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Clue: On Stage is a murder-mystery farce adapted from the 1985 film Clue, itself based on the popular board game. Sandy Rustin adapted Jonathan Lynn 's screenplay for the stage, with additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price.
William Motter Inge (/ ˈ ɪ n dʒ /; [1] May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Clue had previously been adapted for the screen as the 1985 black comedy film of the same name and was the basis of the British television game show Cluedo, which ran from 1990 to 1993. After theatrical tryouts in Baltimore in 1995 and Chicago in 1996, the musical ran off-Broadway in 1997, receiving mostly unfavorable reviews.
William F. Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor who is the crossword editor for The New York Times.He graduated from Indiana University with a degree in the invented field of enigmatology.
Culture*Park Theatre's Annual Short Plays Marathon returns Nov. 18 featuring several plays from 2 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Whaling Museum.
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...
The movie focuses on the following crossword solvers: Ellen Ripstein: editor living in New York City and 2001 ACPT champion. She is also known for her baton twirling. Trip Payne: professional puzzlemaker living in South Florida and three-time ACPT champion. He held the record as the youngest champion after winning the tournament in 1993 at the ...