Q 01/05

Which opening-weekend record did Wicked (2024) set?

A) Largest opening weekend of 2024

B) Largest November opening in box-office history

C) Largest opening for a film based on a Broadway musical

D) Largest opening for any Universal Pictures release

Answer · why

C) Largest opening for a film based on a Broadway musical

It was the largest opening for a film based on a Broadway musical, more than tripling the mark Into the Woods had held for a decade and outrunning ear...

Q 02/05

Who designed the original scenic/set design for the Broadway production of Wicked?

A) David Rockwell

B) Eugene Lee

C) Bob Crowley

D) Derek McLane

Answer · why

B) Eugene Lee

Eugene Lee designed the scenic design for the original Broadway production and won the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design. His steampunk-inspired set, ...

Q 03/05

At which London theatre did Wicked open in the West End in 2006?

A) Apollo Victoria Theatre

B) Dominion Theatre

C) Lyceum Theatre

D) Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Answer · why

A) Apollo Victoria Theatre

The Apollo Victoria Theatre has housed Wicked since September 2006, and the small changes to dialogue, choreography and effects made for London were l...

Q 04/05

What is the title of the 2005 second book in The Wicked Years novel series?

A) The Grimmerie

B) A Lion Among Men

C) Out of Oz

D) Son of a Witch

Answer · why

D) Son of a Witch

Son of a Witch follows Elphaba's son as he grows up, and Maguire dedicated it to the cast of the Broadway musical that his first Oz novel had inspired...

Q 05/05

In which city did Wicked have its pre-Broadway tryout in 2003?

A) Chicago

B) San Francisco

C) Washington, D.C.

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

B) San Francisco

San Francisco hosted the tryout in mid-2003; Stephen Schwartz then insisted on three months of rewrites before New York, time that book writer Winnie ...