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<div>Two other TYA plays that include alternate endings: </div>
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<div>In David Wood's The See-Saw Tree, the audience votes whether to cut down an old tree in order to make room for a playground: </div>
<div><a href="http://www.davidwood.org.uk/plays/plays_the_see_saw_tree.htm">http://www.davidwood.org.uk/plays/plays_the_see_saw_tree.htm</a></div>
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<div>In Alan Ayckbourn's Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays, there are more than a hundred variations!</div>
<div><a href="http://mrasamazing.alanayckbourn.net/styled-4/styled-2/index.html">http://mrasamazing.alanayckbourn.net/styled-4/styled-2/index.html</a> </div>
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<div>Two mystery plays with multiple endings, based upon audience voting:</div>
<div>-The musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood features multiple endings, each with their own song.</div>
<div>-The comedy Shear Madness includes semi-improvised endings, depending on which character the audience believes committed the murder. </div>
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<div>Best wishes, </div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Nicholas Hanson</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Associate Professor</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">University of Lethbridge, </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Department of Theatre & Dramatic Arts</span></div>
<div><a href="http://people.uleth.ca/~nicholas.hanson">http://people.uleth.ca/~nicholas.hanson</a>/</div>
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<div>"Narrator: It would be delightful to report that they reached the nursery in time…but then, there would be no story."</div>
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<div>-J.M. Barrie, <i>Peter Pan</i></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold; ">From: </span>Glen Nichols <<a href="mailto:gnichols@MTA.CA">gnichols@MTA.CA</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; ">Reply-To: </span>Glen Nichols <<a href="mailto:gnichols@MTA.CA">gnichols@MTA.CA</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; ">Date: </span>Wednesday, 20 March, 2013 8:45 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; ">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a>" <<a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject: </span>plays with alternate endings<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Class is working with Lion in the Streets this week and some students were struck by the presence of two possible endings and asked if this was unique. I said it’s not common but is far from unique… on the spot, however, I ran out of examples
after an Acadian play I know and Fo’s Death of an Anarchist… figured I’d come up with some more before going back to class tomorrow but the mind is blank…. Any titles come to mind??<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Glen Nichols <<a href="mailto:gnichols@MTA.CA">gnichols@MTA.CA</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Glen Nichols <<a href="mailto:gnichols@MTA.CA">gnichols@MTA.CA</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, 20 March, 2013 8:45 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a>" <<a href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>plays with alternate endings<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Class is working with Lion in the Streets this week and some students were struck by the presence of two possible endings and asked if this was unique. I said it’s not common but is far from unique… on the spot, however, I ran out of examples
after an Acadian play I know and Fo’s Death of an Anarchist… figured I’d come up with some more before going back to class tomorrow but the mind is blank…. Any titles come to mind??<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Glen<o:p></o:p></p>
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