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MOVIE MUSICALS–400–This 2002 flick earned Oscar nominations for Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones

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Chicago

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MOVIE MUSICALS–800–“Hello, Gorgeous!” was Barbra Streisand’s first line in this musical, her first film

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Funny Girl

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MOVIE MUSICALS–1200–Donald O’Connor “made ‘em laugh” in one of this 1952 movie’s most famous numbers

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Singin’ in the Rain

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MOVIE MUSICALS–1600–In this musical Western, Clint Eastwood sings “I Still See Elisa” & “I Talk To The Trees”

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Paint Your Wagon

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MOVIE MUSICALS–2000–In 1967 Tommy Steele starred in back-to-back musicals: “The Happiest Millionaire” & this “monetary” one

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Half a Sixpence

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LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–200–“Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun”

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Annie

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LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–400–“Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle ‘em”

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Chicago

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LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–600–“I dreamed I met a Galilean, a most amazing man”

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–800–“A lady doesn’t wander all over the room and blow on some other guy’s dice”

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Guys and Dolls

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LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–1000–“That carriage ride–You walked me home–You lost a glove–I lost a comb”

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Gigi

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–0– Fontanne’s backstage bickering during a Shakespeare play

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Kiss Me, Kate

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–400–Frank D. Gilroy:”The Subject Was…”

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Roses

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–800–Paul Zindel:”The Effect of Gamma Rays on…”

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Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–1200–John Patrick:”The Teahouse…”

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of the August Moon

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–1600–William Inge:

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Picnic

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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–2000–Marsha Norman:”‘Night,…”

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Mother

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PLAYS BY CHARACTER–400–Anne,Helen,Captain Keller

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The Miracle Worker

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PLAYS BY CHARACTER–800–Joseph II,Salieri,Mozart

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Amadeus

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PLAYS BY CHARACTER–1200–Gremio,Petruchio,Katharina

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The Taming of the Shrew

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PLAYS BY CHARACTER–1600–Prologus,Senex,Pseudolus

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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PLAYS BY CHARACTER–2000–Vladimir,Estragon,Lucky,Pozzo

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Waiting for Godot

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PLAYWRIGHTS–0– social hypocrisy

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Henrik Ibsen

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PLAYWRIGHTS–200–As a young congressman, LBJ escorted this author of “Pygmalion” around Texas

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George Bernard Shaw

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PLAYWRIGHTS–400–His “Volpone” played at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in 1605

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Ben Jonson

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PLAYWRIGHTS–600–This playwright and actor portrayed Colonel Chuck Yeager, not Alan Shepard, in “The Right Stuff”

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Sam Shepard

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PLAYWRIGHTS–800–17-year-old usher Sheila Delaney got a taste for theatre and went home one night to start this play

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A Taste of Honey

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PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Oliver Goldsmith thrashed a publisher whose paper attacked this, his last play

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She Stoops to Conquer

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PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Marsha Mason starred in his comedy “The Good Doctor”, based on stories by Chekhov

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Neil Simon

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PLAYWRIGHTS–400–His first two produced plays were “The Zoo Story” and “The Death of Bessie Smith”

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Edward Albee

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PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Francis Beaumont began his famous collaboration with this man around 1608

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John Fletcher

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PLAYWRIGHTS–1400–In 1952 she told the HUAC, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions”

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Lillian Hellman

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PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–After writing “The School for Scandal”, he became an M.P. and an advisor to the future King George IV

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS–0–1 of 3 women who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the 1980s

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (1 of) Beth Henley (for Crimes of the Heart);

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PLAYS–100–In titles of plays, these 2 words precede “Lefty” & “Godot”

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‘Waiting For’

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PLAYS–200–This Ibsen drama about a femme fatale unfolds in the Tesmans’ fashionable villa

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‘Hedda Gabler’

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PLAYS–300–Jean Giraudoux’s play about “The Madwoman of” this place wasn’t performed until after his death

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Chaillot

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PLAYS–400–This 1928 Ben Hecht - Chas. MacArthur play influenced the public’s conception of newspapermen

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‘The Front Page’

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PLAYS–500–In Italy this Pirandello play is known as “Sei Personaggi in Cerca D’ Autore”

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‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’

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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–400–“If I Were A Rich Man”

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Fiddler on the Roof

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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–800–“When You’re Good To Mama”

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Chicago

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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1200–“Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”

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Movin’ Out

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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1600–“Kansas City” (where “ev’rythin’s up to date”)

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Oklahoma!

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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–2000–“Wand’rin’ Star”

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Paint Your Wagon

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PLAYS–400–In a Shakespeare play, Mamillius says, “A sad tale’s best for” this season

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winter

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PLAYS–800–The existential statment “Hell is other people” comes from this play

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No Exit

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PLAYS–1200–Besides “Cyrano de Bergerac”, his best-remembered play is the patriotic tragedy “The Eaglet”

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Edmond Rostand

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PLAYS–1600–1949 play character who says, “Charley is… liked, but he’s not–well liked”

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Willy Loman

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PLAYS–1000–As the title implies, this play features an important arrival, that of Hickey in the saloon

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The Iceman Cometh

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CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–200–Shaw character who thinks she’s descended from a sacred cat and that her blood is made with Nile water

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Cleopatra

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CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–400–The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title “miss” is “absolutely wild!”

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‘Miss Julie’

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PLAYS–100–First performed in the 1550s, “Ralph Roister Doister” is the first known comedy in this language

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English

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CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–600–In Euripides’ tragedy, Jason’s new wife is burned alive by a wedding gift from this woman

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Medea

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CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–800–Violet Venable’s son, who never appears in the play “Suddenly Last Summer” because he’s been eaten

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Sebastian (Venable)

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PLAYS–200–“Little Johnny Jones” was the first play he wrote expressly for Broadway, not for Vaudeville

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George M. Cohan

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CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–1000–At the end of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” he realizes that George and Martha’s son is imaginary

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Nick

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PLAYS–300–Chekhov play that opens with Andrei Prozorov’s siblings talking about going to Moscow

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (

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PLAYS–400–Richard Chamberlain and Mary Tyler Moore starred in a 1966 musical flop based on this Truman Capote story

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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PLAYS–500–He was almost 90 when he wrote one of his greatest plays, “Oedipus at Colonus”

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Sophocles

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–In this show, the hero sells his soul to the devil so the Washington Senators can win the Pennant

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Damn Yankees

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–“1776” climaxes with this historical event

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the signing of the Declaration of Independence

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (AUDIO Daily Double)Florenz Ziegfeld was the original producer of this 1927 musical, which featured the following:”Fish gotta’ swim, birds gotta’ fly…”

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Show Boat

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–In April 1988, Phylicia Rashad took over Bernadette Peters’ role as the witch in this Stephen Sondheim musical

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Into the Woods

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–Bonnie Franklin sang the title song in this 1970 musical starring Lauren Bacall

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Applause

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PLAYS–100–In a 1964 play the Marquis de Sade and other madmen re-enact the 1793 bathtub murder of this Frenchman

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Marat

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PLAYS–200–“Teahouse” is a 1957 Chinese play, and this is the longer title of a 1953 work set in Japan

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‘Teahouse of the August Moon’

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PLAYS–500–This 1938 play depicts the romance & marriage of George Gibbs & Emily Webb

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‘Our Town’

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PLAYS–400–Editor Walter Burns schemes to hold on to reporter Hildy Johnson in this 1928 farce

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‘The Front Page’

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PLAYS–500–In Irish writer Hugh Leonard’s 1973 play, the hero refers to his father by this two-letter title

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‘Da!’

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WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–200–If this Brit’s family had kept their original name, Da Pinta, his plays would be described as “Da Pintaesque”

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Harold Pinter

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WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–400–This Czech writer of “R.U.R.” wrote “The Insect Comedy” with his brother Josef

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Karel Capek

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WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Racine wrote a racy tragedy about Phaedra, a daughter of this king of Crete

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Minos

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WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–800–This Irishman’s 1926 play “The Plough and the Stars” was so controversial it provoked riots

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Sean O’Casey

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WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–He was resident playwright at the National Theatre in Bergen when he wrote “The Feast at Solhaug”

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Henrik Ibsen

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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–2000–The heroine of this musical tells of her life in the following:”I was born in a ditch by a /Mother who left me there /Naked and cold and too hungry to cry…”

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The Man of La Mancha

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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–800–Cunegonde,Dr. Pangloss,Voltaire

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Candide

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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–1000–Richard Henry Lee, Martha Jefferson, John Hancock

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1776

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FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–200–He hadn’t moved to Mayberry yet when he played the Jimmy Stewart role in the 1959 musical “Destry Rides Again”

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Andy Griffith

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FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–400–Critics didn’t “fawn” over the musical based on this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel, so yes, deer, it flopped

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‘The Yearling’

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FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–600–Exiting after only 19 performances, “Ari” wasn’t based on Onassis, but on this Leon Uris novel

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‘Exodus’

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FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–2000–“Grovers Corners” musicalized this prize-winning play

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‘Our Town’

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FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–1000–Even Lillian Gish as the Dowager Empress couldn’t save “Anya”, a musical based on this play

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‘Anastasia’

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ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He never forgave Mrs. Patrick Campbell for going off on her honeymoon while rehearsing his “Pygmalion”

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Shaw

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ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–800–As a student at Brown University, this actress appeared in a play written by her father, Romulus Linney

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Laura Linney

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ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–5000–Chapter one of her life with Neil Simon began in 1973, when she was cast in his play “The Good Doctor”

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Marsha Mason

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ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–1600–Appropriately, his wife Armande Bejart made her stage debut in his 1662 play “The School for Wives”

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Molière

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ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–2000–This author of the play “Purlie Victorious” co-starred in it on Broadway with his wife, Ruby Dee

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Ossie Davis

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PLAYS–0– a 1964 movie musical

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Pygmalion

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HISTORICAL PLAYS–0–“If I were to dress as a woman, they would think of me as a woman… What would become of me?” is a line from this 1923 play

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Saint Joan

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MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–400–The 1924 musical revue “I’ll Say She Is” made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars

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the Marx Brothers

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MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–800–In a 1927 title, this phrase preceded “Bonnie” (it didn’t precede “Birdie” until 1960)

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Bye Bye

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MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–1200–The big attraction of the 1923 hit “Poppy” was this future film comic as Eustace McGargle

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W.C. Fields

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MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–1600–The saucy 1928 musical “Paris” introduced this composer’s immortal song “Let’s Do It”

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Cole Porter

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MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–2000–As a servant in the musical “Bombo”, he sang “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!” & “California, Here I Come”

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Al Jolson

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NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–100–She based her 1945 play “Appointment With Death” on her mystery novel of the same name

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Agatha Christie

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NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–This “In Cold Blood” author’s 1952 play “The Grass Harp” concerns a woman who lives in a tree

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Truman Capote

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NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–300–Joyce Carol Oates took a sabbatical from this New Jersey university to work on her play “The Gulf War”

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Princeton

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NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–This “Firing Line” host adapted his own espionage novel “Stained Glass” as a play; it premiered in 1989

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William F. Buckley

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NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–500–Rip Torn & Marsha Mason starred in this author’s stage adaptation of his own novel “The Deer Park”

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Norman Mailer

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MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–400–In this show, Tony Manero is headed for the disco when he discovers–Oh, no! A cold sore!!

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Saturday Night Fever Blister

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MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–800–ABBA’s rockin’ musical about the very maternal star of “Rosemary’s Baby”

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Mamma Mia! Farrow

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MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–1200–Mrs. Levi dumps matchmaking & busts out as a voluptuous country singer in this blockbuster

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Hello, Dolly! Parton

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MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–1600–Fanny Brice is a laugh riot when she leaves the Follies to sell cookies & earn merit badges in this smash hit

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Funny Girl Scout

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MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–2000–A Siamese monarch & a governess team up for this ungrammatical salute to the play that inspired “Cabaret”

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The King and I Am a Camera

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PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–200–He claimed he was in love with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle for her

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George Bernard Shaw

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PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–400–Olga Knipper played Masha in his play “The Three Sisters” in 1901 and married him the same year

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Anton Chekhov

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PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–600–The 1st actress to play the role of Elmire in “Tartuffe” was his wife, Armande Bejart

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Moliere

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PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–800–In 1937 he wrote the play “Golden Boy” and married that year’s Oscar winner, Luise Ranier

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Clifford Odets

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PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–1000–Mary Eure, this playwright’s 2nd wife, was in the original cast of his play “Look Back In Anger”

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John Osborne

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–Rex Harrison’s “Fair Lady” and Burton’s Guinevere

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Julie Andrews

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–300–In 1967, Broadway said “hello” to this 1st black “Dolly”

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Pearl Bailey

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–1931’s “The Band Wagon” was the last time this brother & sister shared the dancing spotlight

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the Astaires

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–500–Musical in which Lester Billis was Nellie Forbush’s “honey bun”

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South Pacific

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PLAYWRIGHTS–0–1994

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Edward Albee

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PLAYWRIGHTS–0– yes, a gun does go off by the end

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Anton) Chekhov

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PLAYWRIGHTS–200–“Blood Wedding” author Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by nationalists in this country in 1936

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Spain

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PLAYWRIGHTS–400–A freed slave named Terence was one of the greatest comic playwrights of this ancient civilization

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Rome

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PLAYWRIGHTS–600–His bawdy 16th century play “The Mandrake” displays the cynicism he showed in “The Prince”

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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PLAYWRIGHTS–800–This Irishman who worked for the IRA as a courier wrote about the IRA in “The Hostage”

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Brendan Behan

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PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Swedish playwright whose last marriage inspired him to write “The Dance of Death”

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August Strindberg

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ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain:”HALO AMOK!”

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Oklahoma!

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ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–It was one singular sensation:”SHUN CALORIE”

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A Chorus Line

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ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–600–Zero was my hero in this:”INFERRED FOOT HOLD”

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Fiddler on the Roof

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ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–The Sky (Masterson) was the limit:”GLAD SUDS ONLY”

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Guys and Dolls

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ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–Sondheim said que Seurat, Seurat:”EDGE PRAISEWORTHY GIANT HUNK”

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Sunday in the Park with George

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PLAYS–0–The title of a Sean O’Casey play refers to these symbols on the flag of the Irish Citizen Army

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The Plough and the Stars

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PLAYS–200–Their 1st 3 Broadway plays were “I’ll Say She Is’, “The Cocoanuts” & “Animal Crackers”

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The Marx Brothers

127
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PLAYS–400–This title character’s partner-in-crime was Mrs. Lovett, who baked & sold meat pies

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Sweeney Todd

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PLAYS–600–A very short-run play in 1963, written by D. Starkweather, was titled “So Who’s Afraid Of” this playwright

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Edward Albee

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PLAYS–2000–1953 Arthur Miller play inspired by the atmosphere of McCarthyism in the early 1950s

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‘The Crucible’

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PLAYS–1000–He wrote “Amadeus” & his twin brother, Anthony, wrote “Sleuth”

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Peter Schaffer

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–Dogpatch is almost hit by an atom bomb in this 1956 musical

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Li’l Abner

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–In 1952 Cloris Leachman briefly starred as Ensign Nellie Forbush in this musical

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South Pacific

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BROADWAY MUSICALS–600–The musical revue “Five Guys Named” this was inspired by jazzman Louis Jordan, not by the 3 Stooges

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Moe

134
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BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–“Un Violon sur le Toit” was a French version of this Broadway smash

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Fiddler on the Roof

135
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BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–Michael J. Pollard played teenager Hugo Peabody in this musical about a rock star who gets drafted

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Bye Bye Birdie

136
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BROADWAY MUSICALS–0–“No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question” is from this show

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Man of La Mancha

137
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AMERICAN PLAYS–200–“I’m Not Rappaport” takes place on a battered bench near the lake in this famous park

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Central Park

138
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AMERICAN PLAYS–800–The play in which Amanda says, “I want you to stay fresh and pretty – for gentleman callers.”

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‘The Glass Menagerie’

139
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AMERICAN PLAYS–600–Lee Strasberg played the original peddler in this 1931 play which inspired “Oklahoma!”

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‘Green Grow The Lilacs’

140
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AMERICAN PLAYS–800–This playwright dedicated “A Delicate Balance” to J. Steinbeck with “affection and admiration”

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Edward Albee

141
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AMERICAN PLAYS–1000–He revised his 1st play, “Farther Off From Heaven”, & retitled it “The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs”

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William Inge

142
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MUSICALS–200–This title character’s last name is McLonergan, not Rainbow

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Finian

143
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MUSICALS–1900–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Gwen Verdon sang the following song in the original Broadway version of this show:”Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets…”

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‘Damn Yankees!’

144
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MUSICALS–600–This show opens with a Ziegfeld star waiting for her husband to be released from prison

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‘Funny Girl’

145
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PLAYS–200–The title of a 1924 Maxwell Anderson play asked “What Price” this

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Glory

146
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MUSICALS–800–Mrs. Ray Bolger co-produced this 1948 Ray Bolger musical based on “Charley’s Aunt”

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‘Where’s Charley?’

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MUSICALS–1000–This show features a concubine from Burma named Tuptim

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‘The King And I’

148
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PLAYS–400–His last play was “The Condemned of Altona”, though “No Exit” might have been more appropriate

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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PLAYS–600–This letter is missing from the title of Lanford Wilson’s play about the Hotel Baltimore

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E

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PLAYWRIGHTS–200–In 1899 he reinterpreted the story of Caesar & Cleopatra using modern allusions

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George Bernard Shaw

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PLAYS–800–This David Hwang play was inspired by the romance between a Peking opera star & a diplomat

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M. Butterfly

152
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PLAYWRIGHTS–400–The 1961 comedy “Come Blow Your Horn” was his 1st Broadway play

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Neil Simon

153
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MOVIE MUSICALS–100–As the master of ceremonies, this actor was the only one to reprise his stage role in 1972’s “Cabaret”

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Joel Grey

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MOVIE MUSICALS–200–Actor who sang “If I Only Had The Nerve” & “If I Were King Of The Forest” in “The Wizard Of Oz”

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Bert Lahr

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PLAYWRIGHTS–600–She married fellow playwright Arthur Kober but never tied the knot with Dashiell Hammett

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Lillian Hellmann

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MOVIE MUSICALS–500–The only Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire film for which these 2 brothers wrote songs was 1937’s “Shall We Dance”

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George

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PLAYWRIGHTS–800–His play “Winterset” is based on the case of Sacco & Vanzetti

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Maxwell Anderson

158
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PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Centenarian playwright known for the musicals “The Pajama Game” & “Fiorello!”

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George Abbott

159
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PLAYWRIGHTS–200–First name shared by playwrights Fry, Durang & Marlowe

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Christopher

160
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PLAYS–1000–After he wrote “The School For Husbands”, he caused a major scandal with “The School For Wives”

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Moliere

161
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MOVIE MUSICALS–400–This actress who played Mary Stone on “The Donna Reed Show” was the only 1 to co-star in 3 Elvis films

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Shelly Fabares

162
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PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Brecht served in a German army hospital during this war, but never as a surgeon as he claimed

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World War I

163
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PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In the 1950s he was the first of the British playwrights known as “Angry Young Men”

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John Osborne (‘Look Back In Anger’)

164
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MOVIE MUSICALS–500–This Russian composer was portrayed by Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1947’s “Song Of Scheherazade”

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Rimsky-Korsakov

165
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PLAYWRIGHTS–800–This “Endgame” author was a friend of James Joyce but, contrary to rumor, was not his secretary

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Samuel Beckett

166
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PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–His last play, “What The Butler Saw”, was produced in 1969, 2 years after he was killed

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Joe Orton

167
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PLAYWRIGHTS–0– he never wrote another

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Oscar Wilde (“The Importance of Being Earnest”)

168
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PLAYWRIGHTS–200–He wrote the dialogue for “Oklahoma!”, “Carousel” & “The King & I”, as well as the lyrics

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Oscar Hammerstein

169
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PLAYWRIGHTS–400–First name shared by playwrights Webster, Dryden & Singe

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John

170
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PLAYWRIGHTS–600–“Catty” poet whose 1949 play “The Cocktail Party” is based on an ancient Greek play by Euripides

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T.S. Eliot

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PLAYWRIGHTS–800–He co-wrote the stage version of his novel “Native Son” with Paul Green

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Richard Wright

172
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PLAYWRIGHTS–5000–His lesser-known plays include “Fools”, “God’s Favorite” & “The Gingerbread Lady”

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Neil Simon

173
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PLAYS–200–In the title of a play by Robert Anderson, it’s paired with “sympathy”

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Tea

174
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PLAYS–400–In “Painting Churches”, the churches aren’t buildings but these

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People

175
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PLAYS–600–Anita Loos wrote the non-musical stage adaptation of this Colette novel

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‘Gigi’

176
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PLAYS–800–“Dial ‘M’ For Murder” takes place in the living room of an apartment in this foreign capital

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London

177
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PLAYS–1000–“Regina” was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play

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‘The Little Foxes’

178
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PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Discharged from the military in 1946, this “Odd Couple” author worked in the Warner Bros. mailroom

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Neil Simon

179
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PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He claimed his comic masterpiece “Pygmalion” was a didactic play about phonetics

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George Bernard Shaw

180
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PLAYWRIGHTS–600–After this Czech denounced the Soviet invasion of his country in 1968, his plays were banned

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Vaclav Havel

181
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–400–“As Long As He Needs Me” & “You’ve Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two”

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Oliver!

182
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–800–“Sadie, Sadie” & “I’m The Greatest Star”

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Funny Girl

183
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Although his 1975 play “Seascape” had only a brief Broadway run, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Edward Albee

184
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PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–This “Picnic” playwright’s screenplay for “Splendor In The Grass” won a 1961 Oscar

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William Inge

185
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1200–“Good Morning Starshine” & “Easy To Be Hard”

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Hair

186
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1600–“Whatever Lola Wants” & “Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO”

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Damn Yankees

187
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS–2000–“Light My Candle” & “La Vie Boheme”

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Rent

188
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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–400–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue accompanied by a puppet at the Golden Theatre in New York: “I’m on the Broadway set of Avenue Q.”) This troubled character in “Avenue Q” has the same name as an Ivy League university in New Jerse

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Princeton

189
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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–800–Harvey Fierstein milked the role of Tevye in a revival of this classic musical

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Fiddler on the Roof

190
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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–1200–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue suspended in a bubble in front of a giant clock in the Gershwin Theatre in New York.) In the hit musical “Wicked”, this beautiful resident of Oz floats in high above the set

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Glinda (the Good Witch)

191
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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–1600–Yes, “Sir”: Robert Goulet played him in “Camelot” & Hank Azaria played him in “Spamalot”

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Sir Lancelot

192
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CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–2000–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Cheryl of the Clue Crew gives the clue from inside a giant tree in the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York.) I’m here in the tree of this character, who’s a male baboon in the movie & played by a female here on Broadway

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Rafiki

193
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–The 1991 Tony Award for best play went to Neil Simon’s “Lost In” this city

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Yonkers

194
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–It was Edward Albee’s first full-length play, & his most famous

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

195
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In an absurdist play by Ionesco, the inhabitants of a small town are transformed into these animals

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rhinoceroses

196
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–800–His play “Bus Stop” was revived on Broadway in 1996

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William Inge

197
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–He described his “Miss Julie” as the first naturalistic play in Scandinavian literature

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August Strindberg

198
Q

PLAYS–200–This musical opens as Miguel de Cervantes is thrown into a dungeon for crimes against the church

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‘Man of La Mancha’

199
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PLAYS–400–When this play premiered on Broadway in 1963, Joan Tetzel played the role of Nurse Ratched

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‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’

200
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PLAYS–600–Rostand play in which Roxane says, “I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love”

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‘Cyrano de Bergerac’

201
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PLAYS–800–This Eugene O’ Neill trilogy consists of “Homecoming”, “The Hunted” & “The Haunted”

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‘Mourning Becomes Electra’

202
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PLAYS–1000–Later a movie, this play starring Judy Holliday was the first written by Garson Kanin

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‘Born Yesterday’

203
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ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Jeff Daniels wrote “Escanaba in da Moonlight”, a “super Yooper comedy” set on this state’s Upper Peninsula

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Michigan

204
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ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–In 2004 he won an Oscar for “Mystic River” & appeared off-Broadway in his own play “Embedded”

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Tim Robbins

205
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ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–600–This Englishwoman called her “Shakespeare for My Father” a play about her father (Sir Michael) & her search for him

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Lynn Redgrave

206
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ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Her husband Jerry Stiller made a video appearance in her 1999 comedy “Down the Garden Paths”

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Anne Meara

207
Q

ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–In 2004 this author of “True West” returned to the stage, acting in “A Number”, a play about human cloning

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Sam Shepard

208
Q

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–0–This play says “Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at–Elysian Fields!”

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A Streetcar Named Desire

209
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–400–This 2005 Nobel Laureate’s 1st wife, Vivien Merchant, appeared in many of his plays, including “The Homecoming”

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Pinter

210
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PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–800–He co-starred in his own play “Private Lives” with Gertrude Lawrence, a close friend of his since his youth

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Noel Coward

211
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PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–2000–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Edward Albee reads the clue.) I once hoped that this woman would star in the film version of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; her famous line “What a dump!” is quoted in my play

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Bette Davis

212
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–1600–Lily Rabe, who appeared in the 2005 revival of “Steel Magnolias”, is the daughter of Jill Clayburgh & this playwright

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David Rabe

213
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–2000–Frances Farmer had a disastrous affair with this playwright while appearing on Broadway in his play “Golden Boy”

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Clifford Odets

214
Q

PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–100–He’s the popular multiple Tony Award-winning playwright seen here

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Neil Simon

215
Q

PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–200–This scandalous wit and playwright seen here died in Paris in 1900.

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Oscar Wilde

216
Q

PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–300–The works of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south

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Tennessee Williams

217
Q

PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Called the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare, this Irish-born author wrote 50 stage plays

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (George Bernard) Shaw

218
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PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–500–This absurdist playwright left them waiting for him at the 1969 Nobel Prize ceremony

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Samuel) Beckett

219
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–More than once, Thornton Wilder played the stage manager in a presentation of this, his most popular drama

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‘Our Town’

220
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–In 1985 this playwright’s “Requiem For A Heavyweight” came to Broadway starring John Lithgow

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Rod Serling

221
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In “A Streetcar Named Desire”, she’s Stanley Kowalski’s sister-in-law

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Blanche DuBois

222
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In 1948 he had 3 plays on Broadway: “John Bull’s Other Island”, “You Never Can Tell” & “Man & Superman”

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George Bernard Shaw

223
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Frank Langella starred in a 1996 revival of this Swedish playwright’s 1887 drama “The Father”

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August Strindberg

224
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Guinness calls Gogol’s play “The Inspector General” this country’s greatest early comedy

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Russia

225
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Dr. Heidi Holland is the title character in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Wendy Wasserstein

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The Heidi Chronicles

226
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Jean Kerr, who wrote the play “Mary, Mary”, is the wife of this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic

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Walter Kerr

227
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–2000–His first play, “Tamburlaine the Great”, opened in 1587, just 6 years before he was killed

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Christopher) Marlowe

228
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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–An actor as well as an author, he played the role of Orgon in his own “Tartuffe”

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Molière

229
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CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS–0–This Englishwoman’s name comes from the French for “badly suited to the purpose”

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Mrs. Malaprop

230
Q

PLAYS–200–Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett won a Pulitzer Prize for their adaptation of this girl’s diary

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Anne Frank

231
Q

PLAYS–400–His “Brighton Beach Memoirs” & “Biloxi Blues” are autobiographical

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Neil Simon

232
Q

PLAYS–600–“The Gladiator”, an 1831 play by Robert Montgomery Bird, was based on the life of this Roman slave

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Spartacus

233
Q

PLAYS–1500–Nora Helmer is the heroine of this Ibsen play

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‘A Doll’s House’

234
Q

PLAYS–1000–An eccentric young man takes up with a woman nearing 80 in this off-beat comedy based on a film

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‘Harold

235
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–200–Marsha Mason met him after she auditioned for his play “The Good Doctor” & later married him

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Neil Simon

236
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–400–He’s the father of Jessica Lange’s children Hannah & Samuel

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Sam Shepard

237
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–600–In 1949 she starred in “The Smile Of The World”, a play written by her husband Garson Kanin

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Ruth Gordon

238
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–800–We hope his third wife, actress Carlotta Monterey, never called him a “hairy ape”

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Eugene O’Neill

239
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–1000–In the late 1800s Victorien Sardou not only wrote but directed plays for this great French actress

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Sarah Bernhardt

240
Q

MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–100–“Leonine Monarch”

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The Lion King

241
Q

MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–200–“The Windy City”

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Chicago

242
Q

MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–300–“Specter Lurking in a Certain Paris Theatre”

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Phantom of the Opera

243
Q

MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–400–“Ta-Ta Conrad”

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Bye Bye Birdie

244
Q

MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–500–“Cohan!”

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George M!

