The Broadway Musical Quiz Book (Applause Books)

This book is fact filled, fun and makes for a good game of trivia. Love it

Not for casual theatre-goers! This book is hard! But I am learning lots of great facts and trivia. For diehard musical lovers!

"The Broaedway Musical Quiz Book" is by no means for the layman. I've worked in musical theatre for thirty years and huge chunks of this book left my forehead crinkled and my mind saying, "What the-" The only sequence in which I got them all correct was on Stephen Sondheim, but then there is no one alive other than Sondheim himself who could tell you more.(Maybe not even him; we rarely follow our own lives with the same scruntiny as others do.)However this book is a lot of fun. I picture a dorm room full of theatre majors playing with the book; I picture teachers looking for extra credit questions. I also can see how this book is useful in looking at the history of Aerican Musical Theatre. I can see the book spending a summer on the porch or a winter in the bathroom.If you're a fan who lovedf "Cats" and "Phantom" but can't say who wrote the lyrics and book for those two shows, save your money and buy a Sarah Brightman DVD. If you're smarter than that and have a sincere interest in American Musical Theatre, you could do a lot worse.I do wonder, however, how the author would have done on this before her hunt for information.

This book is not for someone who is only a passive fan of musicals. I consider myself very learned on the subject and I find myself getting half the questions wrong!! But still it's a very fun trip and I find I'm learning a lot. Just beware that you have to be a BIG fan to even begin to do well on these things:)

I have two other friends who like myself are major musical theater buffs and hard to buy gifts for, but this was perfect. I ended up buying three copies in all. Some of the questions were harder than either of could answer. Great content, condition and prompt shipping.

This book is filled with amazing facts but the questions are kind of long winded.

Every Monday I post a musical theatre quiz on my website.... and everyone just adores them. And they're not easy quizzes -- very smart questions that really make you think. Great for those "theatre geeks" in your life.

The cover was 5/8" bigger at the top than it should've been and therefore crumpled. The front and the back covers weren't the same size. 3/4ths of the book was mounted 5/8" too low on the spine so that the last lines on each page were at the hairy edge of the bottom of the page. The last 1/4th of the book was mounted 9/16" even lower on the spine than the rest of the book, resulting in the last 1/4th of the book having the bottom pages chopped off and therefore missing content.In summary, the book was very visibly, and obviously, bound/mounted/printed/cut incorrectly. Without opening the book someone should've been able to see there was a problem with it.Forgive the layman's terms and the overuse of fractions, I'm not in the industry and the page numbers were sadly cut out or there weren't any. The content may have been decent but we sent it back. Inexcusable.

gave as gift they were happy

Very embarrassed that I gave this book is a gift and it is a used book with writing in it.