several alumni from the
televised Toronto version and the staged Chicago version, including Robin Duke, Adam McKay, Robert
Klein, Tina Fey, and John Belushi have stared on the comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live. FTP,
name this Chicago based improvisation group that takes its name from one of Chicago’s nicknames.
ANS The Second City
13. In the “Behind the Laughter” episode of The Simpsons, Homer briefly stars in this musical’s fictional
sequel. It made its Broadway debut at the Nederland Theater in 1996, where it is still playing, making it
the seventh longest running show in Broadway history. The play features several cultural problems of
the 1990’s including the AIDS pandemic, and is one of the first Broadway musicals to feature openly
gay and transgender characters. The play was inspired by Puccini’s La Boehm, written by Jonathan
Larson, and originally stared Adam Pascal and Daphne Ruben-Vega. FTP, name this winner of the
1996 Tony Award for Best Musical.
ANS Rent
14. His plays are known for comedic one-liners, family relations, and New York settings. His first play,
Come Blow Your Horn, debuted successfully in 1961 and mentioned Felix Ungar for the first time as a
character present off stage. In 1975 the Shubert organization purchased the Alvin Theater in New York
and renamed it in his honor. He is well known for his Eugene Trilogy, the middle chapter of which won
the 1985 Tony Award for Best Play. FTP, name this playwright most famous for pairing slovenly Oscar
Madison with neat-freak Felix Ungar.
ANS: (Marvin) Neil Simon
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15. Musical numbers from this production include “Gee, Officer Krupke!,” Appalachian Spring, and
Boléro. It began in 1984 as traveling drum corps called the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps,
which won several Drum Corps International championships until the act was put on stage under this
name in 1999. The production features unique visual effects preformed on stage by dancers
accompanied by various instrumental numbers. FTP, name this production, which in 2001, won the first
ever Tony Award for Best Special Theatre Event.
ANS Blast!
16. When this play opened at London’s Rose Theater it was met with moderate acclaim, but became
wildly popular two years later when its author was arrested and executed for heresy. The play’s prologue
is delivered by Machiavelli. The title character is a rich Maltese merchant whose fortune is seized at the
play’s opening. The subsequent action of the play features various schemes to recover the main
characters wealth and exact revenge. Although it is criticized for being ant-Semitic, the play notably
points out several hypocrisies in Christianity and Islam as well as Judaism. FTP, name this Marlowe
drama which supposedly inspired Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
ANS: The Jew of Malta
17. Although he is most noted for his film career, this actor is one of only six men to have won multiple
Tony Awards for Best Leading Actor. His first Tony came for his 1969 portrayal of boxing champion
Jack Johnson in The Great White Hope. He won again in 1988 for his role as Troy Maxson in Fences. In
2005 he was nominated, but did not win, for his portrayal of Norman Thayer in the Broadway revival of
On Golden Pond. Due to health issues, he was forced to leave On Golden Pond prematurely, which
caused the critically acclaimed show to close after only 93 performances. FTP, name this actor arguably
most famous for providing the voice for Darth Vader.
ANS: James Earl Jones
18. In New York’s time square on September 30th 2004, cast members of this musical staged a mock
presidential debate between George W. Bush and John Kerry in the style of the production. During
CBS’ coverage of the 2005 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, star John Tartaglia interviewed several
spectators and parade officials while acting as one of his characters in the play. In part due to these and
several other attention grabbing promotions, it won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical
itself contains several risqué songs such as “The Internet is for Porn,” “If You Were Gay,” and
“Everybody’s a Little Bit Racist,” and carries a warning that it may not be suitable for children under the
age of 12 for, among other reasons, “full puppet nudity.” FTP, name this musical, which despite obvious
parodies, officially disclaims all connection with the children’s show Sesame Street.
ANS: Avenue Q
19. When this play debuted on March 11 1959 Lorraine Hansberry became the first female African
American author to have a play produced on Broadway. Director Lloyd Richards also became the first
African American director on Broadway, and the play is noted for having he first all-African American
cast on Broadway. The play is Hansberry’s own semi-autobiographical story of struggling to join white
society and overcome racism. Although the play takes place in Chicago, it derives its title from the
Langston Hughes poem entitled “Harlem.” FTP, name this play whose title completes the Hughes line
“What happens to a dream deferred?/ does it dry up?/ like a…
ANS: Raisin in the Sun
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20. As a child he strayed away from ballet because he believed it was too complex for him to master, an
idea that would be quickly proved wrong once his mother enrolled him in ballet school. In 1963 he
became a formal student of Pushkin and joined the Kirov Ballet Troupe three years later. He won the
first ever gold medal at the international ballet competition in Moscow, and shortly after became one of
the youngest men to receive the State Award for Merit of the U.S.S.R His ballet credits include leading
roles Opus, The Dreamer, The Nutcracker Suite, and Don Quixote. FTP, name this Lithuanian ballet
dancer.
