A Show Biz Quiz

What's your Bwy IQ?

Test yourself!

Until shortly before opening night, Oklahoma! had a different
title. What was it?

1

What was the real surname of siblings Lionel, Ethel and John
Barrymore?

What convicted killer won a best-actor Tony award?

An older Broadway composer/lyricist wrote this note to an aspiring

younger one:

A song is like a freight train. It has to have a locomotive, which is
the bold idea that first arrests your ear and propels you into the
rest of the song. The whole body of the song has to follow that first
fascinating idea. What follows can be about many things, but they
all have to go where that locomotive is going. Then comes the
most important thing, the red caboose that ends the song with a
twist, a little surprise--always remember to hook on the caboose,
because that's what makes a good song.

Specify relationships among the following:

(a) Eugene O'Neill and Geraldine Chaplin

(b) Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle

(c) Susan Sarandon and Chris Sarandon

(d) Noel Coward and Daniel Massey

(e) Agnes DeMille and Cecil B. DeMille

(f) George Clooney and Miguel Ferrer

(g) Helen Hayes and James MacArthur

(h) Max Beerbohm and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

6

What Broadway lyricist began his career under the pseudonym
"Arthur Francis"?

7

After starring in the Ziegfeld Follies, both Billie Burke and Fanny Brice
found their way to Hollywood. While Burke played flighty socialites
in films, Brice created the role of a bratty little girl in a popular radio
series. What was the role?

8

When Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe were seeking investors
for My Fair Lady, guests at a backers' audition included Mary Martin.
After hearing songs from the show, Martin reportedly said:

(a) "If I were ten years younger, I'd audition for Eliza."

(b) "South Pacific it ain't."

(c) "Those dear boys have lost their talent."

(d) "Those kids are going to make George Bernard Shaw famous."