A nice easy question to get us started ... who wrote the original stage-musical , which was soon adapted into a film that is now re-run on television every Christmas?

Another landmark musical by the same team broke fresh ground in a number of ways: Which of the following is the ONLY one that is UNTRUE?

What is the connection between the name German Reed and the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas?

In terms of English-language entertainment, P G Wodehouse springs to mind principally as the creator of Jeeves (manservant and factotum to Bertie Wooster); but Wodehouse's other writing activities included writing over 250 lyrics for the musical theatre, chiefly in America. With which of these leading composers was he NOT associated at one time or another, so far as we know?

Which would you regard as the Odd One Out of this selection of musical theatre shows?

A lesser-known byway of musical theatre is the Industrial Musical ('brand' shows for internal, in-company consumption by staff only) ~ what one might perhaps refer back to, in the spirit of the medium as a whole, as the 'cheesy face of capitalism', in the sense of somebody caught privately raiding the midnight fridge, their surprised mouth framed by telltale smears of So-&-So's cream cheese! After which intro, you may be fractionally less astonished to consider the following titles of some such spectacles. These were almost all genuine, and no doubt much burnished and appreciated ~ apart from one impostor; which ONE is the fake?

Noel Coward was an iconic British entertainer, writer of plays and films and music, with over 300 songs to his credit. One of the songs in the following list has been linked with the wrong show: which one?

A good tune has a way of coming round again and again ... not only within a number or a show, but into these from outside, deliberately or otherwise: there are many alleged examples of earlier composers' melodic shapes cropping up (for instance) in the scores of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber (such as bearing a striking aural resemblance to the slow movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto). But the other, generally happy, side of this cultural coin is that some whole musicals have been created which tell the story, and/or 'recycle' the music, of earlier classical composers or other musicians. As with many questions in this Quiz, the list that follows is mainly fine but with one mismatch: which is the wrong one?

It begins to seem as though a musical can be fashioned from, or around, almost anything by those who know how. Which of the following workplaces is NOT (again, so far as we know) the setting for such a show?

Classical musicians who may still baulk at listening to 12-tone works by Arnold Schoenberg, may be happier with music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg (no relation) and Alain Boublil ~ probably best-known originally for their adaptation of (English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer). Another of their heavyweight hits was : which of the following (once again) is the rogue UNTRUE item about this show?