Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Quiz Quiz Bang Bang, the pub
Speaker 1: quiz practice show that hass you pow right in the quizzer.
Speaker 1: I'm Anny Flora.
Speaker 2: Hand, I'm David Flora, and we're here to teach you
Speaker 2: more about trivia than there are different types of cats
Speaker 2: in the musical cats.
Speaker 3: Have I done that one?
Speaker 1: David?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's apropos so apropos.
Speaker 1: So why are we talking about cats? And why did
Speaker 1: you sing? David?
Speaker 4: That's what you call it? We are doing an episode
Speaker 4: all on a beer odd Way musicals musicals. Are there
Speaker 4: any theaters straight up.
Speaker 1: Theater because you know there plays on Broadway?
Speaker 4: No, I mean in the in this episode.
Speaker 1: Broadway to you. No, this is all musicals all the time.
Speaker 1: If you hate Broadway musicals, you can hate us. I
Speaker 1: mean unless you hate it. But you're like, but I
Speaker 1: will memorize it because trivia is life.
Speaker 4: That's true. This will help.
Speaker 1: So did we write this episode?
Speaker 4: Are you asking me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, we didn't write this. Who did Our good friend Jeff,
Speaker 4: who was involved with UNISEF he did a spot on
Speaker 4: their forests? Jeff, Hi, welcome to the show, and what
Speaker 4: what spot did you do? Was it an early one.
Speaker 2: I think I was like the three hundred and twelve
Speaker 2: hour like that, I felt like it. No, no, I was.
Speaker 2: I was somewhere in the middle, like towards the and
Speaker 2: that was on Saturday of America Time.
Speaker 3: America Time.
Speaker 1: There are eagles in the background the entire time. Jeff,
Speaker 1: you wrote this amazing episode. We're super psyched about it.
Speaker 1: Tell us about yourself and because I know you are
Speaker 1: a performer and you sing and beautifully, so and tell
Speaker 1: us about what is Jeff.
Speaker 2: Well, Jeff is an amazing performer. No, I'm kidding, really not.
Speaker 2: I just really love Broadway. I'm very involved with community
Speaker 2: theater and semi professional theater. I'm from the Detroit area,
Speaker 2: so we have quite a bit of diversity with the
Speaker 2: different theater groups that we have around here. A lot
Speaker 2: of little black box theaters and then we have some
Speaker 2: semi professional theaters, and of course, you know, then we
Speaker 2: have the tours that come on through and everybody wants
Speaker 2: to be part of those, but those are for the
Speaker 2: real pros.
Speaker 1: But you also perform. And am I saying this correctly?
Speaker 1: The Detroit Gabon's choir is that? Is that the right wording?
Speaker 3: What choir do.
Speaker 2: I perform with a choir called Prism Chorus, So there's
Speaker 2: another The reason I say that is there is another
Speaker 2: chorus that's called that they tried together Men's Chorus, and
Speaker 2: they're they're different than we are, so I don't want.
Speaker 1: To it is there that you want to be labeled? Correct? Well,
Speaker 1: you're just like I don't perform with that group at all.
Speaker 1: I perform with this group. Stop putting me in the
Speaker 1: wrong theater, Addie. I apologize, but you said us an
Speaker 1: audio clip which we will share with the audience at
Speaker 1: the appropriate time, and it's fantastic, So thank you. Jeff
Speaker 1: doesn't like compliments, because none of us do, but he
Speaker 1: is very talented.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Think I will learn to take a compliment,
Speaker 2: thank you. I mean I take bows on stage, so
Speaker 2: I might as well learn to take a compliment, right,
Speaker 2: you know that's all right?
Speaker 4: Everything we say just imagine it's it's hundreds of people clapping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't it funny that hundreds of people clapping isn't weird?
Speaker 1: But one person saying something nice, it is just like,
Speaker 1: stop it away.
Speaker 2: Because then it's real. It becomes real.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Theater is fake. It's all a mirage.
Speaker 4: You're behind that fourth wall. You're nice and safe.
Speaker 1: Theater. So, speaking of theater, this episode is going to
Speaker 1: be all about Broadway musicals, like we said, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty much a normal format, but you get
Speaker 1: a little bit of extra bang bang love.
Speaker 4: Bang bang for your buck buck.
Speaker 1: And we will have a bang bang round in between
Speaker 1: each regular round. So buckle up.
Speaker 4: Three bang bangs and a.
Speaker 1: Big bang and a big bang in four rounds. So
Speaker 1: I think we should just jump in Round one. Question one,
Speaker 1: spanning many years in multiple conflicts, the plot of Les
Speaker 1: Miserabla eventually ends after a clash in the streets during
Speaker 1: which historical skirmish. Question two, not including previews, which Best
Speaker 1: Musical Tony nominee had the least number of performances? Question three?
Speaker 1: Hamilton has had the most Tony nominations at sixteen, but
Speaker 1: which non revival musical has had the most wins? Question four?
Speaker 1: What was the first musical written entirely by women to
Speaker 1: win Best Musical?
Speaker 3: And now?
Speaker 1: The answer is to round one? Question one, spanning many
Speaker 1: years in multiple conflicts, the plot of Lema's Rabla eventually
Speaker 1: ends after a clash in the streets, during which historical
Speaker 1: skirmish the June eighteen thirty two Rebellion or the Paris
Speaker 1: Uprising of eighteen thirty two, And here, as promised, not
Speaker 1: but a few moments ago is Jeff singing? Jeff, which
Speaker 1: part are you tell us? Set up this clip for us?
Speaker 2: Well, I am playing Marius in this. It was a
Speaker 2: vocal performance of this. So I'm playing Marius. I'm the
Speaker 2: second voice. I'm the echo that you hear. So I
Speaker 2: end with the high note.
Speaker 1: And it's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Please enjoy, begin to liestyle.
Speaker 1: Will and we're back. But we can't compete with that.
Speaker 1: Why would we start with the best bed? Who knows
Speaker 1: it's madness?
Speaker 5: Question two?
Speaker 1: Not including previews, Which best musical Tony nominee had the
Speaker 1: least number of performances? Rags? That's r Ags. It was
Speaker 1: out in nineteen eighty six and it only had four
Speaker 1: performances before it closed. But people were like, give that
Speaker 1: a Tony nominee. David. Neither of us had heard of
Speaker 1: the show. So David pulled it up and started reading
Speaker 1: the plot to me. And he starts talking about the
Speaker 1: a song where two passengers are on ships.
Speaker 3: Passing each other.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you're talking about Ragtime and he's like, what, No,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Rags. I'm like what, I feel like.
Speaker 2: It's literally the same show as rag Time. When you
Speaker 2: watch it, I was like, they just decided to take
Speaker 2: out the time and add an ass instead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it worked, didn't I try to bring it
Speaker 4: back at one point, probably in the nineties or something.
Speaker 4: Am I remembering that wrong?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: I mean you probably are, but I just do you
Speaker 1: know much about it?
Speaker 5: Jiff?
Speaker 2: I don't know much about it?
Speaker 4: So you didn't see one of the four performances.
Speaker 2: I did not see one of the Yeah. I was
Speaker 2: seven years old. It's on Broadway, and I decided to
Speaker 2: go see one of these four performances. Actually, I was
Speaker 2: the one that wrote to the Broadway League and said
Speaker 2: give that i'm ama, And.
Speaker 1: They're like, this seven year old really has spunk.
Speaker 4: If the show can reach seven year olds, imagine what
Speaker 4: else it can do. Not with a.
Speaker 1: Tony question three Hamilton has had the most Tony nominations
Speaker 1: at sixteen, But which non revival musical has had the
Speaker 1: most wins? The Producers, which came out in two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, and it got twelve wins from fifteen nominations.
Speaker 1: And I believe when it came out and got fifteen nominations,
Speaker 1: that was the most nominations ever, and everybody was like whoa.
Speaker 1: And then Hamilton came along and was like ha haa,
Speaker 1: we beat you there. But then they didn't beat them
Speaker 1: with the wins, So that record stands now.
Speaker 4: That show was Was that a revival of it?
Speaker 1: No, it's a non revival.
Speaker 4: Was it a movie first?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, and actually it's based off of a movie
Speaker 2: like back in the seventies that mel Brooks had put on.
Speaker 1: It had Jean Wilder.
Speaker 2: Geen Wilder in it and zero not a musical.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't a musical just yeah. So it was
Speaker 1: a movie and then it turned into a musical and
Speaker 1: then later on came the musical movie.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how it always happens, it seems like.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Question four. What was the first musical written entirely by
Speaker 1: women to win Best Musical? Fun Home? It was written
Speaker 1: by Lisa Crone and Janine Tassori, which came out in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. I remember when this was in Chicago and
Speaker 1: everybody was losing their minds over this show and how
Speaker 1: good it was. I haven't seen it yet Oh my god.
Speaker 2: You should go see it if it ever comes around.
Speaker 2: It's such a great show. Oh so good. The music's good,
Speaker 2: like the whole story is is really really cool.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and I read it's the first Broadway musical
Speaker 1: that the protagonist is a lesbian. Oh well, that doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense because of friends.
Speaker 2: Well call her a protagony fair fair.
Speaker 1: But it's it's based off of a graphic artist, like
Speaker 1: her work, right, like in her her childhood and growing
Speaker 1: up and what her life was like and her father
Speaker 1: was gay and coming to terms like with her. Oh
Speaker 1: like it's when she's a teenage well.
Speaker 2: As a it kind of spans the whole you know,
Speaker 2: through her being a child and then her going to
Speaker 2: college and then her being an adult before her father
Speaker 2: commits suicide. And oh sorry I spoiler alert, but yeah,
Speaker 2: she was she was a cartoonist and she kind of
Speaker 2: chronicled like that was kind of like almost a therapy
Speaker 2: for her. You know, she went through her life, you know,
Speaker 2: using you know, comics and graphic novels to kind of
Speaker 2: tell the story. And it's just you know that the
Speaker 2: family owned a funeral home and that's where like the
Speaker 2: fun home comes from. It's a funeral home, but it's
Speaker 2: a fun home. So there's a whole song about it.
Speaker 1: You can listen to it.
Speaker 4: And now it's time for our first Bang Bang question.
Speaker 4: You will have thirty seconds to give as many answers
Speaker 4: as you can to the following question. There are five
Speaker 4: Stephen Sondheim musicals that won Best Musical, and these are
Speaker 4: ones that he either wrote lyrics or music or both.
Speaker 4: To name as many as you can.
Speaker 6: Time starts now, and that's time.
