Another silly topic
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Topic: Another silly topic
Posted By: red diva
Subject: Another silly topic
Date Posted: 5/31/07 at 10:05am
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I guess I'm just in a silly mood today. Sleep deprivation, I guess, as our first play of the new season opens tonight.
Here's another "game" that was very popular in our theatre about 25 years ago. (I wasn't around then, of course, but others have told me about it
 .)Think of an obscure way of phrasing the titles of famous plays, then challenge someone to figure out the show you are talking about. Obviously, these are titles that would have prevented the playwrights cited from getting a publisher.
Example:
"A Public Conveyance that has the Nomenclature Indicating a Sense of Want" (A Streetcar Named Desire)
No more hints - you figure them out:
"An Amusing Incident that Occurred while Traveling to the Seat of Government"
"The Year that We Won the Tournament"
"I Have Great Affection for You, but I Want You to Alter Certain Behaviors"
"Nighttime Illusions Occurring in the Warmest Season of the Year"
"I Bid You Adieu, Mama, for the Evening"
"Precipitation in my Chapeau"
"Intensive Labor Relations"
"The Strange Duet"
You get the idea, now you add some.
(I actually posted this one before "A bit of frivolity", but I edited it and it showed up as being a later post.) ------------- "I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!" |
Replies:
Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 5/31/07 at 12:13pm
Oh come on Red you have to give us the anwers!
 Here's what I think some of them are:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
That Championship Season
I Love You, You're Perfect..Now Change
???
'night Mother
Hatfull of Rain
???
The Odd Couple (duh, can't believe I didn't get this one at first. I've only played Oscar and directed the female version) ------------- BD 
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." |
Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 5/31/07 at 1:04pm
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Oh, I will....I will give you the answers. But not yet....not yet! Nyah-ha-ha-ha! (to be read in an evil voice) ------------- "I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!" |
Posted By: B-M-D
Date Posted: 5/31/07 at 1:12pm
Ooooo you ARE evil!
 I've updated my previous post to correct one and get one that should have been no brainer for me.------------- BD
"Dying is easy, comedy is hard." |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 10:19am
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"Nighttime Illusions Occurring in the Warmest Season of the Year"[/QUOTE]
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"Intensive labor relations"
Baby?
How about these:
"Boulevard Four Blocks Down From M Street" (easy)
"The Silica Zoo" (fairly easy)
"The Wee Village" (possibly just slightly tricky)
"Sorry, but that reference book is for use in the library only" (hard)
"The Only Cubic Number That Is Exactly 1 Larger Than Another Cubic Number" (stupid  )------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: neilfortin
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 12:10pm
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Well ya got Avenue Q, and The Glass Menagerie ------------- Community Theater makes us smile |
Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 2:41pm
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"The Wee Village" is either "Our Town" or "Hamlet."
"The Only Cubic Number ...." must be "Nine." ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |
Posted By: Maus
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 2:55pm
| "The Wee Village" = Urinetown. Not really tricky, but definitely a terrible pun. |
Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 2:57pm
Brilliant! ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |
Posted By: Dough Boy
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 4:37pm
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How about: "The great value of assuming the identity of Mr. Borgnine" "Depression in the First Permanent Settlement in French Louisiana" "Regarding mus musculus and homo sapiens" and my favorite... "Miller Busey Miller Perot" |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 4:56pm
Importance of Being Earnest
???
Of Mice And Men
Glengarry Glen Ross
All the answers to mine were correct (the Urinetown guess was right) - a hint for the one remaining (the "reference book" one): it's a comedy by a very famous duo. And judging by the boards, Topper should get it. ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 6:06pm
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"Sorry, but that Reference Book ..." You Can't Take it With You!
"Depression in ... French Louisianna" Biloxi Blues? ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |
Posted By: Topper
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 6:12pm
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"A Dozen Irate Members of the Masculine Sex."
"Half-a-Score Tiny Native Americans." "An Odd Number of Fiancees for an Equally Odd Number of Siblings." "A Duet for the Teeter-Totter." ------------- "None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public." -- Keith Johnstone |
Posted By: biggertigger
Date Posted: 6/01/07 at 10:16pm
Ten Little Indians
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Two for the See-Saw ------------- The two greatest days in a theater persons life, the day you start a new show and the day the damn thing closes. |
Posted By: POB14
Date Posted: 6/02/07 at 4:13pm
You got it! ------------- POB Old Bugger, Curmudgeon, and Antisocial B**tard |
Posted By: red diva
Date Posted: 6/11/07 at 4:02pm
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Great ones, everyone!
You got all of mine except "Intensive Labor Relations" which was "Working".
How about some more people being silly? ------------- "I've worked long and hard to earn the right to be called Diva!" |