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Singin in the Rain (Gene Kelly)
 





Musicals

They're De-licious, they're De-Lovely, they're sometimes plain De-Sastrous. But as "the Phantom" wafts into UK cinemas, we invite you to step lightly from question one to ten and let your mouse dance gracefully between our multiple choice boxes. Play on...

Question 1 The Trolley Song, Under the Bamboo Tree and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas are songs featured in which classic musical?
 
  On the Town
  Holiday Inn
  Easter Parade
  Meet Me in St. Louis
 
Question 2 Gene Kelly was Singin' in the Rain. But what was used to make the rain?
 
  A mix of water and milk that made Gene's wool suit shrink
  Grains of rice which made a noise that later had to be edited out of the sound mix
  Carbonated water that caused a camera to short circuit
  Billowing sheets of gauze shaken by prop men on scaffolds
 
Question 3 Who wrote West Side Story?
 
  Lerner and Loewe
  Bernstein and Sondheim
  Lennon and McCartney
  William Shakespeare
 
Question 4 Which of these titles was NOT one of the famous Road musicals starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope?
 
  The Road to Utopia
  The Road to Bali
  The Road to Singapore
  The Road to Wellville
 
Question 5 Which tough-guy actor sang I Talk to the Trees in the 1970 film Paint Your Wagon?
 
  John Wayne
  Lee Marvin
  Clint Eastwood
  Robert Mitchum
 
Question 6 What is the name of the bad-taste musical dreamed up by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel in The Producers?
 
  Lolita: The Musical
  Springtime for Hitler
  Cancer Dancer
  An American Psycho in Paris
 
Question 7 Which of these disasters did NOT occur on the set of the 1950 film Annie Get Your Gun?
 
  Original director Busby Berkeley being fired when his name turned up on the McCarthy blacklist
  Frank Morgan dropping dead in the middle of filming his role as Buffalo Bill and being replaced by Louis Calhern
  Original star Judy Garland falling ill and having to be replaced by Betty Hutton
  Howard Keel breaking his leg when a horse fell on him
 
Question 8 Name the only actor who refused to sing in Woody Allen's musical Everyone Says I Love You, insisting instead on a voice double
 
  Julia Roberts
  Tim Roth
  Natalie Portman
  Drew Barrymore
 
Question 9 What event occurred on the day that Judy Garland died?
 
  It was the first day of the St. Louis Fair (like in Meet Me in St. Louis)
  Her daughter Liza Minnelli made her debut on Broadway (echoing A Star is Born)
  A tornado ripped through the state of Kansas (as featured in The Wizard of Oz)
  The Macy's Easter Parade passed beneath the window of her New York apartment (echoing Easter Parade)
 
Question 10 Complete the verse: "The hills are alive with the sound of music/With songs they have sung for a thousand years/The hills fill my heart with the sound of music."
 
  "My heart wants to sing every song it hears"
  "It opens my heart, and it rings in my ears"
  "It moves us to laughter, it moves us to tears"
  "The sound of sheep bleating, and the farmers' shears"
 
 


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