Speaker 2: So the five Stephen Sondheim musicals that won Best Musical
Speaker 2: are A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Speaker 2: Forum from nineteen sixty three, Company from nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 2: A Little Night Music from nineteen seventy three, Sweeney Todd,
Speaker 2: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street from nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 2: and Passion from nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 4: Seventies were good to him, I was in a funny
Speaker 4: thing happened?
Speaker 1: Who were you?
Speaker 4: Hysterium?
Speaker 1: Is he the like servant guy who's like always hysterical
Speaker 1: and that's why his name's Hysterio. What's his song? He's like, I'm.
Speaker 4: Calm, I'm calm, I'm perfectly calm, I'm nottterally under control. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I haven't to worry where others would hurry. I rolled.
Speaker 1: My college did it. They didn't cast me, but I
Speaker 1: think like three people broke their noses in that production.
Speaker 1: They were having a real hard time doing the farcical
Speaker 1: door slamming run around.
Speaker 2: I would be really grateful that you didn't get cast.
Speaker 2: This is one show, one of shows that I haven't
Speaker 2: been in, but I did stage manage for this show,
Speaker 2: so I have been involved with it. My husband was
Speaker 2: actually cast.
Speaker 4: In the s show, so who was he?
Speaker 2: He was one of the one of the dancer. They
Speaker 2: decided to make the twins. Instead of making it a
Speaker 2: two girls, they made it a boy and a girl. Oh,
Speaker 2: I think we did two so the captain at the
Speaker 2: end got to have one of each.
Speaker 1: I like it's cute. I was like, ah, one of each?
Speaker 2: All right. That brings us to round number two. Question five.
Speaker 2: What is the only musical to win all four musical
Speaker 2: acting categories in its original run? And that would be
Speaker 2: Lead Actor and Actress and Featured Actor and Actress. Question six?
Speaker 2: What two thousand and eight Broadway Musical documents the writing
Speaker 2: of the show itself by the two writers who play themselves?
Speaker 2: Question seven, Omar Cassim and babcac replace which character from
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety four film in the Broadway adaptation of
Speaker 2: Disney's Aladdin? Question eight? Which actress from a classic Stephen
Speaker 2: King horror film made her Broadway debut as Martha Jefferson
Speaker 2: in the musical seventeen seventy six. And now for the
Speaker 2: answers to round two. Question five? What is the only
Speaker 2: musical to win all four musical acting categories in its
Speaker 2: original run South Pacific that came out in nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that would have been a really great
Speaker 1: production to see them all winning, been like pouh ough
Speaker 1: they all can.
Speaker 4: Act so much, or there's nothing else going on in
Speaker 4: the other ships. Everybody ought to have a doom? Well
Speaker 4: what is it? It's there's nothing like a dame, isn't it.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say going back to everybody to have
Speaker 4: a man a day.
Speaker 1: I was in an imprev group and I don't know why,
Speaker 1: but we entered that song and I think we wore
Speaker 1: fig mustaches and we just plunched around and there was
Speaker 1: women's women's group. There was like six of us, and
Speaker 1: that's how we started our show, and I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was so goofy.
Speaker 4: When I was in Marching Band. One of the earlier
Speaker 4: years I was doing it, there was a band that
Speaker 4: performed a South Pacific show and uh, they all dressed
Speaker 4: like sailors and at the end, like they had a
Speaker 4: big finale and they all lined up on the in
Speaker 4: the middle of the field, you know, in one long
Speaker 4: line across the field, and then they had like some
Speaker 4: kind of flash device on their horns and instruments that
Speaker 4: gave off like a just a pop of light and
Speaker 4: they all just like popped it off real quick and
Speaker 4: then just this bomb and it did like the finale
Speaker 4: to it, and it was just amazing. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 4: South Pacific, huh give this margin band, Tony.
Speaker 2: Question six, what two thousand and eight Broadway musical documents
Speaker 2: the writing of the show itself by the two writers
Speaker 2: who played themselves. The answer is title of show.
Speaker 4: That's a new one to me.
Speaker 2: Most people don't know title of show. It's one of
Speaker 2: my absolute favorite musicals of all time. It's literally them,
Speaker 2: it's two guys who are writing the show to enter
Speaker 2: in the festival and basically them documenting themselves writing the
Speaker 2: show up until they submitted to the festival and then
Speaker 2: they've made edits since and like adding in, Okay, well
Speaker 2: now we're in the festival, and here's what it's like
Speaker 2: in the festival. But it is so funny because it's
Speaker 2: just like it's like the Seinfeld of musicals because it's
Speaker 2: about nothing, Like they're just sitting around talking and it's
Speaker 2: like they have their inside jokes that like we don't get.
Speaker 2: But I still think it's funny because I'm like, that
Speaker 2: means nothing to me, but it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: That sounds awesome. Yeah, We'll definitely have to check that
Speaker 1: one out because I've never heard of it, but it
Speaker 1: sounds hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of cultural references, a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of theater references, and a lot of like
Speaker 2: New York references. But yeah, definitely check it out. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. The music is fun, you know,
Speaker 2: it's got There's there's a song that has a lot
Speaker 2: of the effort in it and it's it's a it's
Speaker 2: not a family friendly song, but it's definitely a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. So for fun, Question seven, Omar Cassim and
Speaker 2: Babcac replaced which character from the nineteen ninety four film
Speaker 2: in the Broadway adaptation of Disney's Aladdin, A Boo the Monkey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess it makes sense to have
Speaker 1: people instead of a monkey. A Boo's like my favorite
Speaker 1: character in Aladdins. I was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: But they were fine. They were good little comedic sidekicks.
