| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $400: A bit over "Four Christmases" this 6'5" actor put his big shoes in the theater's cement Vince Vaughn |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $800: This veteran actor left his hand & foot, but not mustache prints Sam Elliott |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $1200: This honoree produced Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" & composed the theme for "Sanford & Son" (Quincy) Jones |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $1600: This director of a superhero trilogy was honored for movies that thrill & challenge audiences (Christopher) Nolan |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | CHINESE THEATRE HAND & FOOTPRINTS $2000: She played 110-year-old Miss Jane Pittman in 1974 & left her prints in 2018 at age 93 Cicely Tyson |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: In the title of a politically incorrect show, it's the New York avenue on which some puppets live Avenue Q |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In 2019, Christie Brinkley starred on Broadway as Roxie Hart in this musical Chicago |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: Songs in this musical based on a film include "Omigod You Guys" & "The Harvard Variations" Legally Blonde |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: An outdoor production of this musical set in Asia featured an actual Huey helicopter landing nightly Miss Saigon |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Among the great songwriting teams were Rodgers & Hammerstein & this pair who gave us "My Fair Lady" Lerner & Loewe |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THEATRE $400: With no lightning on his forehead, he was on stage in 2018 as a fact-checker who finds 130 pages of problems in a 15-page article Daniel Radcliffe |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THEATRE $800: An equine named Joey goes from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches in France in this drama War Horse |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THEATRE $1200: It was in fact new & called the Royal Coburg when this theatre opened in London in 1818 the Old Vic |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THEATRE $1600: In the title of a Tony-winning play from the '60s, "The Subject Was" these roses |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THEATRE $8,615 (Daily Double): Act 1 of this autobiographical Eugene O'Neill drama begins at 8:30 a.m.; Act 4 begins at midnight Long Day's Journey into Night |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $400: Arthur Adamov's absurdist play "La Parodie" has a handless one of these watching humans endlessly discussing time a clock or watch |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $800: In 1953 "Waiting for Godot" premiered at a small theatre in this European capital Paris |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $1200: This Czech author's satirical plays like "Protest" used absurdist themes to denounce Communist rule Vaclav Havel |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $1600: This author of the absurdist plays "The Birthday Party" & "The Room" was awarded the Nobel Lit prize in 2005 Harold Pinter |
| #7704, aired 2018-02-22 | THEATRE OF THE ABSURD $2000: This Romanian-born playwright based his play "The Bald Soprano" on stilted textbooks he had used to learn English Eugène Ionesco |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $400: Before he stalked the president in the film "In the Line of Fire", this actor stalked the Steppenwolf stage (John) Malkovich |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $600: Yeah, if you could go ahead & tell me this movie where alumnus Gary Cole played Bill Lumbergh, that'd be great Office Space |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $800: Actor-writer Tracy Letts first mounted this "August" play at Steppenwolf & won a Tony & Pulitzer for it August: Osage County |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE ALUMNI $1000: On film this alumna has hunted Jason Bourne & played the pious Elizabeth Proctor in "The Crucible" Joan Allen |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $400: In 2017 Glenn Close returned to Broadway as Norma Desmond in a revival of this musical Sunset Boulevard |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $800: In 1967 David Hays founded the Natl. Theatre of the Deaf--a decade after working on this play about Helen Keller The Miracle Worker |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $1200: Jesse Tyler Ferguson went back to school as one of the original classmates in "The 25th Annual Putnam County" this spelling bee |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): Act I of this play:
"A country road. A tree. Evening, Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot" Waiting for Godot |
| #7532, aired 2017-05-16 | THEATRE $2000: In "Six Degrees of Separation", a young black man named Paul claims to be this actor's son Sidney Poitier |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | THEATRE TITLE DUOS $400: A dice game argument leaves one dead on Catfish Row & intrigue aplenty for this Gershwin pair Porgy & Bess |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | THEATRE TITLE DUOS $800: Anna Leonowens is half of the title duo of this Rodgers & Hammerstein show The King and I |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | THEATRE TITLE DUOS $1200: In a Sean O'Casey play, Juno is the wife of Captain Boyle, who is nicknamed this due to his gait the Paycock |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | THEATRE TITLE DUOS $2000: In a Peter Weiss play, the Marquis de Sade leads inmates in a re-creation of the assassination of this other title guy Marat |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | THEATRE TITLE DUOS $4,000 (Daily Double): The last line of the 1966 play about this pair is spoken by Horatio Rosencrantz & Guildenstern |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $400: Terrence Mann played Javert in the 1987 Broadway opening of this show, made into a film in 2012 Les Mis |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $800: Phyllida Lloyd directed the 2001 Broadway opening of this show & ABBA-cadabra! got to helm the 2008 film, too Mamma Mia! |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $1200: On Broadway in 1975, Billy Flynn was played by Jerry Orbach, but this show got into Gere on the silver screen in 2002 Chicago |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $1600: John Lloyd Young made his Broadway debut in 2005 as Frankie Valli in this show & got the movie gig in 2014 Jersey Boys |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THEATRE TO THEATER $2000: A rough night at George & Martha's, this 1962 Broadway drama went 2-dimensional in '66 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | BACKSTAGE AT THE THEATRE $400: A baby is a small one of these, usually about 750 watts a light (a spotlight) |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | BACKSTAGE AT THE THEATRE $800: A delight to most actors, "S.R.O." stands for this, meaning a packed house standing room only |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | BACKSTAGE AT THE THEATRE $1200: It means to furnish a stage with props, scenery & furniture, but not necessarily clothing dress |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | BACKSTAGE AT THE THEATRE $1600: A rumble pot is a receptacle in which hot water is mixed with this, solid carbon dioxide, to create fog dry ice |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | BACKSTAGE AT THE THEATRE $2000: This 2-word term for sound effects from out of view of the audience is also the name of a 1982 play by Michael Frayn noises off |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $400: (I'm Misty Copeland.) In Act 2 of this classic ballet, Odette performs with her many companions, all under the same magic spell Swan Lake |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $800: (I'm James Whiteside.) In 1985 ABT staged the first American production of this tragic Shakespearean love story choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan Romeo and Juliet |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $1200: (I'm Sarah Lane.) In 1947, George Balanchine created for ABT the one-act ballet "Theme and Variations" with music by this noted Russian composer Tchaikovsky |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $1600: (I'm He So.) One of the high points of any prima ballerina's career is dancing the role of Giselle, based in part on the poem from this 19th century French author's "Les Orientales" Victor Hugo |
| #7062, aired 2015-05-05 | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE'S 75th ANNIVERSARY $2000: (I'm Craig Salstein.) Jerome Robbins' choreography for this alliterative ballet also became the basis for the Broadway musical "On the Town" Fancy Free |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $400: When these theatre awards were first presented in 1947, the winners got a scroll plus a compact (women) or money clip (men) a Tony Award |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a curtain on the monitor.) In the theatre, when the curtain is raised vertically & completely disappears into the fly, it's called this type of reveal for the instrument of execution it resembles a guillotine |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $1600: In June 2012 this NYC series celebrated its 50th anniversary with an outdoor production of "As You Like It" Shakespeare in the Park |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $2000: In 1937 John Houseman & Orson Welles founded this repertory company that did radio as well as stage the Mercury Theatre |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $3,500 (Daily Double): This magazine began in 1884 as a handout for David Belasco's "May Blossom" Playbill |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $400: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Based on a movie, this musical about an Irish guy & a Czech girl uses song & dance in a way I've never experienced in an American musical: to convey a beautiful shimmer of might-have-been regret Once |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $800: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) In 1996 I reviewed the revival of this Kander & Ebb musical whose jaded take on celebrity worship & a fractured justice system were timely then; I said I hoped it would run for a long time--little did I know it would still be playing today Chicago |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1200: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) When it comes to Shakespeare, I must have seen at least a dozen productions of this tragedy, with everyone from Liev Schreiber to Jude Law as the prince Hamlet |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1600: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut playing tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in "Lucky Guy", written by this late woman, a close friend of Hanks; unlike some of the movies she wrote & directed, her play feels only newsprint deep Nora Ephron |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $2000: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) A 1997 revival of this Ibsen classic made me remember why I love the theatre; the play is more than a century old but it felt like the part of Nora had only just been written, & written specifically for Janet McTeer A Doll's House |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: (Alex gives us the clue from the stage of the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.) I'm on the set of a Sherman Edwards musical set in this very significant year in American history 1776 |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: A 2012 holiday gift to Broadway was a musical based on this Will Ferrell movie about a visitor from the North Pole Elf |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1600: "Tryouts" & "We Ain't No Cheerleaders" are songs in this musical inspired by a cheerleading film of the same name Bring It On |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): "Cotton Blossom", the opening song of this musical, is also the name of the title vessel Show Boat |
| #6572, aired 2013-03-26 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2000: This 1947 Lerner & Loewe musical was inspired in part by James Barrie's books about his native Scotland Brigadoon |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.) In 2009, the Dance Theatre of Harlem celebrated its 40th anniversary; Arthur Mitchell cofounded it in response to this April 1968 tragedy the assassination of Martin Luther King |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.) Ballet dancers make sure to exercise their flexor hallucis longus; it's essential for any releve move, bringing the dancer to half or full this pointe |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.) After the groundbreaking performance by the Dance Theatre of Harlem in Johannesburg in 1992, this man told reporters that it made him forget all the troubles he'd had in his life Mandela |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | THE DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.) Karel Shook, the teacher who cofounded the Dance Theatre of Harlem, wrote that the body is in balance when it is pulled up so the student seems to feel her navel touching her backbone, a position discovered by this Renaissance master da Vinci |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | THEATRE $200: "To be or not to be", Ralph Fiennes & more recently Jude Law have delivered the famous soliloquy as this Great Dane Hamlet |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | THEATRE $400: In the female version of this play, Olive Madison is the slob & Florence Unger is the fussy neatnik The Odd Couple |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | THEATRE $600: This Alfred Uhry play was based on the story of his Jewish grandmother & her black chauffeur Driving Miss Daisy |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | THEATRE $800: This playwright's "The Night of the Iguana" takes place at the rustic Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico Tennessee Williams |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | THEATRE $1000: The musical "Nine" is an adaptation of this Italian director's movie "8 1/2" Federico Fellini |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | THEATRE $200: In a Shaw play, she tells Caesar, "You must not be disrespectful to me, or the Sphinx will let the Romans eat you" Cleopatra |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | THEATRE $400: Meryl Streep has suspicions about Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize winner Doubt |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | THEATRE $600: Stockard Channing sang "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" in the 2008 revival of this musical Pal Joey |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | THEATRE $800: Sutton Foster was Broadway's "Thoroughly Modern Millie" before playing Princess Fiona in this musical Shrek |
| #5647, aired 2009-03-10 | THEATRE $1000: Tom Stoppard's drama "The Coast of" this ideal place was ideal indeed, winning the 2007 Tony for Best Play Utopia |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $400: Eleanor said Ralph Bellamy was "remarkable" as this man who triumphed over polio in "Sunrise at Campobello" FDR |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $800: Seeing this play at the Castle of Elsinore thrilled Eleanor; she also liked the Danish pastry served at intermission Hamlet |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $1200: Eleanor took Indira Gandhi to see this man's play "The Night Of The Iguana"; it left both ladies "a little baffled" Tennessee Williams |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $1600: Eleanor had not expected this movie star's 1953 performance in "John Brown's Body" to satisfy her as it did Tyrone Power |
| #5534, aired 2008-10-02 | ELEANOR ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE THEATRE $2000: Bewildered by this poet's play "The Cocktail Party", Eleanor cracked that "He must be doing something extremely clever" T.S. Eliot |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $400: This "Harry Potter" star showed off his buff bod when he took to the stage in "Equus" Daniel Radcliffe |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $800: A long-running Off-Broadway hit revolves around an "Awesome '80s" one of these high school dances a prom |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $1200: It's the season that precedes "Awakening" in the title of a rockin' Broadway musical about teens Spring |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $1600: Lin-Manuel Miranda was in college when he began writing "In the Heights", set in Wash. Hgts. in this NYC borough Manhattan |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $2000: An MTV reality series searched for a new star for this musical & found it in Bailey Hanks (no law degree required) Legally Blonde |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $400: If Anouilh gives you ennui, you may not want to see "The Lark", his play about this female saint Joan of Arc |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $800: Founded in the 1600s, the Comedie Francaise is also known as "La maison de" this comic playwright Molière |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $1200: Andre de Lorde was the master of the gruesome French thrillers in this "Grand" gory genre Grand Guignol |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $2000: The French play "The Madwoman of" this place inspired Jerry Herman's Broadway musical "Dear World" Chaillot |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $3,000 (Daily Double): "La Revolution Francaise" was the 1st musical collaboration by Boublil & Schonberg; this mega-hit was 2nd Les Miserables |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | THEATRE $400: Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" takes place in a tenement house in this capital city Dublin |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | THEATRE $800: "Kremlin Chimes" is the second play in Nikolai Pogodin's trilogy about this leader of the Russian Revolution Lenin |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | THEATRE $1200: This "Electra"fying playwright gets the credit for adding a third actor to Greek tragedies Sophocles |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | THEATRE $1600: In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson" August Wilson |
| #5446, aired 2008-04-21 | THEATRE $2000: This "diminuitive" Edward Albee play was first produced on Broadway in 1964 Tiny Alice |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEATRE $400: Shaw's play "Back to Methuselah" goes really, really far back; part I opens in this Biblical garden Garden of Eden |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEATRE $800: What a twist! In a one-man show, Simon Callow played this "Oliver Twist" author & dozens of his characters Dickens |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEATRE $1200: A new play based on this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle canine classic opened on the London stage in 2007 The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEATRE $1600: Thornton Wilder's prize-winning play about life & death in a small "corner" of New Hampshire Our Town |
| #5404, aired 2008-02-21 | THEATRE $2000: Fans of this musical based on a French novel could be called Fantines, in honor of one of its main characters Les Mis |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $400: The musical "Les Mis" didn't debut on Broadway but in this city, its setting Paris |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $800: He directed a landmark Chinese production of his play "Death of a Salesman" at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing Arthur Miller |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $1200: A Dutch TV reality show picked the muscular "swinger" for the European run of this Disney musical Tarzan |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $2000: If you get to put "RSC" on your resume, you were part of this British troupe the Royal Shakespeare Company |
