Sometimes, one sentence is all it takes to hook an audience and deliver them into the world of a show. From loud declarations to quiet affirmations, the theatre has no shortage of iconic introductions.
Whether spoken or sung, can you name these shows from just their first lines?
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A Chorus Line
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Richard III
Joan Marcus
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How I Learned to Drive
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Romeo and Juliet
Carol Rosegg
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
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Blasted
Barbra Streisand in the Broadway production of Funny Girl
Friedman-Abeles/NYPL
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Doubt
Joan Marcus
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Josh Groban and the Cast
Chad Batka
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Little Shop of Horrors
Emilio Madrid-Kuser
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Danielle Ferdland, Ben Wright, Kim Crosby, Chip Zien and Bernadette Peters in Into the Woods.
Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
