Round 10: 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 (-5[1])Guys and Dolls. (10[1])One of these events leads Amy to anticipate “floating in the Hudson with the other garbage” (10[1])in a patter song from Company. (10[1])A (10[1])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.” For 10 points, in My Fair Lady, Alfred Doolittle anticipates what sort of event (10[1])in the song “Get Me to the Church (10[1])on Time”? ■END■ (10[3])

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