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A few of the words
- MARQUEE
- The word marquee traces back to the French word for a large tent — a fitting ancestor for the grand canopy of lights that announces a show above a Broadway entrance.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PLAYBILL
- Playbill has been the iconic program of Broadway since 1884, its yellow-and-black cover becoming one of the most recognized images in American theater.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LIMELIGHT
- Before electric spotlights, theaters used actual burning lime to create an intense white glow — and to bathe a star performer in the limelight became an expression that has never faded.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- FOOTLIGHT
- Footlights — the row of lights along the front edge of the stage — were once candles or gas flames, casting that warm, upward glow onto performers' faces that painters of the 19th century loved to capture.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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About Music & Film
Broadway's storied stretch of Manhattan blazes with marquee lights that have announced legends for well over a century. Inside those grand theaters, every detail conspires to create the spell — the gilded balconies, the deep rumble of the orchestra pit, the charged silence just before the curtain rises. When the final note fades and the house erupts into a standing ovation, there is nothing quite like it on earth.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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