Tonite is the latest Broadway Quarantrivia hosted by Jordan Brown at 8:00 Eastern. Notes say that there will be one off-broadway round. (Which is the round that usually my team scores the fewest points).
Well that was ridiculously hard for our team especially the off broadway round. Fun question was name three things the wells fargo wagon has brought and two it could bring (in the song - so band instruments is not correct) several teams wrote “something special” for a could but were told that was wrong since it was not a specific thing. Only one of 14 teams got the correct answer for oldest tony nominee who did not win (and host had to review research because he had wrong answer!).
The next Broadway related Quarantrivia was just announced for Friday February 12 at 8:00 Eastern It will be "Stephen Sondheim" and hosted by BOM's Jordan Brown. The last time they did a Sondheim trivia, it was the person and the work - films, tv, stage, books.
LizzieCurry said: "Are they not doing a general Broadway one this month then?"
I do not know. Not this first half of the month. So, maybe end of the month? They haven't announced back half of February yet.
In any event, if you are interested - the sign up sheet is here: Sondheim Trivia Registration Form Registration closes at 6:00 Eastern. BOM's Jordan Brown is the host - and I probably should glance at the Sondheim lyric books .... wondering if there will be a question to put Sondheim shows in order of length of original Broadway run.
I do badly enough in the general Broadway that I'm going to skip tonight's, but encourage any Sondheim nerds to participate! Jordan is a great host and the questions... oh, they are fun agony.
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It was difficult but fun. Our team finished third. One member was excited to get a question about The Birdcage. (What two songs are in The Birdcage that had been cut from prior shows?).
The craziest (?) question was that the host, Jordan Brown, played brief clips of five actors singing the final "rise"s from The Ladies Who Lunch and you had to identify them. They were Debra Monk, Bernadette, Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski and Tonya Pickens. We had Baranski and switched to Meryl Streep to our shame.
There were a whole bunch of questions about songs cut from shows or added to shows after the initial run. And, yes, there was a question where Getting Away With Murder was an answer. And the question was not "name the play Sondheim wrote".
ggersten said: "It was difficult but fun. Our team finished third. One member was excited to get a question about The Birdcage. (What two songs are in The Birdcage that had been cut from prior shows?).
The craziest (?) question was that the host, Jordan Brown, played brief clips of five actors singing the final "rise"s from The Ladies Who Lunch and you had to identify them. They were Debra Monk, Bernadette, Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski and Tonya Pickens. We had Baranski and switched to Meryl Streep to our shame.
There were a whole bunch of questions about songs cut from shows or added to shows after the initial run. And, yes, there was a question where Getting Away With Murder was an answer. And the question was not "name the play Sondheim wrote".
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Only tangentially related, but when Company got a digitally remastered re-release (the version that included Larry Kert's cut of "Being Alive", did Elaine Stritch's last "Let's here it for the ladies who lunch" (leading into "Everybody rise!" sound really different than it had on the previous CD and cassette releases? It was like that one line had been tracked in from an alternative take.
I don't know the answer to the cast recording question, but new Broadway/Musicals related Quarantriia topics just announced.
Patti Lupone on Friday February 26 hosted by Mac Myles 8:00 p.m. Eastern Movie Musicals on Sunday, February 28 hosted by Erin Minervini 8:30 p.m. Eastern
The Movie Musicals Trivia has been moved to Saturday February 27 still at 8:30 Eastern Patti still will be talked about, asked about and honored on February 26.
I did not play last night (but was a phone a friend so got some questions - happy to have provided the correct answer to the Pal Joey question). I heard there were 16 teams and close to 70 screens! The video clip from Most Happy Fella was cool!
I did not play last night (but was a phone a friend so got some questions - happy to have provided the correct answer to the Pal Joey question). I heard there were 16 teams and close to 70 screens! The video clip from Most Happy Fella was cool!
Tonite is a special Friday night edition of Broadway Quarantrivia - still hosted by BOM's Jordan Brown. Registration closes at 6 p.m. Eastern. Form here
We did not get Sutton Foster either. One person thought it sounded like Betsy Wolfe because of the excellent diction! And we went with it - leading to the “of course!” moment when answer revealed
We did not get Sutton Foster either. One person thought it sounded like Betsy Wolfe because of the excellent diction! And we went with it - leading to the “of course!” moment when answer revealed
Tonite. Broadway Quarantrivia at 8 estern. Sign up here (note one round is off-broadway which includes questions about the offbroadway versions of shows that transferred to a Broadway theatre)
Registration closes at 6 p.m. Eastern (or if 100 screens get registered)
Fun question that causes a "Dang, I did know that" including name the foods offered by Rose to Mr. Goldstone, and an audio clue for "I Could Write A Book" from Pal Joey (the musical not the BWW poster) which I recognized but couldn't name quickly enough.
And, finally a Bring it On question!
But, the final question was one more for Jennifer Tepper about shows moving from theatre to theatre - the question gave the transfers and you had to name the show. The shows were Lion King, Chicago (Revival), Mamma Mia, Fiddler and Sound of Music.