Worksheet #3

TOP 10 BROADWAY GROSSES
Week Ending September 10, 1999
Production
Gross This Week
Gross Last Week
Annie Get Your Gum
$ 572,885
$ 671,363
Cabaret
466,670
515,787
Chicago
536,852
523,106
Death of a Salesman
351,082
NA
Fosse
566,644
605,993
Les Miserables
375,318
436,915
Miss Saigon
395,552
434,641
Ragtime
420,902
539,158
The Lion King
880,717
875,772
The Phantom of the Opera
601,218
594,636
Totals
$5,176 810
$5,197,371

























POEMS TO IMPROVE OUR LIVES
Poems
Written By
Great Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If
Rudyard Kipling
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Will
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Sin of Omission
Margaret E. Sangster
Good and Bad Children
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lady Clare
Alfred Tennyson


FAMOUS PAINTINGS
Artist
Painting
Claude Monet
The Boat Studio
Paul Cezanne
Riverbanks
Rembrandt
The Mill
Michelangelo
The Holy Family
Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa
Vincent von Gogh
The Starry Night
Raphael
The School of Athens
Berthe Morisot
Little Girl Reading
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Girls at the Piano
Han Vermeer
The Milkmaid





CHILDREN’S STORIES
By Laura Ingalls Wilder

Book
Year Published
Little House in the Big Woods
1932
Little House on the Prairie
1935
On the Banks of Plum Creek
1937
By the Shores of Silver Lake
1939
The Long Winter
1940
Little Town on the Prairie
1941
These Happy Golden Years
1943


BROADWAY’S LONGEST RUNS
As of October 3, 1999
Broadway Show
Number of Performances
Cats
7,093
A Chorus Line
6,137
Oh! Calcutta (Revival)
5,962
*Les Miserables
5,175
*Phantom of the Opera
4,905
*Miss Saigon
3,516
42nd Street
3,485
Grease
3,388
Fiddler on the Roof
3,242
Life With Father
3,224
Source: Theatre.com. http://www.BroadwayNow.com/public/longestruns.asp (5 October 1999)
*Shows marked with asterisk (*) were still running at the time of this publication

TOP 5 BROADWAY GROSSES
Week Ending September 12, 1999
Production
Gross This Week
Gross Last Week
Annie Get Your Gum
$ 572,885
$ 671,363
Chicago
536,852
523,106
Fosse
566,644
605,993
The Lion King
880,717
875,772
The Phantom of the Opera
601,218
594,636
Totals
$3,158,316
$3,280,870
Source: Theatre.com. http://www.BroadwayNow.com/public/boxoffice.asp (13 September 1999).



Selected Works by American Authors
Author
Life
Works
Robert Lee Frost
1874-1963
West-Running Brook
Henry W. Longfellow
1807-1882
Ballads
Carl Sandburg
1878-1967
Smoke and Steel
Louisa May Alcott
1983-1888
Little Women
William Faulkner
1897-1962
The Sound and the Fury
Samuel L. Clemens
1835-1910
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940
All the Sad Young Men
















TOP BASEBALL MOVIES
FALL 1999

Rank
Movie
Year
Percent of Votes
1
Field of Dreams
1989
29.4%
2
The Natural
1984
25.1
3
Bull Durham
1988
18.4
4
Pride of the Yankees
1942
8.0
5
Major League
1989
8.0
6
Eight Men Out
1988
6.4
7
League of Their Own
1992
4.4
8
Bad News Bears
1976
3.2
9
Damn Yankees
1958
1.0
10
Fear Strikes Out
1957
0.6

Sandra and Rich are running for class secretary.
They have to score high on the SAY to enter that college.
You don’t think keyboarding is important.
Why doesn’t she take the test for advanced placement?
Neither of the candidates meets the leadership criteria.
One of your art students is likely to win the prize.
The number of people against the proposal is quite small.
The manager, as well as his assistant, is to attend.
Neither the teacher nor her students are here.
All the meat is spoiled, but some items are okay.

The speaker was delayed at the airport for over thirty minutes.
The players are all here, and they are getting restless.
You and your assistant are to join us for lunch.
The teacher of the class is to introduce the speaker.
Dr. Cho was to five the lecture, but he is ill.
Mrs. Samoa and her son are to be on a local talk show.
I do not find this report believable; you don’t either.
If she doesn’t accept our offer, we don’t have to raise it.
They don’t discount. So I don’t shop there.
Jo and he don’t ski; they don’t plan to go.
Each of these girls has an important role in the class play.
Some of the new paint is already cracking and peeling.
All of the workers are to be paid for the special holiday.
Neither of them is well enough to start the game.
Some of the juice is sweet; some are quite tart.
Every girl and boy is sure to benefit from this decision.
The letter, in addition to the report, has to be revised.
The shirts, as well as the dress, have to be pressed again.
The driver, as well as the burglar, was apprehended.
Two managers, in addition to the president, are to attend.
A number of then have already voted, but the number is still small.
The number of jobs is low; a number of us have applied.
Neither Ms. Moss nor Mr. Katz was invited to speak.
Either the manager or his assistants are to participate.
If neither he nor they foes, either you or she has to.