Q 01/05

Which playhouse, built for Gilbert and Sullivan in 1881, was the first public building lit entirely by electricity?

A) Garrick Theatre

B) Criterion Theatre

C) Savoy Theatre

D) Vaudeville Theatre

Answer · why

C) Savoy Theatre

The Savoy Theatre was lit by about 1,200 of Joseph Swan's incandescent lamps, and Richard D'Oyly Carte smashed a glowing bulb on stage to show the aud...

Q 02/05

Which musical opened in 2006 at the Apollo Victoria, a London theatre built in 1930 as a cinema?

A) Wicked

B) Dirty Dancing

C) Spamalot

D) Hamilton

Answer · why

A) Wicked

Wicked moved into the former New Victoria cinema four years after Starlight Express left; that show's roller-skating cast had raced on tracks running ...

Q 03/05

Which military vehicle is the famous stage effect of Miss Saigon, Drury Lane's 1989 hit?

A) A tank

B) A fighter jet

C) A gunboat

D) A helicopter

Answer · why

D) A helicopter

A helicopter lifts the last Americans from the embassy roof while Kim is left in the crowd at the gates, the show's version of the 1975 fall of Saigon...

Q 04/05

The Phantom of the Opera opened in 1986 at which theatre on London's Haymarket?

A) Theatre Royal Haymarket

B) His Majesty's Theatre

C) Prince of Wales Theatre

D) Prince Edward Theatre

Answer · why

B) His Majesty's Theatre

His Majesty's Theatre changes its name with the sex of the monarch: Her Majesty's for Victoria, His for Edward VII, Her again for Elizabeth II, and Hi...

Q 05/05

Billy Elliot, the Elton John musical, sets a boy's ballet lessons against which 1984–85 dispute in County Durham?

A) The dockers' strike

B) The printers' strike

C) The miners' strike

D) The steelworkers' strike

Answer · why

C) The miners' strike

The miners' strike of 1984–85 tore through the Durham coalfield where the story is set, and Lee Hall based his screenplay partly on A. J. Cronin's 193...