A PLACE WITH DIRECTION
BROADWAY MUSICALS
DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE
____ OR ____
& NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
400

It's about 450 miles away from Greenland, & the magnetic one is on the move, heading toward Russia

The North Pole

400

Ben Platt reprised the role of the title teen with a broken arm when this Broadway musical became a 2021 film

Dear Evan Hanson

400

At a Manhattan eatery, this character enjoys bacon & eggs & toast (perhaps rye?)

Holden Caulfield

400

The Scottish & Irish custom of guising, dressing in costume & getting rewards, was a predecessor of this activity

Trick or Treat

400

A nephrologist said it was not "a harmful condition" after a Brazilian man was found to have 3 of these organs instead of 2

Kidneys

800

The Greater & Lesser Antilles are major divisions of this group of islands

The West Indies

800

Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham

The Book of Mormon

800

In a Thomas Harris book, the conductor of the philharmonic could not recall the fare at this doctor's dinner

Hannibal Lecter

800

This expression meaning "do as I say" ends with a multi-lane road

My Way or the Highway

800

These doglike carnivores weren't "laughing" so much after losing a 1999 war with lions in Ethiopia

Hyenas

1200

Michigan State University leads a Spartan lifestyle in this city on the Red Cedar River

East Lansing

1200

Act I of this long-running musical starts with the song "Think Of Me" & ends with a chandelier crashing

The Phantom of the Opera

1200

A true glutton, this "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" character gets sent up the (chocolate) river

Augustus Gloop

1200

If you don't want to reveal your secrets in this party game, you may have to do something risky

Truth or Dare

1200

This billionaire & girlfriend Grimes welcomed a child in 2020 & gave it the totally normal name X Æ A-Xii

Elon Musk

1600

Aberdeen is one of only 5 cities in this Midwest state to have more than 20,000 people

South Dakota

1600

This musical is based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about Tevye the dairyman

Fiddler on the Roof

1600

Revenge is served cold--courtesy of an ex-prison inmate--in "The Dinner", chapter 63 of this Dumas classic

The Count of Monte Cristo

1600

Succeed or fail is at the heart of this "watery" alliterative idiom

Sink or Swim

1600

A holdover from Colonial times, this Maryland state sport includes a tournament in which rings are "speared"

Jousting

2000

The Devil's Hole off Edinburgh is an over 750-foot trench in this arm of the Atlantic

The North Sea

2000

"Waitress" has music & lyrics by this woman who had a Top 40 hit with "Brave"

Sara Bareilles

2000

A 14th century poem details "all the meat & mirth that men could devise", then Sir Gawain taking on this title party crasher

The Green Knight

2000

Robert Burns wrote, "Liberty's in every blow, let us" this, meaning succeed at all costs

Do or Die

2000

This 18th c. dictionary maker & subject of James Boswell's great biography liked to empty his pockets & roll down a hill

Samuel Johnson