Solution: PH20: There's No Business Like Show Business
Answer: WICKED
Written by Dana Young
First, get the conversation in order, like this:
MUSICAL | LYRICS |
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CABARET (given) | Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret Leave your troubles outside! |
THE MUSIC MAN | Trouble, oh we got trouble, Right here in River City! With a capital “T” |
THE SOUND OF MUSIC | Te-A drink with jam and bread That will bring us back to Do, oh, oh, oh Do-A deer, a female deer Re-A drop of golden sun |
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF | Sunrise, sunset, Sunrise, sunset, Swiftly fly the years, One season following another |
RENT | (Seasons of love) yeah Woah, woah, woah, five hundred, twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you figure our last year on earth |
WEST SIDE STORY | The world was just an address, A place for me to live in, No better than all right, But here you are And what was just a world is a star Tonight! Goodnight, goodnight, Sleep well and when you dream, Dream of me |
MAN OF LA MANCHA | To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow |
SPAMALOT | If life seems jolly rotten There's something you've forgotten |
CATS | Memory All alone in the moonlight |
HAIR | When the Moon is in the Seventh House And Jupiter aligns with Mars, Then peace will guide the planets And love will steer the stars |
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS | I’m just a mean green mother from outer space And I’m bad I’m just a mean green mother from outer space A real hard case. You can't beat this |
HAIRSPRAY | You can’t stop the beat You can’t stop a river As it rushes to the sea You can try and stop the hands of time |
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW | Let’s do the Time Warp again Let’s do the Time Warp again It’s just a jump to the left And then a step to the right |
THE LION KING | Everybody Look Left! Everybody Look Right! Everywhere You Look I’m Standing In The Spotlight |
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA | Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light And listen to the music of the night Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar |
ALADDIN | (Don't you dare close your eyes) A hundred thousand things to see (Hold your breath, it gets better) I’m like a shooting star, I’ve come so far I can’t go back to where I used to be |
WICKED | Something has changed within me Something is not the same I’m through with playing by The rules of someone else’s game |
HAMILTON | No one really knows how the game is played The art of the trade How the sausage gets made |
SWEENEY TODD | I mean, with the price of meat What it is? When you get it If you get it Hah Good, you got it Take for instance, Mrs. Mooney and her pie shop Business never better using only pussycats and toast And a pussy’s good for maybe six or seven at the most And I’m sure they can’t compare as far as taste |
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST | Try the grey stuff, it’s delicious Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes! They can sing, they can dance! After all, miss, this is France! |
LES MISERABLES | The blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again When the beating of your heart echoes the beating the drums There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes |
Then, building the bottom extraction for each player's page:
Player One:
LYRIC USED | INDEX | MUSICAL |
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3rd | 4 | MAN OF LA MANCHA |
1st | 6 | THE SOUND OF MUSIC |
5th | 8 | SWEENEY TODD |
2nd | 2 | RENT |
4th | 4 | THE LION KING |
Player Two:
LYRIC USED | INDEX | MUSICAL |
---|---|---|
4th | 3 | WICKED |
3rd | 2 | HAIR |
1st | 5 | FIDDLER ON THE ROOF |
2nd | 3 | SPAMALOT |
5th | 10 | LES MISERABLES |
Player Three:
LYRIC USED | INDEX | MUSICAL |
---|---|---|
1st | 10 | LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS |
2nd | 2 | THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW |
4th | 2 | HAMILTON |
5th | 1 | BEAUTY AND THE BEAST |
3rd | 1 | ALADDIN |
Player Four:
LYRIC USED | INDEX | MUSICAL |
---|---|---|
3rd | 2 | CATS |
5th | 10 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA |
1st | 5 | THE MUSIC MAN |
4th | 5 | HAIRSPRAY |
2nd | 6 | WEST SIDE STORY |
The four blocks are OUTEL CALAB PHABA AMUSI, which rearrange to the phrase A MUSICAL ABOUT ELPHABA. This musical is the answer, WICKED.