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Emily Webb

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Our Town

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Stage Manager

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Our Town

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George Gibbs

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Our Town

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Simon Stimson

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Our Town

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Wally Webb

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Our Town

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Howie Newsome

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Our Town

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Marries George

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Emily Webb

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Dies in childbirth

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Emily Webb

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Relives her 12th birthday

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Emily Webb

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High school baseball star

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George Gibbs

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Went to State Agricultural School

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George Gibbs

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Takes over his Uncle Luke’s farm

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George Gibbs

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Alcoholic choir director

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Simon Stimson

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Hangs himself in his attic

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Simon Stimson

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Emily’s brother

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Wally Webb

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Dead soul, died of appendicitis on a Boy Scout trip

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Wally Webb

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Milkman, has no horse or bottles, appears every morning

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Howie Newsom

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Time capsule is placed in bank in Grover’s Corners

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Our Town

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The time capsule from Our Town contains…

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The Sentinel newspaper and Constitution

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A letter to Jane Crofut from her minister has an address that includes “the universe” and “the mind of God”

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Our Town

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Professor Willard says townspeople are “English brachiocephalic blue-eyed stock”

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Our Town

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Choir sings “Blessed Be the Tie that Binds” in every act

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Our Town

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George’s father Dr. Gibbs takes biannual vacations to Civil War battlefields

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Paperboy Joe is valedictorian of his MIT class and dies in WWI

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Emily says she can’t study because the moonlight is “terrible” but later says it is “wonderful”
Our Town
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Our Town
Thornton Wilder
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Wally and Mrs. Soames can be heard among the last act’s dead souls
Our Town
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In a loveless, childless marriage with Brick
Maggie Pollitt
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An alcoholic favorite son of Big Daddy
Brick Pollitt
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Considered as “only son” by Big Mama
Brick Pollitt
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Patriarch with terminal cancer
Big Daddy
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Falsely diagnosed by Oschner Clinic with “spastic colon”
Big Daddy
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Has sister named Sally
Big Daddy
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Favorite word is “crap”
Big Daddy
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Big Daddy’s other son
Gooper Pollitt
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A successful corporate lawyer, scheming for estate
Gooper Pollitt
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Married to Gooper with five children and another on the way
Mae Pollitt
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Dead at start of play
Skipper
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Brick’s best friend (relationship so clean that “death was the only icebox where you could keep it”)
Skipper
40
Implied homosexual
Skipper
41
Maggie Pollitt
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Brick Politt
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Daddy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Gooper Pollitt
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Mae Pollitt
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Skipper
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
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Brick sprains his ankle jumping hurdles
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Mama says she loves Big Daddy, he replies “Wouldn’t it be nice if that were true?”
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Brick is disgusted with the world’s “mendacity,” drinks until he hears a “click"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Daddy went to Europe, calls it a “great big auction”
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Daddy tells a joke about a family seeing aroused elephants at a zoo
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Kids throw hot biscuits and interrupt arguments with guns and sparklers
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Daddy claims to have been to “death’s country” and takes morphine
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
55
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
Albee
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A Delicate Balence
Albee

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