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Quiz about Funny Girl  the Broadway Musical
Quiz about Funny Girl  the Broadway Musical

"Funny Girl"- the Broadway Musical Quiz


"Funny Girl" was a highly fictionalized musical based on the life of vaudeville legend Fanny Brice. The show introduced much of the world to another legend, Barbra Streisand. (The answers to this quiz are found solely in the stage version.)

A multiple-choice quiz by shawneedean. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
shawneedean
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
321,882
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
194
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Question 1 of 10
1. As the show opens, Fanny awaits Nick in her dressing room. Who brings Fanny her costume?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Along with Mrs. Strakosh, Mrs. O'Malley and Mrs. Brice, who is the fourth card player in the first flashback scene of the show? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In the song "If a Girl Isn't Pretty", Mrs. Strakosh sings of Fanny's "incidentals". To what is she referring? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Continuing the song "If A Girl Isn't Pretty", Fanny's friends sing to her: "If a girl ain't perfection, better __________." What phrase fills completes the lyric? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What does Fanny recommend when Nick complains about his ruffled shirt? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Complete this lyric from Fanny's Ziegfeld Follies debut: "You ask your looking glass, what is it makes you so exquisite? The answer to your query _______..."
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What type of business does Fanny's mother operate? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What city is Fanny in when she decides to leave the Follies tour and follow Nick? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. As Act 2 opens, Fanny sings of her aspiration to be a good wife, just like whom? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In the final scene, what gift does Fanny tell Nick she couldn't have gotten for herself? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. As the show opens, Fanny awaits Nick in her dressing room. Who brings Fanny her costume?

Answer: Emma, her maid

The show is told in flashback, so the opening and the finale are actually set in the same period of time.
2. Along with Mrs. Strakosh, Mrs. O'Malley and Mrs. Brice, who is the fourth card player in the first flashback scene of the show?

Answer: Mrs. Meeker

Mrs. Strakosh, the epitome of a nosy neighbor, was played by Jean Stapleton (aka Edith Bunker) in the original Broadway cast.
3. In the song "If a Girl Isn't Pretty", Mrs. Strakosh sings of Fanny's "incidentals". To what is she referring?

Answer: her bosom

As the song says: "When a girl's incidentals are no bigger than two lentils, then to me that doesn't spell success!"
4. Continuing the song "If A Girl Isn't Pretty", Fanny's friends sing to her: "If a girl ain't perfection, better __________." What phrase fills completes the lyric?

Answer: take up a collection

By the end of the song, almost everyone in Fanny's life decries her lack of physical beauty.
5. What does Fanny recommend when Nick complains about his ruffled shirt?

Answer: starch

Nick's ruffled shirt is made from handkerchief linen which "goes rather limp".
6. Complete this lyric from Fanny's Ziegfeld Follies debut: "You ask your looking glass, what is it makes you so exquisite? The answer to your query _______..."

Answer: comes back dearie

Fanny was so insecure about singing her own praises, she stuffed a pillow under her wedding gown to appear pregnant- quite risque for that era!
7. What type of business does Fanny's mother operate?

Answer: a saloon

The real Fanny Brice's mother did, indeed, run a very successful saloon, making her and Mr. Brice quite well-to-do for their neighborhood.
8. What city is Fanny in when she decides to leave the Follies tour and follow Nick?

Answer: Baltimore

The show's big number, "Don't Rain On my Parade," is sung at the Baltimore train station.
9. As Act 2 opens, Fanny sings of her aspiration to be a good wife, just like whom?

Answer: Sadie

Throughout the show, Mrs. Strakosh constantly refers to her "married daughter, Sadie", asserting that Fanny will never be happy until she, too, is hitched.
10. In the final scene, what gift does Fanny tell Nick she couldn't have gotten for herself?

Answer: a blue marble egg

The real Nick Arnstein was quite a cad and left Fanny after draining her bank account and leaving her almost penniless. The musical was produced by Brice's son-in-law, Ray Stark, who, along with his wife Frances Arnstein Stark, painted a highly romanticized picture of the Arnsteins' marriage.
Source: Author shawneedean

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