"Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?"

[LizzieCurry]

"Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?"#1

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:01pm

This is fun. I got most of them...

http://www.sporcle.com/games/russelme/uncomfortablemusical

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[Kad]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#2

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:39pm

I got 18... some were quite funny, some were kinda vague.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Unknown User]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#2

Posted: 3/14/10 at 7:44pm

Last Five Years time only moves two directions. Dolly doesn't pimp anyone. Obviously written by a non-showtune fan....

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#3

Posted: 3/14/10 at 8:24pm

I got all but three.

[Stage Door Sally]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#4

Posted: 3/14/10 at 8:36pm

I got 17. Mostly missed shows I hadn't seen or heard of.

[HeyMrMusic]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#5

Posted: 3/14/10 at 10:43pm

Only missed two... Clearly those two clues were vague.

~Steven

[ggersten]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#6

Posted: 3/14/10 at 11:54pm

Got 21. But, I did start to just enter titles after a while.

[tazber]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#7

Posted: 3/15/10 at 1:58pm

Fun. Thanks for sharing Lizzie!

....but the world goes 'round

[byebyebaby12]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#8

Posted: 3/15/10 at 9:59pm

I got 18. "The Jealous cowboy murders the man of his girl's dreams" Threw me off A lot, I

[orangeskittles]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#9

Posted: 3/15/10 at 10:41pm

Sporcle is so bad for my productivity.

There's also this:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/bobthesenator/mostrevived_musicals

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[SporkGoddess]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#10

Posted: 3/15/10 at 10:57pm

I got 21. I agree with some of the comments, like the Chicago one could have been a lot more uncomfortable.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[poochie4]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#11

Posted: 3/28/10 at 3:54pm

Here are three others that are fun....

Current Theatre Occupants
http://www.sporcle.com/games/jm3268/broadwaytheatre

Theatre Namesakes
http://www.sporcle.com/games/jm3268/broadwaynamesakes

Theatre Owners/Operators
http://www.sporcle.com/games/jm3268/broadwayowners

[Eastwickian]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#12

Posted: 3/29/10 at 8:36am

Why didn't they include Aspects of Love? The plot for that is pretty uncomforatble without the need for any embellishment or exaggeration...

[purtynpynk]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#13

Posted: 4/1/10 at 5:49pm

Here's another:
Can You Name the Broadway Show From These Actors?

[Biff AKA Levi]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#14

Posted: 4/2/10 at 3:17am

Grease isn't on this list? I swear there's a new revival every other year.

"I want a lap dance from an octopus."

-JG2

[Biff AKA Levi]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#15

Posted: 4/2/10 at 3:27am

http://www.sporcle.com/games/PBRthur/musicals_last_lyrics

"I want a lap dance from an octopus."

-JG2

[bjh2114]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#16

Posted: 4/2/10 at 8:30am

I got 23, only missing Oklahoma and Les Miz. The wording of some of those was really difficult.

[algy]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#17

Posted: 4/2/10 at 10:39am

17. But most of the ones I missed were ones I've not seen...

[AC126748]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#18

Posted: 4/2/10 at 10:50am

21/25

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[LotteTBS138]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#19

Posted: 4/2/10 at 11:03am

I did the actor to show one... who would link
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gary Beach to Les Miz??? How about Colm, Terrence, Frances?! For Wicked, they used the top 3 that are no longer in it.

I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler

[AC126748]

'Can you name the Musicals by Uncomfortable Plot Summary?'#20

Posted: 4/2/10 at 11:08am

I think the point of that game was to do a kind-of telephone thing, we're the last actor on a particular show becomes the first actor in the next show. So:

Spelling Bee: Bolger--->Les Mis
Les Mis: Beach--->The Producers
The Producers: Lane--->The Frogs

etc...

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body