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Musicals' Literary Origins

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Musicals Literary Origins game quiz
"A lot of the greatest Broadway musicals have been based on great works of literature and drama. In this quiz, I will give you the name of a musical and its story; you will have to choose the name of the work it is based on plus its author."

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1. "Man of La Mancha" - The story of an elderly man who chooses to live life in a fantasy world as a knight errant. What is this based on?
    "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
    "The Adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes
    "Candide" by Voltaire
    "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer


2. "Camelot" - A legendary king faces the end of his great forum of knights as he discovers his queen has carried on a love affair with one of his knights. What play or novel is this based on?
    "Candide" by Voltaire
    "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
    "King Lear" by William Shakespeare
    "Tamburlaine the Great" by Christopher Marlowe


3. "Cabaret" - A seedy night club in 1930s Germany is the background to this world of decadence, sexual ambiguity and anti-semitism. What does this musical come from?
    "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
    "Berlin Stories" by Christopher Isherwood
    "The Skin of Our Teeth" by Eugene O'Neill
    "The Ritz" by Terrence McNally


4. "Kiss Me, Kate" - Two actors, who are divorced, try to put on a new musical show but allow their resentments to get in the way of their performances. What play is this musical based on?
    "Noises Off!" by Michael Frayn
    "Sweet Bird of Youth" by Tennessee Williams
    "Who's Afraid of Viriginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee
    "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare


5. "Hello, Dolly!" - A society woman makes her living as a matchmaker for the socially elite in the New York area. What play is this musical's source material?
    "Come Back, Little Sheba" by William Inge
    "Anna Christie" by Eugene O'Neill
    "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder
    "Sweet Bird of Youth" by Tennessee Williams


6. "Wonderful Town" - Two sisters come to New York hoping to make it big in the Big Apple. What is this musical based on?
    "Auntie Mame" by Patrick Dennis
    "My Sister Eileen" by Ruth McKenney
    "You Can't Take It With You" by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
    "The Skin of Our Teeth" by Eugene O'Neill


7. "Cats" - Many felines dancing around a junkyard and telling about the many different members of their community. What is this musical's source material?
    "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot
    "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling
    "The Dubliners" by James Joyce
    "The Nether World" by George Gissing


8. "Oliver!" - A young orphan is taken in by an elderly gentleman and his little band of pickpockets. What novel is this based on?
    "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
    "The Nether World" by George Gissing
    "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
    "Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence


9. "My Fair Lady" - A phonetics professor takes on a cockney flower girl as a pupil to teach her to speak beautifully. What play is this based on?
    "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw
    "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe
    "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare
    "Anna Christie" by Eugene O'Neill


10. "West Side Story" - Two teenagers, a white delivery boy and a Puerto Rican girl, fall in love amidst their two respective cultures clashing in the teenage gang wars of 1950s New York. What is this musical's source?
    "Ceasar and Cleopatra" by George Bernard Shaw
    "David and Lisa" by Theodore Rubin
    "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
    "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare


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Compiled May 21 13