As I mentioned on Monday, I’m the critic-in-residence at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, more chummily known as CCM, where recently I saw Aubrey Berg’s excellent production of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. Because I’d be talking to the kids afterwards, I was taking plenty of notes. For Liberty Cogen (Smitty), I noted, “Nice hand gestures in BALD.” Of Katilyn Davidson (Rosemary), I wrote, “You made HTKHDW swing, and made it sound a better song than it is.”

Those who know the show have already inferred that BALD had nothing to do with hair loss, but was the acronym for “Been a Long Day,” the song in which Smitty tries to interest J. Pierrepont Finch in Rosemary. HTKHDW, of course, meant “Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm,” her plea for domesticity.

I do this when I take notes; it does, after all, save time, and it allows me to get back to looking at the stage as quickly as possible. But while I was writing GOI for the excellent duet between Carl Draper (J.B. Biggley) and Justin Scott Brown (J. Pierrepont Finch), suddenly, I thought, hmmm, I think I’ve come up with a good idea for a quiz. What if I gave readers, say, six acronyms of songs from a musical? Would they be able to guess what they are, and what the show is, too?

Actually, this quiz seemed to me a little on the hard side, so I thought I’d better only include famous shows. I mean, I can’t expect you to know that DCT, SB, IAWIYG, LYFTF, BH and HTP mean “Dream Come True,” “Serious Business,” “It’s All Written in Your Genes,” “Leave Your Fate to Fate,” “Big Hair” and “Hell to Pay” from Imperfect Chemistry. Let’s get real.

But let’s try it, shall we? All words in each title are capitalized, even if they represent prepositions or articles. Punctuation is ignored. Come – I’ll make it easier for you: All the shows, produced between 1961 and 2008, are arranged chronologically. All the songs are in the order in which they appear in the show – though that could mean they’re the musical’s first, third, seventh, ninth, 14th and 16th songs; in other words, don’t expect that the six songs appear in a row.

You don’t have to give me the names of all six songs; that would take you too long, and your time is valuable. Just give me the name of the show. Let’s have the answers by Wednesday, Dec. 10, so that we can applaud the high scorers on Friday, Dec. 12.

1. CB. TCW. ASINAT. LFAHOG. IBIY. BOM.

2. GMGD. IDKHN. WHLM. WMS. ATTTL. GKY.

3. T. IIWARM. NIHE. DYLM. FFTHIL. A.

4. IATS. IOTOH. IRLH. WDHWOM. TEHD. TID.

5. SDJ. TLOOV. BMA. HPTV. CCCM. MLS

6. TLTYDT. SG. YCDAPC. HIGAGFY. AHP. BA.

7. BG. DLAM. ROTR. AP. BB. WTW.

8. YMMMW. IPOW. EDALD. AWITC. IWHBW. SITC.

9. ATJ. WYGTM. WBRFTG. MOBF. MC. WVTTS.

10. ICDT. ATB. HTHTHL. TMATM. O. WIDFL.

11. ITHKL. WLTTYHH. ITIGLIH. YWBAOFL. YNFDWAS. ANDFC.

12. OTNOATS. BA. ASIAH. ANA. DCFMA. HFA.

13. YAH. SW. GIYD. WITM. SSTES. LOB.

14. JSFJC. TOGC. MAR. OD. GTTC. M.

15. WAWWA. ALMM. WAOMA. IAWIA. LOT. TBOT.

16. NL. CAL. ELL. FTH. WDNBT. CAA.

17. ATEOTD. IDAD. MOTH. DYHTPS. ODM. BHH.

18. IGTIG. MTM. AVNP. FM. GITS. OTSOTP.

19. TOM. AOM. TMOTN. AIAOY. WYWSHA. TPONR.

20. B. NMW. M. H. BOG. HA.

21. R. OSG. LMC. TM. LVB. SOL.

22. NFTLOM. HTOHL. WDINWL. OINY. FATB. GG.

23. WDYDWABAIE. ISTBM. EALBR. YCBALATHYW. MGWLIC. TMYRS.

24. NOMTW. TWAI. WITF. DTL. P. DG.

25. BD. IWBLN. HOS. CDB. EIK. WTSGD.

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