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WorksheetsMusical Theatre/Musicals Trivia
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
___________ 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
The cast of this musical is mostly children who do not have parents. What musical is it?
The Lion King
Annie
The Sound of Music is about a nun who becomes a ___________ to 7 children.
mother
nanny
day-care teacher
The Wiz is an updated version of the older musical ________________________.
Mary Poppins
Moana
The Wizard of Oz
In the original version of The Wiz, a famous musician was the scarecrow. Who was this musician?
Vanilla Ice
Michael Jackson
Tupac
The word "lyrics" refers to the __________ that go with the music.
instruments
words
