Plays, Playwrights, Musicals Flashcards
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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"
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
A Taste of Honey
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PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--Oliver Goldsmith thrashed a publisher whose paper attacked this, his last play
She Stoops to Conquer
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PLAYWRIGHTS--200--Marsha Mason starred in his comedy "The Good Doctor", based on stories by Chekhov
Neil Simon
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PLAYWRIGHTS--400--His first two produced plays were "The Zoo Story" and "The Death of Bessie Smith"
Edward Albee
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PLAYWRIGHTS--600--Francis Beaumont began his famous collaboration with this man around 1608
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"
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
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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);
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PLAYS--100--In titles of plays, these 2 words precede "Lefty" & "Godot"
'Waiting For'
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PLAYS--200--This Ibsen drama about a femme fatale unfolds in the Tesmans' fashionable villa
'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
Chaillot
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PLAYS--400--This 1928 Ben Hecht - Chas. MacArthur play influenced the public's conception of newspapermen
'The Front Page'
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PLAYS--500--In Italy this Pirandello play is known as "Sei Personaggi in Cerca D' Autore"
'Six Characters in Search of an Author'
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS--400--"If I Were A Rich Man"
Fiddler on the Roof
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS--800--"When You're Good To Mama"
Chicago
41
SONGS FROM MUSICALS--1200--"Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"
Movin' Out
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SONGS FROM MUSICALS--1600--"Kansas City" (where "ev'rythin's up to date")
Oklahoma!
43
SONGS FROM MUSICALS--2000--"Wand'rin' Star"
Paint Your Wagon
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PLAYS--400--In a Shakespeare play, Mamillius says, "A sad tale's best for" this season
winter
45
PLAYS--800--The existential statment "Hell is other people" comes from this play
No Exit
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PLAYS--1200--Besides "Cyrano de Bergerac", his best-remembered play is the patriotic tragedy "The Eaglet"
Edmond Rostand
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PLAYS--1600--1949 play character who says, "Charley is... liked, but he's not--well liked"
Willy Loman
48
PLAYS--1000--As the title implies, this play features an important arrival, that of Hickey in the saloon
The Iceman Cometh
49
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
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CHARACTERS IN PLAYS--400--The first line of this Strindberg play tells us that the title "miss" is "absolutely wild!"
'Miss Julie'
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PLAYS--100--First performed in the 1550s, "Ralph Roister Doister" is the first known comedy in this language
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
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
Sebastian (Venable)
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PLAYS--200--"Little Johnny Jones" was the first play he wrote expressly for Broadway, not for Vaudeville
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
Nick
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PLAYS--300--Chekhov play that opens with Andrei Prozorov's siblings talking about going to Moscow
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
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"
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
Damn Yankees
60
BROADWAY MUSICALS--400--"1776" climaxes with this historical event
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..."
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
Into the Woods
63
BROADWAY MUSICALS--1000--Bonnie Franklin sang the title song in this 1970 musical starring Lauren Bacall
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
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
'Teahouse of the August Moon'
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PLAYS--500--This 1938 play depicts the romance & marriage of George Gibbs & Emily Webb
'Our Town'
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PLAYS--400--Editor Walter Burns schemes to hold on to reporter Hildy Johnson in this 1928 farce
'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
'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"
Harold Pinter
70
WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS--400--This Czech writer of "R.U.R." wrote "The Insect Comedy" with his brother Josef
Karel Capek
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WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS--600--Racine wrote a racy tragedy about Phaedra, a daughter of this king of Crete
Minos
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WORLD PLAYWRIGHTS--800--This Irishman's 1926 play "The Plough and the Stars" was so controversial it provoked riots
