The title character instigates this event before flashing back to a “madcap medley” cabaret performance in a 2024 comedic play by Cole Escola. Two characters rehearse a reenactment of this event (15[1])because one of them is afraid of being replaced by a wax dummy at his job. (15[1])This event, depicted in the penultimate scene of Oh, Mary!, is recreated (15[1])in another play after one character wins the other’s inheritance of $500 by scamming him at (*) three-card (10[1])monte. One man wears whiteface (10[1])to impersonate a central figure in this event, which he reenacts every day at his job at an arcade. The two brothers in Susan Lori Parks’ play (10[1])Topdog/Underdog are named after the people in this event. This real-life event (10[1])occurred after one character called another a “sockdologizing (10[1])old man-trap” (10[1])during a performance of Our American Cousin. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])give this event that occurred at Ford’s Theater in 1865. (10[1])■END■