| #5363, aired 2007-12-26 | THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD $2,500 (Daily Double): There's a "method" behind his founding of the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko (Constantin) Stanislavski |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | JAPANESE THEATRE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew observes a female kabuki performer at a kabuki theatre in Tokyo, Japan.) In the word "kabuki", the middle syllable, "bu", stands for this art form, a major part of kabuki dance |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | JAPANESE THEATRE $400: Kabuki introduced the revolving stage to the world in the 1770s; it was inspired by this children's toy a (spinning) top |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | JAPANESE THEATRE $600: (Alex holds up a mask in a store in Tokyo, Japan.) These traditional masks are worn by the shite, or hero, of this revered & highly stylized form of Japanese drama noh |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | JAPANESE THEATRE $800: Instead of human actors, bunraku theatre features these, which are manipulated in full view of the audience puppets |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | JAPANESE THEATRE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents in front of a kabuki demonstration in Tokyo, Japan.) Kabuki theatre's golden age came as Japan developed an urban culture in this era, named for what Tokyo was called then the Edo era |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: The 1924 Pulitzer Prize went to a play with the oxymoronic title "Hell-bent Fer" this place Heaven |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: Pulcinella, a Commedia dell'arte character, evolved into his pugilistic puppet of 17th century England Punch |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THEATRE HISTORY $1200: The first winners of these didn't get the award we know today: just a scroll & a compact (or a cigarette lighter) the Tony Awards |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THEATRE HISTORY $1600: In 1882 his play "Ghosts" had its world premiere in Chicago, not in Oslo, but it was presented in Norwegian Ibsen |
| #5320, aired 2007-10-26 | THEATRE HISTORY $2000: "Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience August Wilson |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Max the dog narrates the hit musical about "How the Grinch Stole" this holiday Christmas |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Ariel is the fish-tailed heroine who's tired of living "Under The Sea" in the show based on this animated movie The Little Mermaid |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: You could play Princess Jasmine or the genie if your school puts on the stage version of this animated 1992 film Aladdin |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: In a 2007 musical, this fairy tale heroine wakes up & finds herself in a sleep-disorder center Sleeping Beauty |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: The mask for this little hero of Broadway's "The Lion King" was designed without a lower jaw, like a Roman helmet Simba |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THEATRE GHOSTS $200: Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in this U.S. city has several ghosts, including that of an actress who fell to her death New Orleans |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THEATRE GHOSTS $400: The man in this drab color who haunts the Drury Lane Theatre may the ghost of a man found bricked up in a wall there gray |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THEATRE GHOSTS $600: The lady in blue seen in this Scottish city's Royal Lyceum Theatre may be the actress Ellen Terry Edinburgh |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THEATRE GHOSTS $800: A ghost known as the Black Phantom used to appear in a mirror at the Empire Theatre in this city, Ringo Starr's hometown Liverpool |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THEATRE GHOSTS $1000: Melbourne's Princess Theatre boasts the ghost of a singer who died after playing this devilish role in "Faust" Mephistopheles |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | LITERARY THEATRE $400: You may have seen one of these films but there is also a stage version of this 1959 novel, "The Manchurian" this Candidate |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | LITERARY THEATRE $800: (Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of Law & Order Criminal Intent.) In 1990 I appeared on Broadway in a Tony-winning play based on this Pulitzer-prize winning novel by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | LITERARY THEATRE $1200: John Updike's novel "The Witches Of" this place has cast a spell as a musical Eastwick |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | LITERARY THEATRE $1600: (Hi, I'm Brian Stokes Mitchell.) I played the troubled piano player Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in this Broadway musical based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow Ragtime |
| #5270, aired 2007-07-06 | LITERARY THEATRE $2000: In 2007 a new play based on her 80-year-old novel "To the Lighthouse" lit up the stage at the Berkeley Rep Virginia Woolf |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $200: In 1915 Jacinto Benavente wrote a play called "The Smile Of" her, originally a Renaissance art masterpiece Mona Lisa |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $400: Simonetta Vespucci, the model for his "Birth of Venus", is a character in "Michelangelo's Models" Botticelli |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $600: Images of this artist's work appear in the play written by & starring Leonard Nimoy as Theo Van Gogh |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $800: "Belle Epoque" features this artist painting Parisian nightlife, can-cans & women drunk on absinthe Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #5265, aired 2007-06-29 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $1000: The play "Sunday in the Park with George" sprang from this Frenchman's masterpiece (Georges) Seurat |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $200: Harry Connick, Jr. wrote the songs for the musical "Thou Shalt Not", set in this southern city, his hometown New Orleans |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $400: (Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.) In 1997 I played Stella Kowalski in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 50th anniversary production of this great American play A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $600: Alec Guinness portrayed this pub-crawling poet in 1964 play set in America & Wales Dylan Thomas |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $800: Founded in 1966, the Repertory Theatre at this Ivy League Univ. has presented over 100 world & U.S. premieres Yale |
| #5242, aired 2007-05-29 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $1000: "The Teapot Scandals" is a rollicking new musical funfest inspired by the life & loves of this U.S. president Warren Harding |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: New York's Public Theater began staging Shakespeare in the Park in this park in 1962 Central Park |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: The students who founded this univ.'s Dramatic Society in 1885 included a future Archbishop of Canterbury Oxford |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $1200: In classic commedia dell'arte, many characters wore these on their faces, but the lovers did not masks |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $1600: In the 1580s this Spanish novelist reportedly wrote 20 to 30 plays, but only "The Traffic of Algiers" & "Numantia" survive Cervantes |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | THEATRE HISTORY $2000: The play "Our Leading Lady" focuses on Laura Keene, who was starring in this play the night Lincoln was shot Our American Cousin |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | THE THEATRE $400: Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is set in 1692 in this town Salem (Massachusetts) |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | THE THEATRE $800: Valentine is the last name of this "sweet" title hostess at the Fandango ballroom Charity |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | THE THEATRE $1200: This murderous barber has a chair that can suddenly drop a victim via trap door into a cellar Sweeney Todd |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | THE THEATRE $1600: In a Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman comedy, Sheridan Whiteside was "The Man Who" did this came to dinner |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | THE THEATRE $2000: He's deaf-mute Belinda McDonald's out-of-wedlock baby boy Johnny Belinda |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THEATRE: HOW NOVEL! $200: "Big River" was inspired by Mark Twain's book about this young scamp Huck Finn |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THEATRE: HOW NOVEL! $400 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes from the Tony-nominated musical The Color Purple performs a cappella.)
"Like a blade of corn/
Like a honeybee/
Like a waterfall/
All a part of me/
Like the color purple/
Where do it come from?/
Open up your eyes/
Look what God has done"
This woman says "The Color Purple" changed her life; she loved the novel, acted in the film & is one of the producers of the Broadway musical Oprah Winfrey |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THEATRE: HOW NOVEL! $600: A 1960 novella about a young lady with a secret lit up the stage as the musical "The Light in" this place the piazza |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THEATRE: HOW NOVEL! $800: "Sari" if you missed the British musical "The Far Pavilions", based on a novel set in this Asian country India |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | THEATRE: HOW NOVEL! $1000: This Charlotte Bronte novel about a plain Jane became a Tony-nominated musical Jane Eyre |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Sally Bowles is a singer at the Kit Kat Club in this musical set in Berlin Cabaret |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: One of the major hits of 1973, "Raisin" was a musical version of this 1959 Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1200: Jane sings "Waiting For This Moment" in this swinging Disney musical that opened on Broadway in 2006 Tarzan |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1600: This musical about a sleepwear company is based on the novel "7-1/2 cents", the hourly raise wanted by the workers The Pajama Game |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2000: Rich patron Vera Simpson is "bewitched, bothered and bewildered" by this title song & dance pal Pal Joey |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $400: This city's Abbey Theatre was famous for debuting the plays of Synge, O'Casey & Yeats Dublin |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $800: Gao Xingjian's "Fugitives" used this 1989 massacre as its setting & was later banned by the Chinese government Tiananmen Square |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): Dubbed the "inventor of tragedy", this Greek poet lends his name to a word for actors Thespis |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $1200: Bhavabhuti, one of India's greatest playwrights, is known for his mastery of this ancient Indic language Sanskrit |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $1600: This South African playwright has had acting roles in the films "Gandhi" & "The Killing Fields" Athol Fugard |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | LITERARY THEATRE $200: Critics are "raven" about "Nevermore", a new musical that re-imagines this author's life Edgar Allan Poe |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | LITERARY THEATRE $400: The '70s musical "Gone with the Wind" starred Pernell Roberts & Lesley Ann Warren as this captivating couple Rhett & Scarlett |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | LITERARY THEATRE $600: Jimmy Smits played a man who reads this 1870s novel to cigar factory workers in the play "Anna in the Tropics" Anna Karenina |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | LITERARY THEATRE $800: A homeless woman known as Hester La Negrita is the heroine of "In the Blood", inspired by this Hawthorne novel The Scarlet Letter |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | LITERARY THEATRE $1000: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was based on a book by this man Ian Fleming |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In "West Side Story" this character sings "I Feel Pretty" Maria |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: This "Guys and Dolls" composer also gave us "The Most Happy Fella", about Tony the lovestruck wine-grower Frank Loesser |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1200: In "Carousel" this amusement park barker talks to Julie Jordan about marriage & she sings "If I Loved You" Billy Bigelow |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1600: Although Rodgers & Hammerstein produced it, Irving Berlin wrote the songs, including "Anything You Can Do" Annie Get Your Gun |
| #4994, aired 2006-05-04 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2000: In a Tim Rice musical, Frederick & Anatoly vie to be world champion of this game chess |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Glenn Close was dazzling as Norma Desmond in this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Boulevard |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Hey, in 2005 big spenders could see Christina Applegate in the Broadway revival of this show Sweet Charity |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1200: Mary Cohan revised the music & lyrics for this 1960s musical about her father George M! |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): An 1847 play, "The String of Pearls, or the Fiend of Fleet Street" inspired this Broadway smash Sweeney Todd |
| #4902, aired 2005-12-27 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2000: With songs like "Tropical Hot Flash" & "My Thighs", this show is a big hit with women from coast to coast Menopause The Musical |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: It's the show in which Simba sings "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" The Lion King |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Phil Collins wasn't a star yet when he played this young pickpocket in the London stage production of "Oliver!" the Artful Dodger |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1200: This Dr. Seuss-inspired musical sort of rhymes with "musical" Seussical: The Musical |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1600: This musical has it all: cute kids named Jeremy & Jemima, a truly scrumptious leading lady &, oh yes, a flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2000: "Annie" is based on a comic strip; "Annie Get Your Gun" is based on this real-life girl who "shot" to fame in the 1800s Annie Oakley |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $400: In "Play It Again, Sam", movie critic Allan Felix gets relationship advice from this movie star (Humphrey) Bogart |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $1200: The setting for this Agatha Christie play is Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm Mousetrap |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $1,500 (Daily Double): This popular play by A.R. Gurney traces Andrew & Melissa's lifelong correspondence Love Letters |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $1600: This 1954 Terence Rattigan drama consists of 2 one-act plays: "Table by the Window" & "Table Number Seven" Separate Tables |
| #4747, aired 2005-04-05 | THEATRE $2000: This 1935 Robert Sherwood play takes place at the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q & Gas Station in the Arizona desert The Petrified Forest |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) More than 2,000 years after this Aristophanes comedy debuted here in Athens, A musical version hopped onto Broadway The Frogs |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $800: A genre of plays takes its name form these lusty creatures, shown as half-man & half-goat, whose antics it depicted satyrs |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) When this man introduced his play "Medea" in a contest held here at the Theater of Dionysus in 431 B.C., he came in last Euripides |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $1600: Ancient Greek actors wore white lead paint on their faces before switching to this innovation masks |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) Legend tells us that here on stage at the Theater of Dionysus, this man became known as the world's first actor Thespis |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THEATRE TALK $400: If you want a performer to sing once more, shout this French word that has come to mean "again!" encore |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THEATRE TALK $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands amidst a theater's seats.) It's the part of the theatre where the audience sits, & if an actor gets sick, you might be asked if there's a doctor in it the house |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THEATRE TALK $1200: Sometimes called a "Picture Frame" stage, this kind of stage has its own special arch a proscenium |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THEATRE TALK $1600: An actor changes costumes with a little help from this person whose job title is also the name of a piece of furniture a dresser |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THEATRE TALK $2000: This kind of backdrop that often represents the sky is known as a "cyc" for short a cyclorama |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THEATRE AWARDS $200: This Canadian city, "the third-largest theatre centre in the English-speaking world", is home to the Dora Awards Toronto |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THEATRE AWARDS $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT.) In 1991, Yale Rep received one of these awards presented by the American Theatre Wing for Regional Theatre a Tony |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THEATRE AWARDS $600: Play Dogberry & you may win the St. Clair Bayfield Award for a supporting role in one of this man's plays Shakespeare |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THEATRE AWARDS $800: The British award named for him depicts him in the role of Henry V at the Old Vic in 1937 Olivier |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | THEATRE AWARDS $1000: The Obie, introduced by this newspaper in 1956, has been called Off-Broadway's highest honor The Village Voice |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $400: Unforgettable "Cats" song
(6) "Memory" |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $800: Yente was one (so was Dolly Levi)
(10) a matchmaker |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1200: "The Three Sisters" want to move there
(6) Moscow |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1600: Producer David, or "Elephant Man" John
(7) Merrick |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $2000: Helen's husband, in "Troilus and Cressida"
(8) Menelaus |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | THEATRE $400: In 2003 the Oregon Children's Theatre premiered a play about this woman who hit the trail with Lewis & Clark Sacagewea |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | THEATRE $800: Several different musicals have been based on Margery Williams' tale about this "Velveteen" creature the rabbit |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | THEATRE $1200: In the play "True History and Real Adventures", kids search for the truth about this "calamitous" Wild West gal ("Calamity") Jane |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | THEATRE $2000: You weren't even born when this musical about a spooky guy in an opera house debuted on Broadway in 1988 The Phantom of the Opera |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | THEATRE $3,000 (Daily Double): Arnold Lobel's books for kids inspired the musical "A Year with Frog and" this other amphibian Toad |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: We don't want to spoil it for you, but near the end of "Les Mis" Inspector Javert throws himself into this river the Seine |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In 1997 Marie Osmond made her B'way debut as Anna in a revival of this Rodgers & Hammerstein show The King and I |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: Cassie is the talented terpsichorean who sings "The Music and the Mirror" in this popular musical A Chorus Line |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: New York said fangs, but no fangs to "Dance of the Vampires", even though it starred this famed ex-"Phantom" Michael Crawford |
