Can you guess these Broadway musicals with only their character names for clues? Check out the gallery below to test out your Broadway knowledge!
Can You Guess These Shows From Only Their Character Names?
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Can You Guess These Musicals From Only Their Character Names?
Test your knowledge of musical theatre characters both old and new with this challenging quiz.
Buddy & Sally & Ben & Phyllis
Follies Playbill - May 1971
Mona & Ed Earl & Jewel & Melvin
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Playbill - June 1982
Charlie & Mary & Franklin & Gussie
Merrily We Roll Along Playbill - Oct 1981
Mother & Tateh & Sarah & Coalhouse
Ragtime Playbill
Joey Biltmore & Scranton Slim & Liver Lips Louie & Big Jule
Guys and Dolls Playbill - 1992
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By Playbill Staff | 05/26/2020In 1964, Carol Burnett stars in the musical Fade Out - Fade In.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/25/2020Happy birthday, Leslie Uggams.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/24/2020Mame, starring Angela Lansbury, opens on Broadway in 1966.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/23/2020Shuffle Along opens on Broadway in 1921.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/22/2020Happy birthday, Laurence Olivier.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/21/2020Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, opens on Broadway in 1959.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/20/2020Today's birthdays include Sierra Boggess, Lisa Kron, and Judy Kuhn.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/19/2020Happy birthday to A Raisin in the Sun playwright Lorraine Hansberry.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/18/2020In 2003, the original Broadway production of Les Misérables closes after 6,680 performances.
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By Nathan Skethway | 05/17/2020Ashman was born May 17, 1950.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/16/2020Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman, opens on Broadway in 1946.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/15/2020Today's birthdays include Cleavant Derricks, Lainie Kazan, and playwrights Anthony and Peter Shaffer.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/14/2020In 1951, Barbara Cook makes her Broadway debut in Flahooley.
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By Nathan Skethway | 05/14/2020The production opened May 14, 1957, at the 46th Street Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/13/2020The Pajama Game opens on Broadway in 1954.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/12/2020The musical Carrie opens on Broadway in 1988.
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By Nathan Skethway | 05/11/2020The revival, directed by Jeff Calhoun, opened May 11, 1994, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/11/2020Once Upon a Mattress, starring Carol Burnett, opens in 1959.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/10/2020Disney's Tarzan opens on Broadway in 2006.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/09/2020Nine opens on Broadway in 1982.
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By Nathan Skethway | 05/09/2020The Tony-winning actor celebrates her birthday May 9.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/08/2020A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, starring Zero Mostel, opens on Broadway in 1962.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/07/2020In 1981, Elizabeth Taylor makes her Broadway debut in The Little Foxes.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/06/2020In 1990, the original production of Once on This Island begins performances at Playwrights Horizons.
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By Nathan Skethway | 05/05/2020Playbill readers submitted some of their favorite inspirational songs from the musical theatre canon to help get through hard times.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/05/2020Damn Yankees, starring Gwen Verdon, opens on Broadway in 1955.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/04/2020Celebrate Hepburn's birthday May 4 with a look back at her Tony-winning performance.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/04/2020In 1993, Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/03/2020Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Chita Rivera, opens on Broadway in 1993.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/02/2020Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George opens on Broadway in 1984.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/01/2020In 2016, Dear Evan Hansen opens Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/30/2020In 2009, Stephanie J. Block, Allison Janney, and Megan Hilty star on Broadway in 9 to 5.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/29/2020Rent opens on Broadway in 1996.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/28/2020Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical Jekyll & Hyde opens on Broadway in 1997.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/27/2020Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart opens on Broadway in 2011.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/26/2020Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Company opens on Broadway in 1970.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/25/2020In 1991, Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman's musical The Secret Garden opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/24/2020In 2016, Waitress opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/23/2020Happy birthday, William Shakespeare.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/22/2020Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins opens on Broadway in 2004.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/21/2020In 1977, Annie opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/20/2020In 2017, Bette Midler opens on Broadway in Hello, Dolly!
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By Playbill Staff | 04/19/2020The Producers, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, opens on Broadway in 2001.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/18/2020In 1994, Disney's Beauty and the Beast opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/17/2020In 2017, the musical Groundhog Day opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/16/2020Happy birthday, Kelli O'Hara.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/15/2020Next to Normal, starring Alice Ripley, opens on Broadway in 2009.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/14/2020Bye Bye Birdie, starring Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera, opens on Broadway in 1960.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/13/2020In 2000, Mandy Patinkin and Toni Collette star on Broadway in Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/12/2020In 2001, Faith Prince stars in a Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing.
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