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Do you know your Broadway show tune covers? [quiz]

Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America

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Broadway musicals have enchanted America for decades, so much so that show tunes have made their way into popular culture via recordings by famous artists. These Broadway covers have launched these show tunes into legendary pop culture fame. Test your Broadway and pop culture knowledge with this quiz on popular covers with roots on the Great White Way.

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Featured image credit: “Music” by  Brandon Giesbrecht. CC BY-2.0 via Flickr.

Julia Baker is a former intern on the Discipline Marketing and Rev Gen team at Oxford University Press.

Laurence Maslon is Arts Professor and Associate Chair at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter, he is the author of several books about the musical theater, including the companion volume to the PBS series Broadway: The American Musical as well as the editor of the Library of America's two-volume set American Musicals (1927-1969), containing sixteen classic Broadway librettos. He is the author of Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America (OUP 2018).

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