| #4534, aired 2004-04-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York City) "Out Tonight" is performed here at the Nederlander Theatre in this Jonathan Larson musical Rent |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $200: Baseball was considered bad box office until this 1955 show hit one out of the park with a Best Musical Tony Damn Yankees |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the St. James Theatre in New York City) This musical that featured Yul Brynner's most regal performance premiered here at the St. James Theatre in 1951 The King and I |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $600: When it premiered in 1955, "A View from the Bridge" was a 1-act play; this playwright later expanded it Arthur Miller |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $800: A waterfront dive known as Jimmy-the-Priest's inspired the setting of his play "The Iceman Cometh" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THEATRE... $1000: Meryl Streep was in the orig. cast of the Sondheim musical based on this Greek play -- we're sure it was "ribbit"ing The Frogs |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | THE THEATRE $200: Playwright Jean Anouilh had a lot at "stake" with "L'Alouette", his play about this female saint Joan of Arc |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | THE THEATRE $400: This director of the film "Moulin Rouge!" brought his hit production of "La boheme" to Broadway in 2002 Baz Luhrmann |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | THE THEATRE $600 (Daily Double): Now ear this: "Vincent in Brixton" is a play about this artist Vincent Van Gogh |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | REGIONAL THEATRE $400: Mamet's "American Buffalo" didn't premiere in Buffalo, but at the Goodman Theatre in this Midwest city Chicago |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | REGIONAL THEATRE $800: Who -- the Who;
Where -- La Jolla Playhouse;
When -- 1992;
What -- this musical Tommy |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | REGIONAL THEATRE $1200: Fittingly, this Neil Simon play was booked into the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. for its premiere in April 1976 California Suite |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | REGIONAL THEATRE $1600: The Philadelphia Theatre Co.'s play "Barbra's Wedding" by actor Daniel Stern was about trouble caused by her ceremony Barbra Streisand |
| #4300, aired 2003-04-18 | REGIONAL THEATRE $2000: "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by this playwright first came & went with the Yale Repertory August Wilson |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the set of The Producers.) According to the cast of "The Producers", actors say this three-word phrase, instead of "Good luck" "Break a leg" |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from backstage at the Gershwin Theatre.) These are the areas just offstage, & actors wait in them to make their entrances the wings |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew has snuck into the dressing room of Hairspray.) It's considered bad luck to mention the name of this play in the dressing room; actors call it "The Scottish Play" Macbeth |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $800: (Oooooooklahoma! Where Sofia's standing on the set.) It's the term for raising or lowering scenery above the stage; it's also what Mary Martin did in "Peter Pan" fly |
| #4298, aired 2003-04-16 | THEATRE TALK $1000: (Jimmy and the rest of the Clue Crew, on stage at the St. James Theatre.) It's the two-word term for the event after a play when the actors appear to take their bows a curtain call |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $400: The plague of flies in his play "Les Mouches" may make you feel like there's "No Exit" Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $800: This powerful cardinal formed a company of 5 authors, including Corneille, to write plays for him Richelieu |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $1200: This gory form of theatre that features thrills & chills traces its name to a Punch-like puppet called Guignol Grand Guignol |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $1600: He collapsed onstage in 1673 while playing the title role in his own play "The Imaginary Invalid", & died soon after Moliere |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | THE FRENCH THEATRE $2000: This "Phedre" playwright had a "racy" life: he was once accused of poisoning his mistress, actress Therese du Parc Jean Racine |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $200: A '97 musical told the story of a kid who was half-boy & half-one of these bloodsucking flying animals bat |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $400: Plays written by teens are featured in HYPE, this "space"y Texas city's Young Playwrights Exchange Festival Houston |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $800: Written about teens for a teen audience, "Generation Why?" premiered in Costa Mesa in this West Coast state in 1999 California |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): The New York Times called the hero of this Disney musical "a cross between Quasimodo and a buffalo" Beauty and the Beast |
| #4248, aired 2003-02-05 | WE LOVE THE THEATRE $1000: Son of a gun! Bernadette Peters won her second Tony in 1999, for playing Annie Oakley in this musical revival Annie Get Your Gun |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $400: Juliet's "West Side Story" counterpart
(5) Maria |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $800: Marceau, le mime magnifique
(6) Marcel |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1200: Tennessee Williams' "Cat"-woman
(6) Maggie |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1600: Playwright Norman, or actress Mason
(6) Marsha |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $2000: "Naughty" Victor Herbert heroine
(8) Marietta |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $400: The French call this popular musical "Un Violon sur le Toit" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $800: This rapper who was slain in Las Vegas in 1996 is the subject of the play "Up Against the Wind" Tupac Shakur |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $1200: It's Tennessee Williams' semi-autobiographical play about the Wingfield family The Glass Menagerie |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $1600: In 2001 this Sondheim musical about a reunion of ex-showgirls returned to Broadway for the 1st time in 30 years Follies |
| #4178, aired 2002-10-30 | THEATRE $3,000 (Daily Double): "Homecoming", "The Hunted" & "The Haunted" are the 3 parts of this Eugene O'Neill work based on Greek tragedy Mourning Becomes Electra |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $400: Jessica Lange went to London in 2000 to play the drug-addicted mom in his play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" Eugene O'Neill |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $800: Written in 405 B.C., this comedy by Aristophanes really is all it's "croaked" up to be The Frogs |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $1200: In 1997 in Vienna, he directed the musical "Dance of the Vampires", based on his 1967 film "The Fearless Vampire Killers" Roman Polanski |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $1600: Mary-Louise Parker was awesome in this play that won David Auburn a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 Proof |
| #4172, aired 2002-10-22 | THEATRE $2000: This South African playwright starred in his own autobiographical play "The Captain's Tiger" in 1998 Athol Fugard |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CONTEMPORARY THEATRE $400: In 1998, more than a century after that incident with an ax, this accused murderess got her own musical Lizzie Borden |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CONTEMPORARY THEATRE $800: The 2001 play "Snatches" depicts snatches of phone conversations between Monica Lewinsky & this former friend Linda Tripp |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CONTEMPORARY THEATRE $1200: In 2001 Marlo Thomas got all dolled up to play this "Valley of the Dolls" author in the play "Paper Doll" Jacqueline Susann |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CONTEMPORARY THEATRE $1600: Bob Gaudio of the 4 Seasons wrote the music for a new musical based on this Kathleen Turner-Nicolas Cage film Peggy Sue Got Married |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CONTEMPORARY THEATRE $2000: John Cullum of "Northern Exposure" got more Broadway exposure as a toilet tycoon in this hit musical Urinetown |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $400: "Kremlin Chimes" is the second play in Nikolai Pogodin's trilogy about this leader of the Russian Revolution Lenin |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $800: This Canadian province's famous Shaw Festival focuses on plays by George Bernard Shaw & his contemporaries Ontario |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $1200: This "Martin Chuzzlewit" novelist not only co-wrote the play "The Frozen Deep", he acted in it, too Dickens |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $1600: Ichimura Manjiro is a famous Onnagata, a male actor who plays female roles in this form of Japanese drama kabuki |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | WORLD THEATRE $2000: This "Electra"fying playwright gets the credit for adding a third actor to Greek tragedies Sophocles |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | THEATRE GAMES $400: In a Shakespeare play, this queen invites one of her eunuchs to play billiards with her at her palace in Alexandria Cleopatra |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | THEATRE GAMES $800: Set in a church basement, a new musical about this game premiered in Hermosa Beach, California in 2001 bingo |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | THEATRE GAMES $1200: In this comedy, Oscar says, "let's just play cards, and please hold them up; I can't see where I marked them" The Odd Couple |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | THEATRE GAMES $1600: As a penalty in the game of forfeits, Mozart's wife shows her legs to some party guests in this famous play Amadeus |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | THEATRE GAMES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a craps table.) In this musical, Nathan Detroit runs the oldest-established permanent floating crap game in New York Guys and Dolls |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $200: Title device "sprung" by Agatha Christie (9) Mousetrap |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $400: Laura Wingfield had a "Glass" one (9) Menagerie |
| #3995, aired 2002-01-04 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $600: "Camelot" sorceress Le Fay (6) Morgan |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | THEATRE STUFF $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lets out a yell from the street up to a balcony.) Stella! I'm rehearsing to play Stanley Kowalski, like Marlon Brando did in this film Streetcar Named Desire |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | THEATRE STUFF $400: Commedia erudita was the written drama of Italy's Renaissance, in contrast to this improvised form commedia dell'arte |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | THEATRE STUFF $600: James Lipton, seen here, hosts the cable TV series that takes us inside this famed acting school the Actors Studio |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | THEATRE STUFF $1000: From the Latinized form of his name, it's the adjective for drama written during the reign of King James I Jacobean |
| #3961, aired 2001-11-19 | THEATRE STUFF $3,000 (Daily Double): This absurdist who wrote "The Bald Soprano" said the 3 biggest influences on his work were Harpo, Chico & Groucho Ionesco |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | TAKE ME TO THE THEATRE! $200: I'm crazy about dancing dinnerware, so "be my guest" at a performance of this Disney musical Beauty and the Beast |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | TAKE ME TO THE THEATRE! $400: Thou shalt not miss "Thou Shalt Not" because it features songs by this singer & pianist seen here Harry Connick |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | TAKE ME TO THE THEATRE! $600: You might find "Me And Bobby McGee" at "Love, Janis", the Off-Broadway show about this '60s singer Janis Joplin |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | TAKE ME TO THE THEATRE! $800: "Let's Do The Time Warp" at this musical that does not--repeat, does not--have the word "Picture" in its title The Rocky Horror Show |
| #3955, aired 2001-11-09 | TAKE ME TO THE THEATRE! $1000: I could see this long-running musical over & over because I'm nuts about the song "Seasons Of Love" Rent |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $200: He's the genial former host seen here Alistair Cooke |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $400: This 1990 series following the drug trade from Pakistan to England inspired a 2000 movie Traffic |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $800: Daniel Radcliffe, David Copperfield on "Masterpiece Theatre", is rolling along; he was cast as this hero on film Harry Potter |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): The 1985-'86 season included "The Last Place on Earth", about the struggle to reach this point the South Pole |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | MASTERPIECE THEATRE $1000: In 1996 Alex Kingston, seen here, took a trip to the moll as this raunchy heroine Moll Flanders |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | THE THEATRE $100: "Let the Sunshine In" on your original Broadway cast album of "Hair": this "Annie Hall" star sings on it Diane Keaton |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | THE THEATRE $200: (Hi, I'm Paula Cale of Providence.) I starred on the New York stage in the play "Bunny Bunny" as this late, great "Saturday Night Live" actress Gilda Radner |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | THE THEATRE $300: It's the high school attended by Danny & Sandy in "Grease" Rydell High |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | THE THEATRE $400: James Gandolfini played the Rod Steiger role when this Marlon Brando film was adapted as a play in 1995 On the Waterfront |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | THE THEATRE $500: "A Grand Night for Singing" featured the songs of this duo, including "Some Enchanted Evening" Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' THEATRE $200: "Bunnicula", about a rabbit with a craving for vegetable juice, is inspired by this vampire tale Dracula |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' THEATRE $400: The Cincinnati Children's Theatre poster for this kids' classic is seen here The Wizard of Oz |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' THEATRE $600: Completes the title of the book & show "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,..." Very Bad Day |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' THEATRE $800: The profession of Marian in "The Music Man", it (sort of) rhymes with her name librarian |
| #3925, aired 2001-09-28 | KIDS' THEATRE $1000: In 2001 kids in Lexington, Ky. saw the premiere of a play about this man who tried to outhammer a machine John Henry |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: The Times thinks it's fitting that the musical revue "newyorkers" features this statue singing a torch song the Statue of Liberty |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: According to the Times, this show is "Ireland's answer to the Rockettes" Riverdance |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: Reba McEntire said that this musical show she joined in 2001 felt like her life story because she's so similar to Annie Oakley Annie Get Your Gun |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: Ben Brantley said the Jetsons-style Egyptian outfits in this opera-inspired show "should top every drag queen's must-have list" Aida |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: Maxmillan Schell talked to the Times about his new role in the 2001 stage version of this film that won him an Oscar Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | THEATRE $100: "Scream Creek" parodies slasher films & teen TV shows, like this one nicknamed "The Creek" Dawson's Creek |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | THEATRE $200: This 13-year-old brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter appeared in "Seussical the Musical" in 2001 Aaron Carter |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | THEATRE $300: "Inappropriate" is a hit teen musical created at the DeSisto School in Stockbridge in this New England state Massachusetts |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | THEATRE $400: A play about "D'Artagnan and" this Dumas trio became a big hit with teens in Rio The Three Musketeers |
| #3847, aired 2001-05-01 | THEATRE $500: James Barbour plays Mr. Rochester in the new musical based on this Bronte novel Jane Eyre |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $200: Amy Irving starred in the Broadway premiere of "Broken Glass" by this "Death of a Salesman" playwright Arthur Miller |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $400: When a revival of this musical toured the U.S. in 1992, Irene Cara played Mary Magdalene "Jesus Christ Superstar" |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $600: "Little Girls" & "You Won't Be an Orphan for Long" are songs from this ever-popular musical "Annie" |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $800: He made his Broadway debut in "Slab Boys" with Kevin Bacon in '83, 12 years before starring in "Batman Forever" Val Kilmer |
| #3835, aired 2001-04-13 | THEATRE $1000: Gabriel Byrne & Cherry Jones co-starred in the 2000 revival of this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $100: This "War and Peace" author's play "The Power of Darkness" was once banned in his native Russia Leo Tolstoy |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $200: Conor McPherson's haunting play "The Weir" is set in a pub in this country Ireland |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $300: Israeli playwright Nathan Alterman called his first play "Kineret, Kineret...", Kineret being Hebrew for the Sea of this Sea of Galilee |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $400: The "Chushingura", about a band of avenging Ronin, is one of the most famous plays in this form of Japanese drama Kabuki |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | WORLD THEATRE $500: Juliette Binoche starred in the 2000 Broadway revival of this British playwright's 1978 classic "Betrayal" Harold Pinter |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $200: Lerner & Loewe's "Lusty Month"
(3) May |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $400: Patrick Dennis' "Auntie"
(4) Mame |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $600: It "Becomes Electra"
(8) Mourning |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $800: Colchian jilted by Jason
(5) Medea |
| #3751, aired 2000-12-18 | THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1000: Faust's fiendish foe
(14) Mephistopheles |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | THEATRE 2000 $100: He graced the stage of the Westport County Playhouse in "Ancestral Voices" with his wife, Joanne Woodward Paul Newman |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | THEATRE 2000 $200: In January 2000 Larry Gatlin began touring the U.S. in Frank Wildhorn's musical about this war Civil War |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | THEATRE 2000 $300: Seen here, John Glover played this storyteller in a new musical based on the Danny Kaye film Hans Christian Andersen |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | THEATRE 2000 $400: Making her Broadway debut, Cheryl Ladd replaced Bernadette Peters in this sharp-shootin' musical "Annie Get Your Gun" |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | THEATRE 2000 $500: This '30s sexpot, the diva of the double entendre, is the subject of Claudia Shear's 2000 hit "Dirty Blonde" Mae West |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: "The Donkey Show" turns this "dream"y Shakespeare play into "The Ultimate '70s Disco Experience" "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Winning a Tony for "Little Me", he said, "There are so many people I must thank, but the reality is, I did it all myself": Martin Short |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: (Hi, I'm Marvin Hamlisch, here at the Hollywood Bowl) I composed the music for this Broadway smash that includes the song...
("One") "A Chorus Line" |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): This musical that hit Broadway in 1991 is set partly in Bangkok & partly in Ho Chi Minh City "Miss Saigon" |
| #3743, aired 2000-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: The 2000 London musical based on this Updike novel stars Lucie Arnaz as the woman Cher played on film "The Witches of Eastwick" |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | THEATRE $200: The off-Broadway hit "The Bomb-itty of Errors" is a hip-hop version of this Shakespeare play "The Comedy of Errors" |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | THEATRE $400: "Ataka", perhaps the most famous play in this form of Japanese drama, has been adapted for Kabuki Noh |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | THEATRE $800: In a play by Karl Schonherr, a man who plays this role in a passion play becomes a betrayer in real life, too Judas |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Donny Osmond.) I sang "Any Dream Will Do" from "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at this composer's 50th birthday celebration in London in 1998 Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | THEATRE $1000: This actor-playwright's acclaimed 1980 drama "True West" was finally produced on Broadway in 2000 Sam Shepard |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | THEATRE $100: In 1999 comic Eddie Izzard portrayed this comic in a London production of "Lenny" Lenny Bruce |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | THEATRE $200: In Tony Award categories, it's the term for a new production of an old play Revival |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | THEATRE $300: (Hi, I'm Andy Richter.) I've portrayed this TV patriarch in the New York & L.A. productions of "The Real Live Brady Bunch" Mike Brady |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | THEATRE $400: This acclaimed Broadway musical of 2000 is not an adaptation of the Jodie Foster space movie of the same name Contact |
| #3706, aired 2000-10-16 | THEATRE $500: (Hi, I'm S. Epatha Merkerson.) I won a Tony nomination for playing Berneice in this playwright's 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson" August Wilson |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Timon, Pumbaa & Simba are all characters in this musical The Lion King |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: There's trouble in River City when professor Harold Hill comes a-calling in this musical The Music Man |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" inspired this musical Guys and Dolls |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Many of the songs associated with Louis Jordan are featured in "Five Guys Named" this Moe |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This matrimonial '60s musical! musical! was based on the play "The Fourposter" I Do! I Do! |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | THEATRE $200: It's the one-word title of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play; we understand if brevity is the soul of it... "Wit" |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | THEATRE $400: Men were "Falling in Love Again" with this German actress when Sian Phillips played her on Broadway in 1999 Marlene Dietrich |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | THEATRE $600: Of "Closer", "Side Man", "Lonesome West" or "Not About Nightingales", 1999's Tony winner for Best New Play "Side Man" |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | THEATRE $800: Kevin Spacey made his Broadway debut in 1982 in a revival of this playwright's "Ghosts" Henrik Ibsen |
| #3659, aired 2000-06-29 | THEATRE $1000: Comedie Larmoyante, or "tearful comedy", was established as a genre in the 1700s in this country France |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $100: "Takasago" by Zeami Motokiyo is one of this country's most famous No plays Japan |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $200: When she played Peter Pan on Broadway in 1954, her daughter Heller Halliday played Liza the maid Mary Martin |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $300: David Mamet wrote a play called "Sexual Perversity In" this Midwest city -- coincidentally, his birthplace Chicago |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $400: Ferenc Molnar's Hungarian drama "Liliom" inspired this "merry-go-round" of a musical that debuted in 1945 Carousel |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | THEATRE $500: In 1999 Lea Salonga returned to the cast of this musical that won her a Tony not salonga go (in 1991) Miss Saigon |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | THEATRE $200: Characters in this ever-popular musical include King Herod, Mary Magdalene & several lepers Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | THEATRE $400: Janet McTeer's performance as Nora in this Ibsen drama won her a Best Actress Tony in 1997 A Doll's House |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | THEATRE $600: The 1973 Broadway musical "Gigi" featured this actress perhaps best-known for playing Endora on "Bewitched" Agnes Moorehead |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | THEATRE $800: In 1999 Jean Stapleton was inked to star in "Indian Ink" by this "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" playwright Tom Stoppard |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | THEATRE $1000: The audience is the jury for this "Atlas Shrugged" author's trial drama "Night of January 16th" Ayn Rand |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THEATRE $200: In 1999 Brian Dennehy played Willy Loman on Broadway in a 50th anniversary production of this play Death of a Salesman |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THEATRE $400: A ritzy New York hotel provides the setting for this program of 3 1-act comedies by Neil Simon Plaza Suite |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THEATRE $600: Leapin Lizards! This Tennessee Williams play takes place at the Costa Verde Resort in Mexico Night of the Iguana |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THEATRE $1000: Malicious rumors ruin the lives of 2 teachers in this Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): Part I of "Murder in the Cathedral" begins with the return of this archbishop after 7 years in exile Thomas Becket |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | THEATRE $600: Of Red, Green, or Puce, the one who's a servant to Shakespeare's King Richard II Green |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | THEATRE $1000: The 1-woman show, "Orgasmo Advito Escapes from the Zoo" starred this "Bonnie and Clyde" co-star, Roseanne's TV mom Estelle Parsons |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | THEATRE $2,811 (Daily Double): "Fate", the title of a song in this classic musical, is also a synonym for the musical's title Kismet |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | THE THEATRE $200: Laurence Harvey reigned in this regal role in the 1964 London production of "Camelot" King Arthur |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | THE THEATRE $400: Noel Coward's 1947 drama "Peace in our Time" depicts life in England if this dictator had conquered it Adolf Hitler |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | THE THEATRE $800: Sewamono plays are domestic dramas about middle-class life in this form of Japanese drama Kabuki |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | THE THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Ekaterina Gordeeva.) Chekhov's "Three Sisters" dream of going to this city -- my birthplace Moscow |
| #3367, aired 1999-04-06 | THE THEATRE $1000: She adapted her own novel "Rebecca" for the stage in the 1940s; Drew Barrymore's aunt Diana starred in it Daphne du Maurier |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | THEATRE HODGEPODGE $100: In a song in "The Fantasticks", "Soon it's gonna" do this, "I can see it. Soon it's gonna" do this, "I can tell" Rain |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | THEATRE HODGEPODGE $200: This William Inge play inspired a Marilyn Maxwell TV series & a Marilyn Monroe film Bus Stop |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | THEATRE HODGEPODGE $300: In titles of musicals, this word stands alone, follows "Bubbling Brown" & precedes "Babies" Sugar |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | THEATRE HODGEPODGE $400: Big Stone Gap, Virginia is home to the outdoor drama "Trail of the Lonesome" this Pine |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | THEATRE HODGEPODGE $500: Shakespeare's play about this Tudor king begins, "I come no more to make you laugh..." Henry VIII |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Act I of this 1997 "Best Musical" features an opening sequence titled "The Launching" Titanic |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: "Big River", featuring such characters as the Widow Douglas & Tom Sawyer, is based on this book Huckleberry Finn |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: This Sondheim tune begins, "Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone, a..." "Comedy Tonight" |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: 1959 musical that introduced the song "Everything's Coming Up Roses" Gypsy |
| #3361, aired 1999-03-29 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): In an Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice show, it's the other title word describing Joseph's amazing dreamcoat Technicolor |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: This classic musical was based on a book of "Tales" by James Michener South Pacific |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Keith Carradine rounded up a 1991 Tony nomination for his role in this extravaganza Will Rogers Follies |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: In 1992 Gregory Hines starred on Broadway in this musical about the life of Jelly Roll Morton Jelly's Last Jam |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Charles Strouse wrote the music for "Annie" & this composer did the music for "Annie Get Your Gun" Irving Berlin |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: "Wheels Of A Dream" is one of the big numbers from this musical set in the early 20th century Ragtime |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THEATRE $200: During rehearsals, the director arranges the actors' movements in a process known by this "wooden" name Blocking |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THEATRE $400: Junius Brutus, patriarch of this acting family, made his U.S. debut in 1821 as Richard III Booth |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THEATRE $600: Faye Dunaway won a 1998 Sarah Siddons Award for playing this Greek-American diva in "Master Class" Maria Callas |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THEATRE $800: The original production of his play "The Skin Of Our Teeth" starred Tallulah Bankhead & Frederic March Thornton Wilder |
| #3329, aired 1999-02-11 | THEATRE $1000: Gary Sinise directed the 1996 revival of this actor-playwright's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Buried Child" Sam Shepard |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE THEATRE $200: After earning an Oscar nomination for "Schindler's List", he won a 1995 Tony for playing Hamlet Ralph Fiennes |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE THEATRE $400: In 1851 he become playwright in residence at the National Theatre in Bergen, Norway Henrik Ibsen |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE THEATRE $600: A theatrical adaptation of this Edgar Lee Masters poetry anthology premiered on Broadway in 1963 Spoon River Anthology |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE THEATRE $800: "Swimming To Cambodia" monologist who starred in the aptly-titled one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" Spalding Gray |
| #3312, aired 1999-01-19 | THE THEATRE $1000: This South African directed the 1982 New York production of his own play "Master Harold... and the Boys" Athol Fugard |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THEATRE $200: In James Howard's version of the play, these title star-crossed lovers live happily ever after Romeo And Juliet |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THEATRE $600: In 1997 Jeanne Tripplehorn & Amy Irving starred on Broadway in this playwright's "Three Sisters" Anton Chekhov |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THEATRE $800: "Last Night of Ballyhoo" is Alfred Uhry's first new play since this one about a woman & her chauffeur Driving Miss Daisy |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): Much of this musical takes place at the Kit Kat Club Cabaret |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THEATRE $1000: Jules Feiffer & John Lennon contributed to this "clothing optional" revue on Broadway from 1976-1989 Oh! Calcutta! |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $100: The imprints seen here belong to a star of this 1977 film: Star Wars |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $200: When this star left his handprints on August 8, 1984 he wrote, "You made my day" Clint Eastwood |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $300: Cartoon character whose footprints are seen here: Donald Duck |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $400: To make her imprint this partner of Fred Astaire wore her mother's size 4 1/2 shoes instead of her own 5 1/2s Ginger Rogers |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $500 (Daily Double): Silent comedian who left the lasting impression seen here: Harold Lloyd |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: She stunned Broadway by turning down her 1996 Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical Julie Andrews (for Victor/Victoria) |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Of "Shogun", "King Rat" or "Tai-Pan", the James Clavell novel that became a musical in 1990 Shogun |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: In 1996 this star of "La Bamba" & "Young Guns" began reigning on Broadway in "The King And I" Lou Diamond Phillips |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Much of this musical about a man-eating plant is set at Mr. Mushnik's flower shop Little Shop Of Horrors |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Sharon Lawrence.) Before appearing on TV I appeared on Broadway in several musical revivals including this one set in Anatevka Fiddler on the Roof |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: It's based on the memoir "Anna and the King of Siam" The King and I |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: In January 1997 Liza Minnelli returned to Broadway, filling in for Julie Andrews in this musical Victor/Victoria |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: The rock opera "Rent" is a reworking of this Puccini opera, set in modern times La bohème |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This Stephen Sondheim musical was based on the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night" A Little Night Music |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,600 (Daily Double): (Hello, I'm Marla Maples Trump.) In 1992 I made my Broadway debut in the musical about this humorist who never met a man he didn't like Will Rogers |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $200: The Ritz-Carlton hotel in this Mass. capital is the setting for Moss Hart's comedy "Light Up the Sky" Boston |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $400: Female impersonator Charles Busch called his 1996 New York show "Flipping My" this Wig |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $600: James Earl Jones appeared as Lennie in a 1974 revival of this play based on a Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $800: Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney earned a Tony nomination for playing Nick Arnstein in this 1964 musical Funny Girl |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | THEATRE $1000: His expressionistic 1922 play "The Hairy Ape" opens in the firemen's forecastle of an ocean liner Eugene O'Neill |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Part of this 1971 musical's second act is set in the Garden of Gethsemane "Jesus Christ Superstar" |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Life is a drag for Tony Roberts, who plays an entertainer named Toddy in this Julie Andrews musical Victor/Victoria |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Marilyn McCoo sang the classic song "Bill" when she made her Broadway debut as Julie in this revival in 1995 Show Boat |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): Nominated for 5 Tonys, this 1996 musical based on a film boasted a memorable dance on a giant piano keyboard "Big" |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: In 1996 Robert Goulet took to the road as Don Quixote in a touring production of this musical Man of La Mancha |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: "March Of The Toys" is from "Babes in Toyland" & "March Of The Siamese Children" is from this musical The King and I |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: The New York Post said of this revival with Jerry Lewis, it's "another home run... you'll have a ball!" Damn Yankees |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $700 (Daily Double): Lerner & Loewe's first hit musical, it was inspired in part by the works of Scotsman James Barrie Brigadoon |
| #2960, aired 1997-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: In 1973 Ben Vereen won a Tony for his performance in this musical about Charlemagne's son Pippin |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | THEATRE $200: When this Shakespearean theater was rebuilt after a 1613 fire, tile replaced thatch on its roof the Globe Theatre |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | THEATRE $400: The drama theatre, 1 of 4 auditoriums in this Sydney structure, is used for plays the Sydney Opera House |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | THEATRE $600: Uta Hagen was the first to play Martha in this playwright's"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Albee |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | THEATRE $800: 2 of Wilkie Collins' plays were performed at a theatre in this "Great Expectations" author's home (Charles) Dickens |
| #2948, aired 1997-05-28 | THEATRE $1000: Lady Gregory organized foreign tours of this Dublin theater company from 1911 to 1913 the Abbey Theatre |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: In 1996 Lou Diamond Phillips filled Yul Brynner's royal shoes for a revival of this musical The King And I |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Patti LuPone, Glenn Close & Betty Buckley have all played Norma Desmond in this show Sunset Boulevard |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800 (Daily Double): Theatre troupe seen here, they've created quite a noise in the dance world:
[video clue] Stomp |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Try to remember this long-running musical that features the song "Try To Remember" The Fantasticks |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Bob Fosse made his choreographic debut with this musical about a threatened strike in a sleepwear factory The Pajama Game |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: Kuan Han-Ch'ing was a leading playwright of this country's Yuan dynasty China |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: Laurence Olivier played the Button-Moulder in a 1944 revival of this playwright's "Peer Gynt" Henrik Ibsen |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $600: This "Antigone" author starred in his own play "Nausikaa" but later gave up acting Sophocles |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: In the 1500s the Gelosi troupe became famous for performing this Italian form of improvised comedy Commedia dell'arte |
| #2923, aired 1997-04-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: He wrote his 1st play, "The Beloved Bandit" , by himself, before he teamed up with George S. Kaufman Moss Hart |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: In Paris this American musical is known as "La Petite Boutique Des Horreurs" Little Shop of Horrors |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Treat Williams, Gary Sandy & Jim Belushi have all played the pirate king in this operetta The Pirates of Penzance |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: Football star Joe Namath played baseball star Joe Hardy in a 1981 production of this musical Damn Yankees |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Jack Cassidy & Carol Lawrence appeared in "Shangri-La", a 1956 musical based on this famous novel Lost Horizon |
| #2912, aired 1997-04-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: This playwright adapted the 1993 musical "The Goodbye Girl" from his own screenplay of the 1977 film Neil Simon |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | THEATRE TALK $200: Arena theatre, in which the audience is seated on all sides of the acting area, is also called theatre-in-this Theatre-In-The-Round |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | THEATRE TALK $400: "Avian" term for the offstage area where the actors await their cues Wings |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | THEATRE TALK $600: In ancient Greek drama, the Coryphaeus was the leader of this group Chorus |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | THEATRE TALK $800: Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" is an example of the unconventional theatrical form known as "Theater of" The Absurd |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | THEATRE TALK $1000: "Everyman" is this kind of medieval play presented to teach lessons about good and evil Morality play |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | THEATRE TALK $100: This 4-letter word for a silent street performer once referred to a type of ancient farce mime |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | THEATRE TALK $200: The space occupied by the musicians is called this "pit" the orchestra pit |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | THEATRE TALK $300: These lights at the front of the stage floor are at about the same level as the actors' pedal extremities footlights |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | THEATRE TALK $400: Often found in Shakespeare's plays, the stage direction "exeunt" means the actors do this leave |
