Romance, Broadway Style Trivia Quiz

Answer: Roger

Mimi and Roger both have lots of baggage; Roger's girlfriend committed suicide after learning that she and Roger were HIV positive, and he also feels worthless as a washed up songwriter. Mimi is a struggling drug addict who works as a stripper and has HIV too.

After skirting around their feelings for each other, they finally realize how strongly they feel and a love blooms between them.

Answer: Marius

Unfortunately for Eponine, her love is unrequited, as Marius is in love with Cosette. Still, Eponine and Marius share a tender moment as she dies in his arms after being shot at the barricades. This scene is where they sing "A Little Fall of Rain" in the musical. Good that she was able to at least spend a few special moments with the person she loved, eh? Pity that it had to end with her dying a few minutes later.

Answer: Kim

Chris' friend, John, buys him Kim's services for a night. A son is conceived, though Chris doesn't learn of it until years later, after he has returned to the United States and is married to Ellen. For years he believed Kim dead, and after hearing the news that she is alive and has their son, he frantically tries to find her again.

Answer: Lieutenant Cable

Ah, love....Cable does indeed fall head over heels for young Liat, but aside from sharing some passion, he tells Bloody Mary that he has no intentions of marrying her daughter. (Nice guy!) De Becque is the last name of Emile, Ensign Nellie's main squeeze, and I made the other two names up.

Answer: Freddy

Freddy belives Eliza to be a highly cultured lady, and is quite interested but Eliza rejects his advances and winds up falling for her professor, good old "Enry Iggins" instead. (Now, now...please don't send me notes telling me that his name is actually Henry Higgins; of course I know that, but as any fan of the production will tell you, Eliza can't correctly pronounce the letter "H" when she comes to be his student because of her thick Cockney accent, so she calls him "Enry Iggins".) Although Henry and Eliza never officially become a couple during the production, it's evident that their romantic feelings are mutual.

Answer: Amos

After learning of Roxie's infidelity, Amos refuses to be the patsy for her crime, so she ends up going to prison. Way to stick it to her, Amos!

Answer: pineapple

Not exactly my kind of romantic present, but I'm not living in the throes of WWII in Berlin where tropical fruit was an extreme rarity, either! Schultz and Schneider sing a funny but quite sweet song entitled "It Couldn't Please Me More" as he gives her the pineapple.

Answer: Julie Jordan

After their short but passionate love affair, Julie confessed that she was pregnant with Billy's child. Desperate to "make good" on his pledge to take care of Julie and the baby, he goes out to get some money...however, Billy's not so smart, and instead of looking for a better job, he chooses to commit robbery and is killed during the attempt. What a role model for his daughter, huh? All's not lost, though, as Billy is allowed to come back to earth as his daughter graduates high school to teach her an important lesson. (Let's hope he also taught her that stealing doesn't pay!)

Answer: George is his uncle

Stranger still than the fact that Rose and George hooked up in the first place, they have a daughter named Jenny. When Jenny grows up she falls in love with Alex....who just happens to be her cousin. (Eew, creepy!) Kind of gives new meaning to "kissing cousins" now doesn't it?!

Answer: Joanne

Maureen (a bi-sexual) and Joanne (a lesbian) have a highly volatile on-again/off-again relationship. At the point in the show where they sing "Take Me or Leave Me" they are quarreling over each others' annoying little idiosyncracies and end the song by mutually declaring the relationship is over.

Not long after, however, they make up and become sweet lovebirds again. Ah, Cupid can rest easy knowing he has done a good job with this pair, and with the others featured in our "Romance Broadway Style" quiz. Thanks for playing, and see you on the Great White Way!