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Broadway Musical Trivia Book: Fun-Filled Facts & Trivia Questions To Find Out How Much You Really Know!
Music reference
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2021
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January 10, 2025
I spent a strange evening with this book. Amazon recommended it to me because I love musicals. I didn’t know many of the quiz answers. But I enjoyed the Did You Know section at the end of each chapter except the last. It expands on the questions in that chapter. I knew the most in the song chapter. I was annoyed that it doesn’t include a Did You Know section. I was looking forward to that.
August 30, 2023
Really fun but needs a solid edit. Lots of the answer keys don't line up with the questions, and a few of the answers are wrong. (Sara Bareilles wasn't the original Jenna in Waitress, for example.) But I enjoyed this a lot!
May 16, 2025
too easy
August 3, 2023
An excellent theatre trivia book that will surprise and delight the musical aficionado, the book is neatly organized by decade, with specialty categories in the back. Filled with a combination of multiple choice and true/false questions (no fill in the blanks here!), there is a supplementary section of additional facts capping off each decade. One formatting note - the answer key is skewed on some of the decades due to additional lines of facts, the numbering is slightly off. I am also curious about question 21, under the 'Dames and Divas' category, I do not believe the correct answer is 'Sara Bareilles' as she would not fit all of the songs listed in the question.
April 5, 2021
The Spectrum of Broadway Musical history
New author Katie Sison pledges to inform us all about all the things about Broadway Musicals we wither have forgotten and never knew! Her thought processes are shared in the Introductory comments: ‘Acknowledged today as one of the uniquely American art forms, musical theatre integrates multiple beloved forms of story telling: song, dance, plot, character, and design. These individual artistic achievements come together to transport the audience to different worlds…Though its roots can be traced back several millennia, musical theatre proper was born in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. Its unique sound developed out of partnerships between jazz artists and songwriters, and the art form would develop continuously through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first….This trivia book begins with the precursors to musical theatre throughout the world and narrows to the island we all come back to time and time again: Manhattan….’
Katie divides her book her trivia questions and fun facts into the Pre-Golden Age, The1940s, The 1950s, The 1960s, The 1970s, The 1980s, The 1990s, The 2000s,The 2010s, The Dames and Divas, The Awards Tony Awards, etc), Movie Musicals, and Name That Song (lyrics from which to remember a song’s title and show)! Each chapter offers questions, trivia time, answers, and a very enlightening Did You Know? section.
This is a richly abundant supply of information and trivia and brain teasers to enlighten us all about Broadway musicals. It is challenging – and rewardingly informative.
New author Katie Sison pledges to inform us all about all the things about Broadway Musicals we wither have forgotten and never knew! Her thought processes are shared in the Introductory comments: ‘Acknowledged today as one of the uniquely American art forms, musical theatre integrates multiple beloved forms of story telling: song, dance, plot, character, and design. These individual artistic achievements come together to transport the audience to different worlds…Though its roots can be traced back several millennia, musical theatre proper was born in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. Its unique sound developed out of partnerships between jazz artists and songwriters, and the art form would develop continuously through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first….This trivia book begins with the precursors to musical theatre throughout the world and narrows to the island we all come back to time and time again: Manhattan….’
Katie divides her book her trivia questions and fun facts into the Pre-Golden Age, The1940s, The 1950s, The 1960s, The 1970s, The 1980s, The 1990s, The 2000s,The 2010s, The Dames and Divas, The Awards Tony Awards, etc), Movie Musicals, and Name That Song (lyrics from which to remember a song’s title and show)! Each chapter offers questions, trivia time, answers, and a very enlightening Did You Know? section.
This is a richly abundant supply of information and trivia and brain teasers to enlighten us all about Broadway musicals. It is challenging – and rewardingly informative.
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