These genograms represent the familial, emotional, and social relationships between the principals in several different musicals performed by the MIT Musical Theatre Guild. (In many cases, these relationships happen during the show. The genograms depict the state of things at the very end of the show.)
First, we need to identify the show. Some shows were performed multiple times, so a caption is provided to uniquely identify a particular performance. The productions are:
In each genogram, three squares and/or circles are highlighted with a colored box. These colors match up with the colors given at the bottom of the puzzle. Identify each character using the familial / social / emotional relationships, and use the numbers given to index into the character’s name.
Color | Character | Index | Letter |
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Underling | 1 | U |
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Mrs T | 3 | S |
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Golde | 5 | E |
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Sammy | 3 | M |
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Philia | 3 | I |
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Hortense | 4 | T |
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Adolpho (sic) | 1 | A |
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Columbia | 1 | C |
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Christmas Eve | 6 | T |
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Mrs. Tottendale | 5 | O |
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Riff Raff | 5 | R |
|
Pseudolus | 2 | S |
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Little Sally | 1 | L |
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Linda | 5 | A |
|
Denise | 5 | S |
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Little Red Riding Hood | 3 | T |
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Penelope Pennywise | 3 | N |
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Chava | 3 | A |
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Aimable | 3 | M |
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Baker | 4 | E |
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Steward | 1 | S |
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Hope Cladwell | 3 | P |
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Mr. Lyons | 3 | L |
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Princeton | 6 | E |
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Narrator | 2 | A |
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Fruma Sarah | 6 | S |
|
Erronius | 1 | E |
This spells out the phrase USE MIT ACTORS’ LAST NAMES PLEASE
. So you need to repeat this process, but using the actors’ last names instead of the character names. (And if you hadn’t already found the MTG connection, this should hint you in that direction!)
Color | Character | Index | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
Sadowski | 1 | S |
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Popiel | 3 | P |
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Maeurer | 5 | R |
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Weinstein | 3 | I |
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Hinel | 3 | N |
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Ciugliano | 4 | G |
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Orrego | 1 | O |
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Hart | 1 | H |
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Nguyen | 6 | N |
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Collings | 5 | I |
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Fomon | 5 | N |
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Peters | 2 | E |
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Piercy | 1 | P |
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Raine | 5 | E |
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Levin | 5 | N |
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Knutson | 3 | U |
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Volz | 3 | L |
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Katz | 3 | T |
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Amini | 3 | I |
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Chambers | 4 | M |
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Abrahamsen | 1 | A |
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Batten | 3 | T |
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Klein | 3 | E |
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Peairs | 6 | S |
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Cosio | 2 | O |
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Drugan | 6 | N |
|
Gerhardt | 1 | G |
This spells out the clue phrase SPRING OH NINE PENULTIMATE SONG
. MTG’s Spring 2009 show was bare: A Pop Opera, and its penultimate song was titled ABSOLUTION
, which is the final answer.
Annotated genograms follow: