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Many Musicals Started Out as Something Else

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"Many musicals were based on other sources--movies, plays, novels, short stories. However, many changes were made in plots and characters when adapting these works into musicals. Let's explore some of these changes!"

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1. In "Green Grow the Lilacs," the unbalanced farmhand who loved Laurey was named Jeeter. In the play's musical version, "Oklahoma!", he was named Jud. Why was the name changed?
    Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't like the name Jeeter
    There was no name change
    Jud was an easier name to rhyme
    The play "Tobacco Road" also had a character called Jeeter


2. What major plot development from "A Raisin in the Sun" was dropped in its musical version, "Raisin"?
    Beneatha's desire to be a doctor
    The character of Joseph Asagai
    Walter wanting to use the insurance money to buy a bar
    Ruth's pregnancy


3. At the end of the musical "Show Boat," all of the major characters are still alive. What characters are still alive at the end of its source novel of the same name?
    Parthy, Magnolia, Kim
    Cap'n Andy, Magnolia, Kim
    Gaylord, Magnolia, Kim
    Magnolia, Ellie, Kim


4. What startling realization does Lili make in the musical "Carnival" much later than she does in its source, the film "Lili"?
    Marco the Magnificent was a womanizer
    The puppets had Paul's voices and were various components of his personality
    Rosalie was jealous of Marco
    She came from a town called Mira


5. Charity, the leading character of "Sweet Charity," is a taxi dancer. In its source, the Italian film "Le Notti di Cabiria," what is the female lead's occupation?
    Teacher
    Housekeeper
    Artist
    Prostitute


6. In the play "Twentieth Century", the looney pretend millionaire who says he will back Oscar Jaffee's religious play is a man named Matthew Clark. In the play's musical version, this character is now a woman named Letitia Primrose. Why the change in the character's sex?
    The producers had signed Imogene Coca for the show but had no part for her to play
    There were very few women in the original play
    Madeline Kahn insisted
    The writers thought the character would be funnier as a woman


7. What MAJOR character from the movie "All About Eve" is nowhere to be found in its musical version, "Applause"?
    The playwright's wife - Karen Richards
    The playwright - Buzz Richards
    The director - Bill Sampson
    The critic - Addison deWitt


8. In "Pygmalion," there is a scene where Mrs. Higgins entertains some callers at an "at-home." With minor changes in dialog, this scene becomes the basis of what scene in its musical version, "My Fair Lady"?
    The Embassy Ball scene
    The Closing scene
    The Opening scene
    The Ascot scene


9. The straight play "Merrily We Roll Along" unfolds backwards from 1930 into 1916. What time frame does the ORIGINAL Broadway production of the musical version of the same name occupy?
    Also 1930 into 1916
    1980 into 1955
    1980 into 1950
    1980 into 1957


10. Although uncredited, many theatre historians and literary critics maintain that the musical "Brigadoon" is based on what short story?
    Germelshausen
    Once in the Highlands
    Once Every Hundred Years
    Through The Mists


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Compiled May 23 13