Win Tickets to MY FAIR LADY in Baltimore!

By: Oct. 29, 2007
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This contest is over.  Thank you to everyone who entered.  The correct answers are below.

Winner will be notified by 2PM on November 5.

Look for an Avenue Q Contest shortly!

 

Henry Higgins tames Eliza Doolittle in this lavish Cameron Macintosh production of the classic musical My Fair Lady.  This award-winning, critically acclaimed production comes to the Hippodrome for two weeks only, November 6 – 18. 

The Prize:

One of five pairs of tickets to the Opening Night of My Fair Lady on Tuesday, November 6 at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore.  Curtain is at 8PM. 

The Rules:

  • Answer the 10 questions below and send your answers via email to jameshoward@broadwayworld.com.  Please put MY FAIR LADY CONTEST in the subject heading.  Also, include your full name, age and city and state.
  • Entries must be received no later than noon on Monday, November 5th.
  • One entry per person.
  • Employees and their families of BroadwayWorld.com, LiveNation or the producing company of My Fair Lady are ineligible. 
  • BroadwayWorld.com, James Howard and My Fair Lady Company are not responsible for lost or unreceived emails.
  • You must attempt to answer all questions.
  • Winners will be selected from a pool of entries that has the most correct answers, and will be notified via email.

The Contest: 

My Fair Lady is a musical based on a play.  In fact, the play version of this story is currently wowing them on Broadway.  Below is a description and title of a play that was turned into a musical.  Name the musical. Remember, you must try all of them. 

The entries with the most correct answers will win opening night tickets!  Good luck! 

  1. This musical is based on a play by George Bernard Shaw and concerns a linguist, a flower girl and a bet that he can't change her into a proper society woman.  My Fair Lady
  2. This musical is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, featuring dancing rival gangs and a balcony scene performed on a fire escape. West Side Story
  3. This musical, celebrating its tenth year on Broadway is based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, with the melancholy prince being played by a feline set to rule Pride Rock. Disney's The Lion King
  4. The play version is called The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.  My parents knew him as Mary Martin, I knew him as Sandy Duncan, but kids today might know him as Cathy Rigby.  With pirates, Indians, and a feisty fairy named Tinkerbell, how could you not love this musical? Peter Pan
  5. The play version is called The Matchmaker, and features a dynamic woman set to couple up the world, except for herself.  Put on your Sunday clothes and get out of Yonkers!  What is the musical known as? Hello, Dolly!
  6. A cute little chorine was in a play called Roxie Hart, but now she's seen 8 times a week on Broadway in the longest running musical revival ever.  What is the musical? Chicago
  7. Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner are currently selling out the Richard Rodgers Theatre in this play about a guy with a nose for love.  Two of the three musical versions of this classic tale are called by his first name only.  What is this musical called? Cyrano, Cyrano: The Musical and Cyrano de Bergerac were all accepted.
  8. Believe it or not, last year's Disney musical was not the first time this vine swinger played Broadway – the play opened and closed in 1921.  What is the name of the musical version of the classic tale of the Ape Man? Tarzan or Tarzan: The Broadway Musical were accepted.  (Also if you used the word "Disney's" in the title.
  9. This exciting woman has thrilled readers, film and theatre goers for decades.  Her Beekman Place antics with nephew Patrick, was first on stage with Rosalind Russell, and the musical version made Angela Lansbury a Broadway legend.  The musical is called? Mame
  10. The most recent revival of this musical starred Donna Murphy, and later, Brooke Shields.  But the play that started it all was called My Sister Eileen.  What is this musical called? Wonderful Town

 

Remember: TRY ALL OF THEM!  Send entries to jameshoward@broadwayworld.com no later than noon on Monday, November 6th.  Good luck!



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