Everyone knows these
two things are inevitable, so it's fitting this should be our Tax Deadline date
Quiz. Find the song and/or show that best fits the question.
1. In what musical number
are the Santini Brothers mentioned as a means to a jumbo sized end? What is the
show?
The Elephant
Song from 70, GIRLS, 70
2. Name the vintage
musical number that features a toga clad vaudevillian singing a taxing yet not
too scandalous ditty. What is the song and the film?
Put A Tax On
Love from ROMAN SCANDALS
3. Name the number where
a Prince dies a long musical death, accompanied by village dancers and multiple
tambourines.
Goodbye from
LITTLE ME
4. Name the show where a
Prince dies repeatedly, featuring various scenarios on a busy night.
NICK & NORA
5. In the film version of
a stage show the lyrics tell of an uncle who doesn't pay taxes and won't have to
cause “they don't know where he lives”. What is the song and the show/film?
Doin' What
Comes Naturally from ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
6. In what strangely
optimistic song is suicide dismissed with lines like “away with monoxide, away
with the one way ride”? What is the show?
I Don't Think
I'll End It All Today from JAMAICA
7. In what number are two
henchmen bequeathed “my unpaid income tax”? What is the show?
The Legacy from
ON THE 20TH CENTURY
8. In what hart-felt
comic number does a murderer detail the deaths of their many spouses with
gleeful delight? What is the show?
To Keep My Love
Alive from A CONNECTICUT YANKEE
9. In what number does
the mourning end cause “it's summer and we're runnin' out of ice”?
Pore Jud Is
Daid
10. In what climactic
number does an accused murderer clear himself of killing off his alter-ego by
bribing the court and paying an additional tax? What is the show?
But from IRMA
LA DOUCE
11. In what overwrought
number is the ice covered heroine found clutching her frozen shears? What is
the show?
Artificial
Flowers from TENDERLOIN
12. In what farewell
number does a dying adventurer (a truly “plum” role) protest that he never loved
the heroine?
I Never Loved
You from CYRANO
13. In what number does a
star's death prompt the line “they closed her mouth and shipped her south”? What
is the show ?
The Woman's
Dead from CURTAINS
14. In what short-lived
one set musical does the entire cast get bumped off, one by one, until there are
none?
SOMETHING'S
AFOOT
15. In what joyful
musical do two characters sing about Congress, stating they're “gonna tax us up
to our eyes again”? What is the song?
The Country's
In The Very Best Of Hands from LIL ABNER
16. In what 1942 song by
a not so “lesser” songwriter does a hep-cats' jive talk feature a deadly word,
again and again? Who wrote the song?
Murder, He Says
by Jimmy McHugh & Frank Loesser
17. In what musical does
the deceased star meet the keeper of the stars? What is the play it's based on?
CAROUSEL /
LILIOM
18. In what regionally
produced musical by Broadway writers do the denizens of a small town graveyard
reflect on the value of their lives, including a young wife and a bitter choir
director? Who wrote the musical?
GROVER'S
CORNERS by Jones & Schmidt
19. In what lively number
does a supposed plague victim declare their vitality and validity? What is the
show?
I'm Not Dead
Yet from SPAMALOT
20. In what number is a
presumably dead body about to be burned on a pyre of fire, much to the
not-so-lovely impersonator's fear? Who is the impersonator?
Funeral
Sequence from FORUM / Hysterium
21. Though set in 1900
and featuring a well known (and clearly credited) source book, this Irish
musical didn't start “dublin” the producer's profits, but perhaps the title
wasn't lively enough. What was the short-lived show?
JAMES JOYCE'S
THE DEAD
22. What song features
the lyric “tax free and a bonus if I trim her tree”? What is the show?
Today 4 U from
RENT
23. In what dubiously
educational number does a professorial type advise his students to “better get
some untaxed income”? What is the show?
You've Got To
Pick A Pocket Or Two from OLIVER!
24. In what number do
they sing “ you've no dough so relax, you don't have to pay an income tax” ?
What is the show?
Sunny Side To
Every Situation from 42nd STREET
25. What song features
the following lyric: “I paid my income tax, Now you've got all the facts, I know
you'll pay your taxes too” ? Who wrote the music & lyrics?
I Paid My
Income Tax Today by Irving Berlin
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