ANS Mikhail Baryshnikov
21. This play won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and in 1940 was adapted into a television musical
staring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint. It focuses on the characterization of everyday
people in the early twentieth century. The play has three acts, entitled “Daily Life,” “Marriage and
Love,” and “Death.” The author uses ordinary actions, and the commentary of the play’s omniscient
stage manager who acts primarily as the play’s narrator. FTP, name this Thornton Wilder Play that
takes place in the town of Grover’s Corner.
ANS: Our Town
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Bonuses - Theatre
FTPE, answer the following questions about Tennessee Williams.
(10) This 1952 play, about an Italian-American widow’s conflict with her daughter, is dedicated
to William’s life-partner Frank Merlo.
ANS: The Rose Tattoo
(10) This 1945 play about the inconsistency of memory and a title collection of crystal animal
sculptures, is considered William’s first successful play.
ANS: The Glass Menagerie
(10) This is Tennessee Williams’ given first name.
ANS: Thomas
FTPE, answer the following questions about Sophocles’ three Theban plays.
(10) This play, which was written second, but comes first in the trilogy chronologically, poses
the riddle “what walks on two on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at
night?”
ANS: Oedipus the King or Oedipus Tyrannos or Oedipus Rex
(10) This play, which is chronologically last in the trilogy, but was written first, concerns the
burial of Polyneices
ANS: Antigone
(10) This play, which was written last and comes second in the trilogy chronologically, was the
only one of the Theban plays to win first prize at the Festival of Dionysus.
ANS: Oedipus at Colonus
FTPE, Answer the following questions about the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked, which tells the
“untold story of the witches of Oz”.
(10) Give the first name of the Wicked Witch of the West, which is supposedly derived from
Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum’s initials.
ANS: Elphaba (el-fa-ba)
(10) This actress, who in 1996 won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for
her performance in Rent, won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her
performance as Elphaba.
ANS: Idina (a-dee-nah) Menzel
(10) This actress, who was also nominated for best actress in a musical but lost to Menzel, costars in Wicked as Glinda the Good Witch. She also played media consultant Anna Beth Schott in
the final two seasons of The West Wing.
ANS: Kristin Chenoweth
FTSNOP, given a Shakespearean quotation and its play, identify the speaker.
(5) “This above all,—to thine own self be true” from Hamlet
ANS: Polonius
(5) “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
ANS: Puck
(10) “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; /They kill us for their sport.” from King Lear
ANS: Gloucester
(10) “If sack and sugar be a fault, / God help the wicked” from Henry IV pt I
ANS: Falstaff
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5. FTPE, answer the following questions about biblically based musicals.
(10) This musical, which is based on the gospel of Saint Mathew, began as author John-Michael
Tebelak’s master’s thesis project at Carnegie-Mellon University and enjoyed successful runs on
off-off-Broadway and off-Broadway stages for several years before being produced as a
Broadway musical.
ANS: Godspell
(10) The title object in this Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical is colored "red, and
yellow, and green, and brown, and scarlet, and black, and ochre, and peach, and ruby, and olive,
and violet…
ANS: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
(10) This Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical depicts Judas as a tragic hero who
struggles with his inevitable role in the crucifixion story.
ANS: Jesus Christ Superstar
6. FTPE answer the following questions about musicals that were adapted from film for Broadway and
later adapted from Broadway back to film.
(10) The original 1968 film stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, while both 2001 Broadway
musical and the 2005 film star Nathan Lane and Mathew Broderick, all of which were written by
Mel Brooks.
ANS: The Producers
(10) The 1988 film version stars Riki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, the 2002 Tony Award winning
Broadway musical featured Marissa Winkour as Tracy, and the 2007 film will feature rookie
actress Niki Blonsky.
ANS: Hairspray
(10) This 1960 cult classic stars Johnathan Haze as Seymour, and was supposedly filmed in only
three days. The 1982 Broadway musical stars Lee Wilkof and the 1886 film stars Rick Moranis.
ANS: Little Shop of Horrors
7. F15PE, identify the following types of stage design.
(15) Predominantly popular in the 1920’s, productions employing this style of stage design are
meticulously arranged to produce the most authentic looking environment possible. Named for
the early twentieth century director most famous for using it, who, during his tenure directing
Madame Butterfly, arranged several stage hands throughout the theater to blow bird whistles to
create an authentic dawn.