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"
Henrik Ibsen
74
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
75
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS--800--Cunegonde,Dr. Pangloss,Voltaire
Candide
76
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS--1000--Richard Henry Lee, Martha Jefferson, John Hancock
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"
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
'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
'Exodus'
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FORGOTTEN MUSICALS--2000--"Grovers Corners" musicalized this prize-winning play
'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
'Anastasia'
82
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS--400--He never forgave Mrs. Patrick Campbell for going off on her honeymoon while rehearsing his "Pygmalion"
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
Laura Linney
84
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
85
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS--1600--Appropriately, his wife Armande Bejart made her stage debut in his 1662 play "The School for Wives"
Molière
86
ACTRESSES & PLAYWRIGHTS--2000--This author of the play "Purlie Victorious" co-starred in it on Broadway with his wife, Ruby Dee
Ossie Davis
87
PLAYS--0-- a 1964 movie musical
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
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
the Marx Brothers
90
MUSICALS OF THE '20s--800--In a 1927 title, this phrase preceded "Bonnie" (it didn't precede "Birdie" until 1960)
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
W.C. Fields
92
MUSICALS OF THE '20s--1600--The saucy 1928 musical "Paris" introduced this composer's immortal song "Let's Do It"
Cole Porter
93
MUSICALS OF THE '20s--2000--As a servant in the musical "Bombo", he sang "Toot, Toot, Tootsie!" & "California, Here I Come"
Al Jolson
94
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--100--She based her 1945 play "Appointment With Death" on her mystery novel of the same name
Agatha Christie
95
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--200--This "In Cold Blood" author's 1952 play "The Grass Harp" concerns a woman who lives in a tree
Truman Capote
96
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--300--Joyce Carol Oates took a sabbatical from this New Jersey university to work on her play "The Gulf War"
Princeton
97
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--400--This "Firing Line" host adapted his own espionage novel "Stained Glass" as a play; it premiered in 1989
William F. Buckley
98
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--500--Rip Torn & Marsha Mason starred in this author's stage adaptation of his own novel "The Deer Park"
Norman Mailer
99
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
100
MUSICALS BEFORE & AFTER--800--ABBA's rockin' musical about the very maternal star of "Rosemary's Baby"
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
Hello, Dolly! Parton
102
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
103
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
104
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
105
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--400--Olga Knipper played Masha in his play "The Three Sisters" in 1901 and married him the same year
Anton Chekhov
106
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--600--The 1st actress to play the role of Elmire in "Tartuffe" was his wife, Armande Bejart
Moliere
107
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--800--In 1937 he wrote the play "Golden Boy" and married that year's Oscar winner, Luise Ranier
Clifford Odets
108
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--1000--Mary Eure, this playwright's 2nd wife, was in the original cast of his play "Look Back In Anger"
John Osborne
109
BROADWAY MUSICALS--200--Rex Harrison's "Fair Lady" and Burton's Guinevere
Julie Andrews
110
BROADWAY MUSICALS--300--In 1967, Broadway said "hello" to this 1st black "Dolly"
Pearl Bailey
111
BROADWAY MUSICALS--400--1931's "The Band Wagon" was the last time this brother & sister shared the dancing spotlight
the Astaires
112
BROADWAY MUSICALS--500--Musical in which Lester Billis was Nellie Forbush's "honey bun"
South Pacific
113
PLAYWRIGHTS--0--1994
Edward Albee
114
PLAYWRIGHTS--0-- yes, a gun does go off by the end
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Anton) Chekhov
115
PLAYWRIGHTS--200--"Blood Wedding" author Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by nationalists in this country in 1936
Spain
116
PLAYWRIGHTS--400--A freed slave named Terence was one of the greatest comic playwrights of this ancient civilization
Rome
117
PLAYWRIGHTS--600--His bawdy 16th century play "The Mandrake" displays the cynicism he showed in "The Prince"
Niccolo Machiavelli
118
PLAYWRIGHTS--800--This Irishman who worked for the IRA as a courier wrote about the IRA in "The Hostage"
Brendan Behan
119
PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--Swedish playwright whose last marriage inspired him to write "The Dance of Death"
August Strindberg
120
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS--200--Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain:"HALO AMOK!"
Oklahoma!
