From little shops around the corner to skyscraper corporations, places of business have long served as the settings for Broadway musicals. But "the man who only lives for making money, lives a life that isn't necessarily sunny" as George Gershwin wrote in "Nice Work If You Can Get It." Maybe that's why all these musicals are really more about workplace romances than all the "ways to make a livin'."
In honor of the hardest working characters in musical theatre, see if you can identify the musical from its place of business.
Nice Work Quiz
Cast of Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots Playbill - Opening Night
Nice Work Quiz
The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game Playbill - Nov 1956
Nice Work Quiz
Company
Hello, Dolly! Playbill - Opening Night
Nice Work Quiz
Sutton Foster and Marc Kudisch in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie Playbill - Opening Night
Nice Work Quiz
Baayork Lee, Donna McKechnie, and Margo Sappington in Promises, Promises
Promises, Promises Playbill - March 1969
Nice Work Quiz
Carlos Gomez, Priscilla Lopez, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Joan Marcus
In the Heights Playbill - Opening Night
Nice Work Quiz
Cast
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Playbill - February 1964
Nice Work Quiz
Jonathan Groff in Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors Playbill - Opening Night
Nice Work Quiz
Barbara Cook, Jerome Courtland, Ernest Truex, and Edith Atwater in Flahooley.
Flahooley Playbill - May 1951
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Barbra Streisand, Elliott Gould, Marilyn Cooper and Lillian Roth in I Can Get It For You Wholesale
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
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Jennifer Foote, Gavin Creel, Gina Ferrall, Jane Krakowski, Zachary Levi, Nicholas Barasch, and Byron Jennings in She Loves Me
Joan Marcus
Nice Work Quiz
Liza Minnelli and cast of Flora, the Red Menace
Friedman-Abeles/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
Flora the Red Menace Playbill - Opening Night, May 1965
Nice Work Quiz
Keala Settle, Jessie Mueller and Kimiko Glenn in the original Broadway production of Waitress
Joan Marcus
Nice Work Quiz
Cast of Rock of Ages
Rock of Ages Playbill - Opening Night
Nice Work Quiz
Betty Garrett in Bells Are Ringing
Bells Are Ringing Playbill - Dec 1956