| #2874, aired 1997-02-13 | THEATRE TALK $500: Derived from the Greek words for "dance" & "write", it's the art of creating dances, perhaps for a play choreography |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | THEATRE $200: His "Play It Again, Sam" tells the story of Allan Felix, a film journalist whose marriage has just broken up Woody Allen |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | THEATRE $400: In this musical members of the Class of '59 recall their days at Rydell High School "Grease" |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | THEATRE $600: After Randle P. McMurphy attacks Nurse Ratched in this play, she has him lobotomized "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): This play takes place at the summer home of Norman & Ethel Thayer "On Golden Pond" |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | THEATRE $1000: In his play "Lysistrata", the women of Athens refuse to sleep with their men until peace is declared Aristophanes |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THEATRE $200: Mike Nichols directed the original Broadway production of this playwright's "Plaza Suite" (Neil) Simon |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THEATRE $400: An updated 1996 version of this playwright's "Tartuffe" starred John Glover as a TV evangelist Molière |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THEATRE $600: Originally, critics panned his play "The Birthday Party" & its London run lasted only a week (Harold) Pinter |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THEATRE $800: There are 5 basic types of plays in this form of drama; the third is the katsura mono, or "wig play" Noh |
| #2811, aired 1996-11-18 | THEATRE $1000: The Irish Literary Theatre's first production was this poet's 1892 play "The Countess Cathleen" William Butler Yeats |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Emily Loesser sang the part of Sarah Brown in a recent recording of this musical written by her father Guys and Dolls |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This Tony-winning 1992 musical starring Chita Rivera is based on a book by Manuel Puig Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #2809, aired 1996-11-14 | MUSICAL THEATRE $3,200 (Daily Double): Act one of this show features the songs "Belle", "Be Our Guest" & "If I Can't Love Her" Beauty and the Beast |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL THEATRE $100: Marlon Brando played Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by this American playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL THEATRE $200: This 19th c. Norwegian wrote his famous play "Peer Gynt" in verse Henrik Ibsen |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL THEATRE $300: This Russian playwright died in July, 1904, less than 6 months after his "The Cherry Orchard" premiered Anton Chekhov |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL THEATRE $400: The Abbey Theatre in this city is regarded as Ireland's national theatre Dublin |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | INTERNATIONAL THEATRE $500: German playwright who wrote "Mother Courage and Her Children" & "The Good Woman of Szechuan" Bertolt Brecht |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Songs in this musical include "I, Don Quixote' & "The Quest" Man of La Mancha |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Their first professional musical collaboration was the score for "Oklahoma!" Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: At the end of this musical, Tevye & Golde leave Anatevka for America to join their uncle Abram Fiddler on the Roof |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In Act I of this Scotland-set musical, Charlie Dalrymple & Jean MacLaren are married Brigadoon |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: The role of Princess Winnifred in "Once Upon a Mattress" was first played by this comedienne Carol Burnett |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | THEATRE $200: This duo's 1884 operetta "Princess Ida" opens in a pavilion in King Hildebrand's palace Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | THEATRE $400: This Kern & Hammerstein show that just keeps rolling along won 1995's Tony for Best Revival of a Musical Show Boat |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | THEATRE $600: "Et Dukkehjem" is the original Norwegian title of his 1879 play "A Doll's House" Ibsen |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | THEATRE $800: Early in this play, Boolie tells his mother, "You shouldn't be allowed to drive a car any more" Driving Miss Daisy |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | THEATRE $1000: Frances McDormand, Jane Alexander & Madeline Kahn starred in her play "The Sisters Rosensweig" Wendy Wasserstein |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: "Smokey Joe's Café" features songs of Leiber & Stoller, who concocted this numerical "Love Potion" "Love Potion No. 9" |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Based on a novel by a Trinidadian author, "Once on This Island" is set on an island in this sea the Caribbean |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: In 1995 this singer-composer known for the hit "Short People" premiered his musical about Faust Randy Newman |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: This 1948 Moira Shearer film named for colorful footwear has been adapted as a Broadway musical The Red Shoes |
| #2712, aired 1996-05-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Cinderella's prince & Rapunzel's prince sing about their "Agony" in this Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THEATRE $200: Tina Howe's 1983 play "Painting Churches" takes place on Beacon Hill in this city Boston |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THEATRE $400: A 1995 revival of this playwright's "Suddenly Last Summer" starred Elizabeth Ashley as the venomous Violet Venable Tennessee Williams |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THEATRE $800: His days as a TV comedy writer for Sid Caesar inspired his irreverent comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" Neil Simon |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THEATRE $1000: The title of his 1935 play "Awake and Sing" is a quotation from Isaiah 26:19 Clifford Odets |
| #2699, aired 1996-05-02 | THEATRE $3,500 (Daily Double): Settings for this musical include Schultz' fruit shop & a train en route to Berlin Cabaret |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: In 1994 Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia in "The Brady Bunch", appeared as Rizzo in this Broadway musical "Grease" |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: "King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running" is a musical revue set in the Outer Banks of this state North Carolina |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: Robert Preston starred as this silent film director in the Jerry Herman musical "Mack & Mabel" Mack Sennett |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: "Her First Roman" was a musical adaptation of Shaw's play about these historic lovers Caesar & Cleopatra |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This creator of Jeeves wrote lyrics for more than 2 dozen musicals, including "Leave It To Jane" P.G. Wodehouse |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THEATRE $200: Andrew Lloyd Webber's first musical tells of this biblical hero & his "Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" Joseph |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THEATRE $400: In 1995 these singing sisters were "So Excited" about touring in a production of "Ain't Misbehavin"' the Pointer Sisters |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THEATRE $600: Play in which Happy says, I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain." Death of a Salesman |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THEATRE $1000: Each act of this Beckett play ends with one of the 2 tramps saying, "Yes, let's go", but they never move Waiting for Godot |
| #2642, aired 1996-02-13 | THEATRE $1,800 (Daily Double): Tennessee Williams turned his unproduced screenplay "The Gentleman Caller" into this play The Glass Menagerie |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: He was the King & Gertrude Lawrence was "I" when "The King and I" opened on Broadway in March 1951 Yul Brynner |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: This 1968 show begins with the dawning of the Age of Aquarius Hair |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This Frank Loesser musical was based on the stories of Damon Runyon Guys and Dolls |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: In this musical J. Pierrepont Finch begins as a window washer & ends as chairman of the board How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #2637, aired 1996-02-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: "Day By Day" is the most famous song from this musical based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew Godspell |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | THEATRE $200: In 1995 3 actors presented "The Compleat Works of" this playwright "Abridged" in just 105 minutes William Shakespeare |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | THEATRE $600: This comic's wife Camille co-produced the Tony-nominated play about the Delany Sisters, "Having Our Say" Bill Cosby |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | THEATRE $800: Mercedes Ruehl played the lusty Serafina Delle Rose in the 1995 revival of his play "The Rose Tattoo" Tennessee Williams |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | THEATRE $1000: Ed Begley Jr. starred in this "American Buffalo" author's 1995 play "The Cryptogram" David Mamet |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THEATRE $200: The quarrelsome acting couple in his 1976 comedy "California Suite" reappears in his 1995 play "London Suite" Neil Simon |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THEATRE $400: This 1994 play "Vita & Virginia" starred Vanessa Redgrave as Vita Sackville-West & Eileen Atkins as this author Virginia Woolf |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THEATRE $600: "Camping with Henry & Tom" dramatizes a real 1921 trip this president took with Henry Ford & Tom Edison Harding |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THEATRE $800: This British playwright gave us a "Birthday Party" in 1958; in 1991, it was "Party Time" Harold Pinter |
| #2616, aired 1996-01-08 | THEATRE $1000: "The Dance of Death" may be this "Miss Julie" playwright's most depressing drama August Strindberg |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | THEATRE $200: This 1979 play was based on the real-life story of John Merrick, who was exploited for his deformity The Elephant Man |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | THEATRE $400: Kenneth Branaghs "Public Enemy" tells of a young man obsessed with this legendary actor James Cagney |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | THEATRE $600: Matthew Broderick rises to the top of the corporate world in the 1995 revival of this musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | THEATRE $800: This Arthur Miller play is based on the Salem witch trials of 1692 The Crucible |
| #2611, aired 1996-01-01 | THEATRE $1000: In February 1995 the Off-Broadway "Wedding" & reception of this pair celebrated its 7th year on stage Tony n' Tina |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: At the beginning of this musical, Jean Valjean is released on parole from a chain gang after 19 years Les Misérables |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This star of TV's "Hazel" ran a Coney Island boardinghouse in the 1954 musical "By the Beautiful Sea" Shirley Booth |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: In a 1965 revival of this musical, Jerry Orbach played Jigger & understudied the role of Billy Bigelow Carousel |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: His 1892 comedy "Lady Windermere's Fan" inspired the 1960 musical "A Delightful Season" Oscar Wilde |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | 1990s THEATRE $200: This hit musical based on a Disney film features magical special effects & Tony-winning costumes Beauty and the Beast |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | 1990s THEATRE $400: "Das Barbecu", a wild musical spoof of this composer's "Ring" cycle, is set in Valhalla, Texas Wagner |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | 1990s THEATRE $600: This 1993 musical starred Bernadette Peters in the title role played on film by Marsha Mason The Goodbye Girl |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | 1990s THEATRE $1000: Harold Prince directed the musical "The Petrified Prince", based on a script by this Swedish director (Ingmar) Bergman |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | 1990s THEATRE $1,200 (Daily Double): Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature & Cecil B. De Mille are characters in this musical about a fading movie queen Sunset Boulevard |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THEATRE $200: A Catholic woman & a Protestant man fall in love in "Remembrance", set in this Northern Ireland capital Belfast |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THEATRE $400: This Norwegian wrote his 1866 play "Brand" in rhyming verse Henrik Ibsen |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THEATRE $600: This Greek-American diva is the leading character in Terrence McNally's play "Master Class" Maria Callas |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THEATRE $800: "Edward II", his play about a murdered king, premiered around 1592; sadly, he was killed in 1593 Christopher Marlowe |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | THEATRE $1000: A man named Berenger appears in several of his plays including "Rhinoceros" & "Exit the King" Eugène Ionesco |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | THEATRE $200: In 1994 he revised his 1966 play "Don't Drink the Water" for TV Woody Allen |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | THEATRE $400: In this play Gooper & Brick are sons of Big Daddy Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | THEATRE $600: In March 1995 Maria Conchita Alonso replaced Vanessa Williams on Broadway in this musical set in South America Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THEATRE $200: The 1992 Broadway musical "Jelly's Last Jam" is based on the life of this composer Jelly Roll Morton |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THEATRE $400: In 1992 Alan Alda starred on Broadway in this playwright's
"Jake's Women" Neil Simon |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THEATRE $600: This Robert Bolt drama about the final years of Sir Thomas More won the 1962 Tony for Best Play A Man For All Seasons |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): In an Ibsen play this title character is married to George Tesman Hedda Gabler |
| #2562, aired 1995-10-24 | THEATRE $1000: This William Inge play was originally titled "Front Porch" Picnic |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | THEATRE $200: Ethel Merman sang "Anything You Can Do" in this musical about Annie Oakley Annie Get Your Gun |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | THEATRE $400: T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral' deals with the murder of this man Thomas Becket |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | THEATRE $600: This famous 1962 drama has only 4 characters: Martha, George, Nick & Honey Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | THEATRE $800: Charles Condomine is haunted by both his late wives in this Noel Coward farce Blithe Spirit |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | THEATRE $1000: Based on a true incident, this 1990 play tells of an imposter who claims to be Sidney Poitier's son Six Degrees of Separation |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | THEATRE $200: This Russian city's acclaimed art theatre made an extensive tour of Europe & the U.S. in the 1920s Moscow |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | THEATRE $400: The 1st version of his play "Tartuffe" presented for King Louis XIV in 1664, is lost Moliere |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | THEATRE $600: Walter Huston starred in the 1934 play "Dodsworth", based on the novel by this author Sinclair Lewis |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | THEATRE $800: In 1960 Peter Hall took over & reorganized this theatrical company called the RSC the Royal Shakespeare Company |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | THEATRE $1000: He directed the original Broadway production of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Seascape" Edward Albee |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: "Hello, Dolly!" was conceived with Ethel Merman in mind, but this actress was the first to play the title role Carol Channing |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In 1991 Jonathan Pryce & Lea Salonga won Tonys for acting in this British import Miss Saigon |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This musical opens with the Rodgers & Hammerstein tune "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" Oklahoma! |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: This crooner originated the role of J.B. Biggley in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" Rudy Vallée |
| #2541, aired 1995-09-25 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Both acts of "The Sound of Music" close with this inspirational song "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $200: The only characters in this Alfred Uhry play are Daisy Werthan, her chauffeur & her son Driving Miss Daisy |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $400: Much of Stephen Sondheim's 1976 musical "Pacific Overtures" was modeled on this form of Japanese theatre kabuki |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $600: William Ball founded the ACT in Pittsburgh in 1965 but moved it to this Northern California city in 1967 San Francisco |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $1000: Edith Evans played the serpent in the 1923 cast of this playwright's "Back to Methuselah" (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $1,700 (Daily Double): This Southerner's play "Tiger Tail" is a reworking of his screenplay for the Carroll Baker film "Baby Doll" Tennessee Williams |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | THEATRE $200: In 1994 Julie Harris starred in a Broadway revival of this playwright's "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | THEATRE $400: Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars" is set during this country's 1916 Easter Rising Ireland |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | THEATRE $800: Play by Samuel Beckett in which the title character never shows up Waiting for Godot |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | THEATRE $1000: His play "The Matchmaker" was based on his earlier work "The Merchant of Yonkers" Thornton Wilder |
| #2522, aired 1995-07-18 | THEATRE $1,500 (Daily Double): The opening of this musical is set on the 4th of July as the train rolls into River City The Music Man |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: In 1994 this indefatigable star embarked on a 30th anniversary tour of "Hello, Dolly!" Carol Channing |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: In 1960 Tammy Grimes played this "Unsinkable" title character on Broadway Molly Brown |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: He starred in the Broadway musical "Top Banana" before he played Sergeant Bilko on TV Phil Silvers |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: She belted out "You'll Never Get Away From Me" with Jack Klugman in the 1959 musical "Gypsy" (Ethel) Merman |
| #2519, aired 1995-07-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Bobby Short sang "Too Darn Hot" in a 1956 revival of this Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Barbra Streisand introduced the song "People" in this musical Funny Girl |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In 1994 Brooke Shields made her Broadway debut as Betty Rizzo in this musical Grease |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: 1992's "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!" was inspired by the comic songs of this man Allan Sherman |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: "Cabaret" was based partly on this 1951 play by John Van Druten I Am a Camera |
| #2515, aired 1995-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $3,000 (Daily Double): 1966 Jerry Herman musical that features the following:
"For we need a little Christmas /
Right this very minute /
