Alphabetical ALW : Something Beginning With G... Quiz

Answer: Jesus

Jesus sings this after the Last Supper when he has gone to the Garden of Gethsemane.

The disciples have fallen asleep and Jesus has a moment of doubt over God's plan for him.

"I only want to say
If there is a way
Take this cup away from me
For I don't want to taste its poison
Feel it burn me,
I have changed I'm not as sure
As when we started"

Answer: Diesel

Control introduces Greaseball as "the greatest diesel locomotive in history"
and Greaseball himself mentions it in "Pumping Iron".

"Here comes the diesel train
With its steel refrain,
Hear me knocking.
The diesel's on its way,
It's gonna win the day,
Hear me knocking.
Listen to the chatter of the diesel force,
Generating twenty seven hundred horse"

Electra is the Electric Train, Poppa and Rusty are both Steam Engines.

There is no Pneumatic train in the show.

Answer: Aspects Of Love

George and Giulietta are having an affair at the beginning of the show.

George then meets and falls in love with Rose.

When problems arise in that relationship he goes back to Giulietta but then leaves her again to marry Rose.

Answer: Grizabella

Grizabella is the Glamour Cat who left the tribe and went into the outside world and fell on hard times.

Gus is the Theatre Cat.

Growltiger is a character Gus played in his youth and tells the audience about in "Growltiger's Last Stand".

Griddlebone is Growltiger's love interest in the play.

Answer: Ireland

This is from "The Beautiful Game" which is set entirely in Ireland amidst its political and religious upheaval in 1969.

The song is a duet sung by our Catholic heroine, Mary, and an unknown Protestant girl. They both sing of their love for their land with only the following lyric difference:

"Mary:
This fair land is God's own country,
and it's Catholic and Republican and free

Protestant Girl:
It's a Protestant land made by God's perfect hand,
and a Protestant country it will always be."

Answer: Evita

This is sung by Eva, Che and her past lovers as she moves from one to the next - always better dressed and higher up in his profession than the last.

Answer: Norma Desmond

The song is from "Sunset Boulevard".

Norma is a former silent movie star that is now past her prime and rather eccentric.

Max von Mayerling, her ex-husband and butler, sings this to Joe Gillis just after he's met her for the first time.

"Today
she's half-forgotten,
but it's the pictures that got small.
She is the greatest star of all."

Answer: You Must Love Me

This song, from the 1996 film, reunited ALW and Tim Rice for the first time in 13 years.

It was written specifically for the film but was then included in the stage version in the 2006 London production.

It also won an Academy Award in the same category.

It is sung by Eva as she leaves the hospital, terminally ill, toward the end of the movie. She knows she can be of no further political use to Peron but he is still with her.

"Why are you at my side?
How can I be any use to you now?
Give me a chance and I'll let you see how
Nothing has changed."

Answer: The Phantom Of The Opera

Gaston wrote his most famous work - "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" in 1910.

It has been made into several stage plays, musicals and films since this time but ALW's is probably the most widely known.

"Aspects Of Love" is based on a novel by David Garnett.

Wilkie Collins wrote the novel that "The Woman In White" is based on.

"Cats" is from T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats."

Answer: Grovel, grovel

This is sung by the brothers and Joseph towards the end of the show.

The famine has hit Canaan and the brothers have come to Egypt to beg for some food from Joseph - although they don't know it is him.

"Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop, fall
Worship, worship, beg, kneel, sponge, crawl"

"Girl Meets Boy" is sung by Joe and Betty in "Sunset Boulevard".

"Going, Going, Gone!" is about the auction of Edinburgh Castle in "The Likes Of Us".

"Goodbye Mum, Goodbye Girls" is from "Tell Me On A Sunday (2003)"
when our heroine is leaving London at the beginning of the show.