Venue Cymru Theatre Quiz

A vibrant and artistic representation of a theatre stage with curtains drawn back, showcasing a spotlight and musical notes hovering around, capturing the essence of live performance and musicals.

Test your knowledge of theatre and musical history with the Venue Cymru Theatre Quiz! This engaging quiz offers a mix of questions about plays, actors, and memorable songs that will challenge both theatre enthusiasts and casual fans.

Join in for an entertaining experience and see how much you really know!

20 questions
Multiple choice answers
Fun for all ages

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1: What do you call the part of a theatre performance where the audience gets the background details to what they are about to watch?

Encore

Finale

Prologue

Epilogue

2: Which play is said to carry bad luck if it is spoken in a theatre by someone who isn’t appearing in a production of that play or in rehearsal for it?

The Caretaker

Macbeth

The Woman in White

Caucasian Chalk Circle

3: Complete this lyric to a song from ‘The Lion King’ show - I'm gonna be the …… event / Like no king was before’

Top

Big

Best

Mane

4: In the musical Oliver what is the name of Bill Sikes’ dog?

Buster

Bullseye

Bouncer

Bobby

5: In which decade did the Agatha Christie play ‘The Mousetrap’ open in London’s West End?

1930's

1940's

1950's

1960's

6: Barbra Streisand played the lead role in the musical ‘Funny Girl’ on stage and on screen. Who did she portray?

Ethel Merman

Greta Garbo

Fanny Brice

7: Which composer and actor lived in a flat above the theatre which now bears his name?

John Gielgud

Stephen Sondheim

Ivor Novello

Noël Coward

8: In the 1980s a song called ‘Tetris’ by Doctor Spin reached Number 6 in the UK charts. Best known for musicals, what is Doctor Spin’s real name?

Stephen Schwartz

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Leonard Bernstein

Jonathan Larson

9: Which Pope, before becoming the head of the Catholic Church, was a writer and had a play performed at a London theatre?

Pope Benedict XV

Pope Pius XII

Pope John Paul II

Pope Benedict

10: Name the American singer-songwriter who wrote a musical based on Greek myth that won eight Tony awards and one Grammy award.

Sara Bareilles

Anais Mitchell

Cyndi Lauper

Nell Benjamin

11: How many daughters does Shakespeare’s King Lear have?

12: The role of Maureen Johnson in the show ‘Rent’ was played by which artist in the original production?

Patti LuPone

Anna-Leigh Ashford

Idina Menzel

Keala Settle

13: Complete this line from the title song to a 1970s musical which later became an Oscar-winning film ‘Life is a …….. Old chum, come to the …….’

Cabaret

Party

Parade

Circus

14: Name the writer behind ‘Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?'

Edward Albee

Truman Capote

Tennessee Williams

Arthur Miller

15: Who is regarded as the first professional woman playwright?

Mary Pix

Catherine Trotter

Susannah Centlivre

Aphra Behn

16: Which show won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards in 2019?

Fun Home

Come From Away

Six

Tina

17: Where is the UK’s oldest working theatre?

Cardiff

Liverpool

Bristol

Newcastle

18: In which 2015 Shakespeare production did Judi Dench perform on stage alongside Kenneth Branagh?

Hamlet

The Taming of the Shrew

A Winter's Tale

Twelfth Night

19: Complete this line from a song from Les Mis ‘I will never rest / Till then, this I swear / This I swear by the ……..’

Gods

Stars

20: In a theatre auditorium, where would the orchestra usually sit?

The Wings

The Pit

The Apron

Offstage

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