Theatre Quiz Round 6: Multilingual Musicals

This week’s quiz is all about language! For each musical lyric, tell us what language it is in and what show the lyric is from!

Once you’re done, scroll to the bottom and check how many answers you got correct. (Be careful not to catch a sneak peek!)

CLUES:

1. No joie de vivre anywhere, et maintenant we drink a bitter wine.
2. Oui oui, mon ami, je m’appelle Lafayette!
   
3. Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama.
4. Allahu Akbar, Subbhaan Rabbi al Azeem.
5. To life, to life, l’chaim!
6. De nem igaz, en artatlan vagyok.
7. Ja, ooh ja, das ist gut.
   
8. Eleka nahmen nahmen ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen.

ANSWERS: 

1. French, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
2. French, Hamilton
3. Zulu, The Lion King
4. Arabic, Come From Away
5. Hebrew, Fiddler On The Roof
6. Hungarian, Chicago
7. German, Six The Musical
8. Trick question! It’s a musical spell chant from Wicked. Fun fact: Stephen Schwartz made up the spells of Wicked by altering words from various languages.