ANS: Belasco Realism (prompt on realism)
(15) Stage productions done in this style often use a barebones set with few if any props. There
are typically no sound or lighting effects, and costumes tend to be very simple. Proponents of the
style claim that it focuses the viewer’s attention on the acting.
ANS Minimalism
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8. FTPE, identify the following Irish playwrights.
(10) In 1904 he helped create the Abbey Theater in Dublin, which is now also known as the
National Theater of Ireland. He is credited with helping start the Irish literary revival, to which
he contributed greatly with staunch nationalistic plays such as Cathleen Ní Houlihan.
ANS: William Butler Yeats
(10) He is the only man to have ever won both a Nobel Prize for Literature and a Academy
Award, the later of which was for his adapted screenplay of Pygmalion.
ANS: George Bernard Shaw
(10) In 1969 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is noted for his contributions to the
“Theatre for the Absurd” movement, and his profoundly existential plays such as Waiting for
Godot and Endgame.
ANS: Samuel Barclay Beckett
9. FTPE, answer the following questions about productions based on the Arthurian legend.
(10) In this opera, Wagner’s last, the main character is one of Arthur’s knights who recovers the
legendary spear that pierced Christ’s side at the crucifixion.
ANS: Parsifal or Percival
(10) This 1960 Lerner and Lowe musical, which is based on The Once and Future King by T.H.
White, concerns the love affaire between Sir Lancelot and Guenevere. It is commonly associated
with the presidency of John F Kennedy.
ANS: Camelot
(10) This 2005 musical, originally staring Tim Curry, is a stage adaptation of the film Monty
Python and the Holy Grail, which parodies the Arthurian legend.
ANS: Spamalot
10. FTPE, answer the following questions about the 2006 Tony Awards.
(10) This documentary style rock-opera won the 2006 award for best musical. It is based on the
story of the 1960’s rock n‘ roll group The Four Seasons.
ANS: Jersey Boys
(10) This Alan Bennett comedy about the English educational system in the 1980’s won the 2006
award for best play.
ANS: The History of Boys
(10) The 2006 Tony Awards Ceremony, as well as the past six ceremonies, was held in this New
York City venue, which is also the frequent site of the Daytime Emmy Awards Ceremony.
ANS: Radio City Music Hall
11. FTPE, identify the following Henrik Ibsen plays.
(10) Nora leaves her husband because she is critical of the institution of marriage and woman’s
role in society in general. When she is forced to return to her home by Nils Krogstad at the end,
she leaves yet again, refusing to be confined in the titular object.
ANS: A Doll’s House
(10) At the play’s opening the title character has just gotten married to an aspiring professor
named Tesman. The marriage is financially motivated, and when her former lover appears to be
in contention for Tesman’s professorship, she sabotages him and eventually convinces him to
commit suicide.
ANS: Hedda Gabler
(10) This play concerns an adulterous love affair between the formerly ambitious but now deeply
depressed Solness and a young girl named Hidle. Among many of Hidle’s romantic naiveties is
her insistence that Solness climb a great tower and promise the world to her. When Solness
finally consents to climb the tower, he falls to his death.
ANS: The Master Builder
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12. 30-20-10 – name the playwright
(30) After his release from prison in 1897 he traversed London and Paris under the pseudonym
Sebastian Melmoth. He wrote one thing between his release from prison and his death, an antideath penalty poem entitled The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
(20) He was convicted of “gross indecency” on May 25th 1895 and served a two-year
prison sentence. The charges originated from the Marquees of Queensberry after he
became sexually involved with the Marquees’ son Alfred Douglas.
(10) Before he was convicted of “gross indecency,” he was one of London’s
premier dramatists, authoring and producing several successful plays including
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband.
ANS: Oscar Wilde
13. FTPE, identify these modern plays based on the works of Shakespeare.
(10) This 1948 Cole Porter musical is based on The Taming of the Shrew, which the characters of
the musical are also performing.
ANS: Kiss Me, Kate
(10) This 1957 Sondheim and Bernstein musical sets Romeo and Juliet in New York City, where
the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is replaced by a gang war between the jets and the
sharks.
ANS: West Side Story
(10) This 1966 absurdist play by Tom Stoppard examines Hamlet through the viewpoint of two
of the play’s minor characters, which, from their perspective, does not make very much sense.
ANS: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
14. F15PE, name these classical Japanese dramatists.
(15) This playwright is responsible for the Fushi kaden (foo-she kay-den) or The Transmission of
the Flower of Acting Style, and several other instructive texts on Japanese acting. His best known
theatrical works are Atsumori, The Robe of Feathers, Birds of Sorrow, and Wind in the Pines.
