Answer Sheet
June 2007
"Switcheroo"
Winner: GGEVAS
For this month’s Quiz we take a real song title
from a showtune that COULD be placed in another show. For each answer provide
the song and the show.
Example: What delectable song could have resulted
had George & Ira written the Act 2 Opener to a bloodthirsty musical melodrama?
Answer: Delishious in SWEENEY TODD
1. The show's about
Finding Never Never Land, if it had been penned by Sondheim & Rodgers.
What
Do We Do? We Fly! in PETER PAN
2. If
diamond lovin' “Miss Lee” had been “Franklin Shephard's” pal, this song might
have opened the show.
Lookin'
Back in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
3. If
Irving Berlin wrote a danceable theme song for the show based on a thrice
smiling Bergman film.
Let's
Go Back To The Waltz or Change Partners in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
4. If
the manic depressive Southern lady would up torn between “Ben” & “Buddy”.
Losing
My Mind in PRETTYBELLE
5. If
Bert Lahr & Nancy Walker had starred in the Lysistrata musical.
The
Girls Against the Boys in THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
6. If
“Guenevere” had lived at 5131 Kensington Avenue.
Take
Me To The Fair in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
7. If
“Nurse Fay Apple” rode in a hot air balloon with a Founding Father she might
sing this.
Come
Play Wiz Me in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS
8. If
“Fosca” had been a blithe spirit, she would have sung this.
You
Better Love Me in PASSION (also acceptable is Was She Prettier Than I?, although
not Elvira's song. )
9.
If the Talbo sisters musical was transplanted to Nippon in 1853.
Someone In A Tree in THE GRASS HARP
10.
If “Mrs. Primrose” had been in a meaty musical about Good Clean Fun in
old New York.
Repent
in TENDERLOIN
11.
If lonesome George Gobel had starred in the Bali Ha'i Show.
His
Own Little Island in SOUTH PACIFIC
12. If a
trio of New York girls had appeared on the giant staircase, they might have
helped “Norma” & “Joe” with this advice.
You Could
Drive A Person Crazy in SUNSET BLVD
13. If
Frank Wildhorn had written an aria for “Ms Doolittle”, before & after.
Transformation in MY FAIR LADY (A New Life works as well)
14. If
Nancy Walker's flop show of 1957 had featured a tune written for “Dora” two
years later.
I Love
A Cop in COPPER & BRASS
15. If
Guido the director were trying to work with “Miss Waitress from Flatbush” in her
later years, he might sing this number.
I
Can't Make This Movie in MACK & MABEL
16.
If Tony Manero had wound up at the Stardust instead, he might have heard this
tune.
A Song
For Dancin' or I Love To Dance in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
17. If
“Daisy/Melinda” had starred in the Tara musical, she might sing this for a
finale.
What
Did I Have That I Don't Have? in GONE WITH THE WIND (also acceptable is Come
Back To Me, although not Daisy's song.)
18. If
Mr. Yazbek had written Mr. Secombe's signature show, he might have sung this
instead.
You
Rule My World in PICKWICK
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