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Musical Theatre/Musicals Trivia

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Musicals

b)

Plays with singing

c)

Theatre with singing

2.

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

a)

True

b)

False

3.

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

a)

China

b)

Greece

c)

America

d)

Canada

4.

A composer is the person who writes the ____________.

a)

play

b)

music

c)

words

5.

The lyricist writes the _____________ to go with the music.

a)

dances

b)

words

c)

costumes

6.

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

a)

composers

b)

lyricists

7.

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

a)

plays

b)

musicals

c)

novels

d)

encyclopedias

8.

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

a)

books

b)

movies

9.

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

a)

The Lion King

b)

Annie

c)

Mary Poppins

10.

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

a)

Mary Poppins

b)

Annie

c)

The Sound of Music

11.

The cast of this musical is mostly children who do not have parents. What musical is it?

a)

The Lion King

b)

Annie

12.

The Sound of Music is about a nun who becomes a ___________ to 7 children.

a)

mother

b)

nanny

c)

day-care teacher

13.

The Wiz is an updated version of the older musical ________________________.

a)

Mary Poppins

b)

Moana

c)

The Wizard of Oz

14.

In the original version of The Wiz, a famous musician was the scarecrow. Who was this musician?

a)

Vanilla Ice

b)

Michael Jackson

c)

Tupac

15.

The word "lyrics" refers to the __________ that go with the music.

a)

instruments

b)

words