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This play’s author noted that “it’s OK if the wires show” but “the magic should… be thoroughly amazing” in its staging notes. In this play’s opening scene, the question “Eric? This is a Jewish name?” (10[1])is asked during a (10[1])Rabbi’s oration at (10[1])a character’s grandmother’s funeral. (10[1])A man “Of the International Order of Travel Agents” appears before a character in this play as she hallucinates tasting ozone in Antarctica. In this play, (10[1])whose epilogue (10[1]-5[1])is set at the Bethesda Fountain, a man who dies while claiming to have liver cancer (-5[1])mentors Joe Pitt and is haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])a former (10[1])drag queen cares for Prior (10[1])Walter after he is abandoned by Louis Ironson in what play by Tony Kushner set (10[1])amidst the AIDS (10[2]0[2])epidemic? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Angels in America [or Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes; prompt on Perestroika or Millennium Approaches]
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Kevin WangGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech F3410
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech DTusculum A3810
Luke ZhangEmory AGeorgia Tech B4110
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Arhith DharanendraGeorgia Tech FGeorgia Tech E7110
Pranav JothiGeorgia Tech DGeorgia Tech A7310
Everett SegoTennesse BGeorgia Tech A73-5
Gannon RiceClemson AEmory B89-5
Monish JampalaGeorgia Tech CTennesse B10110
Alex WyrickTennesse AAuburn C10110
Aaryan TomarGeorgia Tech EGeorgia A10410
Will McCurleyAuburn ASouth Carolina A10610
Alex WyrickTennesse AAuburn B11110
Britton WebsterAlabama AAuburn B12610
Tarun KotiEmory BClemson A12910
Michael ZhouGeorgia Tech ATennesse B12910
TurjyaGeorgia AAuburn C1290
Coy MierAuburn CGeorgia A1290
Aiden ShieldsClemson ASouth Carolina A13010