Fictional Musicals Trivia Quiz

Answer: Prisoners of Love

They expect "Springtime for Hitler" to flop so that they can keep all of the money from their investors. Since it is a hit and they cannot pay 25,000% in profits, they are sent to prison for fraud. Apparently they have not learned their lesson as, in the final scene, they are shown running the same investment scam as before, selling more profits than they can afford to pay for the prisoner-performed musical.

Answer: Waiting for Guffman

The performers believe that their musical might go to Broadway if Guffman, a Broadway producer, sees it and likes it. The title is a parody of "Waiting for Godot," a classic absurdist play by Samuel Beckett. The outcome is the same in both stories: the characters wait for a man who never comes.

Answer: Spectacular Spectacular

The plot of the musical mirrors the plot of the movie: a courtesan (Satine, played by Kidman) falls in love with a penniless sitar player (Christian, played by McGregor) while being coveted by the evil maharajah (The Duke, Richard Roxburgh). The song in which they pitch the idea is set to Offenbach's "Galop Infernal" from "Orpheus in the Underworld," which is more popularly known as the "Can-can."

Answer: Hamlet

He tries to stage "Hamlet 2" as a musical featuring time travel and including Jesus as a character. Though some people try to derail the show, it ends up going to Broadway. "Hamlet 2" is the name of both the movie and the musical in the movie.

Answer: Beaches

"Sizzle" is a bawdy show in poor taste, though it makes Bette's character a major star. The film itself is about the friendship between two women who meet on a beach as children and, mainly through letters, remain friends for life.

Answer: Slings and Arrows

A theatre company known for their Shakespeare productions stages an original musical about whores and drug addicts. It outdoes the expected headliner "King Lear" and gets an extended run while "Lear" is cancelled due to the instability of the lead actor. "Slings and Arrows" ran for three seasons.

Answer: Pigoletto

Using Verdi music from operas like "Carmen" and "La Traviata," the pigs and Sills put on an opera with Miss Piggy as Cleopatra. At the end, they all sing "God Bless America." The title is a parody of "Rigoletto."

Answer: Oh Canada! The Musical

One of the performers, Colin Mochrie, is Canadian, so some of the show's jokes are about Canada, but this is not one of them. In the game, three of the players have to make up a song one word at a time, leading to some interesting songs when one of them says a word that doesn't quite follow from what the other person said.

In the song "You've Got Sole" from "My Favorite Shoe," Drew Carey forgot the one word limit and sang a whole line, making himself and the others crack up.

Answer: Rats

As you might expect, "Rats" features actors in rat suits singing in a parody of "CATS." Helga and Bob think that the play is ridiculous and make catcalls all the way through. "Leslie's Miserable," "Sour Charity," and "The Elephant of the Opera" are titles I made up that parody, respectively, "Les Miserables," Sweet Charity," and "The Phantom of the Opera."

Answer: Garbage Strike: The Musical

The musical is based on a book in their universe apparently, for Heffer remarks after the trailer, "The book was better." The rats in the movie trailer who go on strike appear at the end of the cartoon, refusing to clean up all of the popcorn "'cause we're on striiiike!" I made up the other titles.