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Kansas City Entertainment Challenge

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1. The Broadway musical The Sound of Music will be hitting the stage at Starlight Theatre on July 25. This musical hit was a smashing success from the very first night on the Broadway stage on Nov. 16 of what year?

a. 1928b. 1951c. 1962d. 1959

2. Kansas City’s Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts houses two sophisticated performance halls: the Muriel Kauffman Theatre and Helzberg Hall. The entire center comprises how many square feet?

a. 285,000b. 198,500c. 315,000d. 80,000

3. Click your heels together and join the fun as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz takes center stage this June at Starlight Theatre. Originally premiered in 1902 in Chicago, the musical moved on to Broadway in what year?

a. 1920b. 1910c. 1903d. 19074. The Kansas City Ballet was founded in what year?


a. 1929

b. 1957

c. 1941

d. 1980

5. The magic of Cinderella will entertain Kansas City audiences beginning May 9 at the Muriel Kauffman Theatre in Kansas City. Prokofiev’s Cinderella ballet was first performed on Nov. 15, 1945, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. About how many variations of the Cinderella story now exist?

a. 150b. more than 1,500c. 31d. 941

6. Starlight Theatre is the second-largest theater of its kind in the United States and the largest and oldest performing arts organization in Kansas City. The theater can seat an audience of how many?

a. 8,200b. 5,145c. 10,000d. 7,958

7. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was the first Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly. Originally presented as a cantata at the Colet Court School in London on March 1, 1968, this first show lasted how many minutes?

a. 30b. 90c. 15d. 60

8. Starlight Theatre introduced its Walk of Stars in 2001. How many famous performers have been inducted so far?

a. 24b. 55c. 36d. 199. There were 124 Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz movie. How much money did they make per week for their work on the set?


a. $100

b. $75

c. 500

d. $50

10. Kansas City’s Coterie Theatre, among the top five theaters serving families and young audiences in the United States (according to TIME magazine), will be taking you on a fantastic musical adventure with its production of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, beginning in June 2014. In the original musical film, which premiered in 1968, how many versions of the infamous car were built to use as stage props?

a. 6b. 10c. 2d. 5Answers:

1) d

2) a

3) c

4) b

5) b

6) d

7) c

8) a

9) d

10) a

Liberty mom and author Gina Klein loves the performing arts and plans to attend as many shows as she can afford this year with her family.

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