Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is based on poems by T. S. Eliot and has its performers play felines?
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Cats
Its best-known song is “Memory”.
💡 Did you know? In London it ran for 21 years without a break.
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In which musical does a disfigured, masked composer live in the vaults beneath the Palais Garnier in Paris?
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Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber based it on Gaston Leroux’s novel; it ran on Broadway for 35 years.
💡 Did you know? The first act climaxes with a falling chandelier.
Which Disney musical with songs by Elton John tells the story of Simba on the African savannah?
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The Lion King
Director Julie Taymor brought the animals to the stage with masks and puppets.
💡 Did you know? In Hamburg it has run since 2001 in its own theatre on the harbour.
Which musical based on Victor Hugo follows the released convict Jean Valjean and his pursuer Javert?
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Les Misérables
It premiered in Paris in 1980; the 1985 English version made it world-famous.
💡 Did you know? Susan Boyle became famous in 2009 singing “I Dreamed a Dream” from it.
Which musical tells its story on a Greek island using only songs by ABBA?
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Mamma Mia!
Before her wedding a young woman invites the three men who could be her father.
💡 Did you know? The 2008 film with Meryl Streep became a worldwide box-office hit.
Which Lin-Manuel Miranda musical uses hip-hop to tell the life of the founding father on the ten-dollar bill?
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Hamilton
It won eleven Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize in 2016.
💡 Did you know? The founding fathers are deliberately played by a diverse cast.
Which Leonard Bernstein musical moves “Romeo and Juliet” into the gang wars of New York?
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West Side Story
The lyrics were by a young Stephen Sondheim; the Jets fight the Sharks.
💡 Did you know? Steven Spielberg made a new film version in 2021.
In which musical do Danny and Sandy fall in love at Rydell High School in the 1950s?
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Grease
The 1978 film with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John made it world-famous.
💡 Did you know? The title refers to the hair grease the boys use to style their hair.
Which musical tells the life of Argentina’s first lady Eva Perón and features “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”?
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Evita
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice opened it in London in 1978.
💡 Did you know? Madonna played the lead in the 1996 film.
Which 1967 rock musical of the hippie movement includes the anthem “Aquarius”?
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Hair
It deals with protest against the Vietnam War and ends with “Let the Sunshine In”.
💡 Did you know? A brief nude scene caused a scandal at the time.
In which musical do the murderesses Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly compete for headlines in the 1920s?
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Chicago
The music is by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with choreography by Bob Fosse.
💡 Did you know? The 2002 film won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Which musical is set in the Kit Kat Klub in Berlin in 1931?
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Cabaret
The singer Sally Bowles parties on while the Nazis gain power.
💡 Did you know? Liza Minnelli won an Oscar for the 1972 film.
In which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical do performers race around on roller skates as locomotives and carriages?
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Starlight Express
In Bochum it has run since 1988 in a purpose-built hall.
💡 Did you know? The Bochum production is one of the longest-running musicals at a single venue worldwide.
Which rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice tells the last seven days before the crucifixion, largely from Judas’s point of view?
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Jesus Christ Superstar
It first appeared as a concept album in 1970 before reaching the stage.
💡 Did you know? Churches protested strongly against it at first.
Which musical tells the backstory of the witches from The Wizard of Oz, from the point of view of green-skinned Elphaba?
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Wicked
Its best-known song is “Defying Gravity”.
💡 Did you know? A film version with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande was released in 2024.
In which musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” does Professor Higgins teach a Cockney flower girl refined speech?
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My Fair Lady
The flower girl is Eliza Doolittle, whose practice line is “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain”.
💡 Did you know? Audrey Hepburn played Eliza in the 1964 film.
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