Can You Name These Animal-Inspired Shows?
Cats returns to Broadway beginning performances July 14. The show is based on which famous poet’s work?
T.S. Elliot
Paul Gallico
Mother Goose
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Tennessee Williams used the same pet in the title of one of his most famous plays. Name the play.
Sweet Cat of Youth
Night of the Black Cat
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
This famous farce follows the story of a greeting card poet who has a knack for picking race horse winners. It was a huge hit.
Hold Your Horses
Horse Play
Let It Ride
Three Men on a Horse
This musical from Disney Theatrical Productions began at the New Amsterdam Theatre, before moving to the Minskoff.
Beauty and the Beast
The Jungle Book
The Lion King
Tarzan
This famous Tyrolean operetta had an animal in its title. It starred Kitty Carlisle and William Gaxton.
All the King's Horses
The Spring Chicken
White Horse Inn
Hold Your Horses
In Wicked’s “Something Bad,” Dr. Dillamond sings of two animals who have forgotten how to speak. What animals are they?
Fox and Fowl
Frog and Toad
Ox and Owl
Mule and Hawk
A successful play by Jean Giraudoux had a feline in its title. It opened at the Plymouth Theatre in Manhattan in 1955.
The Lion Tamer
The Lion and the Mouse
Love Among the Lions
Tiger at the Gates
The 1979 play, The Elephant Man, won a Tony for Best Play. Who was the actor nominated that year for his performance in the title role?
John Hurt
John Merrick
Philip Anglim
David Bowie
What David Mamet play’s original star was a well-know movie actor? (Hint: Al Pacino starred in it when it was revived and nominated for a Best Revival Tony.)
American Buffalo
Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
The Duck Variations
Revenge of the Space Pandas
In the opening song of Fiddler on the Roof, the town takes two sides of an argument about a piece of livestock sold to a villager. One said says it was one animal, the others say it was another. Name those two animals.
Chicken and Goose
Milk cow and Bull
Chicken and Rooster
Horse and Mule
In 1937, the Theatre Guild produced a British comedy about a dog that became involved in a court case. The New York production changed the play's title to include the dog's name. Can you name the play?
Jacobowsky and the Colonel
Juarez and Maximilian
Storm Over Patsy
The Tidings Brought to Mary
The 1961 play Rhinoceros required leading actor, Zero Mostel, to impersonate this beast. Mostel won a Tony Award for his performance. Who wrote the play?
Samuel Beckett
Albert Camus
Eugene Ionesco
Jean Paul Sartre
This actor starred alongside Annaleigh Ashford and Matthew Broderick in the 2015 play Sylvia.
Robert Sella
Robert Fairchild
Fran Kranz
Byron Jennings
