Something magical often happens when music is part of a movie, which is probably why so many filmed musicals are memorable. Follow the clues and see how many of these musicals you can name. The answers appear below.
1. In what musical does a flim-flam man fall hard for the beautiful librarian “right here in River City”?
2. Instead of just training a Cockney flower girl to pass in high society, Professor Higgins became “Accustomed to her face” in what 1964 musical movie?
3. “The Hills Were Alive” before Maria entered the convent and was sent to take care of Captain Von Trapp’s seven children in what hit musical?
4. It was a “Beautiful Mornin” for Curly and Laurey when Rodgers and Hammerstein seamlessly integrated song, dance, and story into the 1943 musical set in a particular state?
5. What musical featured an exotic setting and a Navy nurse trying to “wash that man right out of her hair” (but instead falling under his spell on “Some Enchanted Evening?”)?
6. In what musical did Tevye cling to “Tradition” through “Sunrise, Sunset” as his three headstrong daughters challenged marriage customs?
7. The character for whom this musical is named used “The Music of the Night” to entrance Christine and try to lure her away from Raoul to his underground lair.
8. What musical reimagines Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” with a fierce gang rivalry that makes Tony (a Jet) and Maria’s (a Shark) love forbidden?
9. What 1951 musical showed the schoolteacher Anna and the ruler Mongkut “Getting to Know You”?
10. What long-running musical tells the story of Jean Valjean and police inspector Javert during the time of the French Revolution?
Answers:
1. “The Music Man”
2. ‘My Fair Lady”
3. “The Sound of Music”
4. “Oklahoma”
5. “South Pacific”
6. “Fiddler on the Roof”
7. “Phantom of the Opera”
8. “West Side Story”
9. “The King and I”
10. “Les Miserables”
