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| re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! | |
| Posted by: carolinaguy 10:41 am EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! - TheOtherOne 10:37 am EST 01/12/22 | |
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| I thought the very same thing. Usually Jeopardy! is much more judicious with their phrasing and clarity. | |
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| re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 11:40 am EST 01/12/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:36 am EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! - carolinaguy 10:41 am EST 01/12/22 | |
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| It was a little unfair question for all of the contestants in that while Ethel Merman famously debuted the role of Annie Oakley in "Annie Get Your Gun" on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker was one in line of young girls who played "Annie", who later got famous. Andrea McArdle's the one who got famous for "Annie", not Parker really, and I think if they used Andrea's name instead of Parker's for the clue, it would have been an easier, but fairer, question. | |
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| re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! | |
| Posted by: davei2000 11:50 am EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! - PlayWiz 11:36 am EST 01/12/22 | |
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| Except that most J! players have little aptitude for theater clues, as the responses of "Mary" and "Melissa" suggest. Amy at least touched on a famous role for one of them with "Rose." SJP is far more famous than Andrea McArdle, including biographical facts, so I think the clue is fair as is. There are certainly ways it could have been rewritten. I don't think the second "2" is necessary for instance. And "hit show" might have been better than "show that ran for 2 years." |
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| re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 12:59 pm EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! - davei2000 11:50 am EST 01/12/22 | |
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| SJP is far more famous than Andrea McArdle Indisputably so... but her fame does not rest on her childhood stage performance. I'll bet most of her fans outside of this forum couldn't name even one of her stage roles. Merman's fame, on the other hand, rests largely on theatre (and that scene in Airplane! ;) |
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| re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! | |
| Posted by: LoisP 06:46 pm EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! - MockingbirdGirl 12:59 pm EST 01/12/22 | |
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| Kinda like Anna Kendrick’s fans likely unaware she has a Tony nomination from when she was so very young. | |
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| re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! | |
| Last Edit: davei2000 01:41 pm EST 01/12/22 | |
| Posted by: davei2000 01:39 pm EST 01/12/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! - MockingbirdGirl 12:59 pm EST 01/12/22 | |
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| That's a fair point, but her biography is only one way to approach it. People should know Merman's most famous roles are Rose and Annie, and thinking Annie could lead to the show named Annie and the hunch - if you didn't already know - that SJP might have appeared in it. I imagine that's the way the writers expected it to work for most players. I happen to have seen SJP back in 79 or 80, so that helped, but I'm pretty sure I would have got it anyway...:) |
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| re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! | |
| Posted by: StanS 03:52 pm EST 01/13/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Amy and the others miss Broadway Musicals Final Jeopardy! - davei2000 01:39 pm EST 01/12/22 | |
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| I got the answer (in less than 30 seconds) in exactly the way you describe. Knew Merman did Annie, don't know any SJP roles. | |
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