It's an overly tough quiz -- the product of listening to a lot of relatively obscure cast albums -- but I think it's kind of fun to see how many famous names have been mentioned in musical-theatre songs. In a day or two I'll post the answers.
1. Missus Sheridan's Ann
2. When J.P. Morgan bows, I just nod
3. Truman Capote's balls
4. A fellow named Ben Hogan
5. Marilyn Miller in SUNNY
6. Grover Whalen and his hat
7. Jesse James could shoot
8. The Joe DiMaggio of love
9. Buying tickets for Rosalind Russell
10. Refined L.B. Mayer
11. We got Adam Clayton Powell
12. I'm tired of Richard Dix
13. He fell in love with Oscar Hammerstein
14. Shakespeare will be shakin'
15. Peggy Joyce has a business
16. All men but Bernard Shaw
17. I'm Carmen Miranda
18. C. Aubrey Smith and those other codgers
19. Mr. Havelock Ellis
20. If I looked like Aimee MacPherson
21. Rudy Vallee's megaphone
22. I'll go back to Billy Rose
23. The one with Andrew Jackson
24. The verity of Gene O'Neill
25. You're not Edwin Booth
26. Write to Mayor Lindsay
27. Old John L. Lewis
28. Tommy Manville's love
29. Elizabeth Arden to do your face
30. A Cole Porter tune
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.