CONTEST: Win Tickets for Cherry Jones in DOUBT in B'more

THIS CONTEST IS OVER.  ALL ENTRIES HAVE BEEN GATHERED AND CHECKED.  WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED!  LOOK FOR MORE CONTESTS ON TUESDAY'S CHARM CITY CALL BOARD - MAY 2007!

THE CORRECT ANSWERS ARE HIGHLIGHTED BELOW IN RED.

One of Broadway's most riveting dramas, Doubt,  is coming to Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre for two weeks, beginning Tuesday, May 1^st.  This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play features its original star, Tony winner Cherry Jones.  This is a production not to be missed!  And you don't have to!  Enter to win!

The Prize: One of five pairs of tickets to the Tuesday, May 1st performance of DOUBT starring Cherry Jones at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore.  Curtain is at 8PM.

The Rules:

• Answer the 10 questions below and send your answers via email to jameshoward@broadwayworld.com.  Please put DOUBT CONTEST in the subject heading.  Also, include your full name, age and city and state.
• Entries must be received no later than noon on Sunday, April 29th.
• One entry per person.
• Employees and their families of BroadwayWorld.com, LiveNation or the producing company of Doubt are ineligible.  Also, winners of tickets to Chicago, Cats, Annie or Sweet Charity earlier this year are not eligible either.
• BroadwayWorld.com, James Howard and the Doubt Company are not responsible for lost or unreceived emails.
• You must attempt to answer all questions.
• Include the letter and word answers for each question.
• Winners will be selected from a pool of entries that has the most correct answers, and will be notified via email on Monday, April 30, 2007.

 

The Contest:  Answer these questions to win!  Remember, you must try all of them, and you must put the letter AND answer for each question on your entry.  The entries with the most correct answers will win opening night tickets!  Good luck!

 

As Doubt centers on a controversy involving a nun, her novice and a priest, the questions below have to do with plays and musicals where members of the clergy figure into the show.

1. This Tony winning musical who-done-it features such characters as a church choir master named John Jasper and a lovesick Reverend Crisparkle.  What is it?

1. Oliver!
2. Curtains
3. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
4. Accomplices

 

2. This Tony winning play concerns a novice nun who is convinced her pregnancy is an immaculate conception.  What is it?

1. Angels in America: Perestroika
2. Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
3. God's Favorite
4. Agnes of God

 

3. T.S. Eliot wrote this play concerning a famous church in Canterbury.  What is it?

1. The Canterbury Tales
2. Murder in the Cathedral
3. The Beautiful Game
4. The Nun's Priest's Tale

 

4. This musical features an Evangelist named Reno Sweeney and a priest imposter named Moonface Martin.  It is…

1. Anything Goes
2. City of Angels
3. Over Here!
4. Sweeney Todd

 

5. This Tony winning musical features a singing knight errant and Padre Perez, who sings "To Each His Dulcinea."  The musical is called:

1. Don Quixote: The Musical
2. Monty Python's Spamalot
3. Cyrano: The Musical
4. Man of La Mancha

 

6.  Friar Laurence concocts a plan to get these "star-crossed lovers" together in this play:

1. All's Well That Ends Well
2. Love's Labour's Lost
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Antony and Cleopatra

 

7. In this Tony winning musical, The Bishop of Digne gives the hero two candlesticks.  What is it?

1. Grand Hotel: The Musical
2. Les Miserables
3. Miss Saigon
4. The Pirate Queen

 

8. This Tony winning musical features singing monks who hit themselves.  What is it?

1. Mel Brooks' The Producers
2. Man of La Mancha
3. Monty Python's Spamalot
4. The Sound of Music

 

9. In this controversial musical, priests pay Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus.  It is…

1. Jesus Christ Superstar
2. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
3. The Beautiful Game
4. Godspell

 

10. How do you solve a problem like Maria?  If you are the Mother Superior, you set her up for failure by kicking her out of the convent to look after several bratty kids and their self-absorbed father.  This classic musical is:

1. West Side Story
2. The Sound of Music
3. The King and I
4. Agnes of God

GOOD LUCK!

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