Plays, Playwrights, Musicals Flashcards
MOVIE MUSICALS–400–This 2002 flick earned Oscar nominations for Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago
MOVIE MUSICALS–800–“Hello, Gorgeous!” was Barbra Streisand’s first line in this musical, her first film
Funny Girl
MOVIE MUSICALS–1200–Donald O’Connor “made ‘em laugh” in one of this 1952 movie’s most famous numbers
Singin’ in the Rain
MOVIE MUSICALS–1600–In this musical Western, Clint Eastwood sings “I Still See Elisa” & “I Talk To The Trees”
Paint Your Wagon
MOVIE MUSICALS–2000–In 1967 Tommy Steele starred in back-to-back musicals: “The Happiest Millionaire” & this “monetary” one
Half a Sixpence
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–200–“Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun”
Annie
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–400–“Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle ‘em”
Chicago
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–600–“I dreamed I met a Galilean, a most amazing man”
Jesus Christ Superstar
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–800–“A lady doesn’t wander all over the room and blow on some other guy’s dice”
Guys and Dolls
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–1000–“That carriage ride–You walked me home–You lost a glove–I lost a comb”
Gigi
BROADWAY MUSICALS–0– Fontanne’s backstage bickering during a Shakespeare play
Kiss Me, Kate
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–400–Frank D. Gilroy:”The Subject Was…”
Roses
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–800–Paul Zindel:”The Effect of Gamma Rays on…”
Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–1200–John Patrick:”The Teahouse…”
of the August Moon
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–1600–William Inge:
Picnic
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–2000–Marsha Norman:”‘Night,…”
Mother
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–400–Anne,Helen,Captain Keller
The Miracle Worker
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–800–Joseph II,Salieri,Mozart
Amadeus
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–1200–Gremio,Petruchio,Katharina
The Taming of the Shrew
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–1600–Prologus,Senex,Pseudolus
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–2000–Vladimir,Estragon,Lucky,Pozzo
Waiting for Godot
PLAYWRIGHTS–0– social hypocrisy
Henrik Ibsen
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–As a young congressman, LBJ escorted this author of “Pygmalion” around Texas
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–His “Volpone” played at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in 1605
Ben Jonson
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–This playwright and actor portrayed Colonel Chuck Yeager, not Alan Shepard, in “The Right Stuff”
Sam Shepard
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–17-year-old usher Sheila Delaney got a taste for theatre and went home one night to start this play
A Taste of Honey
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Oliver Goldsmith thrashed a publisher whose paper attacked this, his last play
She Stoops to Conquer
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Marsha Mason starred in his comedy “The Good Doctor”, based on stories by Chekhov
Neil Simon
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–His first two produced plays were “The Zoo Story” and “The Death of Bessie Smith”
Edward Albee
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Francis Beaumont began his famous collaboration with this man around 1608
John Fletcher
PLAYWRIGHTS–1400–In 1952 she told the HUAC, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions”
Lillian Hellman
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–After writing “The School for Scandal”, he became an M.P. and an advisor to the future King George IV
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS–0–1 of 3 women who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the 1980s
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PLAYS–100–In titles of plays, these 2 words precede “Lefty” & “Godot”
‘Waiting For’
PLAYS–200–This Ibsen drama about a femme fatale unfolds in the Tesmans’ fashionable villa
‘Hedda Gabler’
PLAYS–300–Jean Giraudoux’s play about “The Madwoman of” this place wasn’t performed until after his death
Chaillot
PLAYS–400–This 1928 Ben Hecht - Chas. MacArthur play influenced the public’s conception of newspapermen
‘The Front Page’
PLAYS–500–In Italy this Pirandello play is known as “Sei Personaggi in Cerca D’ Autore”
‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–400–“If I Were A Rich Man”
Fiddler on the Roof
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–800–“When You’re Good To Mama”
Chicago
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1200–“Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”
Movin’ Out
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1600–“Kansas City” (where “ev’rythin’s up to date”)
Oklahoma!