Speaker 4: I'd have gone for a puppet, right, come on? Well? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Question eight, which actress from a classic Stephen King horror film,
Speaker 2: made her Broadway debut as Martha Jefferson in the musical
Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six, That Is Betty Buckley. She won the
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three Tony Award for the Best Featured Actress
Speaker 2: in a Musical for her role as Grizabella in the
Speaker 2: original Broadway production of Cats.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's a fun fact about Cats, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna addit in.
Speaker 4: Cats.
Speaker 2: But you're gonna but you're gonna edit out the butts, right,
Speaker 2: bring them all all back in bring it back.
Speaker 4: I would mind seeing seventeen seventy six the butthole cuts.
Speaker 4: We took that back. I would absolutely.
Speaker 1: And now it's time for the second Bang Bang Round.
Speaker 1: You will have thirty seconds to answer the following question.
Speaker 1: There are seven Sondheim musicals that were nominated but did
Speaker 1: not win Best Musical. What are they? Your time starts now.
Speaker 4: And that's time. The seven Sondheim musicals that were nominated
Speaker 4: for but did not win Best Musical were West Side Story,
Speaker 4: which lost to the Music Man. In nineteen fifty eight,
Speaker 4: Fiorello and the Sound of Music both tied to beat
Speaker 4: Gypsy in nineteen sixty. The Sondheim musical Follies in nineteen
Speaker 4: seventy two was nominated but did not win cause Two
Speaker 4: Gentlemen of Verona the musical beat it. In nineteen seventy six,
Speaker 4: Pacific Overtures lost to a chorus line. I guess I
Speaker 4: could believe that a chorus line is like immortal or something,
Speaker 4: isn't it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Highlander.
Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy seven, Side By Side By Sondheim lost
Speaker 4: to Annie. She went and just to me. She just
Speaker 4: took it away from him. In nineteen eighty four, Believe
Speaker 4: It or Not, Sunday in the Park with George lost
Speaker 4: to Lakaja Falls, And in nineteen eighty eight The Phantom
Speaker 4: of the Opera Beat Into the Woods, Sorry into the Woods, Yeah,
Speaker 4: because no chance.
Speaker 1: It seems like it would like, you know, oh, that's
Speaker 1: one of his biggest musicals. But then it's like lost
Speaker 1: to Phantom of the Opera.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, okay, that would be like every other
Speaker 2: show that came out the same that Hamilton did.
Speaker 4: It's like, well, what's the point, unlucky, It's just.
Speaker 1: Like, why didn't we come out.
Speaker 3: A year later?
Speaker 4: All right? Time for Round three? Question nine. Neil Patrick, Harris,
Speaker 4: Darren Chris, and Tay Diggs are a few of the
Speaker 4: actors who have played the titular character in which Broadway musical?
Speaker 4: Question ten? What was the name of the musical in
Speaker 4: the making from the NBC show Smash? Question eleven? What
Speaker 4: pageant title did the character Velma hold in the John
Speaker 4: Waters based musical Hairspray? Question twelve? Which Broadway musical features
Speaker 4: two songs titled Somebody Kill Me and Grow Old with You?
Speaker 4: From the original movie it was based on? And now
Speaker 4: the answers to round three question nine. Neil Patrick, Harris,
Speaker 4: Darren Chris, and Tay Diggs are a few of the
Speaker 4: actors who have played the titular character in which Broadway
Speaker 4: musical Headwig and The Angry Inch This.
Speaker 1: Show I didn't really know much about the show. I
Speaker 1: knew why it was had the title it did, and
Speaker 1: so I was always like, what is this show? And
Speaker 1: I don't do things by myself. I'm very much like
Speaker 1: I don't go to a restaurant by myself. I don't
Speaker 1: watch movies or go to the theater by myself person.
Speaker 1: But this is one show that came to town and
Speaker 1: for some reason, all my friends were busy and I
Speaker 1: was like, no, I don't. I need to see this show.
Speaker 1: I need to understand what it is. And it was
Speaker 1: delightfully funny and great and amazing. Like the I was
Speaker 1: lucky that the guy who was playing Headwig at the
Speaker 1: production I saw was incredible, and I just I thought
Speaker 1: the whole thing was great.
Speaker 2: It's I love that it's it's kind of more like
Speaker 2: a concert sometimes even going to it. Yeah, I watched
Speaker 2: the movie before I went to go see the show,
Speaker 2: and you know, the movie has more of like scenes
Speaker 2: and plots and things like this, and it was I
Speaker 2: was like, wait, this isn't what I saw before, but
Speaker 2: it's great. I love it.
Speaker 4: Question ten, What was the name of the musical in
Speaker 4: the making from the NBC show Smash Bombshell? Does that
Speaker 4: anything to do with that movie that came out. What
Speaker 4: movie the one that's like the Fox News Women, but
Speaker 4: it's but it's not Fox News because there no one
Speaker 4: will get sued.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: No, this is it's about Marilyn Monroe.
Speaker 4: Ah, there you go. Question eleven. What pageant title did
Speaker 4: the character Velma hold in the John Waters based musical Hairspray,
Speaker 4: Miss Baltimore Crabs. If you say had Miss Baltimore, You're wrong, Jeff,
Speaker 4: is this.
Speaker 1: One of your favorite musicals?
Speaker 4: Or yes.
