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 | 04/08/2020The musical The Addams Family, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, opens on Broadway in 2010.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/07/2020In 1949, South Pacific opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/06/2020In 1947, the first Tony Awards ceremony is held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/05/2020The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies opens in 2001.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/04/2020Two Stephen Sondheim musicals open on Broadway: Anyone Can Whistle (1964) and Follies (1971).
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By Playbill Staff | 04/03/2020In 2008, Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot star in a Broadway revival of South Pacific.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/02/2020In 1999, Orfeh, Sara Ramirez, and Patrick Wilson star on Broadway in The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/01/2020In 1993, Julie Andrews stars Off-Broadway in the Sondheim revue Putting It Together.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/31/2020The original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens in 1943.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/30/2020Applause, starring Lauren Bacall, opens on Broadway in 1970.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/29/2020The King and I opens on Broadway in 1951.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/28/2020Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, starring Matthew Broderick, opens on Broadway in 1985.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/27/2020In 2008, Patti LuPone stars in a Broadway revival of Gypsy.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/26/2020Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand, opens on Broadway in 1964.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/25/2020David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross opens on Broadway in 1984.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/19/2020In 1998, Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson star in a Broadway revival of Cabaret.
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By Nathan Skethway | 03/18/2020The two-time Tony Award winner celebrates her birthday March 18.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/18/2020In 2012, the musical Once opens on Broadway.
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By Nathan Skethway | 03/17/2020Jagged Little Pill star Kathryn Gallagher recommends the original Broadway cast recording of the 2006 rock musical.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/17/2020Monty Python's Spamalot opens on Broadway in 2005.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/16/2020The original Broadway production of 1776 opens in 1969.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/15/2020My Fair Lady, starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, opens on Broadway in 1956.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/14/2020In 2013, David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, and Sigourney Weaver star on Broadway in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/13/2020Brigadoon opens on Broadway in 1947.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/12/2020Les Misérables opens on Broadway in 1987.
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By Nathan Skethway | 03/11/2020Lorraine Hansberry's seminal drama about the experiences of a black family in Chicago opened on Broadway on March 11, 1959.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/11/2020Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun opens on Broadway in 1959.
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By Nathan Skethway | 03/10/2020Neil Simon's comedy opened March 10, 1965.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/10/2020The Rocky Horror Show opens on Broadway in 1975.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/09/2020In 2008, In the Heights opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/08/2020In 2015, Helen Mirren stars on Broadway in The Audience.
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By Nathan Skethway | 03/07/2020While many plays and musicals feature jumps or lapses in time, the plots of these twelve shows take place over the same amount of time it takes to perform them.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/07/2020Happy birthday, Donna Murphy.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/06/2020Happy birthday to Godspell, Pippin, and Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/05/2020In 1981, Bring Back Birdie, the short-lived musical sequel to Bye Bye Birdie, opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/04/2020In 1993, Martin Short and Bernadette Peters star in the musical The Goodbye Girl.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/03/2020In 2005, Norbert Leo Butz, John Lithgow, and Sherie Rene Scott star in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/02/2020Lend Me a Tenor opens on Broadway in 1989.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/01/2020In 1979, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/29/2020In 2000, Squonk opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/28/2020Today's birthdays include Zero Mostel, Tommy Tune, and Bernadette Peters.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/27/2020In 2003, Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/26/2020In 1989, Jerome Robbins' Broadway opens at the Imperial Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/25/2020In 1973, A Little Night Music opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/24/2020In 1955, Cole Porter's Silk Stockings opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/23/2020In 2006, Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara star on Broadway in The Pajama Game.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/22/2020Today's birthdays include Ellen Greene, Marni Nixon, and Lea Salonga.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/21/2020In 2002, Elaine Stritch at Liberty opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/20/2020Happy birthday, Jessie Mueller.
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By Playbill Staff | 02/19/2020In 1992, Crazy for You opens on Broadway.
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