Candles in the window /
Carols at the spinet /
Yes, we need a little Christmas /
Right this very minute /
It hasn't snowed a single flurry /
But Santa, dear, we're in a hurry /
So climb down the chimney /
Put up the brightest string of lights I've ever seen..." Mame |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $200: In 1928 she & her husband Alfred Lunt appeared simultaneously in plays by Eugene O'Neill Lynn Fontanne |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $400: The great 19th C. actress Eleanora Duse played this Shakespearean heroine at Verona when she was 14 Juliet |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $600: Charley's aunt is from this country, "where the nuts come from" Brazil |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $800: Noel Coward's 1925 play about an eccentric actress, or rhinitis caused by allergy to pollen Hay Fever |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $1000: Garson Kanin wrote & directed this Judy Holliday comedy that opened on Broadway in 1946 Born Yesterday |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | THEATRE $200: This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical is set in Siam in the early 1860s The King and I |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | THEATRE $400: Maggie the Cat is the catty heroine of this Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | THEATRE $600: The title of Tina Howe's play "Painting" these refers to people, not to houses of worship Churches |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | THEATRE $800: He wrote in "Tartuffe", "Those whose conduct gives room for talk are...first to attack their neighbors" Moliere |
| #2467, aired 1995-05-02 | THEATRE $1000: In 16th c. Italy the commedia erudita followed scripts & this popular dramatic form was improvised commedia dell'arte |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: This man known as "Satchmo" played the tune "Ain't Misbehavin'" in the 1929 revue "Hot Chocolates" Louis Armstrong |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Rum Tum Tugger & Growltiger are characters in this musical Cats |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: This 1967 play included such songs as "The Kite", "The Red Baron" & "Schroeder" You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Upon Billy Bigelow's death in this play, Nettie consoles Julie by singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" Carousel |
| #2458, aired 1995-04-19 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: When this play opened at NYC's Palace Theatre on August 21, 1983, Georges was played by Gene Barry La Cage aux Folles |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: In 1993 "A Grand Night for Singing!" celebrated 50 years of music by this pair Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Davy Jones of the Monkees was one of many young actors to play the Artful Dodger in this musical Oliver! |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: In "Starlight Express", the performers move about on these roller skates |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: This show that opened on Broadway in 1991 is a reworking of "Madama Butterfly" set in Vietnam Miss Saigon |
| #2440, aired 1995-03-24 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" is a song from this Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | THEATRE $200: A common method of changing this is flying -- raising or lowering suspended units scenery (flats accepted) |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | THEATRE $400: William Gillette's play "Secret Service" is set in this Confederate capital at the close of the Civil War Richmond |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | THEATRE $600: In the original production of this play, Barbara Bel Geddes played Maggie the Cat Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | THEATRE $800: Shaw was lionized for this play about a Christian & a wild beast Androcles and the Lion |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | THEATRE $1000: "The Real Thing" by this "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" playwright won the 1984 Tony for Best Play Tom Stoppard |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Rosie O'Donnell played the tart-tongued Rizzo in the 1994 revival of this musical set in the '50s Grease |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote this "regal" musical for Gertrude Lawrence, who played Anna in it The King and I |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This "Cabaret" star played George M. Cohan in the 1968 musical "George M!" Joel Grey |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: This dancer who says he's 5 feet 18 1/2 inches tall directed & choreographed "Grand Hotel" Tommy Tune |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This composer's "Passion" won the 1994 Tony for Best Musical Stephen Sondheim |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | THEATRE $200: Lynn Redgrave appeared in a 1992 Broadway revival of "The Master Builder" by this Norwegian playwright Ibsen |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | THEATRE $400: This "Major Barbara" playwright's "Back to Methuselah" is really five plays in one Shaw |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | THEATRE $600: Aristotle said that this form of Greek drama evokes pity & fears which lead to catharsis tragedy |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | THEATRE $800: This "Endgame" author wrote "Catastrophe" in 1982 as a tribute-to Vaclav Havel who was then in prison (Samuel) Beckett |
| #2423, aired 1995-03-01 | THEATRE $1000: Great Russian acting teacher who explained his famous "system" in his 1936 book "an actor prepares" Stanislavski |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THEATRE $200: The L.A. Times reported that devotees of this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical call themselves "Phans" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THEATRE $400: In scene 1 of this play, Daisy crashes her car & her son Boolie decides to hire her a chauffeur Driving Miss Daisy |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THEATRE $600: His play "Brighton Beach Memoirs" takes place in a small house in Brooklyn in 1937 Neil Simon |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THEATRE $800: Justine Bateman appeared in a 1990 revival of "The Crucible" by this playwright Arthur Miller |
| #2407, aired 1995-02-07 | THEATRE $1000: In 1867 this Norwegian wrote one of his most famous plays, "Peer Gynt" (Henrik) Ibsen |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | THEATRE $200: It's the planet visited in Gore Vidal's "Visit to a Small Planet" Earth |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | THEATRE $400: It's the bridge in Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | THEATRE $600: 1 of the 2 women characters in "1776" (1 of) Abigail Adams (or Martha Jefferson) |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | THEATRE $800: This 1948 Maxwell Anderson play features the Boleyn family Anne of the Thousand Days |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | THEATRE $1000: Oscar Hammerstein's update of a Bizet opera, set in an American parachute factory Carmen Jones |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: The songs "Dulcinea" & "The Impossible Dream" are from this mid-1960s musical Man of La Mancha |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: This island was off limits to American soldiers in "South Pacific" Bali Hai |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: When "Fiddler on the Roof" premiered on Broadway in 1964, this man played the role of Tevye Zero Mostel |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Pat Suzuki made her Broadway debut singing "I Enjoy Being A Girl" in this musical Flower Drum Song |
| #2382, aired 1995-01-03 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: This 1970 show starring Lauren Bacall was based on the 1950 movie "All About Eve" Applause |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: After the Lincoln assassination, the owner of this theatre was imprisoned for 39 days Ford's Theatre |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: He 1937 he partnered with John Houseman in the Mercury Theatre Orson Welles |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $600: He founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 Joseph Papp |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: This famous acting couple first appeared together in 1923 in "Sweet Nell of Old Drury" Lunt & Fontanne |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: This "Oedipus Rex" playwright led the boys' chorus celebrating victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. Sophocles |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $200: The first known play presented at this British university was "St. Katherine" in 1490 Oxford |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $400: What we know about phylakes -- improvised plays from this ancient civilization -- comes from vase paintings Greece |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $600: This 19th century dramatist's early years in Skien, Norway influenced many of his plays Henrik Ibsen |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $800: This author of "The Threepenny Opera" founded the Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin in 1949 Bertolt Brecht |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | WORLD THEATRE $1000: This Irish poet fell in love with Maud Gonne & she starred in his play "Cathleen ni Houlihan" William Butler Yeats |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $200: Act I of his comedy "Barefoot in the Park" opens at "about 5:30 on a cold February afternoon" Neil Simon |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $400: Actor Victor Jory's son Jon Jory is the producing director of the Actors Theatre of this Kentucky city Louisville |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $600: "Here's looking at you, kid" is Bogart's last line in this Woody Allen play Play It Again, Sam |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $1000: He not only wrote the play "Purlie Victorious", he starred in it with his wife Ruby Dee Ossie Davis |
| #2363, aired 1994-12-07 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): This actor-playwright won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1978 play "Buried Child" Sam Shepard |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: When Marie Osmond toured in this play in 1994, her eldest son, Steven, played Kurt Von Trapp The Sound of Music |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: Scott Bakula played Joe DiMaggio in a 1983 musical about this sex symbol Marilyn Monroe |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Elaine Stritch plays Capt. Andy's wife Parthy in the current revival of this Jerome Kern musical Show Boat |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: "Kismet"'s music is adapted from the works of this "Prince Igor" composer Alexander Borodin |
| #2349, aired 1994-11-17 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1946 musical that featured the following was Irving Berlin's biggest Broadway hit:
"I'm quick on the trigger /
With targets not much bigger /
Than a pinpoint, a number 1..." Annie Get Your Gun |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | THEATRE $200: In the 1970s James Whitmore gave 'em hell in a one-man stage show about this president Harry Truman |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | THEATRE $400: Character who says, "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" Blanche DuBois |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | THEATRE $600: The 3 scenes of this Neil Simon comedy all take place in the same New York hotel room Plaza Suite |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | THEATRE $800: The Scopes Monkey Trial inspired this play that opened in 1955 Inherit the Wind |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | THEATRE $1000: In 1993 & '94 David & Shaun Cassidy appeared in this musical about twins separated at birth Blood Brothers |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: In "Finian's Rainbow", a leprechaun comes to America to find a stolen crock of this gold |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: A line in "Le Morte d'Arthur" about the "Lusty Month of May" apparently inspired a song in this musical Camelot |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: This mad Russian monk was the unlikely subject of a 1987 Australian musical Rasputin |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Bebe Neuwirth, who played Lilith on "Cheers", starred as Lola in a recent revival of this Broadway musical Damn Yankees |
| #2337, aired 1994-11-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Colonel Fairfax is a prisoner at the Tower of London in this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Yeomen of the Guard |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | THEATRE $200: This playwright dedicated "Long Day's Journey into Night" to his wife Carlotta O'Neill |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | THEATRE $400: Ethel Merman was right on the mark as markswoman Annie Oakley in this musical Annie Get Your Gun |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | THEATRE $600: In 1992 Jon Voight & Tyne Daly starred in an adaptation of this playwright's "The Seagull" Chekhov |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | THEATRE $800: The Pulitzer Prize-winning "Talley's Folly" is part of a cycle, that began with "Fifth of" this month July |
| #2322, aired 1994-10-11 | THEATRE $1000: This Edna Ferber-George S. Kaufman play tells of a group of aspiring actresses living in a boardinghouse Stage Door |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $200: He's the six-foot-tall imaginary companion of Elwood P. Dowd Harvey |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $400: Adapted from a book by Isabel Allende, "House of the Spirits" is set in this country Chile |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $600: In the title of a Kaufman & Hart comedy, Sheridan Whiteside is "The Man Who Came" here to Dinner |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $800: The Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico provides the setting for this Tennessee Williams play Night of the Iguana |
| #2312, aired 1994-09-27 | THEATRE $1000: In 1993 Anne Jackson & this actor, her husband, were featured in the retrospective "In Persons" Eli Wallach |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | THEATRE $200: Nicol Williamson's onstage antics made headlines when he played this Barrymore's ghost in "I Hate Hamlet" John |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | THEATRE $400: A 1927 play by Eugene O'Neill deals with the life of this man after he's resurrected by Jesus Lazarus |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | THEATRE $600: Tony Randall directed a 1992 revival of "The Master Builder" by this Scandinavian playwright Ibsen |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | THEATRE $800: This Italian form of improvised comedy featured tricks & stunts called lazzi Commedia dell'arte |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | THEATRE $1000: The first production of "The Sea Gull" failed, but it became a hit at this Russian theatre in 1898 Moscow Art Theatre |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: In 1965 Ginger Rogers succeeded Carol Channing as the matchmaker in this musical Hello, Dolly! |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: This musical ends with Aldonza & company singing "The Impossible Dream" the Man of La Mancha |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: This "Waiting for Godot" playwright was one of the contributors to the 1969 revue "Oh! Calcutta!" (Samuel) Beckett |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500 (Daily Double): Show that features the following: "I got the horse right here / The name is Paul Revere / And here's a guy that says if the weather's clear /Can do /Can do / This guy says the horse can do..." Guys and Dolls |
| #2293, aired 1994-07-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Elliott Gould played one of the 3 sailors on shore leave in a 1963 production of this musical On the Town |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THEATRE $200: This country's Shaw Festival was founded in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1962 Canada |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THEATRE $400: In 1939 Van Heflin & Joseph Cotten co-starred with her in "The Philadelphia Story" Katharine Hepburn |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THEATRE $600: "That Championship Season" concerns a reunion of 4 former players of this sport with their coach basketball |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THEATRE $800: Andrey Prozorov isn't onstage at the beginning of this Chekhov play, but his female siblings are Three Sisters |
| #2277, aired 1994-06-28 | THEATRE $1000: "Redhead", the 1st musical Bob Fosse directed, starred this redhead who became his 3rd wife Gwen Verdon |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: The Kit Kat Klub in Berlin is the setting for this musical, so... "Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome" Cabaret |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Yvonne Elliman was the original Mary Magdalene in this early Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: In 1990 Robert Guillaume donned a mask for an 8-month run in this role the Phantom of the Opera |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: The 1978 Tony Award for Best Musical went to this show based on the music of Fats Waller Ain't Misbehavin' |
| #2266, aired 1994-06-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Among the shows he's choreographed are "the Will Rogers Follies" & "Grand Hotel" Tommy Tune |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: Comic plays called kyogen originated in this country as a contrast to the serious noh dramas Japan |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: The "Rhesus", a Greek tragedy whose authorship is in doubt, is based on the tenth book of this Homeric work The Iliad |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | THEATRE HISTORY $600: The first play presented at the Eisenhower Theatre in this complex was a 1971 revival of "A Doll's House" the Kennedy Center |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: In 1901 this playwright married Olga Knipper, the first actress to play Yelena in his "Uncle Vanya" Chekhov |
| #2257, aired 1994-05-31 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: Christopher Marlowe wrote all of his plays during the reign of this English queen Queen Elizabeth I |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | 1980s THEATRE $200: In 1981 Chita Rivera re-created her role as Rose in "Bring Back Birdie", a sequel to this musical Bye Bye Birdie |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | 1980s THEATRE $400: In 1986 this playwright was "Broadway Bound" with the 3rd play in his autobiographical trilogy Neil Simon |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | 1980s THEATRE $600: Tom Hulce originated the role later played on film by Tom Cruise in this drama about a court-martial A Few Good Men |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | 1980s THEATRE $800: In 1985 this musical based on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" captured 7 Tonys Big River |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | 1980s THEATRE $1000: "Foxfire", about an elderly matriarch, opened on Broadway in 1982 & starred this husband & wife team Jessica Tandy & Hume Cronyn |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | THEATRE $200: In 1988 Ingmar Bergman's production of "Hamlet" in this language played in Brooklyn Swedish |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | THEATRE $400: In 1993 Maggie Smith starred in a revival of this playwright's "The Importance of Being Earnest" Oscar Wilde |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | THEATRE $600: Act I of this musical opens at a cinema in Buenos Aires in 1952 Evita |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | THEATRE $800: In 1993 this musical set in a Latin American prison captured 7 Tonys Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | THEATRE $1000: In a play by Chekhov, Ivan Voinitsky is this title character Uncle Vanya |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | THEATRE HISTORY $100: In 1904 Daphne du Maurier's father, Gerald, became the first actor to play this villain in "Peter Pan" Captain Hook |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: The first known Tellspiel—a play about this hero—was performed in Switzerland in 1512 William Tell |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | THEATRE HISTORY $300: This character, known in Italian as Arlecchino, first appeared in the commedia dell'arte in the 1500s the Harlequin |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: In the 1640s these supporters of Oliver Cromwell closed all the theatres in London the Roundheads (Puritans) |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | THEATRE HISTORY $500: London's Royal Coburg Theatre was renamed the Royal Victoria & affectionately nicknamed this the Old Vic |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | THEATRE $200: When Dustin Hoffman starred as Willy Loman in this play, John Malkovich played his son Biff Death of a Salesman |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | THEATRE $400: "The King and I" is set in & around a palace in this capital city Bangkok |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | THEATRE $600: This existentialist's 1943 play "Les Mouches" is known in English as "The Flies" Jean-Paul Sartre |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | THEATRE $800: This "memorable" 1944 play about a Norwegian-American family was based on the book "Mama's Bank Account" I Remember Mama |
