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theatre quiz [[image - a magnifying glass]
by Andrew Gans

[[image - photograph of Harold Prince, by Elisabeth Novick]]

HIT MAKER Harold Prince has won a staggering 20 Tony Awards for his work as a producer and/or director.  This season, he returns to The Great White Way as director of Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett's new play, Hollywood Arms, which begins previews at the Cort Theatre on Oct. 7.  Perhaps better known for his direction of musicals, he has helmed some of the musical theatre's finest works.  Pictured below are photos of a few of these classics, each of which won Prince a Tony for Best Director.  Can you identify each show's title?


[[image 1 - photograph, by Martha Swope]]
[[caption]] (l.r.) Patti LuPone, Bob Gunton, and Mandy Patinkin
starred in this Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical about the life of a poor Argentinian woman who became the country's First Lady before dying of cancer in 1952.  It opened at New York's Broadway Theater in 1979. [[/caption]]

[[image 2 - photograph, by Martha Swope]]
[[caption]] This musical, which premiered at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre in 1971, concerned a group of ex-performers who return to the site of their former glory, a dilapidated theatre that is about to be destroyed.  The classic Stephen Sondheim score boasts such tunes as "Losing My Mind," "Broadway Baby," "In Buddy's Eyes" and "Could I Leave You?" [[/caption]]

[[image 3 - photograph, by Martha Swope]]
[[caption]] Angela Lansbury won a Tony for her work as the ditzy, scheming Mrs. Lovett, a woman who turns men into meat pies in this dark musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler.  It premiered at the Uris Theatre in 1979. [[/caption]]

[[image 4 - photograph, by Clive Barda]]
[[caption]] Michael Crawford (here with Sarah Brightman), who returns to Broadway this season in Dance of the Vampires, won a Tony for his work in this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about a disfigured man who becomes the muse of an opera singer.  This current, long-running hit opened at the Majestic in 1988. [[/caption]]

[[image 5 - photograph, by Friedman-Abeles]]
[[caption]] Jill Haworth (far right) was the first Sally Bowles in the original Broadway production of this Kander and Ebb musical, which concerned an American writer and the people he encounters during his stay in pre-WWII Germany.
Joel Grey starred as the Emcee in this musical, which is currently enjoying a hit revival at Studio 54.  The original staging opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in 1966. [[/caption]]

Answers: 
1 Evita 
2 Follies 
3 Sweeney Todd 
4 The Phantom of the Opera 
5 Cabaret

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