Time to turn those speakers up once more and test your knowledge of showtunes! Here’s 16 classics, at least one of which is sure to stump even the most erudite Great White Way enthusiast. When you’re done, come on back and let us know if you know your Guys from your Dolls, your Sharks from your Jets.
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Wow! 100%
I guess the stereotypes about gay fathers are true.
posted by Emily Jane on 6-14-2007 at 6:24 pm
100%!!
I guess working backstage in community theatre can teach you something!
posted by david_r on 6-14-2007 at 6:49 pm
BooHiss. Mixed up 2 of them! Good job Emily Jane
posted by JaneM on 6-14-2007 at 7:03 pm
Hooray! Finally one of these quizzes I can ace! 100%
posted by Kristen on 6-14-2007 at 8:45 pm
100%
thank you for this quiz! i always feel so inept when it comes to the other quizzes…finally a subject that i know something about! (ps, i think i might actually have all of those albums in my itunes. and many, many, many more.)
posted by kay on 6-14-2007 at 10:56 pm
Whee!! 100% Is it bad when you only listen to the first 2 seconds of every clip? I just got done watching the Tonys (sweet sweet Tivo, how did we ever watch awards shows before you.)
posted by megaera on 6-15-2007 at 1:30 am
Megaera – nah, it just means you really know them.
Except for the Carousel one (the only one of the shows I haven’t somehow been a part of before) it was the same here :)
posted by liz on 6-15-2007 at 7:07 am
63%. I’ve never seen Kiss Me Kate, camelot, Singing in the Rain or Showboat, so I got those all screwed up. In fact, aside from Guys and Dolls, none of my favorite musicals were featured :(
posted by Sara on 6-15-2007 at 8:24 am
100% Ah – way too easy! Wow – first time I’ve said that about one of your quizzes!! Would love to have had some of the lesser known songs to test myself on – now THAT would be fun! Of course, now I’m wanting to hear the whole songs… gotta go dig out those old LP’s!!!
posted by Lisa on 6-15-2007 at 9:13 am
I got 16 out of 16 – although, I must admit that one or two I got only from hearing the “Forbidden Broadway” spoof versions… and 3 others were by process of elimination…
posted by Karl on 6-15-2007 at 9:30 am
The first quiz which I was 100% certain about each question. Thanks for putting together these quizzes in so many genres.
Lisa mentioned lesser known songs. I would have loved to see some of the lesser known musicals represented: Carnival, Nunsense, Big River, Jekyll and Hyde, etc.
posted by Caleb on 6-15-2007 at 9:32 am
Considering that I only know one or two songs from the majority of those musicals, I am pretty darn happy with the 88 I got (I flipped Camelot and Carousel)
posted by Karen on 6-15-2007 at 9:36 am
Was there a tricky one here? I got 100% with no problems.
posted by Rachel on 6-15-2007 at 3:29 pm
Wow there are a lot of us with perfect scores — I don’t feel so alone now. Maybe I wasn’t the only theatre nerd in junior high! It sure did get me beat up alot, though.
For the hardcore Bway fans, I imagine Singin’ In the Rain and Kiss Me Kate may have been tough– they were both MGM movie musicals that never saw the boards until WAY later.
BTW- if that was the movie soundtrack of the Music Man (and I think it was), that was a young Ron Howard (pre Opie, Richie Cunningham or Hollywood uber-director) you heard singing “Gary, Indiana.)Cool.
posted by Allison on 6-15-2007 at 3:32 pm
100%, that was fun!
BTW, Allison is wrong about Kiss Me, Kate. It was originally on Broadway before it became a movie. In fact, it won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
However, “Make ‘Em Laugh” was written for the movie Singin’ in the Rain, not for Broadway. It was largely plagiarized from Cole Porter’s “Be a Clown”, which was also written for a movie. Supposedly Arthur Freed was unable to get permission to use “Be a Clown” in Singin’ in the Rain, so he wrote his own version of it.
posted by Harold on 6-15-2007 at 8:22 pm
I stand corrected. I think I was confused because of the revival — and the fact that the Kiss Me Kate movie was so weirdly different (Cole Porter as an Actual Charactr, etc.)from the show I saw. A fave of mine though — as is anything with Ann Miller. I envied her legs all my damn life.
posted by Allison on 6-16-2007 at 11:25 am