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–2000–“Wand’rin’ Star”
Paint Your Wagon
PLAYS–400–In a Shakespeare play, Mamillius says, “A sad tale’s best for” this season
winter
PLAYS–800–The existential statment “Hell is other people” comes from this play
No Exit
PLAYS–1200–Besides “Cyrano de Bergerac”, his best-remembered play is the patriotic tragedy “The Eaglet”
Edmond Rostand
PLAYS–1600–1949 play character who says, “Charley is… liked, but he’s not–well liked”
Willy Loman
PLAYS–1000–As the title implies, this play features an important arrival, that of Hickey in the saloon
The Iceman Cometh
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–200–Shaw character who thinks she’s descended from a sacred cat and that her blood is made with Nile water
Cleopatra
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–400–The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title “miss” is “absolutely wild!”
‘Miss Julie’
PLAYS–100–First performed in the 1550s, “Ralph Roister Doister” is the first known comedy in this language
English
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–600–In Euripides’ tragedy, Jason’s new wife is burned alive by a wedding gift from this woman
Medea
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–800–Violet Venable’s son, who never appears in the play “Suddenly Last Summer” because he’s been eaten
Sebastian (Venable)
PLAYS–200–“Little Johnny Jones” was the first play he wrote expressly for Broadway, not for Vaudeville
George M. Cohan
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–1000–At the end of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” he realizes that George and Martha’s son is imaginary
Nick
PLAYS–300–Chekhov play that opens with Andrei Prozorov’s siblings talking about going to Moscow
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PLAYS–400–Richard Chamberlain and Mary Tyler Moore starred in a 1966 musical flop based on this Truman Capote story
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
PLAYS–500–He was almost 90 when he wrote one of his greatest plays, “Oedipus at Colonus”
Sophocles
BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–In this show, the hero sells his soul to the devil so the Washington Senators can win the Pennant
Damn Yankees
BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–“1776” climaxes with this historical event
the signing of the Declaration of Independence
BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (AUDIO Daily Double)Florenz Ziegfeld was the original producer of this 1927 musical, which featured the following:”Fish gotta’ swim, birds gotta’ fly…”
Show Boat
BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–In April 1988, Phylicia Rashad took over Bernadette Peters’ role as the witch in this Stephen Sondheim musical
Into the Woods
BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–Bonnie Franklin sang the title song in this 1970 musical starring Lauren Bacall
Applause
PLAYS–100–In a 1964 play the Marquis de Sade and other madmen re-enact the 1793 bathtub murder of this Frenchman
Marat
PLAYS–200–“Teahouse” is a 1957 Chinese play, and this is the longer title of a 1953 work set in Japan
‘Teahouse of the August Moon’
PLAYS–500–This 1938 play depicts the romance & marriage of George Gibbs & Emily Webb
‘Our Town’
PLAYS–400–Editor Walter Burns schemes to hold on to reporter Hildy Johnson in this 1928 farce
‘The Front Page’
PLAYS–500–In Irish writer Hugh Leonard’s 1973 play, the hero refers to his father by this two-letter title
‘Da!’
