Table of Contents
Foreword Peter Filichia xi
Preface: Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome xiii
Quizzes
Setting 1
Ah, Paris!-Musicals Set in France 1
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?-Imaginary Places 4
Large, Monopolizing Corporations-Workplaces 5
Typically English-British Shows 5
Groundhog! Groundhog!-Colleges 9
Be Italian-Musicals Set in Italy 10
The Only Lobby I Know Is the Martin Beck-Theatres 11
On the Street Where You Live-Addresses 12
Time 13
The 1900s 13
The 1910s 16
The 1920s 19
The 1930s 22
The 1940s 25
The 1950s 28
The 1960s 31
The 1970s 34
The 1980s 37
The 1990s 40
The 2000s 44
Act 1
Scene 1 49
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II 49
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick 51
Frank Loesser and Burton Lane 55
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty 57
Leonard Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein 61
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe 64
George and Ira Gershwin 68
Charles Strouse and Lee Adams 71
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones 74
John Kander and Fred Ebb 76
Betty Comden and Adolph Green 78
Richard Rodger and Lorenz Hart 80
Scene 2 83
Jerry Herman 83
Kurt Weill 86
Cole Porter 88
Stephen Sondheim 91
Irving Berlin 97
Cy Coleman 100
Andrew Lloyd Webber 103
William Finn 106
Jerome Kern 109
Jule Styne 111
Noel Coward 114
Stephen Schwartz 118
Harold Arlen 121
Scene 3 123
Go into Your Dance-Choreographers 123
Backstage Babble-Stagecrew 124
Ensemble Number-Supporting Characters 124
Ethel Merman 125
David Merrick 129
Carol Channing and Jerry Orbach 131
Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon 134
Alfred Drake 137
Mary Martin 140
Patti LuPone 143
George Abbott 146
Barbara Cook 148
Harold Prince 150
Intermission 155
Food, Glorious Food 155
Cherry Pies Ought to Be You-Baked Goods 157
Dark, Secluded Places-Nightclubs and Bars 158
Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please-Booze 159
1776 Mini-Quiz 160
A Chorus Line Mini-Quiz 161
Nine Mini-Quiz 161
Act 2
Scene 1 163
Something to Do with Spring 163
Summertime 164
Shall We All Meet in the Autumn? 166
Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher l68
The Show Must Go On-Shows Within Shows 170
What If?-Musicals That Might Have Been 170
Who Am I?-Biographical Musicals 172
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me-Jukebox Musicals 172
Scene 2 177
Masquerade-Characters Using False Names 177
I'm Looking for Something-Word Association 178
Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?-Ships and Boats 180
I Could Pass the Football-Sports 180
So Much in Common-Common Themes 183
Safety in Numbers-Song Titles with Numbers 184
Old Sayin's-Quotes 185
Keeping Cool with Coolidge-U.S. History 185
The Doctor Is In-Physicians, Shrinks, Dentists 188
Chaucer, Rabelais and Balzac-Literature 189
Answers 193