Speaker 2: I've actually been in this show twice, two different productions.
Speaker 2: Both times I played Edna Edna's Edna's Yeah so. Think
Speaker 2: of Harvey Firestein, you know when he played on Broadway,
Speaker 2: Yeah so? And John Travolta completely messed it up when
Speaker 2: he did it in the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been in this I've been in it twice.
Speaker 2: I can I know every line back and forward, and
Speaker 2: if I if you put me in a fat suit
Speaker 2: and address right now, like I could go on stage.
Speaker 2: I'm ready. I've got a little line still memorized. I
Speaker 2: know all the songs I could. I could do the
Speaker 2: whole thing. I didn't have to do much dancing because
Speaker 2: you know, she doesn't dance much in there, so I
Speaker 2: just let the girls dance around me. You know, I
Speaker 2: just look look pretty like I do.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: I really like that music. It's one of those weird music.
Speaker 1: I really like it, but I don't actually know it
Speaker 1: that well, Like I don't know why. And I love
Speaker 1: the song good Morning Baltimore, and it'll get stuck in
Speaker 1: my head, but I only know the good Morning Baltimore part,
Speaker 1: and then I'm just like, I don't know the lyrics.
Speaker 1: It's not just sing that over and over again in
Speaker 1: my head.
Speaker 4: Question twelve, which Broadway musical, features two songs titled Somebody
Speaker 4: Kill Me and Grow Old with You from the original movie.
Speaker 4: It was based on the wedding singer.
Speaker 2: I was in a production of this show as well.
Speaker 2: I hate talking about myself, but I was in a production.
Speaker 2: I played George, So if you don't know who George is,
Speaker 2: it's from the movie. He was the one that played
Speaker 2: the do you really want to Hurt Me? Like that
Speaker 2: played but instead of instead of playing the keyboard, they
Speaker 2: got me a guitar, so I like kind of walked
Speaker 2: around and I played the guitar and I had like
Speaker 2: glitter in my pockets and I threw it up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I did that in the movie. He does like
Speaker 2: a trombone solo. Like, so I picked up like a
Speaker 2: trumpet and I was like, I just played notes that
Speaker 2: came out and it was I pretended like I was
Speaker 2: playing in a symphony. It was, Oh my god, it
Speaker 2: was so much fun.
Speaker 1: That sounds amazing. Can we have a time machine in
Speaker 1: Wachsack because it sounds so good?
Speaker 2: I haven't a video. I'll set it to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Actually, I have most of the shows on video except
Speaker 2: for Hairspray, the one I've done twice, and I don't
Speaker 2: have one video for it. Just kidding MTI. I don't
Speaker 2: have any videos we never recorded. And now it's time
Speaker 2: for your third Bang Bang question. We'll have thirty seconds
Speaker 2: to answer the following question. There are eleven brothers mentioned
Speaker 2: in Joseph and the Amazing technicol Or dream Coat. Name them.
Speaker 2: Your time starts.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, and that's time.
Speaker 1: The name of the eleven brothers are Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Naphthali,
Speaker 1: isaacr Asher, dan Zebulon Zebulon Zebulin.
Speaker 2: I'll correct them all at the end.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, Zebulon, Dad, Benjamin and Judah. Hey, one of
Speaker 1: these things is not get out of your Dan, all right,
Speaker 1: so you know the software comes from and how to
Speaker 1: say them. Also, go for it. Jeff sings a little
Speaker 1: Diddy or Sam Well, it'd.
Speaker 2: Be very It's a little long because there's like some
Speaker 2: music in between the names. But so the you got Reuben,
Speaker 2: you got Simeon Levi, and it's Naphthali. It's a car Asher.
Speaker 1: Dan oh I said.
Speaker 2: Zebulin, Gad, Benjamin and Judah.
Speaker 1: I think Zebulun should come back as a name.
Speaker 2: That's what I'll name my next child. Actually, my child's
Speaker 2: name is in this list. Can you guys s which one?
Speaker 1: Benjamin, I want to say Napthally, No.
Speaker 2: It's actually Dan. His name is Daniel.
Speaker 1: So he does not belong on this list. I mean
Speaker 1: he's he does not belong to the one that's like
Speaker 1: sticks out on the list of like that's too normal.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 2: There was no dance in the Bible way I guess there.
Speaker 1: Were because he's the one who sings about all the
Speaker 1: colors on his coat. Right, He's like there's gold and
Speaker 1: there's blue, and there's green, and there's yellow, and.
Speaker 2: There's this oh do I have to do this one?
Speaker 2: Red and yellow and green and brown and purple and
Speaker 2: black and okra and peach and ruby and olive and
Speaker 2: violet and fawn and chocolate in mob and cream and
Speaker 2: crimson and silver and gold and rusted and azure and
Speaker 2: lemon and gray and pink and purple and white and
Speaker 2: orange and blue.
Speaker 1: W were you in this one?
Speaker 4: Damn?
Speaker 1: And were you not? Sally?
Speaker 4: I was?
Speaker 2: I was Levi when I was one of the brothers,
Speaker 2: but I also was the pharaoh, so I got to
Speaker 2: do the impersonation, you know. Oh yeah, I was wandering,
Speaker 2: you know that one?
Speaker 3: So all right?
