Samuel Beckett
This was the year that Samuel Beckett was born.
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Claude-Michel Schonberg is from this country
The most popular play written by Charles Ludlam
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This is the breed of Carol Danvers, Jen's little puppy.
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This person is said to have influenced Beckett in his early works,
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Andrew Lloyd Webber was influenced by this Golden Age Musical theatre composer
Who is Richard Rodgers?
This is the year the Split Britches was founded at the WOW café in NYC
When is 1980
These two stars danced into our hearts in the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing.
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These four plays were produced during the middle years of Beckett's works.
What is Waiting for Godot (1953)?
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What is Krapp’s Last Tape (1958)?
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This 1970 rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber began the trend of sung-through Broadway musicals
What is Jesus Christ Superstar?
A riff of the Wagner cycle that was performed by the Ridiculous Theatre Company
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The popular streaming platform Netlfix originally debuted in this year.
What is 1997?
This was how Beckett's teaching style was described.
What is “His teaching technique was highly unorthodox…He did nothing to encourage his students to pay attention or to take his lectured seriously…he would turn to face them and deliver a sentence perfectly crafted but puzzling…” (Albright 351).?
This 1997 musical composed by Elton John is an adaptation of the Disney movie of the same name
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The age that Charles Ludlam founded the Ridiculous Theatre Company
What is twenty-four
Much like the Bechdel test, this test involves replacing a female character with a "sexy lamp" and determining if the plot still makes sense
What is the sexy lamp test?
This was the name of the last piece Beckett wrote before he died.
What is What is the Word?
Rent, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera are all based on this
What is French Literature?
The longest continuously running LGBTQIA+ theatre company.
Theatre Rhinoceros
This description from Netflix is for a popular movie from the 2000s. "Wisdom may come with age, but sometimes youth offers the best perspective. He needs another shot at high school."
What is 17 Again?