The questions are here. These are the answers.
At least two more rounds of questions coming later this week.
ROUND ONE: WARM-UPS
1. Puckering musicals: Anyone Can Whistle and Whistle Down the Wind.
2. In the order in which they were produced: Oklahoma, Carousel, The King & I, Me & Juliet, The Sound of Music
3. Mama Roses: Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone.
4. Short runs on the jukebox: Good Vibrations: 94 performances, 50 previews. Ring of Fire (The Johnny Cash Musical Show): 57 performances, 38 previews. The Times They Are A-Changin’: 28 performances, 35 previews.
5. The Amish musical: Plain and Fancy by Joseph Stein, Will Glickman, Arnold B. Horwitt and Albert Hague.
6. The other Broadway superhero: It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman.
ROUND TWO: Hot Shows
1. The Water Engine
2. Smoke on the Mountain
3. Pretty Fire
4. The Hot L Baltimore
5. Burn This
6. The Matchmaker
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Red Hot & Blue
ROUND THREE: Replacements
(Note for purists: In some cases, the “replacements” did not immediately follow the original stars in the same roles.)
1. Verdon leads to Minnelli: Chicago
2. Merman leads to Bailey: Hello Dolly
3. Parker follows McArdle: Annie
4. Julia in for Langella: Dracula (the Edward Gorey one).
5. Stritch follows Lansbury: A Little Night Music
6. Kaczmarek for Ruhl: Lost in Yonkers.
7. Hopkins from Perkins: Equus.
8. Lane to Goldberg: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
9. Williams after Rivera: Kiss of the Spider Woman.
10. Stamos does Banderas: Nine.