121
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS--400--It was one singular sensation:"SHUN CALORIE"
A Chorus Line
122
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS--600--Zero was my hero in this:"INFERRED FOOT HOLD"
Fiddler on the Roof
123
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS--800--The Sky (Masterson) was the limit:"GLAD SUDS ONLY"
Guys and Dolls
124
ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS--1000--Sondheim said que Seurat, Seurat:"EDGE PRAISEWORTHY GIANT HUNK"
Sunday in the Park with George
125
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
126
PLAYS--200--Their 1st 3 Broadway plays were "I'll Say She Is', "The Cocoanuts" & "Animal Crackers"
The Marx Brothers
127
PLAYS--400--This title character's partner-in-crime was Mrs. Lovett, who baked & sold meat pies
Sweeney Todd
128
PLAYS--600--A very short-run play in 1963, written by D. Starkweather, was titled "So Who's Afraid Of" this playwright
Edward Albee
129
PLAYS--2000--1953 Arthur Miller play inspired by the atmosphere of McCarthyism in the early 1950s
'The Crucible'
130
PLAYS--1000--He wrote "Amadeus" & his twin brother, Anthony, wrote "Sleuth"
Peter Schaffer
131
BROADWAY MUSICALS--200--Dogpatch is almost hit by an atom bomb in this 1956 musical
Li'l Abner
132
BROADWAY MUSICALS--400--In 1952 Cloris Leachman briefly starred as Ensign Nellie Forbush in this musical
South Pacific
133
BROADWAY MUSICALS--600--The musical revue "Five Guys Named" this was inspired by jazzman Louis Jordan, not by the 3 Stooges
Moe
134
BROADWAY MUSICALS--800--"Un Violon sur le Toit" was a French version of this Broadway smash
Fiddler on the Roof
135
BROADWAY MUSICALS--1000--Michael J. Pollard played teenager Hugo Peabody in this musical about a rock star who gets drafted
Bye Bye Birdie
136
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
137
AMERICAN PLAYS--200--"I'm Not Rappaport" takes place on a battered bench near the lake in this famous park
Central Park
138
AMERICAN PLAYS--800--The play in which Amanda says, "I want you to stay fresh and pretty -- for gentleman callers."
'The Glass Menagerie'
139
AMERICAN PLAYS--600--Lee Strasberg played the original peddler in this 1931 play which inspired "Oklahoma!"
'Green Grow The Lilacs'
140
AMERICAN PLAYS--800--This playwright dedicated "A Delicate Balance" to J. Steinbeck with "affection and admiration"
Edward Albee
141
AMERICAN PLAYS--1000--He revised his 1st play, "Farther Off From Heaven", & retitled it "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs"
William Inge
142
MUSICALS--200--This title character's last name is McLonergan, not Rainbow
Finian
143
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!'
144
MUSICALS--600--This show opens with a Ziegfeld star waiting for her husband to be released from prison
'Funny Girl'
145
PLAYS--200--The title of a 1924 Maxwell Anderson play asked "What Price" this
Glory
146
MUSICALS--800--Mrs. Ray Bolger co-produced this 1948 Ray Bolger musical based on "Charley's Aunt"
'Where's Charley?'
147
MUSICALS--1000--This show features a concubine from Burma named Tuptim
'The King And I'
148
PLAYS--400--His last play was "The Condemned of Altona", though "No Exit" might have been more appropriate
Jean-Paul Sartre
149
PLAYS--600--This letter is missing from the title of Lanford Wilson's play about the Hotel Baltimore
E
150
PLAYWRIGHTS--200--In 1899 he reinterpreted the story of Caesar & Cleopatra using modern allusions
George Bernard Shaw
151
PLAYS--800--This David Hwang play was inspired by the romance between a Peking opera star & a diplomat
M. Butterfly
152
PLAYWRIGHTS--400--The 1961 comedy "Come Blow Your Horn" was his 1st Broadway play
Neil Simon
153
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
154
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
155
PLAYWRIGHTS--600--She married fellow playwright Arthur Kober but never tied the knot with Dashiell Hammett
Lillian Hellmann
156
MOVIE MUSICALS--500--The only Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire film for which these 2 brothers wrote songs was 1937's "Shall We Dance"
George
157
PLAYWRIGHTS--800--His play "Winterset" is based on the case of Sacco & Vanzetti
Maxwell Anderson
158
PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--Centenarian playwright known for the musicals "The Pajama Game" & "Fiorello!"
