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Bonus video! The cutthroat party games of Stephen Sondheim & Anthony Perkins

Added 2023-10-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC

Hello there!

In this week's bonus video, we're exploring the wild, creative, often-cutthroat party games invented by puzzle-masters Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins. Stephen of course you know from West Side Story, Into the Woods, Company, Sweeney Todd ... and Anthony you know from Psycho and its sequels, or perhaps Tea and Sympathy if you're Broadway-oriented. But when they weren't conjuring up great works for stage and screen, they kept busy one-upping each other with murder mysteries, word games, dirty limericks, and a sprawling Halloween scavenger hunt across all of New York. They even -- way back in the 1960s -- invented a party game that was basically a real-life version of the videogame Among Us.

Backup version of this week's video in case it doesn't play: https://youtu.be/ytAQltUcB8Y

Here (I think) are the rules of Cutthroat Anagrams: https://alephblog.com/2007/10/05/cut-throat-anagrams/

Come join me for a (free!) talk with lots of gay sitcom clips at the University Book Store on Tuesday October 18 at 6pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/university-book-store-presents-matt-baume-tickets-703835720587