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Acting 2 (Quiz #6)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A musical composed by Stephen Sondheim with lyrics by Hugh Wheeler about a barber who returns to London to get revenge on a judge that stole his wife and has kept his daughter. The barber sets up shop above a woman that owns a meat-pie shop.

a)

The Fantasticks

b)

Sweeney Todd

c)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

d)

Hairspray

2.

An American musical with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Whitman and Marc Shaiman with a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan about an overweight teenager in 1962 that wins a role on a tv dance show and then pushes for social change to integrate the show.

a)

Hairspray

b)

The Sound of Music

c)

The Fantasticks

d)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

3.

A musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice that is based on a bible story from the book of Genesis.

a)

The Sound of Music

b)

The Fantasticks

c)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

d)

Sweeney Todd

4.

A musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. It won a Tony Award for best musical and an Academy Award for best picture.

a)

The Fantasticks

b)

The Sound of Music

c)

Sweeney Todd

d)

Hairspray

5.

A musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. It tells the story concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, into falling in love by pretending to feud. The show's original Off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years (until 2002) and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical.

a)

The Fantasticks

b)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

c)

The Sound of Music

d)

Hairspray

6.

An American comic play by Philip Barry. It tells the story of a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist.

a)

The Glass Menagerie

b)

Proof

c)

The Philadelphia Story

d)

Picnic

7.

A Pulitzer Prize winning play by William Inge about a neighborhood function on a Labor Day when a drifter who arrives in town looking for work and to visit his college friend.

a)

The Glass Menagerie

b)

The Philadelphia Story

c)

Picnic

d)

Fences

8.

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by American playwright August Wilson about a sanitation worker in 1950s Pittsburgh. Having dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, but was too old when the major leagues began admitting black athletes. He takes out his frustration on his wife and his son.

a)

Picnic

b)

Philadephia Story

c)

Fences

d)

The Glass Menagerie

9.

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by the American playwright David Auburn. The play concerns the daughter of a recently deceased mathematical genius and professor at the University of Chicago, and the struggle between mathematical genius and mental illness.

a)

Proof

b)

The Glass Menagerie

c)

Picnic

d)

Fences

10.

A play by American playwright Tennessee Williams featuring characters based on its himself, his overbearing mother, and his mentally fragile sister.

a)

The Philadelphia Story

b)

Picnic

c)

Prrof

d)

The Glass Menagerie