George Abbott
159
PLAYWRIGHTS--200--First name shared by playwrights Fry, Durang & Marlowe
Christopher
160
PLAYS--1000--After he wrote "The School For Husbands", he caused a major scandal with "The School For Wives"
Moliere
161
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
162
PLAYWRIGHTS--400--Brecht served in a German army hospital during this war, but never as a surgeon as he claimed
World War I
163
PLAYWRIGHTS--600--In the 1950s he was the first of the British playwrights known as "Angry Young Men"
John Osborne ('Look Back In Anger')
164
MOVIE MUSICALS--500--This Russian composer was portrayed by Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1947's "Song Of Scheherazade"
Rimsky-Korsakov
165
PLAYWRIGHTS--800--This "Endgame" author was a friend of James Joyce but, contrary to rumor, was not his secretary
Samuel Beckett
166
PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--His last play, "What The Butler Saw", was produced in 1969, 2 years after he was killed
Joe Orton
167
PLAYWRIGHTS--0-- he never wrote another
Oscar Wilde ("The Importance of Being Earnest")
168
PLAYWRIGHTS--200--He wrote the dialogue for "Oklahoma!", "Carousel" & "The King & I", as well as the lyrics
Oscar Hammerstein
169
PLAYWRIGHTS--400--First name shared by playwrights Webster, Dryden & Singe
John
170
PLAYWRIGHTS--600--"Catty" poet whose 1949 play "The Cocktail Party" is based on an ancient Greek play by Euripides
T.S. Eliot
171
PLAYWRIGHTS--800--He co-wrote the stage version of his novel "Native Son" with Paul Green
Richard Wright
172
PLAYWRIGHTS--5000--His lesser-known plays include "Fools", "God's Favorite" & "The Gingerbread Lady"
Neil Simon
173
PLAYS--200--In the title of a play by Robert Anderson, it's paired with "sympathy"
Tea
174
PLAYS--400--In "Painting Churches", the churches aren't buildings but these
People
175
PLAYS--600--Anita Loos wrote the non-musical stage adaptation of this Colette novel
'Gigi'
176
PLAYS--800--"Dial 'M' For Murder" takes place in the living room of an apartment in this foreign capital
London
177
PLAYS--1000--"Regina" was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play
'The Little Foxes'
178
PLAYWRIGHTS--200--Discharged from the military in 1946, this "Odd Couple" author worked in the Warner Bros. mailroom
Neil Simon
179
PLAYWRIGHTS--400--He claimed his comic masterpiece "Pygmalion" was a didactic play about phonetics
George Bernard Shaw
180
PLAYWRIGHTS--600--After this Czech denounced the Soviet invasion of his country in 1968, his plays were banned
Vaclav Havel
181
SONGS FROM MUSICALS--400--"As Long As He Needs Me" & "You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two"
Oliver!
