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1. In "South Pacific", Lt. Joe Cable sings a sad and bitter song when he realizes he has lost the love of Liat due to his prejudice. What is it that "You've got to be taught before it's too late, before you are six or seven or eight, to ____________ all the people your relatives ___________, you've got to be carefully taught?"
2. In "Oklahoma!", Jud Fry is the town bully. To teach him a lesson, Curly sings a song to him in which he tells Jud that when he dies "The daisies in the dell will give out a different ______ because poor Jud is 'neath the ground." What effect will Jud have on the daisies?
3. "Because I'm a woman, you think like every woman, I have to be your slave or ________________, you conceited, self-indulgent libertyne....libertine." In her rush to pack up and leave Siam for good, Anna sings this angry song to herself and scolds herself when she mispronouces words like 'libertine.' Fortunately for Rodgers and Hammerstein, her mistake provides them with a chance to make a clever lyric. What is it?
4. In "Carousel", after the clambake, Jigger and his friends are getting ready to go back to the mainland and carry out their robbery plans. Before they leave, they sing a sarcastic song to a God-fearing man who finds Jigger behaving improperly with the woman he is about to marry. The man stomps off in anger with Jigger jeering : "Stonecutters cut it on stone, woodpeckers peck it on wood, there's nothin' so bad for a woman than a man who thinks he's good." Who is this stalwart soul they are mocking?
5. The nuns are frustrated with Maria when she fails to show up (again!) for evening prayers. Some of them lament how she is lazy and forgetful, but the Mother Superior knows that Maria's heart is in the right place. She sings to the other nuns: "How do you solve a problem like Maria, how do you take a ___________ and pin it down?" What is Maria being compared to?
6. The Chinatown Association has spoken: Sammy must marry Mei Li, his mail order bride. But things always work out in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and Sammy ends up marrying his sweetheart, Linda. Formerly a confirmed bachelor who warned women "Don't Marry Me", Sammy sings this song to his new bride: "Sunday. sweet Sunday, with nothing to do, lazy and ___________, my one day with you." The missing word is?
7. In the 1962 remake of "State Fair", lovesick Margy Frake (played by Pamela Tiffin) sings the beautiful song "It Might As Well Be Spring" in which she laments "I keep wishing I were somewhere else, walking down a strange new street, hearing words that I have never heard from a man I've yet to meet." Why is this song unique among all other Rodgers and Hammerstein melodies?
8. "Cinderella" was a minor success in Rodgers and Hammerstein's career. It follows the well-known fairy tale, but pictures Cinderella as a dreamer who wants to escape from the tyranny of her stepmother and see the world. She pretends "I'm a young Norwegian princess or a milkmaid. I'm the greatest prima donna in ____________ I'm an heiress who has always had her silk made by her own flock of silkworms in Japan." Where does she want to be a prima donna?
9. One would think that being stationed on a beautiful tropical island where the effects of World War Two have been minimal would be a good thing. But the sailors in "South Pacific" are restless because one teeeeeny little aspect of normal life is missing. "We got volleyball and ping-pong and a lot of dandy games." What ain't we got? "We ain't got ________"
10. In "Carousel", Billy Bigelow is certain his child will be a boy. He begins dreaming about what his son will do when he grows up: "He can haul a scow along a canal, run a cow around a corral." But since Billy works with a carnival, perhaps his son could do the same thing he does. What does Billy do to attract people to his carousel?
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