Category: Quizzes

Think you know everything there is to know about the West End? Do you know which West End play is the longest running in the world? Do you know which show closed after only one night? Then this quiz is for you! See if you can name these West End record breakers.

1. What is the West End’s longest running play?
2. What is the West End’s longest running musical?
3. What was the West End’s shortest running show?
4. What is the West End’s highest grossing show?
5. Which current West End show sells the most expensive tickets?
6. Which (now closed) West End show was the most expensive to mount?
7. Who’s the highest paid West End actress ever?
8. What’s the oldest London theatre?
9. What was the first musical ever to play in London?

Ready to find out just how much you know? Head over to our answers page.

Are you one of those people who saw Les Misérables on stage and then went home and read all 1400 pages of the novel? Do you know which famous Shakespeare play inspired The Lion King? If so, this quiz is for you!

See if you can name the musical inspired by, based on, or adapted from each classic work.

1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Hamlet
3. One Thousand and One Nights
4. The Once and Future King
5. La Boheme
6. War and Peace
7. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
8. Madama Butterfly
9. Pygmalion
10. The Taming of the Shrew
11. Don Quixote
12. The Bible
13. The Snow Queen
14. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
15. Oliver Twist

Ready to check your answers? Let’s see if you’re a true musical theatre nerd….

Think you know all your favourite musicals inside and out? Have you listened to the soundtrack enough times to play any character in the show? Then this quiz is for you!

See if you can name these 15 musicals from just the first line of the show. We’ve tried to pick ones that aren’t too obvious:

1. Sold. Your number, sir?
2. Good news, she’s dead!
3. On the 21^st day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence.
4. Freddy, go and find a cab.
5. My mummy says I’m a miracle!
6. We begin on Christmas Eve with me, Mark, and my roommate, Roger.
7. Wind’s in the east, there’s a mist coming in, like something is brewing, and ’bout to begin.
8. Is it worth the waiting for?
9. My Sainted Mother! The carriage has stopped!
10. Are you blind when you’re born?
11. Some folks dream of the wonders they’ll do before their time on this planet is through.
12. In 1902, Father built a house at the crest of Broadview Avenue Hill in New Rochelle, New York.
13. Each game of chess means there’s one less variation left to be played.
14. How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
15. Nants ingonyama bagithi baba.

(We included that last one just to be nice.)

Want to see how many you got right? Head over to our answer page!

Were you born with the Musical Theatre gene? Do your feet start tapping when you hear a showtune? Hidden in the grid below are fourteen famous West End Musicals, past and present. They run up, down and diagonally as well as forwards and backwards. Who’ll be first to find all fourteen?

Once you’ve found all fourteen you can check your answers here! And if you’re a real Theatre Expert, try our other brainteasers:

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