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* [[Actor Allusion]]: During [[Brooke Shields]]' time with the club, Triangle took every opportunity to make joking references to her life and fame, culminating in a biography paragraph in the program for her senior year show that, tongue firmly in cheek, predicted show business success for her and wishing her luck. |
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]/[[Retroactive Recognition]]: Perusing photos and playbills of past shows can turn up familiar faces and names (some more so than others, but still...): |
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]/[[Retroactive Recognition]]: Perusing photos and playbills of past shows can turn up familiar faces and names (some more so than others, but still...): |
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** [[w:Booth Tarkington|Booth Tarkington]] 1893 |
** [[w:Booth Tarkington|Booth Tarkington]] 1893 |
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Revision as of 14:37, 1 June 2020
- Actor Allusion: During Brooke Shields' time with the club, Triangle took every opportunity to make joking references to her life and fame, culminating in a biography paragraph in the program for her senior year show that, tongue firmly in cheek, predicted show business success for her and wishing her luck.
- Hey, It's That Guy!/Retroactive Recognition: Perusing photos and playbills of past shows can turn up familiar faces and names (some more so than others, but still...):
- Booth Tarkington 1893
- F. Scott Fitzgerald 1917
- Joshua Logan '31
- James Stewart '32
- José Ferrer '34
- Bo Goldman '53
- Wayne Rogers '56
- Clark Gesner '60
- Jeff Moss '63
- David E. Kelley '79
- Douglas McGrath '80
- Cecil "Heidi" Hoffman '84
- Gene Lewin '84
- Robert Schroeck '84
- Louis Bayard '85
- Lorraine Goodman '85
- Maria Ressa '85
- Brooke Shields '87
- Ellie Kemper '02
- Molly Ephraim '08
- Shout-Out: The opening lines of Avenue Q -- "The sun is shining, it's a lovely day / a perfect morning for a kid to play" -- sung by the appropriately-named Princeton, appear to echo the first lines of the perennial opener for the Freshman Week show, "What A Morning":
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What a morning, what a beautiful day |
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- Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Because Brooke Shields '87 has a Bacon Number of 2, anyone who was a Triangle member between 1983 and 1987 automatically has a Bacon Number of 3.