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Everything's Coming Up Gypsy! Trivia Quiz

"You'll be swell! You'll be great!" Recently I was lucky enough to see the newest revival of "Gypsy" starring Bernadette Peters. Here's my quiz on this amazing musical.

A multiple-choice quiz by Koosalagoopagoop. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Koosalagoopagoop

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
144,739

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
733

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. In the beginning of the show, we see Baby June and Baby Louise in a local talent show. There is a claim that the show is fixed. Who is supposedly going to win? Hint

The Balloon Girl

Baby June and Baby Louise

Clarence (and his classic clarinet)

Yonkers

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Question 2 of 10

2. Madam Rose has a very famous opening line in the play. What is it?

Answer: (Three words. Addressed to one of her daughters)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which of these gifts did Louise NOT receive for her birthday? Hint

a lamb

a goldfish bowl

old books

ballet shoes

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who is Herbie? Hint

Rose's father

Rose's husband

the agent Rose hired

Louise's employer at the strip club

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Question 5 of 10

5. True or false: June elopes with Kansas and the two of them start their own vaudeville act.

True

False

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who does Rose sing the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" to? Hint

Louise

Herbie

June

Herself

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Question 7 of 10

7. After June leaves, Rose tries to make Louise a star. What is the ORIGINAL name of the group of girls they put together to sing and dance with Louise? Hint

Louise and her Newsgirls

Rose Louise and her Hollywood Blondes

Madam Rose's Toreadorables

Madam Rose's Blond Babies

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Question 8 of 10

8. There are three strippers who sing the song "You Gotta Get A Gimmick". Two are listed here. Name the third. Tessie Tura, ____________, Electra.

Answer: (One word. She "bumps it with a trumpet")

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Question 9 of 10

9. How does Louise get the star spot at the strip club? Hint

She asked for it

She went onstage at the wrong time by accident

Rose volunteered her

She had been there for years and earned the spot

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Question 10 of 10

10. What magazine was Louise posing for at the end of the play? Hint

Vogue

Playboy

Ladies Home Journal

Cosmopolitan

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In the beginning of the show, we see Baby June and Baby Louise in a local talent show. There is a claim that the show is fixed. Who is supposedly going to win?

Answer: The Balloon Girl

According to Rose, the Balloon Girl is fixed to be the winner. Clarence is also in the competition. Yonkers is in the show later.

2. Madam Rose has a very famous opening line in the play. What is it?

Answer: Sing out, Louise!

Perhaps the most famous line in the show! Rose enters from an aisle in the audience and interrupts the rehearsal of the talent show that her daughters are in to tell Louise to sing stronger.

3. Which of these gifts did Louise NOT receive for her birthday?

Answer: ballet shoes

The lamb was from Rose and Herbie. The books were from Tulsa, and the goldfish bowl was from one of the other boys. Louise never got ballet shoes, although in "If Momma Was Married" June offers to give Louise her ballet shoes.

4. Who is Herbie?

Answer: the agent Rose hired

Herbie is in love with Rose and wants to marry her. However, she won't marry him until her daughters are stars.

5. True or false: June elopes with Kansas and the two of them start their own vaudeville act.

Answer: False

June elopes with Tulsa and they have a vaudeville act. That is the last we hear of either June or Tulsa in the play. In reality June became an actress and was in a few movies.

6. Who does Rose sing the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" to?

Answer: Louise

This is by far the most famous song in the show. It has been performed hundreds of times by many different people. The original was of course done by Ethel Merman.

7. After June leaves, Rose tries to make Louise a star. What is the ORIGINAL name of the group of girls they put together to sing and dance with Louise?

Answer: Madam Rose's Toreadorables

Although they became Rose Louise and her Hollywood Blondes, their original name was Madam Rose's Toreadorables. Madam Rose's Blond Babies was another suggestion.

8. There are three strippers who sing the song "You Gotta Get A Gimmick". Two are listed here. Name the third. Tessie Tura, ____________, Electra.

Answer: Mazeppa

The song is hysterical! The three older strippers each tell what makes their act special. Tessie Tura does her act with finesse, Electra does hers with a switch, and Mazeppa does it with a horn.

9. How does Louise get the star spot at the strip club?

Answer: Rose volunteered her

After the star stripper was arrested right before the show they needed someone to take her place. Rose offered to have Louise do it instead, shocking Louise.

10. What magazine was Louise posing for at the end of the play?

Answer: Vogue

By that point Louise had become Gypsy Rose Lee and was quite famous. Rose watched her pose for the magazine before leaving and singing her final song, "Rose's Turn." In it she expresses her own desire to be a star, and how her children were completely ungrateful for what she gave them.

Source: Author Koosalagoopagoop

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