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Can You Identify These 2017-18 Broadway Shows Through Emojis?

Test your theater and emoji literacy in honor of World Emoji Day.

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is back, and we're ing it up with another quiz.
The format is the same as
last year's: A handful of the season's Broadway shows get reenacted by emojis. Your job is to identify each production.

This year, we're not the only ones celebrating World Emoji Day theatrically. So are the cast and crew of Emojiland, a New York Musical Festival production about a smartphone update that upends the lives of the phone's emojis. The musical opens tonight, appropriately enough. So try your at this test, and then, if you're around NYC, the show.


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Answers: 1. Once on This Island 2. Frozen 3. My Fair Lady 4. The Band's Visit 5. SpongeBob SquarePants 6. Angels in America 7. Summer: The Donna Summer Musical 8. Escape to Margaritaville 9. Saint Joan 10. Rocktopia 11. Junk 12. Children of a Lesser God 13. Latin History for Morons 14. John Lithgow: Stories by Heart 15. Time and the Conways 16. Carousel 17. Meteor Shower

Featured In This Story

Once on This Island

Closed: January 6, 2019

The Band’s Visit

Closed: April 7, 2019

SpongeBob SquarePants

Closed: September 16, 2018

My Fair Lady

Closed: July 7, 2019