Use the clues to answer
these questions about Broadway Patter songs.
1. Who's the first
Russian named by the Circus Ringmaster at the Magazine Editor's Trial? Who sang
it first?
Malichevsky,
Danny Kaye
2. Who knows “more of
tactics than a novice in a nunnery”?
The Modern
Major General Stanley
3. In what patter song do
you find references to 2 American Indian tribes, a Biblical experience, and a
volcano? What is the show?
Museum Song
from BARNUM
4. What mercurial Cole
Porter patter song had lyrics banned in the Boston tryout? What was the heavenly
show?
They Couldn't
Compare To You from OUT OF THIS WORLD
5. In what classic song
do you find yourself “in your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold
clocks), crossing Salisbury Plain on a bicycle”? Name the show?
The Nightmare
Song from IOLANTHE
6. In what film/stage
musical number does an elocution lesson become a tongue twisting dance number?
What's the film/play?
Moses Supposes
from SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
7. In what patter song is
Greta Garbo's footwear compared to boats? What was the show?
Let's Not Talk
About Love from LET'S FACE IT
8. In what patter song do
huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou share a lyric line? What's the show?
La Vie Boheme
from RENT
9. In what patter song
does this lyric appear “Don Juan had once a royal marriage lined up, until he
left some blonde Venetian's blind up” ? From what musical?
Don't Tamper
With My Sister from ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER
10. In what patter song
do you find 27, 37, 47 and 57 items? What are they and what is the song?
Dinner plates,
Butter knives, Paperweights, Candleholders from Getting Married Today
11. In what patter-esque
song are “fat filibusterers” and “income tax adjusterers” mentioned? Who wrote
the lyric?
The Begat, E.Y.
“Yip” Harburg
12. What pattery opening
number extolls the virtues of friendship in Trenton, New Jersey? What's the
show?
We're Still
Friends from I LOVE MY WIFE
13. In what patter song
is the lyric “so the one who knows what happened to the bean is you” featured?
What is the show?
It's Your Fault
from INTO THE WOODS
14. In what patter song
does the lyric “the meaning doesn't matter if the manner is expressionist”
appear? What was the year?
The Garrick
Gaieties Opening - 1925
15. What recycled classic
patter song became a secretarial test about a floor wax? What is the show? What
is the original source?
The Speed Test
from THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, RUDDIGORE
16. In what patter song does a magical actress sing of Hamlet, Euripedes and
egrets? What is the show?
“Words, Words,
Words” from THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
17. In what patter song
is a stiff upper lipped ambassador trying to wrangle a deal for a treaty port?
Who wrote the lyric?
Please, Hello
by Stephen Sondheim
18. What patter number
features the following lyric “How I relish her sweet pickle on the side with
pumpernickel”? What is the musical?
Vegetable
Reggie from CHARLOTTE SWEET
19. In what patter song
does the phrase “the two-sided mint is the rule, not exception” appear? Who
wrote the lyric?
Both Sides Of
The Coin by Rupert Holmes
20. What fun patter
number is a love letter to a famous Hollywood actress and her many married
names? What is the show?
Elizabeth from
WHOOP-DE-DOO!
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