Hallie loves musicals. She loves them so much that in this season finale, she’s written a whole game of trivia questions about them! We talk about the story of Broadway, biology, a hilarious film, and more, and crown the Season 6 champion!
6:22: Q1 (Arts & Literature): The electrical lighting installed on Broadway in 1880, which allowed women to go out at night unescorted, gave Broadway what three word nickname, which is still often used today?
14:19: Q2 (Everything Else): What musical that premiered on Broadway in 1976 and is not Jesus Christ Superstar, is based on a series of parables mainly based on the Gospel of Matthew and had a hit on the Billboard charts with “Day by Day”?
26:44: Q3 (Sports & Games): What musical with music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda and based on the 2000 film of the same name, features a female-led high school team winning the national competition and ultimately bonding with their rivals?
37:28: Q4 (Science): Spongebob Squarepants The Musical, which premiered on Broadway in December 2017 stars an animal of what phylum?
43:09: Q5 (Times & Places): What musical, written by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil, is based on Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, but changed the romance between an American lieutenant and a geisha to one between a U.S. Marine and a South Asian bargirl?
52:23: Q6 (Sounds & Screen): What musical that premiered on Broadway in 2001 was based on a black comedy film from 34 years earlier that starred Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder and spawned its own film 4 years later with the original Broadway leads?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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