Question

A man with this profession instructs the audience to clap three times before introducing the play and “summoning” God at the opening of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play Everybody. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this profession of an unnamed protagonist trying to write an autobiographical musical while battling six “intrusive thoughts.”
ANSWER: usher
[10e] An author with this first and last name created the self-described “fat, Black, queer” Usher in his Pulitzer-winning musical A Strange Loop. A 2021 musical about a singer with this name features the songs “Billie Jean” and “Beat It.”
ANSWER: Michael Jackson [accept Michael R. Jackson or Michael Joseph Jackson; prompt on Jackson]
[10m] A 2024 non-musical play by Michael R. Jackson adapts a film titled for these body parts. Jacobs-Jenkins added new material to an all-black production of a play titled for these plural body parts that features the Antrobus family and the maid Sabina.
ANSWER: teeth [accept The Skin of Our Teeth; prompt on skin]
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