From Silver Screen to Tin Pan Alley by Egantx7

Champion(s):

Kloefkorn


Runner(s)-Up:

GriffinJoe


Quiz Description

Answer the following about stories that started out as films before moving to the musical stage. While most films and musicals have the same name, there are a couple questions that will ask you for one or the other. When you are asked for either name, you can be assured that they both have the same title (Even though you will be asked to name the musical). While some of these musicals may be based on original books or plays, in all of these cases, significant material was based on the intervening film. Oh, and of course, potential spoiler alerts.

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Questions:

Name either the movie or musical. This show ran for 977 performances between 1994 and 1997, sweeping up Tonys for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score, and Best Actress (for Glenn Close). Based on a 1950 Billy Wilder classic, identify this musical of the same name, considered by most to be Andrew Lloyd-Webber's last great musical.

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Sunset Boulevard

Name either the movie or musical. The 1992 film featured supporting roles played by Bill Pullman, Ann-Margaret, and Robert Duvall as Joseph Pulitzer. While Alan Menken composed the music, Howard Ashman was too near death to write the lyrics for the film. Closing after 1,005 performances, name the musical (or film) that featured Jeremy Jordan creating the stage character of Jack Kelly, a character originally played by Christian Bale in the film.

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Newsies

Name either the movie or musical. Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor starred in the film which was based on an episode of the BBC series Trouble at the Top which profiled failing businesses. With songs such as "Price and Son Theme" and "Land of Lola", identify this winner of six Tonys, one of which went to Cyndi Lauper for Best Score. (edited at 1:50 pm, March 28, 2017 (PDT))

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Kinky Boots

Name the film. This spoof musical created by Jon and Al Kaplan made its off Broadway debut in 2005, winning the Best Musical Award for the New York International Fringe Festival, and getting named to Time Magazine's "10 Best stage shows of 2011" when it returned to Off-Broadway. The song "Thish Ish it" pokes fun at one character's West Virginia accent. Identify the film which was the basis for this musical, which also includes a song entitled "My Daughter Is Catherine" sung by Senator Martin. (edited at 12:09 pm, March 26, 2017 (PDT))

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The Silence of the Lambs (Silence! The Musical)

Name the musical. This musical was based on the 1957 Federico Fellini film Nights of Cabiria which featured Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina as a prostitute ... the 1966 musical was directed by Bob Fosse who put his wife, Gwen Verdon, in the main role as a dancer at the Fandango Ballroom. Identify this musical with a book by Neil Simon which starred Debbie Allen in its 1986 revival, and got some good press in 2005 with Christina Applegate overcoming injuries to keep the show on schedule, earning her a Tony nomination in the process.

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Sweet Charity

Name either the movie or musical. Despite a Tony nomination for Best Musical and a Tony win for Best Actor (Norbert Leo Butz, playing Carl), this show closed after only 170 performances. This musical opens with a standoff at the Miami Airport, with most of the story being told as a flashback. Identify this musical, based on a 2002 film, which includes the songs "Live in Living Color", "Butter Outta Cream", and "The Pinstripes Are All That They See".

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Catch Me If You Can

Name either the movie or musical. Costing more than $8 million to stage in 1988, this musical's closure after 5 performances ranks it among the most expensive flops in Broadway history. Despite many remaining sold out shows, terrible reviews scared the financial backers out. A 2012 Off-Broadway revival made it to 46 performances, and is the source of the only official cast album. Identify this musical which opens in a high school gym class, and ends with the high school and town completely destroyed as revenge for some really bad bullying.

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Carrie

Name either the movie or musical. The 1933 film earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, and was ranked high on the AFI list of greatest movie musicals. The 1980 musical was a smash hit, despite the director, Gower Champion, dying hours before the premiere. The show ran for over 3400 performances throughout the 1980s. Identify this musical which itself is about the production of the fictional musical Pretty Lady set to star ingenue Peggy Sawyer and her leading man, Billy Lawlor.

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42nd Street

Name either the movie or musical. The 1988 Frank Oz film was itself a reworking of a 1964 film entitled Bedtime Story with Marlon Brando and David Niven. The musical version ran for 626 performances in 2005-06, earning 10 Tony nominations, including one for John Lithgow. Name this musical which features two characters named Lawrence and Freddy, and a woman named Christine Colgate who turns out to be a con woman.

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Name either the movie or musical. This musical generated some notice when Julie Andrews turned down her Tony nomination in protest of it being the show's only nomination. This musical opened its 734 performance run in 1995, and was based on a 1982 film, which was itself a remake of a 1933 German film. Henry Mancini died before completing this show's score. Name this musical set in 1930s Paris that saw Andrews reprise her role from the film, with Tony Roberts taking over Robert Preston's role.

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Victor/Victoria

Name either the movie or musical. When this musical won only one of its 11 2005 Tony nominations, it was hard not to compare the outcome to what had happened to the film some two decades earlier. Jennifer Hudson made her Broadway debut in the 2015 revival of the musical. Identify this show, a story of self discovery for a young woman in early twentieth century Georgia.

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The Color Purple

Name either the movie or musical. The film was a 1975 documentary about a mother and daughter who had been living in squalor in a cat infested, garbage strewn, dilapidated mansion in East Hampton, New York before their niece and cousin provided enough money to repair the mansion and stabilize their living conditions. The show ran for just over 300 performances on Broadway, but earned 10 Tony nominations. Identify this musical which focuses on the partially fictionalized lives of Edith and Edith Beale, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onasis. Both the documentary and musical are named for the estate which has since been restored to its former glory.

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Grey Gardens