REGIONAL THEATRE
FIRST NAMES
SHADES OF GREEN
PARLEZ-VOUS FRANC"A"?
YESTERDAY'S NEWSPAPERS
200
'Mamet's "American Buffalo" didn't premiere in Buffalo, but at the Goodman Theatre in this Midwest city'
Chicago
200
'Winston Churchill's father had this name, from the Old English rand, "shield" & wulf, "wolf"'
Randolph
200
'Regis' Ripa'
Kelly
200
'This word comes before "propre" to mean self-love or vanity'
amour
200
'With circulation not so "stellar", this 129-year-old Washington D.C. paper folded in 1981'
The Washington Star
400
'Who -- the Who;
Where -- La Jolla Playhouse;
When -- 1992;
What -- this musical'
Tommy
400
'This first name of one of the Olsen twins was the top girl's name of the 1990s'
Ashley
400
'The fruit of Citrus aurantifolia'
lime
400
'In French it's the first word of the pre-revolutionary phrase translated as "after us the deluge"'
apres
400
'In a war of London papers for this title time of day, the News folded in 1980, leaving the Standard standing'
evening
600
'Fittingly, this Neil Simon play was booked into the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. for its premiere in April 1976'
California Suite
600
'The Claus in Santa Claus came from this name'
Nicholas
600
'A rare variety of beryl valued as a gem'
emerald
600
'French word for the accent over the E in Andre'
accent aigu
600
'This paper went under in 1950, but a new version using the same logo seen here, debuted in 2002'
New York Sun
800
'The Philadelphia Theatre Co.'s play "Barbra's Wedding" by actor Daniel Stern was about trouble caused by her ceremony'
Barbra Streisand
800
'Not using the diminutive, "Educating Rita" becomes "Educating" her'
Margarita
800
'The river that flows through Cairo'
Nile
800
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris) The 7th of the Paris subdivisions called these is filled with government offices'
arrondissements
800
'This St. Louis newspaper was on its last legs in the 1870s when it merged with the Post'
St. Louis Dispatch
1000
'"Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by this playwright first came & went with the Yale Repertory'
August Wilson
1000
'Meaning "bright", it's the first name of the woman who brightened our TV screens yelling, "Where's the Beef?"'
Clara Peller
1000
'A small nonflowering plant, like hairy cap or peat'
moss
1000
'Literally "with the current", this phrase means "well informed"'
au courant
1000
'Publisher Sam Maxwell chose this imposing name for the Seattle paper that later merged with the Post'
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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