| #2232, aired 1994-04-26 | THEATRE $1000: Scene 1 of this playwright's "Golden Boy" is set in the Broadway office of a fight manager Clifford Odets |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THEATRE $200: The 1993 British play "Murder Is Easy" was adapted from a 1939 story by this woman Agatha Christie |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THEATRE $400: Bert Convy, Jack Gilford & Lotte Lenya were in the original cast of this 1966 musical set in Berlin Cabaret |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THEATRE $600: Herman Wouk adapted his own novel "The Caine Mutiny" for the stage & gave it this slightly longer title The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THEATRE $800: Pantalone, one of the stock characters in the Commedia dell'arte, was a merchant from this Italian city Venice |
| #2219, aired 1994-04-07 | THEATRE $1000: Her 1951 play "The Autumn Garden" has been called "a Chekhovian drama" Lillian Hellman |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | THEATRE $200: When Richard Burton played Dr. Faustus at Oxford in 1966, this woman played Helen of Troy Elizabeth Taylor |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | THEATRE $400: Estelle Parsons played Ruth, a pirate maid, in Joseph Papp's 1981 production of this operetta Pirates of Penzance |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | THEATRE $800: Noel Coward turned this man's play "Lady Windermere's Fan" into a musical called "After the Ball" Oscar Wilde |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1968 "John Brown's Body" became the first play presented in this theatre since it closed in 1865 Ford's Theatre |
| #2214, aired 1994-03-31 | THEATRE $1000: "Let 'em Eat Cake" was a sequel to this Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about a presidential campaign Of Thee I Sing |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | THEATRE $200: This theatre associated with Shakespeare was built by Richard & Cuthbert Burbage in 1599 the Globe |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | THEATRE $400: Interlocutor & Mr. Bones provided humor in this type of "show" popular in the 19th century a minstrel show |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | THEATRE $600: Tyrone Guthrie directed the first production at the Stratford Festival in this Canadian province Ontario |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | THEATRE $800: This author of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" was born Thomas Straussler (Tom) Stoppard |
| #2195, aired 1994-03-04 | THEATRE $1000: One of this Moscow Art Theatre founder's notable acting roles was Gaev in "The Cherry Orchard" Stanislavsky |
| #2161, aired 1994-01-17 | THEATRE $200: In 1993 a musical version of this playwright's "The Goodbye Girl" premiered on Broadway Neil Simon |
| #2161, aired 1994-01-17 | THEATRE $400: In the original production of "Minnie's Boys", Shelley Winters played the mother of this comedy team the Marx Brothers |
| #2161, aired 1994-01-17 | THEATRE $600: This Michael Bennett musical received the 1976 Pulitzer Prize in Drama A Chorus Line |
| #2161, aired 1994-01-17 | THEATRE $800: In 1991 Martin Sheen starred in a revival of this Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials The Crucible |
| #2161, aired 1994-01-17 | THEATRE $1000: 'Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets concerns an impending strike of these workers taxi drivers |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $200: "Alibi", the first play based on an Agatha Christie novel, featured Charles Laughton as this detective Hercule Poirot |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $400: The Barbican Centre is the London base of this theatre company also known as the RSC the Royal Shakespeare Company |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $600: Derek Jacobi portrayed this Romantic poet & Lord in "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" Byron |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $800: Paul Scofield & Vanessa Redgrave starred in a 1992 revival of his 1920 play "Heartbreak House" George Bernard Shaw |
| #2154, aired 1994-01-06 | THE BRITISH THEATRE $1000: Peter O'Toole was to star in John Osborne's 1992 sequel to this 1956 play, but left the cast Look Back in Anger |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: When Anna arrives in Siam in "The King and I", she sings "I Whistle" this "A Happy Tune" |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: This play opens outside Tevye's house in the Russian village of Anatevka Fiddler on the Roof |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: This actress introduced the role of Lorelei Lee in the musical "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" Carol Channing |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In this 1955 musical comedy, Joe Boyd's favorite baseball team was the Washington Senators Damn Yankees |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: In the 1921 production of "Bombo", he dropped to his knees & sang "My Mammy" Al Jolson |
| #2112, aired 1993-11-09 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $200: He wrote, "Many happy trails" in cement above imprints of his gun & Trigger's hoofprints Roy Rogers |
| #2112, aired 1993-11-09 | THE CHINESE THEATRE $300: She wrote, "Love to you all" over her tiny bare footprints in 1935; she was only 6 years old Shirley Temple |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | THEATRE $200: A Pulitzer Prize- winning play by Robert E. Sherwood tells of this president's early days "in Illinois" Lincoln |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | THEATRE $400: The heroine of his "Sweet Bird of Youth" is fading movie Queen Alexandra del Lago Tennessee Williams |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | THEATRE $600: This Norwegian dramatist served as stage manager for the National Theatre in Bergen from 1851 to 1857 Henrik Ibsen |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | THEATRE $800: He wrote "The Entertainer" especially for Sir Laurence Olivier John Osborne |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | THEATRE $1000: In 1980 David Edgar brought to the stage an 8 1/2-hour version of this Dickens work Nicholas Nickleby |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THEATRE $200: Vladimir & Estragon were "Waiting for" him Godot |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THEATRE $400: This Frenchman whose name is often followed by "Pere" liked to cast his mistresses in his plays (Alexandre) Dumas |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THEATRE $600: The 1927 comedy "The Royal Family" was inspired by this "Royal Family of the American Stage" Barrymores |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): This urbane Englishman wrote about a weekend in the country in the 1925 comedy "Hay Fever" Noel Coward |
| #2079, aired 1993-09-23 | THEATRE $1000: He wrote "The Dumb Waiter" in 1957 & "The Caretaker" in 1960 Harold Pinter |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | THEATRE $200: The 1944 play in which Laura tells Amanda, "I'm not expecting any gentlemen callers" The Glass Menagerie |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | THEATRE $400: The mie is a dramatic pose struck by a male actor in this form of Japanese theatre Kabuki |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | THEATRE $600: He wrote "Once in a Lifetime" with George S. Kaufman & "Winged Victory" without him Moss Hart |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | THEATRE $800: This playwright's first version of "Tartuffe" was banned; so was the second one Molière |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | THEATRE $1000: His daughter Rebecca directed a revival of his play "After the Fall" in 1992 Arthur Miller |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | THEATRE $200: Yeats' one-act verse play "At the Hawk's Well" was inspired by the Noh drama of this country Japan |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | THEATRE $400: Jean-Racine wrote under his own name; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin used this nom de plume Moliere |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | THEATRE $600: In this Eugene O'Neill play, "two enormous" trees "brood oppressively over the" Cabot farmhouse Desire Under the Elms |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | THEATRE $800: Strindberg set "The Ghost Sonata" in this Scandinavian capital, his birthplace Stockholm |
| #2053, aired 1993-07-07 | THEATRE $1000: The poor women of Canterbury are the first characters to speak in this T.S. Eliot play Murder in the Cathedral |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $200: In 1945 this playwright won his first N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, for "The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $400: Keir Dullea played this Jazz Age author in a one-man show called "The Other Side of Paradise" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $600: Of Henry IV, V, VI, VII or VIII, the only one who isn't a title character in a Shakespeare play Henry VII |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $800: Chekov play in which Treplev kills a bird & lays it at Nina's feet The Seagull |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THEATRE $1000: This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was inspired by a story in Ovid's "Metamorphosis" Pygmalion |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $600: Alma is known as "The Nightingale of the Delta" in his play "Summer and Smoke" Tennessee Williams |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $800: This 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the '50s became a musical in 1992 & Lainie Kazan was in both My Favorite Year |
| #2045, aired 1993-06-25 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE $1000: She wrote the book for the musical "Candide" but is best known for dramas like "The Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | THEATRE $200: Originally one of the "Four Cohans", he wrote his first full-length musical in 1901 George M. Cohan |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | THEATRE $400: In 1984 Jack Klugman starred in a one-man show about this Texas-born president LBJ |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | THEATRE $600: He appeared in the 1927 musical "Golden Dawn" under his real name, Archie Leach Cary Grant |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | THEATRE $800: In 1946 this actress wrote a play called "Years Ago" & her husband Garson Kanin directed it Ruth Gordon |
| #2029, aired 1993-06-03 | THEATRE $1000: Argan, the title character in his 1673 comedy "The Imaginary Invalid", is a hypochondriac Molière |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | THEATRE $200: "Tru", a 1-man show about this author, didn't premiere on Broadway but at Vassar College Truman Capote |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | THEATRE $400: Tovah Feldshuh played 3 of this king's spouses in the 1992 musical "Six Wives" Henry VIII |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | THEATRE $600: This musical takes place inside, below & on top of the Paris Opera House Phantom of the Opera |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | THEATRE $800: Sharon Gless made a writer's life "agony" in the stage version of this Stephen King novel Misery |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | THEATRE $1000: This extremely tall dancer with a "musical" name has won Tonys for directing, acting & choreography Tommy Tune |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: Pompey built the first permanent stone theatre in this city in 55 B.C. Rome |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: In 1947 Elia Kazan became the first to win a Tony Award in this category Director |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $600: The first actress to play the role of Elmire in "Tartuffe" was his wife Armande Bejart Moliere |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: Richard Brome, a servant to this "Volpone" playwright, later wrote satirical comedies himself Ben Jonson |
| #2003, aired 1993-04-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: German playwright who developed his "Epic Theatre" style in such plays as "Mother Courage" Bertolt Brecht |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THEATRE $200: In 1905 young Charlie Chaplin played one of the Baker Street Irregulars in a play about this detective Sherlock Holmes |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THEATRE $400: This Barrymore's 1920 run as Richard III was cut short by a nervous breakdown John Barrymore |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THEATRE $600: In "The Threepenny Opera" this master criminal is nicknamed Mackie Mack the Knife |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THEATRE $800: In 1898 this Russian theatre premiered its first production, "Czar Fyodor Ivanovich" the Moscow Art Theatre |
| #1997, aired 1993-04-20 | THEATRE $1000: Brendan Behan wrote "The Hostage" in this language & later translated it into English Gaelic |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | THEATRE $200: In the 1600s Danjuro I became one of the greatest actors in this form of Japanese drama kabuki |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | THEATRE $400: The French title of this Jean Giraudoux play is "La Folle de Chaillot" The Madwoman of Chaillot |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | THEATRE $600: Sebastian's sister in "Twelfth Night", or a musical instrument of the violin family Viola |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | THEATRE $800: Playwright Bjornstjerne Bjornson succeeded this man as director of Norway's Bergen Theatre in 1857 (Henrik) Ibsen |
| #1988, aired 1993-04-07 | THEATRE $1000: This author of "Oedipus at Colonus" was born at Colonus around 496 B.C. Sophocles |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | THEATRE $200: Plautus' ancient comedy "Aulularia" concerns an old miser & his pot of this metal gold |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | THEATRE $400: Theatre fans flock to Piccolo Teatro in this city while opera fans go to La Scala Milan |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | THEATRE $800: This song with a number as its title is the last musical number in "A Chorus Line" "One" |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | THEATRE $1000: His 1935 play "Awake and Sing" is set in the Bronx during the Depression (Clifford) Odets |
| #1976, aired 1993-03-22 | THEATRE $1,200 (Daily Double): These brothers wrote songs for the 1926 musical "Oh, Kay!", which was revived in 1990 the (George & Ira) Gershwins |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: "Topsy and Eva", a musical of the 1920s, was based on this novel Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: A short-lived 1991 musical, "Nick and Nora", was based on this film series The Thin Man |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical opens at an amusement park in New England in the 1870s Carousel |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Wiley Post is one of the characters featured in this 1991 Tony award winner The Will Rogers Follies |
| #1974, aired 1993-03-18 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: 1974's "Lorelei", which starred Carol Channing in the title role, was inspired by this earlier musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THEATRE $200: Among the notables who have played this high-flying role are Cathy Rigby, Sandy Duncan & Mary Martin Peter Pan |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THEATRE $400: In 1985 this comedienne began her "Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" Lily Tomlin |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THEATRE $600: In 1961 Paul Scofield made his American stage debut as Sir Thomas More in this play A Man for All Seasons |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THEATRE $800: In 1991 Jonathan Pryce & Lea Salonga won Best Acting Tonys for their lead roles in this musical Miss Saigon |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | THEATRE $1000: After "tainted money" is donated, this Shaw title character resigns from the Salvation Army Major Barbara |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: In 1970, Groucho was a consultant on "Minnie's Boys", the story of these brothers & their mother the Marx brothers |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: This musical was based on a book called "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" Damn Yankees |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: Act I of this 1970s musical ends with the song "You Won't Be An Orphan For Long" Annie |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: In a 1964 musical, the waiters at the Harmonia Gardens sing this title song to Mrs. Levi "Hello, Dolly!" |
| #1961, aired 1993-03-01 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: This 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was based on "Liliom", a Hungarian play by Ferenc Molnar Carousel |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: In 1928 this Barrymore starred in the play that opened the theatre named for her Ethel Barrymore |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: 16th century theatrical form whose name is Italian for "comedy of the profession" or "comedy of art" commedia dell'arte |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | THEATRE HISTORY $600: The great Greek tragic playwrights also wrote comedies about these lecherous goat-men Satyrs |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: This Cardinal engaged 5 playwrights to collaborate on the 1635 play "La comedie des Tuileries" Richelieu |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: Legend says he was the first actor to talk back to the Greek chorus, if you don't count all those hecklers Thespis |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | MODERN THEATRE $200: The title of this Peter Shaffer play is Latin for "horse" Equus |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | MODERN THEATRE $400: Eugene's mother shows him how she danced with George Raft in this playwright's "Broadway Bound" Neil Simon |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | MODERN THEATRE $800: "Return to the Forbidden Planet" is a rock musical based on this Shakespearean play The Tempest |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | MODERN THEATRE $1000: In 1961 he acted in his own play "The Caretaker"; in 1991 he directed a revival of it Harold Pinter |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | MODERN THEATRE $3,800 (Daily Double): "Waiting for Godot" had its world premiere in this country, Samuel Beckett's adopted home, in 1953 France |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Yul Brynner played the monarch in this musical 4,625 times The King and I |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: The working title of this musical was "Welcome to Berlin" Cabaret |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: This musical opens with the song "There Is a Sucker Born Every Minute" Barnum |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: This musical about married life is an adaptation of "The Fourposter" I Do! I Do! |
| #1890, aired 1992-11-20 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Fairy tales by the Grimms & others were adapted for this Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | THEATRE $200: The great "Dionysia" was this ancient civilization's most important drama festival Greece |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | THEATRE $400: Strindberg set "Miss Julie" in the kitchen of a manor house in this, his native country Sweden |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | THEATRE $600: This acting teacher was the artistic director of New York City's Actors Studio from 1948 until 1982, the year he died Lee Strasberg |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | THEATRE $1000: The William Inge play in which Lola dreams that her little white puppy is never coming back Come Back, Little Sheba |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | THEATRE $1,600 (Daily Double): "Six Characters in Search of an Author" was written in this language Italian |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | THEATRE $200: In a 1968 revival of "Doctor Faustus", this woman of Troy was "tastefully nude" Helen |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | THEATRE $400: John Dryden wrote his 1677 play "All For Love" in this kind of verse also favored by Shakespeare iambic pentameter (blank verse) |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | THEATRE $600: Perhaps in response to the gloom of WWII, he wrote the light comedy "Blithe Spirit" in just 6 days Noel Coward |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | THEATRE $1000: This great Russian acting teacher played Satin in Gorky's 1902 play "The Lower Depths" Stanislavsky |