Speaker 1: Round four. Question thirteen. The December twentieth, twenty ten performance
Speaker 1: of which musical was stopped mid performance because one of
Speaker 1: the actors fell thirty feet off a set piece and
Speaker 1: into the orchestra pits. Question fourteen. How many daughters does
Speaker 1: Tevia have? In the musical Fiddler on the Roof? Question fifteen?
Speaker 1: What is the name given to a person who is
Speaker 1: prepared to step into multiple ensemble rolls? Question sixteen? Ain't
Speaker 1: misbehavior is a musical review featuring the songs of what musician?
Speaker 3: And now?
Speaker 1: The answer is to Round four Question thirteen, which musical
Speaker 1: was stopped mid performance because one of the actors fell
Speaker 1: thirty feet off a set piece into the orchestra. Pits
Speaker 1: spider Man, Turn Off the Dark. This musical had a
Speaker 1: lot of stories like that, like a lot of injuries,
Speaker 1: a lot of bad luck around this show.
Speaker 2: I mean, of course it did. You have people flying
Speaker 2: across over over the audience, and you have you know, cables,
Speaker 2: You've got like drunk people backstage. Like there was so
Speaker 2: many things that happened during this that I was like,
Speaker 2: I can't believe that they still went on. But I
Speaker 2: imagine it's one of those because it was directed by
Speaker 2: Julie Taymoor, so she did all of the big Disney stuff,
Speaker 2: and I would imagine it was like, no, I still
Speaker 2: have to do this because I'm I'm this huge person
Speaker 2: on Broadway. And I don't think it made a lot
Speaker 2: of money. Yeah, it could be wrong, but it just
Speaker 2: see I think it closed really early and everybody was like, no,
Speaker 2: there's too much injury going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I think people were just like, I don't
Speaker 1: let not see this show where actors might die.
Speaker 2: I tried to find a YouTube clip of the actual
Speaker 2: you know, as the actual because there was something on there,
Speaker 2: but for some reason I couldn't find like it was
Speaker 2: like grade out, not great out, but like it was
Speaker 2: a fuzzy video and you couldn't really tell what was
Speaker 2: going on anyway. But I was like, somebody was bootleg
Speaker 2: recording in the audience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you too do the music for that one?
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 2: I don't know if the whole YouTube did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I don't Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 4: it was all of it, but but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did some of it because I feel like
Speaker 1: they were like, maybe we'll stop this production, and then
Speaker 1: YouTube was like no, no, no, we'll rework the songs
Speaker 1: and keep pumping money into it. I think they were involved.
Speaker 4: I don't know they tried. Bless their hearts.
Speaker 1: Question fourteen, how many daughters does Tevia have in the
Speaker 1: musical Fiddler on the Roof five? And how many of
Speaker 1: them married? The man that Tevia wants them to.
Speaker 3: Marry zero.
Speaker 1: Because he keeps having that song come back where he's like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: I still love him. Tell the last one. Then he's like, no,
Speaker 1: get out of here.
Speaker 4: And then the story and then the musical Rags starts.
Speaker 1: The musical Rag starts and then everyone starts snapping their fingers.
Speaker 1: Question fifteen, what is the name to a given person
Speaker 1: who's prepared to step into multiple ensemble rolls?
Speaker 3: Swing?
Speaker 1: Jeff, have you ever been a swing person?
Speaker 2: I've never been a swing person. I've been an understudy.
Speaker 2: So there's a difference between the two. So the understudy
Speaker 2: like will go on for a main role, but the
Speaker 2: swing like, I don't know how they do it. You
Speaker 2: have to know every single ensemble person's blocking and dancing,
Speaker 2: and if they have small amount of lines like any
Speaker 2: of that, you have to be able to go on
Speaker 2: in a moment's notice. So it's like you never know
Speaker 2: where you're going to be, you know, one night. I
Speaker 2: think that sometimes they do, like because they know if
Speaker 2: there's something planned, like they can go on for that
Speaker 2: and that you know, that night or that performance or whatever.
Speaker 2: But I think that would just be way too nerve
Speaker 2: wracking for me. I would forget which person I was
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wait, no, I'm not this person today. No,
Speaker 2: I'm in the I'm not even in this scene, like
Speaker 2: you have this sage like, I'm not even in the show.
Speaker 2: What am I doing here?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And they're like, sir, this is South Pacific. You
Speaker 4: could be like, Okay, good morning Annapolis.
Speaker 1: Then question sixteen eight Misbehavior is a musical review featuring
Speaker 1: the songs of what musician Thomas Fats Waller. I don't
Speaker 1: know much about that musical. I know its Behaving is
Speaker 1: a great song, but I haven't seen this one.
Speaker 2: I know that the original Broadway cast included mel Carter.
Speaker 2: She was on the show Give Me a Break in
Speaker 2: the eighties, and she's got a very unique sounding voice
Speaker 2: when you when you listen to her sing. But a
Speaker 2: lot of these songs from the show are kind of
Speaker 2: like jazz numbers or they're blues, you know, kind of.
Speaker 2: But then there's some like some rag Time songs and
Speaker 2: I don't know show that's secretly just time, that's secretly
Speaker 2: rag Time.
Speaker 4: What's the plot of Ragtime? And then I'd love it
Speaker 4: if you all just answered, Well, these two kids from
Speaker 4: rival families love each other.
Speaker 1: The one's part of the Jets and one's part of
Speaker 1: the Sharks.
Speaker 4: And they fall in love with a phantom. There's just
Speaker 4: one show that bounces around Broadway.