182
SONGS FROM MUSICALS--800--"Sadie, Sadie" & "I'm The Greatest Star"
Funny Girl
183
PLAYWRIGHTS--800--Although his 1975 play "Seascape" had only a brief Broadway run, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Edward Albee
184
PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--This "Picnic" playwright's screenplay for "Splendor In The Grass" won a 1961 Oscar
William Inge
185
SONGS FROM MUSICALS--1200--"Good Morning Starshine" & "Easy To Be Hard"
Hair
186
SONGS FROM MUSICALS--1600--"Whatever Lola Wants" & "Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, MO"
Damn Yankees
187
SONGS FROM MUSICALS--2000--"Light My Candle" & "La Vie Boheme"
Rent
188
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
189
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS--800--Harvey Fierstein milked the role of Tevye in a revival of this classic musical
Fiddler on the Roof
190
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)
191
CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS--1600--Yes, "Sir": Robert Goulet played him in "Camelot" & Hank Azaria played him in "Spamalot"
Sir Lancelot
192
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
193
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--200--The 1991 Tony Award for best play went to Neil Simon's "Lost In" this city
Yonkers
194
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--400--It was Edward Albee's first full-length play, & his most famous
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
195
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--600--In an absurdist play by Ionesco, the inhabitants of a small town are transformed into these animals
rhinoceroses
196
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--800--His play "Bus Stop" was revived on Broadway in 1996
William Inge
197
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--He described his "Miss Julie" as the first naturalistic play in Scandinavian literature
August Strindberg
198
PLAYS--200--This musical opens as Miguel de Cervantes is thrown into a dungeon for crimes against the church
'Man of La Mancha'
199
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'
200
PLAYS--600--Rostand play in which Roxane says, "I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love"
'Cyrano de Bergerac'
201
PLAYS--800--This Eugene O' Neill trilogy consists of "Homecoming", "The Hunted" & "The Haunted"
'Mourning Becomes Electra'
202
PLAYS--1000--Later a movie, this play starring Judy Holliday was the first written by Garson Kanin
'Born Yesterday'
203
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS--200--Jeff Daniels wrote "Escanaba in da Moonlight", a "super Yooper comedy" set on this state's Upper Peninsula
Michigan
204
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS--400--In 2004 he won an Oscar for "Mystic River" & appeared off-Broadway in his own play "Embedded"
Tim Robbins
205
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS--600--This Englishwoman called her "Shakespeare for My Father" a play about her father (Sir Michael) & her search for him
Lynn Redgrave
206
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS--800--Her husband Jerry Stiller made a video appearance in her 1999 comedy "Down the Garden Paths"
Anne Meara
207
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
208
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
209
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--400--This 2005 Nobel Laureate's 1st wife, Vivien Merchant, appeared in many of his plays, including "The Homecoming"
Pinter
210
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
211
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
212
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--1600--Lily Rabe, who appeared in the 2005 revival of "Steel Magnolias", is the daughter of Jill Clayburgh & this playwright
David Rabe
213
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--2000--Frances Farmer had a disastrous affair with this playwright while appearing on Broadway in his play "Golden Boy"
Clifford Odets
214
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS--100--He's the popular multiple Tony Award-winning playwright seen here
Neil Simon
215
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS--200--This scandalous wit and playwright seen here died in Paris in 1900.
Oscar Wilde
216
PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS--300--The works of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south
Tennessee Williams
217
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
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PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS--500--This absurdist playwright left them waiting for him at the 1969 Nobel Prize ceremony
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Samuel) Beckett
219
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--200--More than once, Thornton Wilder played the stage manager in a presentation of this, his most popular drama
'Our Town'
220
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--400--In 1985 this playwright's "Requiem For A Heavyweight" came to Broadway starring John Lithgow
Rod Serling
221
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--600--In "A Streetcar Named Desire", she's Stanley Kowalski's sister-in-law
Blanche DuBois
222
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
223
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--Frank Langella starred in a 1996 revival of this Swedish playwright's 1887 drama "The Father"
August Strindberg
224
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--200--Guinness calls Gogol's play "The Inspector General" this country's greatest early comedy
Russia
225
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--400--Dr. Heidi Holland is the title character in this Pulitzer Prize winner by Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles
226
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--600--Jean Kerr, who wrote the play "Mary, Mary", is the wife of this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic
Walter Kerr
227
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
228
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--An actor as well as an author, he played the role of Orgon in his own "Tartuffe"
Molière
229
CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS--0--This Englishwoman's name comes from the French for "badly suited to the purpose"
Mrs. Malaprop
230
PLAYS--200--Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett won a Pulitzer Prize for their adaptation of this girl's diary
Anne Frank
231
PLAYS--400--His "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & "Biloxi Blues" are autobiographical
Neil Simon
232
PLAYS--600--"The Gladiator", an 1831 play by Robert Montgomery Bird, was based on the life of this Roman slave
Spartacus
233
PLAYS--1500--Nora Helmer is the heroine of this Ibsen play
'A Doll's House'
234
PLAYS--1000--An eccentric young man takes up with a woman nearing 80 in this off-beat comedy based on a film
'Harold
235
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--200--Marsha Mason met him after she auditioned for his play "The Good Doctor" & later married him
Neil Simon
236
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--400--He's the father of Jessica Lange's children Hannah & Samuel
Sam Shepard
237
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--600--In 1949 she starred in "The Smile Of The World", a play written by her husband Garson Kanin
Ruth Gordon
238
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--800--We hope his third wife, actress Carlotta Monterey, never called him a "hairy ape"
Eugene O'Neill
239
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES--1000--In the late 1800s Victorien Sardou not only wrote but directed plays for this great French actress
Sarah Bernhardt
240
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS--100--"Leonine Monarch"
The Lion King
241
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS--200--"The Windy City"
Chicago
242
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS--300--"Specter Lurking in a Certain Paris Theatre"
Phantom of the Opera
243
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS--400--"Ta-Ta Conrad"
Bye Bye Birdie
244
MUSICALS IN OTHER WORDS--500--"Cohan!"
