Question
Description acceptable. In the 2024 play Mother Play, Jim Parsons plays a fictional version of this person whose mother Phyllis rejects him when he comes out as gay. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this man. In another play by the same author, fictional versions of the author and this man gallivant across Europe after she is diagnosed with ATD, or Acquired Toilet Disease.
ANSWER: Carl Vogel [accept descriptions like Paula Vogel’s brother; prompt on Vogel]
[10m] Paula Vogel memorialized her brother Carl in a play titled for a waltz in this city, the largest in the state where How I Learned to Drive is set. Lanford Wilson set a play in a decaying hotel in this city whose sign reads “Hot L.”
ANSWER: Baltimore, Maryland [accept The Baltimore Waltz or The Hot L Baltimore]
[10e] The preface to The Baltimore Waltz contains a letter from Carl to Paula in which he asks her to read this poet’s “Loveliest of Trees” at his funeral. This poet is the subject of Tom Stoppard’s play The Invention of Love.
ANSWER: A. E. Housman [or Alfred Edward Housman]
<IZ, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 13.08 | 69% | 54% | 8% |
Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lisan al-Quib | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | BHSU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Les Missourables | The Jeam Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | The Oldest Men in the World | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |