Plays, Playwrights, Musicals Flashcards
MOVIE MUSICALS–400–This 2002 flick earned Oscar nominations for Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger & Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chicago
MOVIE MUSICALS–800–“Hello, Gorgeous!” was Barbra Streisand’s first line in this musical, her first film
Funny Girl
MOVIE MUSICALS–1200–Donald O’Connor “made ‘em laugh” in one of this 1952 movie’s most famous numbers
Singin’ in the Rain
MOVIE MUSICALS–1600–In this musical Western, Clint Eastwood sings “I Still See Elisa” & “I Talk To The Trees”
Paint Your Wagon
MOVIE MUSICALS–2000–In 1967 Tommy Steele starred in back-to-back musicals: “The Happiest Millionaire” & this “monetary” one
Half a Sixpence
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–200–“Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun”
Annie
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–400–“Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle ‘em”
Chicago
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–600–“I dreamed I met a Galilean, a most amazing man”
Jesus Christ Superstar
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–800–“A lady doesn’t wander all over the room and blow on some other guy’s dice”
Guys and Dolls
LYRICS FROM MUSICALS–1000–“That carriage ride–You walked me home–You lost a glove–I lost a comb”
Gigi
BROADWAY MUSICALS–0– Fontanne’s backstage bickering during a Shakespeare play
Kiss Me, Kate
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–400–Frank D. Gilroy:”The Subject Was…”
Roses
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–800–Paul Zindel:”The Effect of Gamma Rays on…”
Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–1200–John Patrick:”The Teahouse…”
of the August Moon
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–1600–William Inge:
Picnic
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–2000–Marsha Norman:”‘Night,…”
Mother
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–400–Anne,Helen,Captain Keller
The Miracle Worker
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–800–Joseph II,Salieri,Mozart
Amadeus
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–1200–Gremio,Petruchio,Katharina
The Taming of the Shrew
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–1600–Prologus,Senex,Pseudolus
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
PLAYS BY CHARACTER–2000–Vladimir,Estragon,Lucky,Pozzo
Waiting for Godot
PLAYWRIGHTS–0– social hypocrisy
Henrik Ibsen
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–As a young congressman, LBJ escorted this author of “Pygmalion” around Texas
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–His “Volpone” played at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in 1605
Ben Jonson
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–This playwright and actor portrayed Colonel Chuck Yeager, not Alan Shepard, in “The Right Stuff”
Sam Shepard
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–17-year-old usher Sheila Delaney got a taste for theatre and went home one night to start this play
A Taste of Honey
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Oliver Goldsmith thrashed a publisher whose paper attacked this, his last play
She Stoops to Conquer
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Marsha Mason starred in his comedy “The Good Doctor”, based on stories by Chekhov
Neil Simon
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–His first two produced plays were “The Zoo Story” and “The Death of Bessie Smith”
Edward Albee
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Francis Beaumont began his famous collaboration with this man around 1608
John Fletcher
PLAYWRIGHTS–1400–In 1952 she told the HUAC, “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions”
Lillian Hellman
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–After writing “The School for Scandal”, he became an M.P. and an advisor to the future King George IV
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS–0–1 of 3 women who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the 1980s
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (1 of) Beth Henley (for Crimes of the Heart);
PLAYS–100–In titles of plays, these 2 words precede “Lefty” & “Godot”
‘Waiting For’
PLAYS–200–This Ibsen drama about a femme fatale unfolds in the Tesmans’ fashionable villa
‘Hedda Gabler’
PLAYS–300–Jean Giraudoux’s play about “The Madwoman of” this place wasn’t performed until after his death
Chaillot
PLAYS–400–This 1928 Ben Hecht - Chas. MacArthur play influenced the public’s conception of newspapermen
‘The Front Page’
PLAYS–500–In Italy this Pirandello play is known as “Sei Personaggi in Cerca D’ Autore”
‘Six Characters in Search of an Author’
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–400–“If I Were A Rich Man”
Fiddler on the Roof
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–800–“When You’re Good To Mama”
Chicago
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1200–“Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”
Movin’ Out
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1600–“Kansas City” (where “ev’rythin’s up to date”)
Oklahoma!
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–2000–“Wand’rin’ Star”
Paint Your Wagon
PLAYS–400–In a Shakespeare play, Mamillius says, “A sad tale’s best for” this season
winter
PLAYS–800–The existential statment “Hell is other people” comes from this play
No Exit
PLAYS–1200–Besides “Cyrano de Bergerac”, his best-remembered play is the patriotic tragedy “The Eaglet”
Edmond Rostand
PLAYS–1600–1949 play character who says, “Charley is… liked, but he’s not–well liked”
Willy Loman
PLAYS–1000–As the title implies, this play features an important arrival, that of Hickey in the saloon
The Iceman Cometh
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–200–Shaw character who thinks she’s descended from a sacred cat and that her blood is made with Nile water
Cleopatra
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–400–The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title “miss” is “absolutely wild!”
‘Miss Julie’
PLAYS–100–First performed in the 1550s, “Ralph Roister Doister” is the first known comedy in this language
English
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–600–In Euripides’ tragedy, Jason’s new wife is burned alive by a wedding gift from this woman
Medea
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–800–Violet Venable’s son, who never appears in the play “Suddenly Last Summer” because he’s been eaten
Sebastian (Venable)
PLAYS–200–“Little Johnny Jones” was the first play he wrote expressly for Broadway, not for Vaudeville
George M. Cohan
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS–1000–At the end of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” he realizes that George and Martha’s son is imaginary
Nick
PLAYS–300–Chekhov play that opens with Andrei Prozorov’s siblings talking about going to Moscow
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (
PLAYS–400–Richard Chamberlain and Mary Tyler Moore starred in a 1966 musical flop based on this Truman Capote story
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
PLAYS–500–He was almost 90 when he wrote one of his greatest plays, “Oedipus at Colonus”
Sophocles
BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–In this show, the hero sells his soul to the devil so the Washington Senators can win the Pennant
Damn Yankees
BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–“1776” climaxes with this historical event
the signing of the Declaration of Independence
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…”
Show Boat
BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–In April 1988, Phylicia Rashad took over Bernadette Peters’ role as the witch in this Stephen Sondheim musical
Into the Woods
BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–Bonnie Franklin sang the title song in this 1970 musical starring Lauren Bacall
Applause
PLAYS–100–In a 1964 play the Marquis de Sade and other madmen re-enact the 1793 bathtub murder of this Frenchman
Marat
PLAYS–200–“Teahouse” is a 1957 Chinese play, and this is the longer title of a 1953 work set in Japan
‘Teahouse of the August Moon’
PLAYS–500–This 1938 play depicts the romance & marriage of George Gibbs & Emily Webb
‘Our Town’
PLAYS–400–Editor Walter Burns schemes to hold on to reporter Hildy Johnson in this 1928 farce
‘The Front Page’
PLAYS–500–In Irish writer Hugh Leonard’s 1973 play, the hero refers to his father by this two-letter title
‘Da!’
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–200–If this Brit’s family had kept their original name, Da Pinta, his plays would be described as “Da Pintaesque”
Harold Pinter
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–400–This Czech writer of “R.U.R.” wrote “The Insect Comedy” with his brother Josef
Karel Capek
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Racine wrote a racy tragedy about Phaedra, a daughter of this king of Crete
Minos
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–800–This Irishman’s 1926 play “The Plough and the Stars” was so controversial it provoked riots
Sean O’Casey
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–He was resident playwright at the National Theatre in Bergen when he wrote “The Feast at Solhaug”
Henrik Ibsen
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…”
The Man of La Mancha
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–800–Cunegonde,Dr. Pangloss,Voltaire
Candide
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–1000–Richard Henry Lee, Martha Jefferson, John Hancock
1776
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–200–He hadn’t moved to Mayberry yet when he played the Jimmy Stewart role in the 1959 musical “Destry Rides Again”
Andy Griffith
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–400–Critics didn’t “fawn” over the musical based on this Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings novel, so yes, deer, it flopped
‘The Yearling’
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–600–Exiting after only 19 performances, “Ari” wasn’t based on Onassis, but on this Leon Uris novel
‘Exodus’
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–2000–“Grovers Corners” musicalized this prize-winning play
‘Our Town’
FORGOTTEN MUSICALS–1000–Even Lillian Gish as the Dowager Empress couldn’t save “Anya”, a musical based on this play
‘Anastasia’
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He never forgave Mrs. Patrick Campbell for going off on her honeymoon while rehearsing his “Pygmalion”
Shaw
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–800–As a student at Brown University, this actress appeared in a play written by her father, Romulus Linney
Laura Linney
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–5000–Chapter one of her life with Neil Simon began in 1973, when she was cast in his play “The Good Doctor”
Marsha Mason
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–1600–Appropriately, his wife Armande Bejart made her stage debut in his 1662 play “The School for Wives”
Molière
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS–2000–This author of the play “Purlie Victorious” co-starred in it on Broadway with his wife, Ruby Dee
Ossie Davis
PLAYS–0– a 1964 movie musical
Pygmalion
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
Saint Joan
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–400–The 1924 musical revue “I’ll Say She Is” made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars
the Marx Brothers
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–800–In a 1927 title, this phrase preceded “Bonnie” (it didn’t precede “Birdie” until 1960)
Bye Bye
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–1200–The big attraction of the 1923 hit “Poppy” was this future film comic as Eustace McGargle
W.C. Fields
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–1600–The saucy 1928 musical “Paris” introduced this composer’s immortal song “Let’s Do It”
Cole Porter
MUSICALS OF THE ’20s–2000–As a servant in the musical “Bombo”, he sang “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!” & “California, Here I Come”
Al Jolson
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–100–She based her 1945 play “Appointment With Death” on her mystery novel of the same name
Agatha Christie
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–This “In Cold Blood” author’s 1952 play “The Grass Harp” concerns a woman who lives in a tree
Truman Capote
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–300–Joyce Carol Oates took a sabbatical from this New Jersey university to work on her play “The Gulf War”
Princeton
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–This “Firing Line” host adapted his own espionage novel “Stained Glass” as a play; it premiered in 1989
William F. Buckley
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–500–Rip Torn & Marsha Mason starred in this author’s stage adaptation of his own novel “The Deer Park”
Norman Mailer
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–400–In this show, Tony Manero is headed for the disco when he discovers–Oh, no! A cold sore!!
Saturday Night Fever Blister
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–800–ABBA’s rockin’ musical about the very maternal star of “Rosemary’s Baby”
Mamma Mia! Farrow
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–1200–Mrs. Levi dumps matchmaking & busts out as a voluptuous country singer in this blockbuster
Hello, Dolly! Parton
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
Funny Girl Scout
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER–2000–A Siamese monarch & a governess team up for this ungrammatical salute to the play that inspired “Cabaret”
The King and I Am a Camera
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–200–He claimed he was in love with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and wrote the role of Eliza Doolittle for her
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–400–Olga Knipper played Masha in his play “The Three Sisters” in 1901 and married him the same year
Anton Chekhov
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–600–The 1st actress to play the role of Elmire in “Tartuffe” was his wife, Armande Bejart
Moliere
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–800–In 1937 he wrote the play “Golden Boy” and married that year’s Oscar winner, Luise Ranier
Clifford Odets
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–1000–Mary Eure, this playwright’s 2nd wife, was in the original cast of his play “Look Back In Anger”
John Osborne
BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–Rex Harrison’s “Fair Lady” and Burton’s Guinevere
Julie Andrews
BROADWAY MUSICALS–300–In 1967, Broadway said “hello” to this 1st black “Dolly”
Pearl Bailey
BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–1931’s “The Band Wagon” was the last time this brother & sister shared the dancing spotlight
the Astaires
BROADWAY MUSICALS–500–Musical in which Lester Billis was Nellie Forbush’s “honey bun”
South Pacific
PLAYWRIGHTS–0–1994
Edward Albee
PLAYWRIGHTS–0– yes, a gun does go off by the end
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Anton) Chekhov
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–“Blood Wedding” author Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by nationalists in this country in 1936
Spain
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–A freed slave named Terence was one of the greatest comic playwrights of this ancient civilization
Rome
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–His bawdy 16th century play “The Mandrake” displays the cynicism he showed in “The Prince”
Niccolo Machiavelli
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–This Irishman who worked for the IRA as a courier wrote about the IRA in “The Hostage”
Brendan Behan
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Swedish playwright whose last marriage inspired him to write “The Dance of Death”
August Strindberg
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain:”HALO AMOK!”
Oklahoma!
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–It was one singular sensation:”SHUN CALORIE”
A Chorus Line
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–600–Zero was my hero in this:”INFERRED FOOT HOLD”
Fiddler on the Roof
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–The Sky (Masterson) was the limit:”GLAD SUDS ONLY”
Guys and Dolls
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–Sondheim said que Seurat, Seurat:”EDGE PRAISEWORTHY GIANT HUNK”
Sunday in the Park with George
PLAYS–0–The title of a Sean O’Casey play refers to these symbols on the flag of the Irish Citizen Army
The Plough and the Stars
PLAYS–200–Their 1st 3 Broadway plays were “I’ll Say She Is’, “The Cocoanuts” & “Animal Crackers”
The Marx Brothers
PLAYS–400–This title character’s partner-in-crime was Mrs. Lovett, who baked & sold meat pies
Sweeney Todd
PLAYS–600–A very short-run play in 1963, written by D. Starkweather, was titled “So Who’s Afraid Of” this playwright
Edward Albee
PLAYS–2000–1953 Arthur Miller play inspired by the atmosphere of McCarthyism in the early 1950s
‘The Crucible’
PLAYS–1000–He wrote “Amadeus” & his twin brother, Anthony, wrote “Sleuth”
Peter Schaffer
BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–Dogpatch is almost hit by an atom bomb in this 1956 musical
Li’l Abner
BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–In 1952 Cloris Leachman briefly starred as Ensign Nellie Forbush in this musical
South Pacific
BROADWAY MUSICALS–600–The musical revue “Five Guys Named” this was inspired by jazzman Louis Jordan, not by the 3 Stooges
Moe
BROADWAY MUSICALS–800–“Un Violon sur le Toit” was a French version of this Broadway smash
Fiddler on the Roof
BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–Michael J. Pollard played teenager Hugo Peabody in this musical about a rock star who gets drafted
Bye Bye Birdie
BROADWAY MUSICALS–0–“No matter how hopeless, no matter how far, to fight for the right without question” is from this show
Man of La Mancha
AMERICAN PLAYS–200–“I’m Not Rappaport” takes place on a battered bench near the lake in this famous park
Central Park
AMERICAN PLAYS–800–The play in which Amanda says, “I want you to stay fresh and pretty – for gentleman callers.”
‘The Glass Menagerie’
AMERICAN PLAYS–600–Lee Strasberg played the original peddler in this 1931 play which inspired “Oklahoma!”
‘Green Grow The Lilacs’
AMERICAN PLAYS–800–This playwright dedicated “A Delicate Balance” to J. Steinbeck with “affection and admiration”
Edward Albee
AMERICAN PLAYS–1000–He revised his 1st play, “Farther Off From Heaven”, & retitled it “The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs”
William Inge
MUSICALS–200–This title character’s last name is McLonergan, not Rainbow
Finian
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…”
‘Damn Yankees!’
MUSICALS–600–This show opens with a Ziegfeld star waiting for her husband to be released from prison
‘Funny Girl’
PLAYS–200–The title of a 1924 Maxwell Anderson play asked “What Price” this
Glory
MUSICALS–800–Mrs. Ray Bolger co-produced this 1948 Ray Bolger musical based on “Charley’s Aunt”
‘Where’s Charley?’
MUSICALS–1000–This show features a concubine from Burma named Tuptim
‘The King And I’
PLAYS–400–His last play was “The Condemned of Altona”, though “No Exit” might have been more appropriate
Jean-Paul Sartre
PLAYS–600–This letter is missing from the title of Lanford Wilson’s play about the Hotel Baltimore
E
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–In 1899 he reinterpreted the story of Caesar & Cleopatra using modern allusions
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYS–800–This David Hwang play was inspired by the romance between a Peking opera star & a diplomat
M. Butterfly
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–The 1961 comedy “Come Blow Your Horn” was his 1st Broadway play
Neil Simon
MOVIE MUSICALS–100–As the master of ceremonies, this actor was the only one to reprise his stage role in 1972’s “Cabaret”
Joel Grey
MOVIE MUSICALS–200–Actor who sang “If I Only Had The Nerve” & “If I Were King Of The Forest” in “The Wizard Of Oz”
Bert Lahr
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–She married fellow playwright Arthur Kober but never tied the knot with Dashiell Hammett
Lillian Hellmann
MOVIE MUSICALS–500–The only Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire film for which these 2 brothers wrote songs was 1937’s “Shall We Dance”
George
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–His play “Winterset” is based on the case of Sacco & Vanzetti
Maxwell Anderson
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Centenarian playwright known for the musicals “The Pajama Game” & “Fiorello!”
George Abbott
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–First name shared by playwrights Fry, Durang & Marlowe
Christopher
PLAYS–1000–After he wrote “The School For Husbands”, he caused a major scandal with “The School For Wives”
Moliere
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
Shelly Fabares
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Brecht served in a German army hospital during this war, but never as a surgeon as he claimed
World War I
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In the 1950s he was the first of the British playwrights known as “Angry Young Men”
John Osborne (‘Look Back In Anger’)
MOVIE MUSICALS–500–This Russian composer was portrayed by Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1947’s “Song Of Scheherazade”
Rimsky-Korsakov
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–This “Endgame” author was a friend of James Joyce but, contrary to rumor, was not his secretary
Samuel Beckett
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–His last play, “What The Butler Saw”, was produced in 1969, 2 years after he was killed
Joe Orton
PLAYWRIGHTS–0– he never wrote another
Oscar Wilde (“The Importance of Being Earnest”)
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–He wrote the dialogue for “Oklahoma!”, “Carousel” & “The King & I”, as well as the lyrics
Oscar Hammerstein
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–First name shared by playwrights Webster, Dryden & Singe
John
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–“Catty” poet whose 1949 play “The Cocktail Party” is based on an ancient Greek play by Euripides
T.S. Eliot
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–He co-wrote the stage version of his novel “Native Son” with Paul Green
Richard Wright
PLAYWRIGHTS–5000–His lesser-known plays include “Fools”, “God’s Favorite” & “The Gingerbread Lady”
Neil Simon
PLAYS–200–In the title of a play by Robert Anderson, it’s paired with “sympathy”
Tea
PLAYS–400–In “Painting Churches”, the churches aren’t buildings but these
People
PLAYS–600–Anita Loos wrote the non-musical stage adaptation of this Colette novel
‘Gigi’
PLAYS–800–“Dial ‘M’ For Murder” takes place in the living room of an apartment in this foreign capital
London
PLAYS–1000–“Regina” was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play
‘The Little Foxes’
PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Discharged from the military in 1946, this “Odd Couple” author worked in the Warner Bros. mailroom
Neil Simon
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He claimed his comic masterpiece “Pygmalion” was a didactic play about phonetics
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYWRIGHTS–600–After this Czech denounced the Soviet invasion of his country in 1968, his plays were banned
Vaclav Havel
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–400–“As Long As He Needs Me” & “You’ve Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two”
Oliver!
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–800–“Sadie, Sadie” & “I’m The Greatest Star”
Funny Girl
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Although his 1975 play “Seascape” had only a brief Broadway run, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Edward Albee
PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–This “Picnic” playwright’s screenplay for “Splendor In The Grass” won a 1961 Oscar
William Inge
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1200–“Good Morning Starshine” & “Easy To Be Hard”
Hair
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–1600–“Whatever Lola Wants” & “Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO”
Damn Yankees
SONGS FROM MUSICALS–2000–“Light My Candle” & “La Vie Boheme”
Rent
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
Princeton
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–800–Harvey Fierstein milked the role of Tevye in a revival of this classic musical
Fiddler on the Roof
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
Glinda (the Good Witch)
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS–1600–Yes, “Sir”: Robert Goulet played him in “Camelot” & Hank Azaria played him in “Spamalot”
Sir Lancelot
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
Rafiki
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–The 1991 Tony Award for best play went to Neil Simon’s “Lost In” this city
Yonkers
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–It was Edward Albee’s first full-length play, & his most famous
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In an absurdist play by Ionesco, the inhabitants of a small town are transformed into these animals
rhinoceroses
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–800–His play “Bus Stop” was revived on Broadway in 1996
William Inge
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–He described his “Miss Julie” as the first naturalistic play in Scandinavian literature
August Strindberg
PLAYS–200–This musical opens as Miguel de Cervantes is thrown into a dungeon for crimes against the church
‘Man of La Mancha’
PLAYS–400–When this play premiered on Broadway in 1963, Joan Tetzel played the role of Nurse Ratched
‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
PLAYS–600–Rostand play in which Roxane says, “I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love”
‘Cyrano de Bergerac’
PLAYS–800–This Eugene O’ Neill trilogy consists of “Homecoming”, “The Hunted” & “The Haunted”
‘Mourning Becomes Electra’
PLAYS–1000–Later a movie, this play starring Judy Holliday was the first written by Garson Kanin
‘Born Yesterday’
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Jeff Daniels wrote “Escanaba in da Moonlight”, a “super Yooper comedy” set on this state’s Upper Peninsula
Michigan
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–In 2004 he won an Oscar for “Mystic River” & appeared off-Broadway in his own play “Embedded”
Tim Robbins
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–600–This Englishwoman called her “Shakespeare for My Father” a play about her father (Sir Michael) & her search for him
Lynn Redgrave
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Her husband Jerry Stiller made a video appearance in her 1999 comedy “Down the Garden Paths”
Anne Meara
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–In 2004 this author of “True West” returned to the stage, acting in “A Number”, a play about human cloning
Sam Shepard
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS–0–This play says “Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at–Elysian Fields!”
A Streetcar Named Desire
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–400–This 2005 Nobel Laureate’s 1st wife, Vivien Merchant, appeared in many of his plays, including “The Homecoming”
Pinter
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–800–He co-starred in his own play “Private Lives” with Gertrude Lawrence, a close friend of his since his youth
Noel Coward
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
Bette Davis
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–1600–Lily Rabe, who appeared in the 2005 revival of “Steel Magnolias”, is the daughter of Jill Clayburgh & this playwright
David Rabe
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–2000–Frances Farmer had a disastrous affair with this playwright while appearing on Broadway in his play “Golden Boy”
Clifford Odets
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–100–He’s the popular multiple Tony Award-winning playwright seen here
Neil Simon
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–200–This scandalous wit and playwright seen here died in Paris in 1900.
Oscar Wilde
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–300–The works of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south
Tennessee Williams
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Called the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare, this Irish-born author wrote 50 stage plays
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (George Bernard) Shaw
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS–500–This absurdist playwright left them waiting for him at the 1969 Nobel Prize ceremony
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Samuel) Beckett
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–More than once, Thornton Wilder played the stage manager in a presentation of this, his most popular drama
‘Our Town’
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–In 1985 this playwright’s “Requiem For A Heavyweight” came to Broadway starring John Lithgow
Rod Serling
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In “A Streetcar Named Desire”, she’s Stanley Kowalski’s sister-in-law
Blanche DuBois
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In 1948 he had 3 plays on Broadway: “John Bull’s Other Island”, “You Never Can Tell” & “Man & Superman”
George Bernard Shaw
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–Frank Langella starred in a 1996 revival of this Swedish playwright’s 1887 drama “The Father”
August Strindberg
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Guinness calls Gogol’s play “The Inspector General” this country’s greatest early comedy
Russia
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Dr. Heidi Holland is the title character in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–Jean Kerr, who wrote the play “Mary, Mary”, is the wife of this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic
Walter Kerr
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–2000–His first play, “Tamburlaine the Great”, opened in 1587, just 6 years before he was killed
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Christopher) Marlowe
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–An actor as well as an author, he played the role of Orgon in his own “Tartuffe”
Molière
CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS–0–This Englishwoman’s name comes from the French for “badly suited to the purpose”
Mrs. Malaprop
PLAYS–200–Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett won a Pulitzer Prize for their adaptation of this girl’s diary
Anne Frank
PLAYS–400–His “Brighton Beach Memoirs” & “Biloxi Blues” are autobiographical
Neil Simon
PLAYS–600–“The Gladiator”, an 1831 play by Robert Montgomery Bird, was based on the life of this Roman slave
Spartacus
PLAYS–1500–Nora Helmer is the heroine of this Ibsen play
‘A Doll’s House’
PLAYS–1000–An eccentric young man takes up with a woman nearing 80 in this off-beat comedy based on a film
‘Harold
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–200–Marsha Mason met him after she auditioned for his play “The Good Doctor” & later married him
Neil Simon
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–400–He’s the father of Jessica Lange’s children Hannah & Samuel
Sam Shepard
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–600–In 1949 she starred in “The Smile Of The World”, a play written by her husband Garson Kanin
Ruth Gordon
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–800–We hope his third wife, actress Carlotta Monterey, never called him a “hairy ape”
Eugene O’Neill
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES–1000–In the late 1800s Victorien Sardou not only wrote but directed plays for this great French actress
Sarah Bernhardt
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–100–“Leonine Monarch”
The Lion King
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–200–“The Windy City”
Chicago
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–300–“Specter Lurking in a Certain Paris Theatre”
Phantom of the Opera
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–400–“Ta-Ta Conrad”
Bye Bye Birdie
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS–500–“Cohan!”
George M!
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–200–John Galsworthy refused this honor in 1918, so we don’t have to call him Sir John
the knighthood
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–400–John Fletcher wrote “The Wild Goose Chase” & this Norwegian wrote “The Wild Duck”
Ibsen
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–600–George Bernard Shaw’s play “The Devil’s Disciple” takes place in America during this 18th century war
the American Revolution
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Turgenev wrote a play called “A Month in” this place — how bucolic
the Country
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–The N.Y. Drama Critics Circle gave its 1991 Best Play prize to John Guare’s play “Six Degrees of” this
Separation
KILLER MUSICALS–200–The musical about this “Two-Faced” London killer is so popular it has its own website
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
KILLER MUSICALS–800–Fairy tale characters meet dire fates in this Stephen Sondheim musical; how “Grimm”!
Into the Woods
KILLER MUSICALS–1000–Velma & her fellow murderesses sing the “Cell Block Tango” in this Bob Fosse musical
Chicago
MUSICALS–200–The songs “Circle of Life” & “Hakuna Matata” frame the first act of this show
‘The Lion King’
MUSICALS–400–This 1977 film was the basis for a 1998 London musical starring Adam Garcia as Tony Manero
‘Saturday Night Fever’
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”
‘Once Upon A Mattress’
MUSICALS–800–“Man of La Mancha” begins with this author arriving at a Spanish prison
Cervantes
MUSICALS–1000–In 1998 this “colorful” costume musical based on Baroness Orczy’s novel received 3 Tony nominations
‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’
BROADWAY MUSICALS–200–New York Magazine called it “Everyone’s favorite orphan musical”
Annie
BROADWAY MUSICALS–400–Natasha Richardson sallied forth as Sally Bowles in the 1998 revival of this musical
Cabaret
BROADWAY MUSICALS–600–In 1992 Adam Arkin of “Chicago Hope” took over the role of Nathan Detroit in this musical revival
Guys and Dolls
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”
Chita Rivera
BROADWAY MUSICALS–1000–“Cats” is based on this book with a much longer title
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–20 years before “Murphy Brown”, her play “The Freezer” was named one of “the Best Short Plays of 1968”
Candice Bergen
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–Jason Miller wrote & starred in a 1997 play about this actor nicknamed “The Great Profile”
John Barrymore
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”
Steve Martin
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Now best remembered as a playwright, in his day he was famous for playing the ghost of Hamlet’s father
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (himself) William Shakespeare
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–This British actress seen here based the heroine of her play “The Mandrake Root” on her mother, Rachel Kempson
Lynn Redgrave
PLAYS–0– set in the late 17th C., this play takes place about 16 miles northeast of where we are right now
The Crucible (by Arthur Miller)
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–200–Gore Vidal’s play about this president opened & closed a few weeks before the Watergate break-in
Richard Nixon
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He had a play on Broadway called “The Traitor” in 1949, 2 years before his novel “The Caine Mutiny” appeared
Herman Wouk
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–600–In 1908 this “Of Human Bondage” author had 4 of his plays running in London at the same time
Somerset Maugham
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–800–His first play, “The Silver Box”, premiered in 1906, the same year he published Book I of “The Forsyte Saga”
John Galsworthy
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS–1000–This play by Agatha Christie that opened in 1952 is still running; they’ll never build a better one
The Mousetrap
PLAYWRIGHTS–400–He wrote “Long Day’s Journey into Night” in 1941, but it wasn’t performed until 1956, 3 years after his death
O’Neill
PLAYWRIGHTS–800–Although he was Irish-born, most of his works after WWII, including “Waiting for Godot”, were written in French
Beckett
PLAYWRIGHTS–1200–This “Betrayal” dramatist adapted John Fowles’ novel “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” for the screen
Harold Pinter
PLAYWRIGHTS–1600–During most of WWII, this German playwright resided in the U.S.; he left in 1947 & formed the Berliner Ensemble in 1949
Bertolt Brecht
PLAYWRIGHTS–2000–In 1935 this dramatist stopped “Waiting for Lefty” & in 1937 he married actress Luise Rainer
Clifford Odets
