Here’s the answers to today’s trivia!
- C — the rams and ewes are in Carousel’s “June Is Busting Out All Over.” The other beasties are in the following Oklahoma! songs: the hawk, “Oklahoma!”; the lark, “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top”; the field mouse, “Lonely Room”; the maverick, “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’.” Be honest, now. How many of you guessed the lark because you thought of the one learning to pray in “The Sound of Music” instead of the one waking up in the meadow?
- A — young Stephen Sondheim, a close friend of the Hammerstein family, worked as a “gofer” on Allegro. Who can say what kind of ideas evolved from that experience?
- B — Cable hands over his grandfather’s watch (the one that saw his ancestor safely through the Spanish-American war; you knew he was doomed as soon as he gave that up. Survival 101 — do not lose lucky family heirlooms!), but Bloody Mary stomps on it. Luther covets the boar’s tooth necklace; Bloody Mary’s skin is as tender as DiMaggio’s glove and she charges “fo’ dolla’” for her goods; and Nellie is as normal as blueberry pie. Not that you would find blueberries on a South Pacific Island.
- D — “Edelweiss” was the last lyric Hammerstein wrote.
- E — the two songs recycled in State Fair were cut from Oklahoma!