Speaker 6: It just starts at different points in the plug and
Speaker 6: they all include a song about a dame.
Speaker 1: There's nothing like one, and that's it for the regular rounds,
Speaker 1: which means it's time for the Big Bang Round. We
Speaker 1: will give you three clue questions, which are all hints
Speaker 1: to one final question.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Question one, What nineteen sixty Learner and Low musical marked
Speaker 2: the Broadway debut of Robert Gula?
Speaker 1: Question two? What English actor originated the role of doctor
Speaker 1: Frankenfurter in the nineteen seventy five Broadway musical The Rocky
Speaker 1: Horror Show?
Speaker 4: Question three? What two thousand musical centers around a group
Speaker 4: of unemployed steel mill workers turned strippers in Buffalo, New York?
Speaker 2: And your final Big Bang question which two thousand and
Speaker 2: five Broadway show's creators were sued for additional royalties by
Speaker 2: one of the producers of the original movie from which
Speaker 2: the musical was based.
Speaker 1: And now the answers to the Big Bang Round.
Speaker 2: Question one. What nineteen sixty Learner and Low musical marked
Speaker 2: the Broadway debut of Robert Goulay. It's Camelot.
Speaker 1: I love the musical Camelot. I mean I've only seen
Speaker 1: the movie and it's real goofy, But I get joy
Speaker 1: out of that goofy movie. Yeah, MARBARAA. Yes. Richard Burton
Speaker 1: and read Vanessa Red. Question two. One English actor originated
Speaker 1: the role of doctor Frankenfurter in the nineteen seventy five
Speaker 1: Broadway musical The Rocky Horror Show, Tim Curry. That's I
Speaker 1: did that in college, the like act the show out
Speaker 1: in front of I had never heard of it. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that that was a thing that people did, like,
Speaker 1: perform the show in front of the screen. I was like,
Speaker 1: that sounds weird and dumb. But then someone asked me
Speaker 1: to do it, and you know, you know how it
Speaker 1: is when you're an actor. You're like, yes, you watched
Speaker 1: me on stage. Yes, of course, what is this? Sounds
Speaker 1: weird and dumb? But I'll be on stage, okay?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 4: Question three? What two thousand musical centers around a group
Speaker 4: of unemployed steel mill workers turned strippers in Buffalo, New York?
Speaker 4: The Full Monty all.
Speaker 2: Right, and Your Big Bang question which two thousand and
Speaker 2: five Broadway shows creators were sued for additional royalties by
Speaker 2: one of the producers of the original movie from which
Speaker 2: the musical was based. It is a spoof of the
Speaker 2: show Camelot. The original Broadway production starred Tim Curry, and
Speaker 2: it was written by the members of Monty Python. The
Speaker 2: answer is spamalot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought for some reason I heard in the news
Speaker 1: that when this came out that John Cleece sued Eric
Speaker 1: Idol over this musical. But when you wrote this question
Speaker 1: and looking into it, it was actually a guy called
Speaker 1: mister Forstarter claimed he was entitled to one seventh of
Speaker 1: this figure, the same share enjoyed by each of the
Speaker 1: other pythons, but was told he was only entitled to
Speaker 1: one fourteenth and has been paid accordingly since two thousand
Speaker 1: and five. And then it went on to say, mister
Speaker 1: Forrestarter is in difficult financial circumstances and has been forced
Speaker 1: to bring these proceedings. And it was just like, well,
Speaker 1: just him being broke doesn't justify, you know, like his argument.
Speaker 1: Like maybe they're like, no, he's not a bad guy.
Speaker 1: Don't be mad at the guy pursuing the pythons. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if you were just a producer on a movie and
Speaker 1: they went on and like decided to do this musical
Speaker 1: and you're getting money from it, even if it's only
Speaker 1: one fourteenth, I'd be pretty psyched because I'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this movie, now I'm getting musical money out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: This is pretty sweet.
Speaker 4: What did the dude have to do with the production.
Speaker 1: He was a producer on the movie Swondy Python and
Speaker 1: the Holy Grail.
Speaker 2: Okay, I was reading too that he the agreement that
Speaker 2: they had wasn't even anything in writing. It was like
Speaker 2: them sitting around in a room saying, oh, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: gonna split it in seven ways and do this other thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't know, like anybody can claim like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: we were just sitting around, but you know, six of
Speaker 2: us were actually pretty famous, and the seventh guy is
Speaker 2: you know, like I was there too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he tried to claim that he helped write
Speaker 1: the movie and they were like, no, no, you didn't. Like,
Speaker 1: that's not how our writing process worked. We're you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm just like yeah. And so Michael Palin, Eric Idol,
Speaker 1: and Terry Jones all went to court against him, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, you're not going to win this court case.
Speaker 1: Like it's just not going to happen. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I love I love Monty Python. So I'm like, how
Speaker 1: dare you? I love them and you leave them alone
Speaker 1: even though they all have plenty of money.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad that I wrote that question. I'd be
Speaker 2: quite that fad. I didn't realize that so.
Speaker 1: So good times. I love that show. I love musicals.
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this, Jeff, Thank you, Jeff, Jeff all
Speaker 1: time favorite musical.
Speaker 2: My number one, all time favorite musical. See this is
Speaker 2: why I wrote this, because I have all of my
Speaker 2: favorite ones in there, so believe it or not, I
Speaker 2: love title of show. That's the weird one that nobody knows.