| #1858, aired 1992-10-07 | THEATRE $1,500 (Daily Double): "Murder in the Cathedral" premiered in this city where the play is set Canterbury (England) |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Originally it was to involve a Jewish boy & a Catholic girl & was to be called "East Side Story" West Side Story |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Raul Julia & Sheena Easton recently teamed up to play Don Quixote & Aldonza in this musical Man of La Mancha |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: "Yes, Yes, Yvette" was a rather unsuccessful successor to this musical No, No, Nanette |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Anne Baxter, who starred in "All About Eve", later starred in this musical based on the film Applause |
| #1836, aired 1992-09-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Completes the title of the 1979 musical "A Day in Hollywood..." A Night in the Ukraine |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Their 1875 operetta "Trial by Jury" concerns the case of "Edwin, sued by Angelina" Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: The Mary Martin musical "Lute Song" was based on a play written in this Asian country in the 14th century China |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: This brassy Broadway belter starred in Cole Porter's 1940 "Panama Hattie" Ethel Merman |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Bernadette Peters played this silent-screen comedienne in the Broadway musical "Mack and Mabel" Mabel Normand |
| #1829, aired 1992-07-09 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: "Down on the heels, up on the toes. That's the way to do" this drag from "Good News" the "Varsity Drag" |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | THEATRE $200: In 1833 Edmund Kean collapsed while playing this role to his son's Iago & died soon after Othello |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | THEATRE $400: "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" takes place in this country in the 1930s Scotland |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | THEATRE $600: The title character of this Tony-winning Best Musical of 1979 is a barbaric barber Sweeney Todd |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | THEATRE $800: "Front Porch" was the original title of this playwright's "Picnic" Inge |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | THEATRE $1000: In 1957 Franchot Tone & Wendy Hiller starred in this playwright's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | THEATRE $200: The Actors Theatre of Louisville in this state is a national historic landmark Kentucky |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | THEATRE $400: This Broadway play by Neil Simon has "Broadway" in its title Broadway Bound |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | THEATRE $600: In 1992 Debbie Gibson took over the role of Eponine in this musical about a French fugitive Les Misérables |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | THEATRE $800 (Daily Double): In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson" (August) Wilson |
| #1784, aired 1992-05-07 | THEATRE $1000: This late producer founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in a church in 1954 Joe Papp |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THEATRE HISTORY $100: Emperor Ming Huang of this country founded an academy for actors in the 8th century China |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: Bertolt Brecht attacked this dictator's regime in his play "The Private Life of the Master Race" Hitler |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THEATRE HISTORY $300: Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C. Athens |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: Victorien Sardou wrote the 1882 play "Fedora" for this great French actress who triumphed in it Bernhardt |
| #1766, aired 1992-04-13 | THEATRE HISTORY $500: Stanislavsky was born in this city, the home of the art theatre he founded in 1898 Moscow |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | THEATRE $200: Alexander Pushkin's "Motsart I Salieri" was the forerunner of this 1979 play "Amadeus" |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | THEATRE $400: As a schoolboy, Laurence Olivier played the role of Kate in this Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | THEATRE $800: In 1981 Elizabeth Taylor starred in a revival of this playwright's "The Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | THEATRE $1000: The 1990 Tony Award for Best Musical went to this play set in 1940s L.A. City of Angels |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1920s play "And So to Bed" was based on the life of this diarist (Samuel) Pepys |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $200: Farces known as Fabulae Atellanae originated in this empire, where they were popular for centuries the Roman Empire |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $400: Medieval plays about the lives & miracles of these people were called miracle plays the saints |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $600: He was the 1st director of England's National Theatre; its theatre named for him opened in 1976 Laurence Olivier |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $800: The 1988 Tony Awards celebrated the 100th anniversary of this female producer's birth Antoinette Perry |
| #1712, aired 1992-01-28 | THEATRE HISTORY $1000: When this author's "Picnic" 1st opened on Broadway in 1953, its cast included Paul Newman William Inge |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: The 1985 revival of this musical featured Yul Brynner's wife as the lead Royal Dancer The King and I |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: When this musical about a milkman returned to Broadway in 1990, Topol topped the cast Fiddler on the Roof |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: Agnes de Mille choreographed a sword dance for this 1947 Lerner & Loewe Scottish musical Brigadoon |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: David Wayne won 1 of the 1st Tonys for playing Og, 1 of these creatures, in "Finian's Rainbow" a leprechaun |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Before "Roseanne", John Goodman played Huck Finn's Pap in this 1985 musical Big River |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: In titles of Broadway musicals, this word follows "Golden" & "Finian's" Rainbow |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: According to the title of a song from "Barnum", "There Is" one of these "Born Ev'ry Minute" a sucker |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: Diahann Carroll starred in this 1962 musical whose title referred to a lack of violins in its score No Strings |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): 1977 musical in which Dorothy Loudon sang the following:
"Little girls, little girls/Everywhere I turn/I can see them..." Annie |
| #1669, aired 1991-11-28 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: Lucille Ball struck oil at the end of this 1960 musical Wildcat |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | THEATRE $200: A musical set during his final days was titled "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" "the King", Elvis |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | THEATRE $400: In 1598 this playwright acted in Ben Jonson's 1st important play, "Every Man in His Humour" Shakespeare |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | THEATRE $600: The leading characters in "the Lisbon Traviata" are obsessed with this Greek-American diva Maria Callas |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | THEATRE $800: Jason Robards starred in the original 1960 production of her play "Toys in the Attic" Lillian Hellman |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | THEATRE $1000: The 2 characters in this Englishman's 1957 play "The Dumb Waiter" are hired killers Harold Pinter |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $100: Dale Wasserman adapted this musical from his television play "I, Don Quixote" Man of La Mancha |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: His "Broadway" extravaganza won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Musical Jerome Robbins |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $300: William Daniels played John Adams & Ken Howard Thomas Jefferson in the 1st run of this musical 1776 |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Three sailors sing "New York, New York" as they begin their day of shore leave in this 1944 show On The Town |
| #1641, aired 1991-10-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Songs from this Billy Rose show include "Little Girl Blue" & "The Circus is on Parade" Jumbo |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | THEATRE $100: The last installment of his semi-autobiographical trilogy was "Broadway Bound" Neil Simon |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | THEATRE $200: "Man and Superman" was the first play he wrote in the 20th century Shaw |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | THEATRE $400: Christopher Marlowe's play "The Massacre at Paris" deals with the massacre on this saint's day in 1572 the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | THEATRE $500 (Daily Double): "Confessions of a Nightingale" is a 1-man show about this playwright Tennessee Williams |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | THEATRE $500: Peter Shaffer's play "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" concerns the conquest of this country in 1533 Peru |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $200: Song from this musical include "Food, Glorious Food" & "Boy For Sale" Oliver! |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $600: This longest-running musical in theater history is based on Edmond Rostand's play "Les Romanesques" The Fantasticks |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $800: The Irish ballad "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" was introduced in this musical Finian's Rainbow |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): Tony-winning Broadway show that gave us the following song:
"Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation / Darkness wakes and stirs imagination..." The Phantom of the Opera |
| #1632, aired 1991-10-08 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: It's based on Damon Runyon's short story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" Guys and Dolls |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | THEATRE $200: At one time this Lerner & Loewe musical was known as "My Lady Liza" My Fair Lady |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | THEATRE $400: She starred in a 1928 production of "Strange Interlude" without her husband Alfred Lunt Lynn Fontanne |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | THEATRE $600: The first man to sing "Ol' Man River" in this musical was Jules Bledsoe, not Paul Robeson Show Boat |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | THEATRE $800: "Private Lives" author who said, "Everyone but S. Maugham said I was a second S. Maugham" Noël Coward |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | THEATRE $1000: He was a poet, a playwright & the first known actor in history Thespis |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | THEATRE $200: This drama about a boy obsessed with horses won the 1975 Tony award for best play Equus |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | THEATRE $400: She's the subject of J.N. Barker's 1808 drama, "The Indian Princess" Pocahontas |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | THEATRE $600: The 1918 play "Exiles" was the only drama by this Irish novelist James Joyce |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | THEATRE $800: In 1962 William Inge reworked this Pulitzer Prize-winning play of his & called it "Summer Brave" Picnic |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | THEATRE $1000: This Kaufman & Hart comedy about a madcap family won a 1937 Pulitzer Prize You Can't Take It with You |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $200: The Olivier Theatre opened in this city in 1976 with a production of "Tamburlaine the Great" London |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $400: With few exceptions, the classical drama of India is written in this language Sanskrit |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $600: Arlecchino & Scapino were 2 of the Zanni, or Zanies, in this improvised Italian comedic form Commedia dell'arte |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $800: Many of Euripides' plays featured this theatrical device, "the god from the machine" Deus ex machina |
| #1586, aired 1991-06-24 | WORLD THEATRE $1000: Riots followed the opening of this Synge play at Dublin's Abbey Theatre "Playboy of the Western World" |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | THEATRE $100: This S, Beckett play inspired another playwright to write a follow-up, "Godot Has Come" Waiting for Godot |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | THEATRE $200: In the play, "84 Charing Cross Road" is the address of this type of shop a bookstore |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | THEATRE $400: In "Of Thee I Sing", John P. Wintergreen's campaign slogan is "Put love in" this house the White House |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | THEATRE $500 (Daily Double): Comparing it to "Les Miz", one critic called this blockbuster musical "Les Vietnamiz" Miss Saigon |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | THEATRE $500: Shaw play that takes place "towards the end of the XXXIII dynasty" Caesar and Cleopatra |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | THEATRE $200: The female version of this Neil Simon play is about roommates Florence & Olive The Odd Couple |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | THEATRE $400: This author of "Speed-the-Plow" has done translations of Chekhov's plays (David) Mamet |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | THEATRE $600: Ancient Greek who wrote "The Clouds", "The Wasps" & "Lysistrata" Aristophanes |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | THEATRE $800: "Raisin" was the musical based on this Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | THEATRE $1000: Completes the title of the Tony-winning Best Play of 1986, "I'm Not..." Rappaport |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | THEATRE $200: Arthur Miller's play "Incident At Vichy" takes place during this war Second World War |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | THEATRE $400: This rock musical that opened on Broadway in April 1968 listed the staff astrologer on the program Hair |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | THEATRE $600: "Questionable" title of Edward Albee's first full-length play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | THEATRE $1000: This Frenchman's 1669 comedy "The Miser" was derived from Plautus' play "Aulularia" Molière |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): He based "Camille" on his novel "La Dame aux Camelias" Alexandre Dumas |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | THEATRE $200: The 16th century chronicles of Raphael Holinshed were a source for his "Macbeth" & "King Lear" Shakespeare |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | THEATRE $600: In reality, Pepin was this king's father; in the Broadway musical, Pippin was his son Charlemagne |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | THEATRE $800: The Paycock is Juno's weak-willed husband in the play by this Irish author Seán O'Casey |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | THEATRE $1000: Office machine in the title of Elmer Rice's 1923 play about Mr. Zero adding machine |
| #1483, aired 1991-01-30 | THEATRE $1,500 (Daily Double): Broadway musical that gave us the following song:
"I'm jist a girl who cain't say no / I'm in a turrible fix..." Oklahoma! |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THEATRE $200: In Eugene O'Neill's play "Marco Millions", he marries a fat, commonplace Venetian Marco Polo |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THEATRE $400: Edward Albee play in which George & Martha appear "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THEATRE $600: In an Oscar Wilde comedy, this title character runs off with Lord Darlington Lady Windemere |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THEATRE $800: This contemporary comedy by Tom Eyen is set in a womens' house of detention "Women Behind Bars" |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THEATRE $1000: This recent play by Neil Simon is considered to be his first out-and-out farce "Rumors" |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | THEATRE $200: His 1905 play "Man and Superman" is subtitled "A Comedy and a Philosophy" (George Bernard) Shaw |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | THEATRE $400: The leading character in his play "The Hairy Ape" is crushed to death by an ape (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | THEATRE $600: Sidney Kingsley won a 1934 Pulitzer Prize for his play about "Men in" this color white |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | THEATRE $1000: In an 1888 play, this Strindberg "Miss" seduces her father's footman Julie |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | THEATRE $1,500 (Daily Double): Euripides & Aeschylus appear as characters in his ancient Greek comedy "The Frogs" Aristophanes |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | THEATRE $200: This play was first written in French and its original title was "En attendant Godot" Waiting for Godot |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | THEATRE $400: The first of her books to be dramatized was "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" which became the play "Alibi" Agatha Christie |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | THEATRE $600: He was the leading man in the original 1930 production of his own play "Private Lives" Noël Coward |
| #1382, aired 1990-09-11 | THEATRE $800: Tennessee Williams wrote a one-act play called "27 Wagons Full of" this Cotton |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | THEATRE $500: The book “Mama's Bank Account” evolved into this play I Remember Mama |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | THEATRE $1000: E. O'Neill play about a fugitive black man who'd made himself ruler of a West Indian island (The) Emperor Jones |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | THEATRE $1500: If Rosencrantz & Guildenstern were alive, they might know he also wrote “Jumpers” Tom Stoppard |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | THEATRE $2,000 (Daily Double): The 2 writers who collaborated on “Dinner at Eight” & “Stage Door” Kaufman and Edna Ferber |
| #6, aired 1990-07-21 | THEATRE $2500: His novel “A Death in the Family” was adapted for the stage as “All The Way Home” (James) Agee |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $500: Last name shared by musical theatre greats Moss & Lawrence Hart |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1000: The original cast album of this Broadway musical features a rose & a mask on the cover Phantom of the Opera |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $1500: The title character of this comical 1956 musical almost marries Apassionata Von Climax Li'l Abner |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $2500: Gertrude Lawrence was the "lady" in the title of this 1941 musical about psychoanalysis Lady in the Dark |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | MUSICAL THEATRE $9,900 (Daily Double): 1-word title of the 1980 musical which featured the following:
"When the pills the doctor gave you turn your cold to the grippe /
When a stitch to save nine others comes apart with a rip /
When the rats invade your attic and start leaving your ship /
Follow my tip /
Come away on a trip /
Just join the circus..." Barnum |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | THEATRE $200: By the end of this J.M. Barrie play, Wendy flies so badly she has to use a broomstick Peter Pan |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | THEATRE $400: This Norwegian author's last play, "When We Dead Awaken", includes a major self-analysis Henrik Ibsen |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | THEATRE $1000: Paul Scofield starred in the original production of this play & won an Oscar for the film version A Man for All Seasons |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | THEATRE $200: "Picnic", "Our Town" & "A Chorus Line" have all won this award given for writing, not performance the Pulitzer Prize |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | THEATRE $400: The Crown Guide to Plays says Queen Victoria's 1st command performance was a play about this demon barber Sweeney Todd |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | THEATRE $600: Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life" is set in the waterfront district of this California city San Francisco |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): In this Noel Coward comedy, Madame Arcati uses I. Berlin's "Always" to go into a trance Blithe Spirit |
| #930, aired 1988-09-23 | THEATRE $1000: Characters in this O'Neill play include a steamship stoker & a gorilla The Hairy Ape |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | THEATRE $400: This popular form of Japanese dance drama traces its origins to Bunrako puppet theatre and Noh Kabuki |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | THEATRE $600: He directed the original production of his own play "Fool for Love" & starred in the film version Sam Shepard |
| #738, aired 1987-11-18 | THEATRE $800: Northern European expressionist whose dramas include "The Dance of Death" and "The Ghost Sonata" August Strindberg |