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–200–If this Brit’s family had kept their original name, Da Pinta, his plays would be described as “Da Pintaesque”
Harold Pinter
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–400–This Czech writer of “R.U.R.” wrote “The Insect Comedy” with his brother Josef
Karel Capek
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Racine wrote a racy tragedy about Phaedra, a daughter of this king of Crete
Minos
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–800–This Irishman’s 1926 play “The Plough and the Stars” was so controversial it provoked riots
Sean O’Casey
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–He was resident playwright at the National Theatre in Bergen when he wrote “The Feast at Solhaug”
Henrik Ibsen
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–2000–The heroine of this musical tells of her life in the following:”I was born in a ditch by a /Mother who left me there /Naked and cold and too hungry to cry…”
The Man of La Mancha
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–800–Cunegonde,Dr. Pangloss,Voltaire
Candide
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–1000–Richard Henry Lee, Martha Jefferson, John Hancock
1776
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–200–He hadn’t moved to Mayberry yet when he played the Jimmy Stewart role in the 1959 musical “Destry Rides Again”
Andy Griffith
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–400–Critics didn’t “fawn” over the musical based on this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel, so yes, deer, it flopped
‘The Yearling’
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–600–Exiting after only 19 performances, “Ari” wasn’t based on Onassis, but on this Leon Uris novel
‘Exodus’
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–2000–“Grovers Corners” musicalized this prize-winning play
‘Our Town’
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–1000–Even Lillian Gish as the Dowager Empress couldn’t save “Anya”, a musical based on this play
‘Anastasia’
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He never forgave Mrs. Patrick Campbell for going off on her honeymoon while rehearsing his “Pygmalion”
Shaw
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–800–As a student at Brown University, this actress appeared in a play written by her father, Romulus Linney
Laura Linney
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–5000–Chapter one of her life with Neil Simon began in 1973, when she was cast in his play “The Good Doctor”
Marsha Mason
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–1600–Appropriately, his wife Armande Bejart made her stage debut in his 1662 play “The School for Wives”
Molière
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–2000–This author of the play “Purlie Victorious” co-starred in it on Broadway with his wife, Ruby Dee
Ossie Davis
PLAYS–0– a 1964 movie musical
Pygmalion
HISTORICAL PLAYS–0–“If I were to dress as a woman, they would think of me as a woman… What would become of me?” is a line from this 1923 play
Saint Joan
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–400–The 1924 musical revue “I’ll Say She Is” made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars
the Marx Brothers
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–800–In a 1927 title, this phrase preceded “Bonnie” (it didn’t precede “Birdie” until 1960)
Bye Bye
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–1200–The big attraction of the 1923 hit “Poppy” was this future film comic as Eustace McGargle
W.C. Fields
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–1600–The saucy 1928 musical “Paris” introduced this composer’s immortal song “Let’s Do It”
Cole Porter
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–2000–As a servant in the musical “Bombo”, he sang “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!” & “California, Here I Come”
Al Jolson
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–100–She based her 1945 play “Appointment With Death” on her mystery novel of the same name
Agatha Christie
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–This “In Cold Blood” author’s 1952 play “The Grass Harp” concerns a woman who lives in a tree
Truman Capote
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–300–Joyce Carol Oates took a sabbatical from this New Jersey university to work on her play “The Gulf War”
Princeton
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–This “Firing Line” host adapted his own espionage novel “Stained Glass” as a play; it premiered in 1989
William F. Buckley
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–500–Rip Torn & Marsha Mason starred in this author’s stage adaptation of his own novel “The Deer Park”
Norman Mailer
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–400–In this show, Tony Manero is headed for the disco when he discovers–Oh, no! A cold sore!!
Saturday Night Fever Blister
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–800–ABBA’s rockin’ musical about the very maternal star of “Rosemary’s Baby”
Mamma Mia! Farrow
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–1200–Mrs. Levi dumps matchmaking & busts out as a voluptuous country singer in this blockbuster
Hello, Dolly! Parton
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–1600–Fanny Brice is a laugh riot when she leaves the Follies to sell cookies & earn merit badges in this smash hit
Funny Girl Scout
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–2000–A Siamese monarch & a governess team up for this ungrammatical salute to the play that inspired “Cabaret”
The King and I Am a Camera
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–200–He claimed he was in love with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle for her
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–400–Olga Knipper played Masha in his play “The Three Sisters” in 1901 and married him the same year
Anton Chekhov
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–600–The 1st actress to play the role of Elmire in “Tartuffe” was his wife, Armande Bejart
Moliere
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–800–In 1937 he wrote the play “Golden Boy” and married that year’s Oscar winner, Luise Ranier
Clifford Odets
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–1000–Mary Eure, this playwright’s 2nd wife, was in the original cast of his play “Look Back In Anger”
John Osborne
BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–Rex Harrison’s “Fair Lady” and Burton’s Guinevere
Julie Andrews
BROADWAY MUSICALS–300–In 1967, Broadway said “hello” to this 1st black “Dolly”
Pearl Bailey
BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–1931’s “The Band Wagon” was the last time this brother & sister shared the dancing spotlight
the Astaires
