BWAY TRIVIA: Bizarre Things in Common

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BWAY TRIVIA: Bizarre Things in Common

Posted: 11/2/06 at 8:09pm

This is a little out on a limb but somewhat amusing for those of us BROADWAY TRIVIA folk who find bizarre correlations and enjoy thinking way outside the box.

WHAT 1 THING DO THESE 3 MUSICALS HAVE IN COMMON?

1.
Sunday in the Park with George
Wicked
[title of show]

2.
The Secret Garden
Wicked
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

3.
Company
Rent
Avenue Q

Once someone gets the answers (or I tell you) I'd totally love it if some of you thought up some other ones.

Updated On: 11/2/06 at 08:09 PM

#2

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Posted: 11/2/06 at 8:17pm

First threesome: a monkey?

#3

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Posted: 11/2/06 at 8:19pm

GOOD JOB! (On #1)
Monkeys it is.

#4

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Posted: 11/2/06 at 9:11pm

#3: All of them were musicals with themes and topics from their respective time periods. Did Jeffry Seller have something to do with Company? Because he produced both Rent and Q and that's definately a connection.

#5

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Posted: 11/2/06 at 9:15pm

2: do they all have to do with something green?
DRS: Money
Wicked: Elphaba
Secret Garden: well ... the garden bit ...

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Posted: 11/2/06 at 9:24pm

Has Natalie Venetia Belcon ever been in a production of Company? Because she has been in the other two. And in Rent she played Joanne, also a character in Company.

eta: Or duh, they all take place in New York.

Updated On: 11/2/06 at 09:24 PM

#7

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 2:00am

Okay, maybe I think too far-fetched...

But for #2 the connection was a Wheelchair (and someone standing up out of it)

And #3 each feature a making-love/sex song.

#8

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 2:22am

Ah, Eug, I thought I was being smart when I noticed the wheelchair thing. Bah. I coulda shown off.

Okay, I've got some.

1. Spelling Bee
Spamalot
The Producers

2. Footloose
Jersey Boys
Little Shop of Horrors

#9

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 10:11am

re group no 3 in the first post, none of these musicals has a chorus. That probably wasn't what you were thinking, but that's what I came up with. All three muscials have urban themes, they are directly related to the city. Company seems to be about the upper east side in the sixties, Rent, we know, and Avenue Q, I suppose you could say it takes place in Brooklyn or Astoria, whatever, closer to the present.

#10

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 11:48am

All right. Here's one that's a stretch:

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Victor/Victoria
Bombay Dreams

#11

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 12:13pm

Calvin-

All have a man that get dressed in a woman's clothing...?

#12

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 12:16pm

That they do. But that's not what I was thinking, although you're on the right track. (Big hint -- the link is most obvious in Bombay Dreams and Forum, but it's almost invisible in V/V)

#13

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 6:29pm

For the original #3, my thought was for all those shows, the composer(s) won their first tony for the show's score.

Here's one based on the criteria of a game my band teacher used to have us play:

The Rink
Company
The Boyfriend

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 6:53pm

Mine, BTW, was that all three shows have some sort of mention of eunuchs.

#15

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Posted: 11/3/06 at 7:05pm

Here's a fun one:

Hair
Salvation
Annie

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[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

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Posted: 11/4/06 at 12:58am

Hair, Salvation, and Annie were all musicals that ran in the 1970's and starred women who later went on to be in The First Wives Club movie!

Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Sarah Jessica Parker, respectively!

Teeheeee...

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[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#17

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Posted: 11/5/06 at 9:21am

Company and Fame Becomes Me?

They both feature someone playing the triangle at center stage.

#18

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Posted: 11/7/06 at 2:43pm

What do these three musicals have in common? Hint: It's not Idina

WICKED
THE PRODUCERS
RENT

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Updated On: 11/7/06 at 02:43 PM

#19

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Posted: 11/7/06 at 5:26pm

They're all extremely HUGE hits with tourists?
Now this one is really easy, yet really hard at the same time.
Beauty and the Beast,
Annie
The Drowsy Chaperone

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#20

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Posted: 11/25/06 at 7:58pm

Mine, BTW, was that all three shows have some sort of mention of eunuchs.

I did not even think of that.

Been to Munich/Where every guy's a eunuch.

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