Just a quick note to those who are curious. The game turned out to be a big hit last night. Turnout was not quite what we had hoped, but participation in the game exceeded anybody's expectations. Each round (we played three) started with sixty or so players, which we whittled down in the Runaround game ("Act One") to less than nine. Even granting each player the "Egg of Forgiveness", this usually took only four or five questions.
We needed nine to play the next round, so if we had fewer (which we usually did), players could come back on stage by being first and loudest to shout out correct answers in a themed quiz. For example, in "Hail to the Chief", I named an actor, and they had to tell me what American president that actor was known for playing on stage.
The nine players were divided into three teams for the next game ("Act Two"), which was a knockout game along the lines of The Rich List, where teams in turn had to come up with items in a category, such as naming any one of the thirty longest-running musicals in history.
The surviving team of three played the final question ("Curtain Call") against each other, with each one writing down the answer to a numerical question (What is the seating capacity of the George Gershwin Theatre, the largest theater on Broadway?) and the closest to the correct answer winning the game.
There are assorted pictures from a variety of sources. Nothing professional, just cell phone snaps here and there. I'll try to post a few later.
