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1. Evita

2. Which play is 'My Fair Lady' adapted from?
Pygmalion
Che Guevara narrates the life story of Eva Peron - a singer and film actress who marries Juan Peron. Juan is elected President of Argentina - and Eva's charity work makes her immensely popular among her people before her death from cancer.
Richard Rodgers
Che Guevara narrates the life story of Eva Peron - a singer and film actress who marries Juan Peron. Juan is elected President of Argentina - and Eva's charity work makes her immensely popular among her people before her death from cancer.

3. Fiddler on the Roof
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.
Oklahoma!

4. What is considered the first modern book musical?
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Cowboy Curly McLain and sinister farmhand Judd compete for the love of Aunt Eller's niece - Laurey. Judd falls on his own knife after attacking Curly - and Curly and Laurey get married.
Oklahoma!

5. My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs: the blue-collar Jets and the Sharks from Puerto Rico. Tony - a former Jet - falls in love with Bernardo's sister Maria - and vows to stop the fighting - but he kills Bernardo after Bernardo kills Riff in a rumb
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza
Pygmalion

6. Who composed the Sound of Music?
Richard Rodgers
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
Oklahoma!
Cowboy Curly McLain and sinister farmhand Judd compete for the love of Aunt Eller's niece - Laurey. Judd falls on his own knife after attacking Curly - and Curly and Laurey get married.

7. Cabaret
Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs: the blue-collar Jets and the Sharks from Puerto Rico. Tony - a former Jet - falls in love with Bernardo's sister Maria - and vows to stop the fighting - but he kills Bernardo after Bernardo kills Riff in a rumb
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families
Oklahoma!
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.

8. The Mikado

9. The Phantom of the Opera

10. The Sound of Music
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character

11. The Mikado

12. What is considered the first modern book musical?
Oklahoma!
Pygmalion
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti

13. Fiddler on the Roof
Richard Rodgers
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families
Pygmalion

14. Oklahoma!

15. Cats
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.
Che Guevara narrates the life story of Eva Peron - a singer and film actress who marries Juan Peron. Juan is elected President of Argentina - and Eva's charity work makes her immensely popular among her people before her death from cancer.
Pygmalion

16. Who composed the Sound of Music?
Richard Rodgers
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Oklahoma!
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza

17. West Side Story

18. Oklahoma!

19. Evita

20. Cats
Riff and Bernardo lead two rival gangs: the blue-collar Jets and the Sharks from Puerto Rico. Tony - a former Jet - falls in love with Bernardo's sister Maria - and vows to stop the fighting - but he kills Bernardo after Bernardo kills Riff in a rumb
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Richard Rodgers
Tevye is a lowly Jewish milkman in Tsarist Russia - and his daughters are anxious to get married. Tzeitel marries the tailer Motel - Hodel gets engaged to the radical student Perchik - and Chava falls in love with a Russian named Fyedka. The families

21. My Fair Lady
Pygmalion
Pygmalion
Oklahoma!
As part of a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering - phonetics professor Henry Higgins transforms cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady. After Eliza falls for Freddy Eynsforth-Hill - Higgins realizes he is in love with Eliza

22. Cabaret
Cowboy Curly McLain and sinister farmhand Judd compete for the love of Aunt Eller's niece - Laurey. Judd falls on his own knife after attacking Curly - and Curly and Laurey get married.
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Set in the seedy Kit-Kat Club in Weimar Berlin - the risqua Master of Ceremonies presides over the action. The British lounge singer Sally Bowles falls in love with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw - but the two break up as the Nazis come to power.

23. The Phantom of the Opera

24. The Sound of Music
Maria - a young woman studying to be a nun in Nazi-occupied Austria - becomes governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp. She teaches the children to sin - and she and the Captain fall in love and get married.
Pygmalion
The Jellicle tribe of cats roams the streets of London. They introduce the audience to various members - including: Rum Tum Tugger - Mungojerne - Rempleteazer - Mr. Mistoffelees - and Old Deuteronomy.
Oklahoma!

25. West Side Story

26. Which play is 'My Fair Lady' adapted from?
Cowboy Curly McLain and sinister farmhand Judd compete for the love of Aunt Eller's niece - Laurey. Judd falls on his own knife after attacking Curly - and Curly and Laurey get married.
Pygmalion
Christine - the soprano at the Paris Opera in 1881 - falls in love with the opera's new patron - Raoul - and consequently is kidnapped by the title character
The title character has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu - so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward - Yum-Yum - marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo - and the two lovers fake their execution. The ti