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 | 05/11/2021On this day in 1965, Liza Minnelli opens in her Broadway debut, Flora, the Red Menace, subsequently winning a Tony Award.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/10/2021Disney's Tarzan opens on Broadway in 2006.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/09/2021In 1982, Nine opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/08/2021In 1962, Stephen Sondheim makes his debut as a composer-lyricist as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/07/2021In 1981, Elizabeth Taylor makes her Broadway debut in The Little Foxes.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/05/2021In 1955, Damn Yankees opens on Broadway starring Gwen Verdon.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/04/2021In 1993 Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/03/2021Kiss of the Spider Woman, starring Chita Rivera, opens on Broadway in 1993.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/02/2021In 1984, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 05/01/2021In 2016, Dear Evan Hansen opens Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/30/2021In 2009, Stephanie J. Block, Allison Janney, and Megan Hilty star on Broadway in 9 to 5.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/28/2021In 1997, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical Jekyll & Hyde opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/27/2021Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart makes its Broadway debut on this date in 2011.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/26/2021Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Company opens on Broadway in 1970.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/25/2021In 1991, Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman's musical The Secret Garden opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/24/2021In 2016, Waitress opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/23/2021Happy birthday, William Shakespeare.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/22/2021In 1993, The Who's Tommy opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/21/2021In 1977, Annie opens on Broadway.
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By Nathan Skethway | 04/20/2021The Tony and Oscar winner, who celebrates her birthday April 20, has cited the role of Mary Tyrone in the Eugene O'Neill classic as an all-time favorite.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/20/2021The musical version of Sister Act, starring Tony winner Patina Miller, opens on Broadway on this date in 2011.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/19/2021The Pulitzer Prize and Tony–winning Clybourne Park opens on Broadway in 2012.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/18/2021In 1994, Disney's Beauty and the Beast opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/17/2021In 2017, the musical Groundhog Day opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/16/2021Happy birthday, Kelli O'Hara!
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By Playbill Staff | 04/15/2021Next to Normal, starring Alice Ripley, opens on Broadway in 2009.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/14/2021Bye Bye Birdie, starring Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera, opens on Broadway in 1960.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/13/2021Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, starring Audra McDonald, opens on this date in 2014. McDonald subsequently wins her record-breaking sixth Tony Award.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/12/2021In 2001, Faith Prince stars in a Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/11/2021In 1991, the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon opens starring Lea Salonga.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/10/2021In 2011, Aaron Tveit stars on Broadway in Catch Me If You Can.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/09/2021In 1964, John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/07/2021In 1949, South Pacific opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/06/2021The first Tony Awards ceremony is held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on this date in 1947.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/05/2021The first Broadway revival of Evita opens in 2012.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/04/2021In 1971, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies makes its Broadway debut.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/03/2021In 2008, Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot star in a Broadway revival of South Pacific.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/02/2021In 1999, Orfeh, Sara Ramirez, and Patrick Wilson star on Broadway in The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm.
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By Playbill Staff | 04/01/2021In 1993, Julie Andrews stars Off-Broadway in the Sondheim revue Putting It Together.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/31/2021In 1943, the original Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/29/2021Newsies opens on Broadway in 2012.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/28/2021In 1985, Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues opens on Broadway starring Matthew Broderick.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/27/2021In 2008, Patti LuPone stars in a Broadway revival of Gypsy.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/26/2021In 1964, Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand, opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/25/2021In 2018, the Broadway revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America opens; Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane go on to win Tonys for the performances.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/24/2021In 2011, The Book of Mormon opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/23/2021Disney's Aida, starring Tony winner Heather Headley, Adam Pascal, and Sherie Rene Scott, opens on this date in 2000.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/22/2021Happy birthday to Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/21/2021In 2019, Ain't Too Proud brings the story of The Temptations to Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 03/20/2021In 2014, Disney's Aladdin opens on Broadway.
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