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STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE |
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A state of Missouri video for these dwellers says if a tornado or even a bad thunderstorm is coming, get out! |
mobile home dwellers
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Myocardial infarction; it's life-threatening |
a heart attack
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With her "Cowboy Carter" album, she roped in the top spot on both the Billboard 200 & Country Album charts |
Beyoncé
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This beloved character introduced the song "Rainbow Connection" in a 1979 film |
Kermit
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"Giving her Desdemona's" this piece of cloth, which, as it turns out, is nothing to sneeze at |
a handkerchief
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Leonard Warren made quite an exit in 1960 at this NYC venue when he sang "Urna Fatale Del Mio Destino" & died |
(Ken: Maybe the Italian name gives you a clue; that was at [*]--opera singer.)
the Met
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Hockey version of the 3-word phrase for the edge the team has that's playing for friendly fans in the city where it's based |
home ice advantage
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Pyrexia; rest, drink plenty of fluids & take some aspirin, Advil or Tylenol |
(Evan: What's a headache?)
a fever
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His "Tuskegee" country album consists of duets of his hits, including "Endless Love" with Shania Twain & "Sail On" with Tim McGraw |
Lionel Richie
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Done in his characteristic drip style, "Greyed Rainbow" was among his last great purely abstract paintings |
Pollock
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Spoiler! "Goneril and" this woman's "bodies brought out" |
Regan
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Mark Twain predicted he would die when this was in the sky, just as it had been when he was born--he was right |
(Sam: What is a comet?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
Halley's Comet
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"Where my love lies waiting silently for me" is a lyric from this Simon & Garfunkel hit about a musician on the road |
"Homeward Bound"
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Apoplexy; a dated term for this |
a stroke
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In 1969 he released his "Nashville Skyline" album that featured the hit "Lay Lady Lay" & a duet with Johnny Cash |
Bob Dylan
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There's no actual rainbow variety of this vegetable; it's just a mix of colored varieties |
(Ken: Yeah, we're blowing the lid off rainbow chard today.) [Laughter]
Swiss chard
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"Enter Puck, and" this character "with an ass's head" |
(Ken: Yeah, A Midsummer Night's Dream.)
Bottom
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This endower of a NYC school for performing arts was born at sea in 1836 as his parents emigrated from France to America |
(Augustus) Juilliard
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This 1929 novel is an autobiographical portrait of Thomas Wolfe's early life growing up in Asheville, North Carolina |
Look Homeward, Angel
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Cervicalgia; literally, this |
(Sam: What is... back pain?)
neck pain
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She was part of a country supergroup with Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris & they recorded two trio albums together |
Linda Ronstadt
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Great Odin's raven! This name of the rainbow bridge that leads to Asgard gives me the chills |
the Bifrost
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"Enter Polonius" & this doomed duo, who definitely get exeunted |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
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4th of July babies included this 19th century Italian patriot who was inspired by the American fight for liberty |
Garibaldi
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In a bygone tradition, Elizabeth II was born in the presence of this British cabinet official for domestic affairs |
(Ken: That's right, weird tradition.) [Laughter]
the Home Secretary
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Bruxism; it can happen while awake or asleep |
teeth grinding
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This Aussie megastar went country in a pop sort of way for her 2018 album "Golden" |
Kylie Minogue
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His "Gravity's Rainbow" was considered for a Pulitzer Prize but then deemed "unreadable", "turgid" & "obscene" |
Pynchon
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"Enter the ghost of young Prince Edward" to this title king, & not a friendly ghost |
Richard III
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Reported last words of this Pulitzer-winning playwright in 1953, "I knew it"; born in a hotel room & died in a hotel room |
Eugene O'Neill
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