Speaker 2: But I was like that. I actually I directed that.
Speaker 2: My husband was in it. There was no nepotism involved,
Speaker 2: and he actually auditioned for it and was the best
Speaker 2: one for the role. So and his the character's name
Speaker 2: is Jeff. So it was really weird. So you know,
Speaker 2: every time somebody said Jeff, we didn't know which one
Speaker 2: he was referring to. Jeff, so then they had to
Speaker 2: say director Jeff or character Jeff. So but like Hairspray
Speaker 2: is my favorite, you know, one of my favorite musicals. God,
Speaker 2: I just I love musical. I mean, Hamilton was Hamilton
Speaker 2: was great. I have some good memories. It's more of
Speaker 2: the memories of going to see it with a group
Speaker 2: of friends, and you know, we have we have a
Speaker 2: lot of those memories we do. We're kind of nerds.
Speaker 2: We go every year to a friend's cottage and it's
Speaker 2: kind of it's it's by lake and there's not really
Speaker 2: Wi Fi or anything around. There's no neighbors too close
Speaker 2: or anything like that. So we fill our time by
Speaker 2: doing jigsaw puzzles and so like when I go, we
Speaker 2: do like the last one that we did, it's I
Speaker 2: bought this so that we all could do it. It's
Speaker 2: the Broadway musicals.
Speaker 3: It's like one of those I love that.
Speaker 2: And then I had it framed. I had all of
Speaker 2: our friends that help put it together, like secretly, like
Speaker 2: you know, put their initials somewhere in there, so like,
Speaker 2: you know, thirty years from now, when I go and look,
Speaker 2: i'd be like, and then I signed my name, my
Speaker 2: own name on Edna, So because I was Edna twice.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're nerds. So's that's what we do.
Speaker 1: Well, that is amazing. I love it. Well. This episode
Speaker 1: was so much fun. We hope everyone enjoyed it and
Speaker 1: got to nerd out on musical goodness. Jeff, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for doing this episode and writing such a
Speaker 1: great episode.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. For having me. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: this was so much fun. I've been wanting to do
Speaker 2: this since I was a child, wanting.
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Speaker 2: I have been wanting to be at quizz since I
Speaker 2: was a child, many many years ago.
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Speaker 4: Been David Flora. Look you is This is actually kind
Speaker 4: of surprising to me because I'm familiar with the British
Speaker 4: version more than I didn't. I didn't know it was
Speaker 4: a Buffalo, New York based Yeah.
Speaker 1: I associated with Britain too because of the movie. You know,
Speaker 1: a very excellent movie that has the guy who ends
Speaker 1: up being in Game of Thrones as the king as
Speaker 1: one of the guys and Robert, Yeah, Robert Barrathian is
Speaker 1: one of the steel mill workers in this movie. Guess
Speaker 1: what what you were in the show.
Speaker 2: I was in the show.
Speaker 4: Did you play Robert b.
Speaker 6: Thrones?
Speaker 2: I was at the Red wedding no, and theur No,
Speaker 2: I was in the full Monty and yes, we went
Speaker 2: the full Monty on stage. I can't I can't believe.
Speaker 2: I was completely had no clothes on, completely naked up
Speaker 2: on stage. It's but it's so well done that you
Speaker 2: like the way the audience can't see anything because you
Speaker 2: we're backlit, you know, kind of like they do in
Speaker 2: the movie too. So but I also had to get
Speaker 2: over body issues because I played the fat guy who
Speaker 2: kept saying, oh, you're I'm too fat to do this.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, and you know, then
Speaker 2: my wife in the show is like, oh, but you
Speaker 2: should do it, you know, and he has a lot
Speaker 2: of self esteem and body issues and he ends up
Speaker 2: coming out of it at the end and everybody's happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is.
Speaker 1: The character Robert Barathian played.
Speaker 2: It is it is the character that Robert Barathian played,
Speaker 2: the same one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's great. I love I haven't seen the
Speaker 1: stage I think to see the stage version would be
Speaker 1: such a hoot. Yeah, but the movie's so great, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. I'm sure, like because I'm sure the
Speaker 1: audience reaction at the end when you guys do that
Speaker 1: moment is always crazy and you know, like big reaction chears.
Speaker 2: I assume we actually we actually had a one of
Speaker 2: our preview nights. We did Ladies' night out and they
Speaker 2: had like cocktails and they had a vertical exercise pole
Speaker 2: in the lobby and they had vertical exercise pole. Instructor
Speaker 2: come and show people how to use the vertical exercise pole.
Speaker 2: It was that was quite an amusing night. So but
Speaker 2: that was it was nice because you know, then you
Speaker 2: have a whole bunch of you know, drunk women out
Speaker 2: in the audience and they were really rowdy, and it
Speaker 2: was like, you know, we were doing a preview, so
Speaker 2: it was like, okay, how is this going to go over?
Speaker 2: And it was it got rid of all the nerves
Speaker 2: that we had and we're like, yeah, completely be maked
Speaker 2: on stage. I don't care. These ladies are loving it.
Speaker 4: My gosh, how do you have that in the lobby
Speaker 4: with like bachelorette parties and stuff. Somebody is going to
Speaker 4: break their name, right, who did you play? Which character
Speaker 4: did you play in Thunder from down Under? Jeff right?
Speaker 2: When I was when I was an Aussie at that time.
Speaker 4: I know me and some other blokes
Speaker 2: Mean some of the blokes