# Musical that involves board games. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373 "2003-06-21T05:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_duke\_69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@the\_duke\_69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_duke_69)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/1 "2003-06-21T05:16:03Z")
What is the name of a musical that involves or is based or something of board games? Thank to all the help. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/2 "2003-06-21T05:45:12Z")
Chess? This was a musical written by the two guys from ABBA. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/3 "2003-06-21T14:04:42Z")
From Rodgers & Hammerstein’s **Operator!** : Ooooooo-perator Make a wrong move and your patient’s dead. To remove a spleen Is really keen Except when his nose buzzes to RED! From **West Side Monopoly** : I like to win at Monopoly! Buy a hotel in Monopoly! Do Not Pass Go in Monopoly! The dice I throw in Monopoly! And don’t forget the classic: _Fiddler on the Chute (& Ladder) How to Succeed in Backgammon without Really Trying South Pacific (Battleship Edition)_ ---
**Author:** ![Fibber\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a6a055/32.png) [@Fibber\_McGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibber_McGee)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/4 "2003-06-21T14:13:45Z")
Then of course there’s _Murder, She Guessed_ the short lived TV series based on the board game _Clue_, but that doesn’t help you much, does it? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/5 "2003-06-21T14:14:32Z")
More lyrics: Don’t cry for me, I’m so SORRY![sup]TM[/sup] I really didn’t mean to bump you. I popped the bubble The dice rolled seven I’m now the winner! You are the loser! If I find a ladder, I go up and up and up and up and up and up and up! But If I run into a damn chute, then I go-a tumbling down! I…Hope I find a Ladder! Then I will pass you and keep on going very very high!.. Oh, and I meant Rodgers & Hammerstein’s **Operation!** (I need to go to the theater more). ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/6 "2003-06-21T14:15:15Z")
**ArchiveGuy** , I didn’t think _West Side Monopoly_ handled the subject half as well as _Rent_. And I hope you’re not forgetting _The Phantom of the Operation!_ **the\_duke** , are you sure it was musical? It could be you’re thinking of _Othello_, by William Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/7 "2003-06-21T14:28:09Z")
O Twister! I just played a game they call Twister! And suddenly a game Will never be the same to me! I kissed her! And only because I played Twister! Now red and blue and green Are the only dots I can See! * * * When you see a bore Play a triple-word score Then you know he’s a Scrabble geek all the way! Why does he get the vowels & the Ns and the Ts But I’m stuck with the Q, the X and the J, and even the Z? But I’ll get his goat I’ve got Websters by rote And I’ll stun him with my Vocabulary! But I’m all out of guesses I’ve got nothing but Vs & S’s Oh no Scrabble is just not the game for me! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/8 "2003-06-21T14:32:03Z")
> [@](#): > > ArchiveGuy, I didn’t think West Side Monopoly handled the subject half as well as Rent. Bah! It’s just like electronic battleship–more bells & whistles but without the heart of the original! I’ll take Robert Preston’s classic rendition of _You Got TROUBLE[sup]TM[/sup], My Friends!_ over any of your new-fangled music-games! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/9 "2003-06-21T14:47:44Z")
I had a chance to see _Mousetrap_ in London. When that plastic cage landed on Michael Caine, the audience went nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/10 "2003-06-21T15:38:42Z")
I hear they’re planning a new show based on Nixon’s piano skills. Surely they’ll include a big production number of his Checkers speech. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/11 "2003-06-21T16:36:15Z")
What good is sitting all along in your room, playing some solitaire? Come to the cribbage board, oh chum–come and sit down and play! * * * What’s the capitol of Saskatchewan? What’s the name of the first album by Celine Dion? I don’t care if I Don’t complete my pie, I just love playing Trivial Pursuit! * * * I know a game named Stratego! The sides are red and blue, you know It’s like a war–not bloody though! Stratego, I could play all day! (ole!) ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-that-involves-board-games/183373/12 "2003-06-21T18:52:22Z")
As a serious reply to the OP, I’d say Chess (based on chess) and Tommy (written by The Who and involving pinball) would be your best bets. I’m not aware of any other musicals involving board games. Guys and Dolls has poker and craps, I guess.