1. After his success as a leading man in the musicals of the 1950s, Howard Keel had a second career 30 years on in:
a) Panto
b) Dallas
c) Catering

2. Do you remember where you were when you heard Keel had died?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Howard Keel is dead?

3) 3. Who got top billing in Hello, Dolly!?
a) Barbra Streisand
b) Walter Matthau

4. How do you think the person who didn’t get top billing felt about that?
a) Livid
b) They were just happy to be involved in such a great project

5. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was initially entitled:
a) Oh, What a Lovely Forced Marriage!
b) Sobbin' Women
c) Bearded Men

6) The song Bless Your Beautiful Hide, which is sung by Keel in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, equates women with:
a) Livestock
b) Leather
c) Grain mountains

7) Before Gordon MacRae accepted the role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel, who else was considered for the part?
a) Gene Kelly
b) Frank Sinatra
c) Both of the above

8) If (a) had got the part, he would have been:
a) Brilliant
b) Totally unsuitable

9) The sequel to Funny Girl is:
a) Funny Face
b) Funny Lady
c) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

10) Answering the above question was
a) Easy
b) Hard
c) In between - I always get Funny Face and Funny Lady mixed up

11) In her 1994 concert tour, Barbra Streisand memorably duetted with a playback of herself during the song Piece of Sky. Six years later, in her New Year’s Eve millennium concert, she outdid this arrangement by singing the same song while
a) Projecting images of Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and John F. Kennedy onto a giant screen above the stage, with her face digitally transposed over theirs.
b) Dancing with a giant, papier mache puppet of herself which at the end of the song, flew out over the audience and burst into flames to mimic the trajectory of Haley’s comet.
c) Trio-ing with the original playback plus a live, performing child brought on to represent the young Streisand and create a sense of ever decreasing circles of Babs

12) In critical theory terminology, this sort of scenario is known as
a) Post-colonialism
b) Sociological positivism
c) Mise en abyme

13) In psychoanalytic terminology it is known as
a) Narcissism
b) Split personality
c) God complex

14) In the event of a copyright infringement, What in all likelihood Would Barbra Do?
a) Sing
b) Dance
c) Litigate

15) Streisand’s half-sister Roslyn Kind had a small, unaccredited role in
a) Yentl
b) Fiddler on the Roof
c) A Star is Born (the 1976 remake)

16) Liza Minnelli’s half-sister, Lorna Luft, had a small role in
a) Grease 2
b) Dirty Dancing 2
c) A Star is Born (the 1976 remake)

17) On balance, Luft’s singing career is
a) More impressive than Roslyn Kind’s
b) About the same
c) Worse

18) Olivia de Havilland’s half-sister was
a) Joan Fontaine
b) Myrna Loy
c) Cyd Sharisse

19) Carousel was written by a husband and wife script-writing team with a famous journalist daughter. Who is she
a) Tina Brown
b) Nora Ephron
c) Joan Didion

20) In Fiddler on the Roof, Lazar Wolf’s late wife Fruma Sarah, who appears in Tevye’s dream, is played by British sitcom actress
a) Ruth Madoc from Hi-De-Hi!
b) Penelope Keith from the Good Life
c) Molly Sugden from Are You Being Served?

21) Do you ever wonder whether Mary Poppins is an allegory of the crucifixion?
a) Yes
b) No

22) In Gigi, Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan celebrate the night they invented
a) Champagne
b) Love
c) Civil aviation

23) Who of the following hasn’t appeared in a musical?
a) James Cagney
b) James Fox
c) James Caan
d) James Dean

24) In Paint Your Wagon, a “musical western”, Clint Eastwood looks mostly
a) At ease
b) Uncomfortable but coping
c) Mortified

25) Harry Secombe, yes or no?
a) Yes
b) No

26) Which of the following female leads did Marni Nixon not provide the singing voice for
a) Maria in West Side Story
b) Anna in the King and I
c) Cyd Sharisse in Silk Stockings

27) In the Sound of Music, Nixon had a rare, on-screen role as
a) Sister Margaretta
b) Sister Bernice
c) Sister Sophia

28) Nixon dubbed the singing for Audrey Hepburn in the film version of My Fair Lady, a role Julie Andrews was turned down for. Andrews’ attitude towards Nixon on the set of the Sound of Music was
a) Frosty
b) Generous
c) Oblivious

29) The correct pronunciation of Deborah Kerr is
a) Deborah Car. The studio promoted her as “Kerr Rhymes With Star”
b) Deborah Ker. The studio promoted her as “Kerr Rhymes With Purr.”



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