Broadway Games: 3 Truths 1 Lie

How well do you know Hamilton, Kimberly Akimbo or Hadestown? How about Ryan Vasquez or Melanie LaBarrie?

Broadway Games: 3 Truths 1 Lie

Below are 4 statements about each topic. Three of them are true. One of them is a lie. Your job is to figure out which one is the falsehood. Good luck!

1. Hamilton

    A. Thayne Jasperson is the only Original Broadway Cast member currently in the Broadway Company.

    B. Ariana DeBose is the only Original Broadway Cast member with an Oscar.

    C. No one in the Original Broadway Cast has left the show and returned to the company.

    D. Hamilton did not win every Tony Award for which it was nominated.

2. Ryan Vasquez

    A. To date, he is the only actor to play every principal male role in Hamilton on Broadway.

    B. Ryan appeared in the short-lived Broadway musical Cirque du Soleil Paramour.

    C. He was in pre-Broadway productions of The Notebook, The Outsiders and Water For Elephants.

    D. In The Notebook, Ryan's "Middle" counterpart is played by Joy Woods.

3. Kimberly Akimbo

    A. David Lindsay-Abaire's original play version also included songs.

    B. Not all of the characters in the play version appear in the musical version.

    C. LaChanze is a producer of the Broadway musical.

    D. In the finale of the musical, we see Kimberly in Disney World.

4. Melanie LaBarrie

    A. Less than 24 hours after her final Broadway performance in & Juliet, she was in London rehearsing Hadestown.

    B. Melanie originated the role of Angelique, Juliet's nurse, on the West End and Broadway.

    C. She once played Madame Morrible in Wicked.

    D. She was born in Turks and Caicos.

5. Hadestown

    A. Not including understudies or swings, until Jordan Fisher took over, only Reeve Carney had played Orpheus in New York.

    B. There have been Broadway performances where not all of the Fates have been played by female identifying actors.

    C. Ani DeFranco, the current Persephone, has sung the role professionally before her Broadway debut.

    D. Lola Tung, currently making her Broadway debut as Eurydice, is known for her starring role in The Summer I Turned Pretty.

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1. Hamilton

    C. No one in the Original Broadway Cast has left the show and returned to the company.

    (Jonathan Groff, as King George, left the show and later returned.)

2. Ryan Vasquez

    B. Ryan appeared in the short-lived Broadway musical Cirque du Soleil Paramour.

    (Ryan Vona, not Vasquez, was in that show.)

3. Kimberly Akimbo

    A. David Lindsay-Abaire's original play version also included songs.

   (Nope! No one sang.)

4. Melanie LaBarrie

    D. She was born in Turks and Caicos.

    (She was born in Trinidad and Tobago.)

5. Hadestown

    A. Not including understudies or swings, until Jordan Fisher took over, only Reeve Carney had played Orpheus in New York.

    (Damon Daunno played the role in the off-Broadway production in 2016.)