ANS: Zeami Motokiyo or Kanze Motokiyo
(15) Approximately 150 plays, for both live action and puppet theaters, are attributed to him. His
works are notable for their focus on then contemporary events and their prominent use of suicide.
Among his most famous plays are The Battles of Coxinga, The Uprooted Pine, and The Love
Suicides at Amijima.
ANS: Chikamatsu Monzaemon
15. FTPE, identify these Eugene O’Neil plays.
(10) This 1939 play is a portrait of drunkenness and hopeless dreams set in the End of the Line
Café. Several drunken barflies anticipate the annual arrival of their old friend Hickey Hickman,
but in 1912 he returns to them sober and implores them to lead productive lives.
ANS: The Iceman Commeth
(10) This 1931 play is in three parts, “Homecoming," "The Hunted," and "The Haunted." The
plot is based on Aeschylus's tragedy The Oresteia, but set in post-civil war New England.
ANS: Mourning Becomes Electra
(10) O'Neill wrote this play in 1941 and presented the manuscript to his third wife with
instructions that it not be produced until 25 years after his death. Actually produced three years
after he died, it centers on Edmund and the rest of the Tyrone family but is really an
autobiographical account of the dysfunction of O'Neill's own family.
ANS: Long Day's Journey Into Night
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16. FTPE, Answer the following questions about the three longest running productions in Broadway
history.
(10) This second longest running show made its debut on Broadway on October 7, 1982 at the
Winter Garden Theatre. It is based on a series of poems by T.S. Eliot.
ANS: Cats
(10) This longest running show opened at New York’s Majestic Theater on January 26 1988 and
is still playing there. The Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical is about the facially deformed title
character’s quest to win the love of a young chorus girl.
ANS: The Phantom of the Opera
(10) This third longest running show opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theater in New York
on October 17th 1990. It is based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name, and chronicles the
redemption of prisoner number 24601.
ANS: Les Misérables (accept Les Miz)
17. FTPE, answer the following questions about the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man
(10) The main character of the musical, he travels from town to town collecting pre-paid orders
for marching band supplies and music lessons that he does not deliver.
ANS: “Professor” Harold Hill
(10) Hill’s scam becomes complicated however, when he meets and falls in love with this local
librarian.
ANS: Marian Paroo
(10) This is the signature song from the musical. Hill uses it to convince the town’s people to
buy into his scam, he tells them to envision a glorious band with various numbers of different
instruments marching down the main street of the town.
ANS: “Seventy-Six Trombones”
18. FTPE, identify the three musical adaptations of Disney animated features that are currently playing
on Broadway.
(10) The winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Costume Design, which was no surprise
seeing as how all of the characters in this musical are African wild animals.
ANS: The Lion King
(10) This production also features several African animals, but there are three human characters,
including the title character who was lost in the jungle as an infant. Phil Collins composed the
music for both the animated film and the musical.
ANS: Tarzan
(10) This “tale as old as time,” features by far the least animal characters of the three, but does
feature several inanimate objects such as clocks and candlestick holders, as characters. It is
currently Disney’s longest running musical.
ANS: Beauty and the Beast
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19. FTPE, answer the following questions about winners of multiple Tony Awards.
(10) She has won more Tony Awards than any other performer, winning the Best Featured
Actress in a Play Award five separate times. She is best known for her award-winning role as
Marry Todd Lincoln in the 1973 play The Last of Mrs. Lincoln.
ANS: Julie Harris
(10) He is the only actor to win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play more than
once. He won for his 1975 role in Seascape and again for his 2002 role in Fortune’s Fool, but he
is best known for his lead role as Dracula in the 1978 production, for which he did not win a
Tony.
ANS: Frank Langella
(10) This composer has won the Tony Award for Best Original Score seven times, by far the
most of any composer. His composition credits include West Side Story, A Funny Thing
Happened to Me on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and Company.
ANS: Stephen Sondheim
20. FTPE, answer the following questions about famous theaters.
(10) It was built in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, in 1613 it burned down, in 1614 it was
rebuilt, and in 1644 the government demolished it. A modern replica of it was built in London in
1997, it is the only building in the city permitted by the fire code to have a thatched roof.
ANS The Globe Theater
(10) It was built specifically to accommodate the Academy Awards, and has hosted them since
its completion in 2001. It has also hosted the BET awards, the ESPY awards, and the American
Idol finales.
ANS: Kodak Theater
(10) Located at 253 W. 125th Street in Harlem, this theater is famously associated with the
Harlem renaissance and several famous African-American entertainers who “got their big break”
there, including James Brown and Ella Fitzgerald.
ANS: The Apollo Theater.
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