Round 4: Tossup 9

The “loud mouth mug” Herman sings about his reaction to these events in the last pre-finale song of Sweet Charity. Adelaide notes a “lesson I’ve been taught” about these events and lists “psychosomatic symptoms” around them in two songs from Guys and Dolls. One of these events leads Amy to anticipate “floating in the Hudson with the other garbage” in a patter song from Company. A character originated by Stanley Holloway anticipates one of these events while singing, “Pull out the stopper / let’s have a whopper.” Motel, rather than Lazar (“laser”) Wolf, participates in one of these events in Fiddler on the Roof that ends with a pogrom and is the setting of the song “Sunrise, Sunset.” (10[2])For 10 points, in My Fair Lady, Alfred Doolittle anticipates what sort of event in the song “Get Me to the Church (10[1])on Time”? ■END■

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