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Musicals
YGK These Musicals (Parts I and II)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The musical adapted from Romeo and Juliet featuring rival gangs the Jets and the Sharks | West Side Story |
| The musical featuring the songs "America," "Tonight," and "Gee, Officer Krupke" | West Side Story |
| The longest-running show in Broadway history, featuring the song "The Music of the Night" | The Phantom of the Opera |
| The character in Phantom who disappears, leaving behind only his white mask | The Phantom |
| The musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion | My Fair Lady |
| The phonetics professor who bets he can transform the Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle | Henry Higgins |
| The musical based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats | Cats |
| The cat chosen by Old Deuteronomy to be reborn after singing "Memory" | Grizabella |
| The musical biography of a singer and actress who marries Juan Perón | Evita |
| The character who narrates Evita and sings "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" | Che |
| The Gilbert and Sullivan opera where flirting is a capital crime in Titipu | The Mikado |
| The title of the popular song from The Mikado sung by Ko-Ko's ward | Three Little Maids From School Are We |
| The musical about the von Trapp children in Nazi-occupied Austria | The Sound of Music |
| The musical featuring the songs "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," and "Edelweiss" | The Sound of Music |
| The Jewish milkman in tsarist Russia whose daughters want to get married | Tevye |
| The musical featuring the songs "If I Were a Rich Man" and "Sunrise, Sunset" | Fiddler on the Roof |
| The musical often considered the first modern book musical, featuring the song "Oklahoma" | Oklahoma! |
| The cowboy who competes with the sinister farmhand Judd for the love of Laurey in Oklahoma! | Curly McLain |
| The musical set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Berlin during the Weimer era | Cabaret |
| The British lounge singer in Cabaret who falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw | Sally Bowles |
| The swindler who attempts to con the families of River City, Iowa, by starting a boys’ band | Harold Hill |
| The librarian who falls in love with Harold Hill in The Music Man | Marian Paroo |
| The 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical adapted from Puccini’s opera La bohème | Rent |
| The narrator of Rent whose roommate is a recovering addict named Roger | Mark Cohen |
| The musical adapted from Damon Runyon stories featuring gamblers Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson | Guys and Dolls |
| The notorious gambler who bets he can convince missionary Sarah Brown to go to Havana | Sky Masterson |
| The musical retelling of a Victor Hugo novel following the life of Jean Valjean | Les Misérables |
| The inspector who doggedly pursues Jean Valjean for breaking his parole | Inspector Javert |
| The musical featuring the songs "I Dreamed a Dream" and "One Day More" | Les Misérables |
| The sharpshooter who wins a contest against Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun | Annie Oakley |
| The Gilbert and Sullivan light opera about an apprentice born on February 29th | The Pirates of Penzance |
| The famous patter song from The Pirates of Penzance | I am the very model of a modern Major-General |
| The Gilbert and Sullivan work featuring a character swap at birth between a Captain and Ralph Rackstraw | H.M.S. Pinafore |
| The British schoolteacher who travels to Siam to teach the King’s children | Anna Leonowens |
| The actor who starred in the 1956 film version of The King and I | Yul Brynner |
| The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical depicting the week leading up to the crucifixion | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| The "Demon Barber of Fleet Street" who murders customers while his neighbor bakes them into pies | Sweeney Todd |
| The neighbor of Sweeney Todd who bakes human meat into pies | Mrs. Lovett |
| The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical set during World War II and adapted from James Michener stories | South Pacific |
| The French plantation owner who falls in love with Navy nurse Nellie Forbush | Émile de Becque |