Broadway Pop Quiz: 2025 Debuts

Every Broadway season features exciting Broadway debuts - exciting for the actors who are reaching a pinnacle in their careers, and exciting for audiences who are getting to see history in the making! Today's pop quiz is all about these debutantes.

Broadway Pop Quiz:

2025 Debuts

 

1. The current revival of Ragtime features Anna Grace Barlow and Rodd Cyrus making their Broadway debuts as these "real life" characters:

    A. Evelyn Nesbit and Henry Ford

    B. Emma Goldman and Henry Ford

    C. Emma Goldman and Harry Houdini

    D. Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Houdini

2. There's a new Orpheus headin' on down to Hadestown these days, and he's making his Broadway debut in the role. Who is he?

    A. Sam Tutty

    B. Jack Wolfe

    C. Kurt Elling

    D. Dez Duron

3. Hard to believe someone as well-regarded as Don Cheadle is making his Broadway debut this season. What show will he be in?

    A. Proof

    B. Joe Turner's Come and Gone

    C. All Out

    D. Cats: The Jellicle Ball

 

4. Another pretty famous actor is finally coming to the Broadway stage in Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Who is it?

    A. Don Cheadle

    B. Taraji P. Henson

    C. Cedric the Entertainer

    D. Ruben Santiago-Hudson

5. TRUE/FALSE: Both cast members of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) are making their Broadway debuts.

6. Both Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are making their Broadway debut in what show?

    A. The Muppets Take Manhattan: The Musical

    B. Rob Lake Magic

    C. Waiting For Godot

    D. Schmigadoon!

7. All of the following will be making their Broadway debuts with The Lost Boys EXCEPT:

    A. Sean Grandillo as Dwayne

    B. The Rescues - Music and Lyrics

    C. Jennifer Duka as Alan Frog

    D. Billy Mulholland and Gwyneth Larsen - Aerial Design

    E. Michael Arden - Lighting Design

8. TRUE/FALSE: Acclaimed British actress Lesley Manville is making her Broadway debut in Oedipus.

 

9. TRUE/FALSE: Both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are making their Broadway debuts in Waiting For Godot.

10. When Tom Felton makes his Broadway debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, he will be playing the adult version of which character he played as a child in the original film series?

    A. Harry Potter

    B. Scorpius Malfoy

    C. Draco Malfoy

    D. Cedric Diggory