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One of these locations is the primary setting of a 3.5-hour “musical reckoning” starring Manik Choksi, a 2019 collaboration between Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin. A 1987 Lincoln Center revival of a musical set in one of these locations starred Howard McGillin and Patti LuPone as characters who compare each other to such superlatives as “a Waldorf salad” and “a Berlin ballad.” Moonface Martin hides in one of these locations in a musical that features Billy Crocker and (*) Reno Sweeney’s duet “You’re the Top.” For a musical named for one of these locations, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein wrote a spiritual-inspired song associated with Paul Robeson. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this setting of Anything Goes, exemplified by the Jim Crow-era Cotton Blossom (-5[1])and the SS (-5[1])American. ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: ships [or boats; accept ocean liners or cruise ships; accept Show Boat; prompt on at sea or ocean; prompt on Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AWaterloo Basic105-5
Ben WismathToronto BOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom10810
Yusuf BaigMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiWaterloo Cloze121-5
Raymond ChenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Waterloo Aspidistra124-5
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan ACarleton A1260
Kevin LeCarleton AToronto Metropolitan A12610
Micah ColmanWaterloo BasicToronto A12610
Franklin WuToronto Chestnut Rice and KamehamehaMcGill A12610
Mattias EhatammWaterloo AspidistraToronto Disband the Club 2k2412610
Xavier SpanoWaterloo ClozeMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii12610