George M!
245
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--200--John Galsworthy refused this honor in 1918, so we don't have to call him Sir John
the knighthood
246
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--400--John Fletcher wrote "The Wild Goose Chase" & this Norwegian wrote "The Wild Duck"
Ibsen
247
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--600--George Bernard Shaw's play "The Devil's Disciple" takes place in America during this 18th century war
the American Revolution
248
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS--800--Turgenev wrote a play called "A Month in" this place — how bucolic
the Country
249
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
250
KILLER MUSICALS--200--The musical about this "Two-Faced" London killer is so popular it has its own website
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
251
KILLER MUSICALS--800--Fairy tale characters meet dire fates in this Stephen Sondheim musical; how "Grimm"!
Into the Woods
252
KILLER MUSICALS--1000--Velma & her fellow murderesses sing the "Cell Block Tango" in this Bob Fosse musical
Chicago
253
MUSICALS--200--The songs "Circle of Life" & "Hakuna Matata" frame the first act of this show
'The Lion King'
254
MUSICALS--400--This 1977 film was the basis for a 1998 London musical starring Adam Garcia as Tony Manero
'Saturday Night Fever'
255
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'
256
MUSICALS--800--"Man of La Mancha" begins with this author arriving at a Spanish prison
Cervantes
257
MUSICALS--1000--In 1998 this "colorful" costume musical based on Baroness Orczy's novel received 3 Tony nominations
'The Scarlet Pimpernel'
258
BROADWAY MUSICALS--200--New York Magazine called it "Everyone's favorite orphan musical"
Annie
259
BROADWAY MUSICALS--400--Natasha Richardson sallied forth as Sally Bowles in the 1998 revival of this musical
Cabaret
260
BROADWAY MUSICALS--600--In 1992 Adam Arkin of "Chicago Hope" took over the role of Nathan Detroit in this musical revival
Guys and Dolls
261
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
262
BROADWAY MUSICALS--1000--"Cats" is based on this book with a much longer title
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
263
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS--200--20 years before "Murphy Brown", her play "The Freezer" was named one of "the Best Short Plays of 1968"
Candice Bergen
264
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS--400--Jason Miller wrote & starred in a 1997 play about this actor nicknamed "The Great Profile"
John Barrymore
265
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
266
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
267
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--This British actress seen here based the heroine of her play "The Mandrake Root" on her mother, Rachel Kempson
Lynn Redgrave
268
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)
269
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--200--Gore Vidal's play about this president opened & closed a few weeks before the Watergate break-in
Richard Nixon
270
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
271
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--600--In 1908 this "Of Human Bondage" author had 4 of his plays running in London at the same time
Somerset Maugham
272
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
273
NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS--1000--This play by Agatha Christie that opened in 1952 is still running; they'll never build a better one
The Mousetrap
274
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
275
PLAYWRIGHTS--800--Although he was Irish-born, most of his works after WWII, including "Waiting for Godot", were written in French
Beckett
276
PLAYWRIGHTS--1200--This "Betrayal" dramatist adapted John Fowles' novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" for the screen
Harold Pinter
277
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
278
PLAYWRIGHTS--2000--In 1935 this dramatist stopped "Waiting for Lefty" & in 1937 he married actress Luise Rainer
Clifford Odets
