Buzzfeed's Broadway Musical Quiz

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 9:21pm

Did anyone see this? I did it anyway and passed. But, it's very questionable because any show that starts with the words A or The count for those letters versus how most people categorize them. It also didn't accept every show.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/audreyworboys/broadway-musical-alphabet-quiz

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 9:42pm

Could not for the life of of me think of any L musicals! Thank you for sharing.

[lachri5]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 9:45pm

Little Me was on Broadway twice, and buzzfeed wouldn't take it as an answer.

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 9:56pm

HenryTDobson said: "Could not for the life of of me think of any L musicals! Thank you for sharing."

That's because apparently they've never heard of any L musicals. I tried at least 5 that have been nominated for Best Musical and weren't accepted. 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 10:04pm

The 20 year old kids who created it don't know much, honestly. 

[bjh2114]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 10:13pm

Yah I put several L musicals that weren't accepted as well. Also, I tried the iconic flop "In My Life" for I and it wasn't accepted. Not really sure why U and V aren't separated, and same with X and Y. Also, there IS a Q Broadway musical (Quilters), but they just chose to skip that letter.

[Broadway Buddy]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 11:14pm

It’s also VERY picky. Like “the.” Instead of lion King you have to put THE Lion King and so on and so forth. Also they think it’s THE Bandstand when there is no “the” in the title. It’s the smallest and pickiest thing but I’m just spitting facts.

[ggersten]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 11:29pm

It wouldn't take Little Women for "L"  or "I Do I Do" for I

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 4/29/20 at 11:53pm

To save everyone the trouble, here’s another 10 shows they won’t recognize:
DEAR WORLD
FIORELLO
I DO I DO
JELLY’S LAST JAM
KELLY
LADY IN THE DARK
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
SHENANDOAH
SHOGUN
SATURDAY NIGHT

[Chowd95]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 12:58am

I got every single one until Z when it wouldn't accept Zorba, then it told me that was the answer. My results were "Yikes! You know nothing about Broadway musicals." BuzzFeed is dumb

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 1:52am

Oddly, L had me a bit stumped too after it wouldn't accept Lestat. I even checked my answer because I was so sure it had been one.

I was wondering about Bandstand. Weird. And Finian's Rainbow was also not accepted.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 4:35am

It took me ages to get one starting with a D, especially since it refused Do I Hear a Waltz, Dracula and Dance of Vampires!

[Chowd95]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 6:42am

It cracks me up that L was such a stumper since a show that starts with it is "The World's Most Popular Musical".

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 7:27am

Its not buzzfeed that makes most of these...its ordinary people. And this was likely some 15 year old drama geek who believed he knew everything about musicals.

Between the missing legit shows and the commenters not knowing the difference between off or on Bway, it was quite the read.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 12:57pm

Yeah, I realized after I remembered an L show that was recognized, the obvious did make me go duh. It's actually fascinating when working on a list like this of what your brain comes up with that's so random, but you forget easy ones. That happened to me on another one with countries of the world.

And yes, reading the comments on this was interesting as well because of people thinking of musicals that played off-Broadway or elsewhere that are very well known.

[thebookofwhizzer]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 3:12pm

L musicals got me too! It took me a good while before I remembered "Les Miserables"

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 3:29pm

They didn't accept Dracula for D either.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 4/30/20 at 3:51pm

They also didn't accept Drat! The Cat!, Jamaica or Jelly's Last Jam.  The nerve!