The Producers
Punch
Sassy Gay Friend (all 200 points)
Name That Show from the Audio
Theatre Trivia
Theatre Superstitions
I wanna be a producer!
Name the show from the review (all 200 points)
The National Theatre
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 the character SGF is talking about
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dqCOfRLqksjv28-ROosdjXqFTO88z5fK/view?usp=drive_link
Who is Hamlet?
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
'Themes of desire, fear, and consent are woven throughout, encouraging us to reconsider this story and how women’s voices have often been suppressed in history.'
What is Dracula?
100
The number of theatres in the NT complex
What is 3?
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 play SGF is reenacting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W0PC7zuvnCdY3MHoS1CTHjcPNHH0o7PW/view?usp=drive_link
What is Romeo and Juliet?
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?
200
Laurence Olivier's favourite colour
What is purple?
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
Name the play SGF is enacting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yEKyebNnVoyFBn39CmukcXFi08ziCec5/view?usp=drive_link
What is Othello?
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?
300
Show currently on in the Olivier Theatre
What is Ballet Shoes?
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 play SGF is reenacting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fEO1H835cH4BByTyWFuAdJs0L4aTp2MF/view?usp=drive_link
What is Macbeth?
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?
400
Purpose of the garden we visited at the end of the tour
What is dyeing for costume production?
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 Tudor monarch SGF admonishing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ci12xrAeCU32cuLf5QV6riZvbbu-brMi/view?usp=sharing
Who is Henry VIII?
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?
500
The name of our lovely guide
Who is Nelson?
600
"There is one huge strength in this show - technically two, and that is its amazing cast."
What is Hot Mess?