245
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–John Galsworthy refused this honor in 1918, so we don’t have to call him Sir John

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the knighthood

246
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–John Fletcher wrote “The Wild Goose Chase” & this Norwegian wrote “The Wild Duck”

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Ibsen

247
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–George Bernard Shaw’s play “The Devil’s Disciple” takes place in America during this 18th century war

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the American Revolution

248
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Turgenev wrote a play called “A Month in” this place — how bucolic

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the Country

249
Q

PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–The N.Y. Drama Critics Circle gave its 1991 Best Play prize to John Guare’s play “Six Degrees of” this

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Separation

250
Q

KILLER MUSICALS–200–The musical about this “Two-Faced” London killer is so popular it has its own website

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

251
Q

KILLER MUSICALS–800–Fairy tale characters meet dire fates in this Stephen Sondheim musical; how “Grimm”!

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Into the Woods

252
Q

KILLER MUSICALS–1000–Velma & her fellow murderesses sing the “Cell Block Tango” in this Bob Fosse musical

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Chicago

253
Q

MUSICALS–200–The songs “Circle of Life” & “Hakuna Matata” frame the first act of this show

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‘The Lion King’

254
Q

MUSICALS–400–This 1977 film was the basis for a 1998 London musical starring Adam Garcia as Tony Manero

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‘Saturday Night Fever’

255
Q

MUSICALS–500–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):”INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Hi, I’m Carol Burnett) I made my Broadway debut in this musical based on a fairytale”

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‘Once Upon A Mattress’

256
Q

MUSICALS–800–“Man of La Mancha” begins with this author arriving at a Spanish prison

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Cervantes

257
Q

MUSICALS–1000–In 1998 this “colorful” costume musical based on Baroness Orczy’s novel received 3 Tony nominations

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‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’

258
Q

BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–New York Magazine called it “Everyone’s favorite orphan musical”

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Annie

259
Q

BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–Natasha Richardson sallied forth as Sally Bowles in the 1998 revival of this musical

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Cabaret

260
Q

BROADWAY MUSICALS–600–In 1992 Adam Arkin of “Chicago Hope” took over the role of Nathan Detroit in this musical revival

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Guys and Dolls

261
Q

BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Hi, I’m Jason Alexander.) In 1984 I played several roles in “The Rink”, which starred Liza Minnelli & this Broadway “spider woman”

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Chita Rivera

262
Q

BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–“Cats” is based on this book with a much longer title

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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

263
Q

ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–20 years before “Murphy Brown”, her play “The Freezer” was named one of “the Best Short Plays of 1968”

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Candice Bergen

264
Q

ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Jason Miller wrote & starred in a 1997 play about this actor nicknamed “The Great Profile”

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John Barrymore

265
Q

ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–600–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Hi. I’m Paula Cale of Providence.) I originated the role of Suzanne in the play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”, written by this “wild & crazy guy”

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Steve Martin

266
Q

ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Now best remembered as a playwright, in his day he was famous for playing the ghost of Hamlet’s father

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (himself) William Shakespeare

267
Q

ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–This British actress seen here based the heroine of her play “The Mandrake Root” on her mother, Rachel Kempson

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Lynn Redgrave

268
Q

PLAYS–0– set in the late 17th C., this play takes place about 16 miles northeast of where we are right now

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The Crucible (by Arthur Miller)

269
Q

NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Gore Vidal’s play about this president opened & closed a few weeks before the Watergate break-in

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Richard Nixon

270
Q

NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He had a play on Broadway called “The Traitor” in 1949, 2 years before his novel “The Caine Mutiny” appeared

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Herman Wouk

271
Q

NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In 1908 this “Of Human Bondage” author had 4 of his plays running in London at the same time

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Somerset Maugham

272
Q

NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–800–His first play, “The Silver Box”, premiered in 1906, the same year he published Book I of “The Forsyte Saga”

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John Galsworthy

273
Q

NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–This play by Agatha Christie that opened in 1952 is still running; they’ll never build a better one

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The Mousetrap

274
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He wrote “Long Day’s Journey into Night” in 1941, but it wasn’t performed until 1956, 3 years after his death

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O’Neill

275
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PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Although he was Irish-born, most of his works after WWII, including “Waiting for Godot”, were written in French

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Beckett

276
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS–1200–This “Betrayal” dramatist adapted John Fowles’ novel “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” for the screen

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Harold Pinter

277
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS–1600–During most of WWII, this German playwright resided in the U.S.; he left in 1947 & formed the Berliner Ensemble in 1949

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Bertolt Brecht

278
Q

PLAYWRIGHTS–2000–In 1935 this dramatist stopped “Waiting for Lefty” & in 1937 he married actress Luise Rainer

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Clifford Odets

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