The Producers
Punch
The V&A Exhibition
Name That Show
Theatre Trivia
Theatre Superstitions
I wanna be a producer!
Name the show from the review (200 points each)
100
The names of the 2 producers
Who are Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom?
100
City in which Punch takes place
What is Nottingham?
100
Name this item
What Shakespeare's First Folio?
100
What is MJ: The Musical?
100
Name the theatre that receive the most annual Arts Council funding
What is the National Theatre?
100
Actors call this play 'The Scottish Play'
What is Macbeth?
100
% of new Broadway shows that DO NOT make back their initial investment
What is 80%
100
'Phwoar! The chance to see these actors is undoubtedly part of the appeal of this seductively clever two-hander'
What is Born With Teeth?
200
The name of the first Broadway show the producers put on, to great commercial success
What is Springtime for Hitler?
200
James's parents
Who are David and Joan?
200
Name the Shakespeare play this model box was created for:
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
200
Into The Woods, Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along were written by this musical theatre composer
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
200
Three of these should never be lit on stage
What are candles?
200
The most expensive Broadway show ever produced (hint: it failed spectacularly)
What is Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark?
200
'There is an intractable buildup of dread, the pace speeding up, the action boiling over, then pulling back for pools of shocked stillness.'
What is Punch?
300
The country from which Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yonsen Tallen-Hallen Svaden-Svanson originates?
What is Sweden?
300
Playwright who wrote Punch
Who is James Graham?
300
The year theatre censorship laws were lifted in the UK
What is 1968?
300
What is Hadestown?
300
Arts organisation/theatre company that produced Les Misérables, Carrie The Musical and My Neighbour Totoro
What is the RSC?
300
A bad ... means the show will be a hit
What is a dress rehearsal?
300
The average cost of mounting a new musical on Broadway in the 2020s
$20 million
300
'he stalks the front of the stage, drunk and clutching a goblet of wine, with his eyes popping from their sockets like a cartoon.'
What is The Merry Wives of Windsor?
400
The number of Tonys the original Broadway production of The Producers won.
What is 12?
For a bonus 100 points, name the musical which has won the 2nd highest number of Tony awards
400
Name of Jacob Dunne's memoir on which the play was based
What is Right From Wrong?
400
Name the Punchdrunk show this mask was from
What is Sleep No More?
400
What is Merrily We Roll Along?
400
Highest grossing musical in the world
What is The Lion King?
400
Light that is always left on when the theatre is dark
What is a ghost light?
400
The name given to the period when a Broadway or West End show performs for audiences before official opening night, allowing the creative team to make changes
What are previews?
400
'It is a bold, brash takeover with striking optics and energised performances. But the script often sounds off-key: unfocused, tonally untextured, its knockabout comedy smothering the emotional core of the play'
What is Bacchae?
500
Andy Nyman played this role in the Wicked films
Who is Governor Thropp?
500
Emma Pallant appeared in both Punch and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Name the roles (just one for Punch will suffice)
Who are Mistress Page and Jacob's mum/Jacob's social worker?
500
Name the first black actor to play Othello in the West end
Who is Ira Aldridge?
500
What is Back To The Future?
500
Name one of the theatres owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber
What are
The London Palladium;The Gillian Lynne Theatre; The Adelphi; Theatre Royal Drury Lane; His Majesty's Theatre; The Cambridge Theatre?
500
In the 17th and 18th centuries, theatres often hired off-duty sailors to work as stagehands because of their expertise with ropes, knots, and complex rigging systems. As a result, this activity is still banned backstage for safety reasons.
What is whistling?
500
Producer responsible for shows such as Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Paddington; The Book of Mormon; Harry Potter And The Cursed Child and Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club
Who is Sonia Friedman?
500
'it is irresistible, absurd and joyful, both celebrating and sending up the power of theatre'
What is The Producers?