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Broadway Movie Quiz

Test your knowledge of the movie Broadway with this engaging quiz that covers key characters and actors.

1 What role did Paul Porcasi play in the movie Broadway?

2 Who played Billie Moore in the movie Broadway?

3 ________, theatrical productions produced in one of forty professional New York theatres located on or near Broadway in Manhattan, New York

4 Who played Steve Crandall in the movie Broadway?

5 Who played 'Porky' Thompson in the movie Broadway?

6 Who played Porky in the movie Broadway?

7 What role did Otis Harlan play in the movie Broadway?

8 What role did Robert Ellis play in the movie Broadway?

9 What role did Edward Brophy play in the movie Broadway?

10 Who played Dan McCorn in the movie Broadway?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • although Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's musical tracks for Little Women won the Richard Rodgers Award in 1998, those tracks did not make it to Broadway.
  • tab shows—cut-down versions of Broadway and other musicals, with portable scenery—often shared the bill with early 20th-century vaudeville and burlesque shows in the USA.
  • former Broadway actor Paul Ballantyne was born in a town that today has only about 200 residents.
  • the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films, as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical, Where's Charley.
  • the Shubert Theatre in New Haven was the location of the pre-Broadway premieres of five of the most famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, including Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of Music.
  • the Broadway opening of the musical Wildcat had to be postponed, because the trucks hauling the sets and costumes to New York were stranded as a result of a major blizzard.
  • Sutton Foster was pulled from the chorus to replace the leading lady during the pre-Broadway tryout of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
  • Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums — on Broadway, and for both film and television.
  • Gershwin's musical Primrose had its Broadway première more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut.
  • Conor McPherson's The Weir was performed on Broadway in 1998, less than a year after its original opening at The Royal Court Theatre in London.
  • soap opera actress Catherine Hickland starred in the Broadway production of Les MisĂ©rables as Fantine.
  • Doe Lang, who performed on Broadway and appeared in TV soaps, also authored best-selling self-help books and is the president of an image consulting firm.
  • Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century.
  • Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women has been made into a movie twice, and revived on Broadway several times.