Musical Theatre/Musicals Trivia

___________ is a term that is short for "Musical Theatre".

• Musicals

• Plays with singing

• Theatre with singing

TRUE or FALSE: Musicals can be in any genre (or category).

• True

• False

Musical theatre started way back in year 5 BCE, in Ancient ___________.

• China

• Greece

• America

• Canada

A composer is the person who writes the ____________.

• play

• music

• words

The lyricist writes the _____________ to go with the music.

• dances

• words

• costumes

Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, & Leonard Bernstein are all examples of famous ______________ of musicals.

• composers

• lyricists

The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma!, Mary Poppins, and the Wizard of Oz are all examples of famous ________________.

• plays

• musicals

• novels

• encyclopedias

Mary Poppins, Annie, & The Sound of Music are all musicals that are so popular that they have been made into ___________ for the big screen.

• books

• movies

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a fast-paced, silly song from the musical _____________________.

• The Lion King

• Annie

• Mary Poppins

_____________ is such a popular musical that it has been made into movies 3 different times in the past 40 years!

• Mary Poppins

• Annie

• The Sound of Music