Hone Your Tony Awards Trivia Expertise Just in Time for the Big Night!

The Tony Awards are today y'all. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Are you ready? Of course not! At this point, you have just enough time to listen to all the cast albums once more, and most importantly, brush up your Tonys trivia before tonight.

I'm sure you'll be having a crazy-awesome Tony Awards party with your BFFs and the nerds cool kids in your theatre community. And with a living room full of theatre people, it will probably take about two minutes for the inevitable contests to begin: who has seen the most Tony telecasts? Who remembers that time when that ridiculous thing happened? Who loves Audra McDonald the most? When the one-upping begins, we want you to be as prepared as possible to be the coolest kid in the room, so I will graciously share my secret weapon: trivia.

Below, check out my list of my favorite obscure Broadway trivia. And we're not talking about the basic ones like, "Which show/actor has the most Tony Awards?" or "Who has won a Tony and an Oscar for the same role?" (we already did that one, here!) This is the list that will without a doubt send you to the top of the Broadway nerd food chain.

Q: Which musical tied with THE SOUND OF MUSIC for Best Musical?

A: FIORELLO

WHAT? The most prestigious awards organization allows ties? Yes. Yes they do. There have, in fact, been 10 ties so far. I'd say the most that any average person knows about FIORELLO is probably that Don Draper went to see it in MAD MEN, but in recent, real-life news, it was revived through ENCORES! in 2013, starring Emily Skinner (original SIDE SHOW).

Q: What is the name of the Tony Award-winning show with the longest title?

A: THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE

For those of you playing along at home, that amounts to a grand total of 26 words and 44 syllables. And we thought Sondheim was crazy for A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. At the time, those "in the know" called the aforementioned show, whose name I'm not writing twice, simply "Marat/Sade."

Q: Who is the only Broadway replacement to be nominated for a Tony Award?

A: Larry Kert

How did Dean Jones end up on the COMPANY original Broadway cast recording as well as the famous "making of" the COMPANY album, and yet not receive a nomination for his performance as Bobby? He opened the show, but he had to drop out after less than a month. At which point, Larry Kert, who was already known for originating the role of Tony in WEST SIDE STORY, took over. Best Actor in a Musical for COMPANY was the only award nomination Kert ever received.

Q: Which Best Musical nominee had the shortest run?

A: RAGS

Starring Judy Kuhn, Terrence Mann, and Larry Kert, this 1986 Charles Strouse/Stephen Schwartz musical ran for just four regular performances. WHAT. I know, it's crazy. The craziest thing to me is that it was the same season as LES MISERABLES. So had RAGS actually fared well, it seems that neither Judy Kuhn nor Terrence Mann could have been in the original Broadway cast of LES MISERABLES. Incidentally, this of course meant that Judy Kuhn got to be in two Tony performances that year.

Q: Which twin playwrights have each written Tony Award-winning plays?

A: Peter Shaffer and Anthony Shaffer

As a twin myself, I'm partial to this particular statistic. Peter is perhaps the best known of the two, as the author of both EQUUS, notably starring a pre-Hannibal Lector Anthony Hopkins as Martin, and AMADEUS, starring Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, and Jane Seymour. The late Anthony's SLEUTH won the Tony in 1971.

Q: Who are the only two boys to ever be nominated for Best Featured Actress (yes, actress) in a Musical?

A: William Snowden and Joseph Stewart

"Excuse me, WHAT?!" Yes, believe it or not, it happened. Snowden and Stewart received a joint nomination along with four girls for the original Broadway version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. You guessed it, the Von Trapp children were all nominated for one Tony Award. And since the majority of them were girls, the committee decided the "actress" category suited them best. They were beat out by fellow THE SOUND OF MUSIC cast member, Patricia Neway, who was playing Mother Abbess.

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