The original cast included Wes Borg, Paul Mather, Mark Meer, Jana O ' Connor and Donovan Workun, all of whom have worked with or wrote for previous comedy troupes, including Atomic Improv, the CTV sitcom Corner Gas, the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, improv / sketch troupe Gordon's Big Bald Head, the CBC television show This Hour Has 22 Minutes and the comedy-musical group Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.

* " El beso de Ariadna " (" Ariadne's Kiss ") is the name of a musical comedy act by Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

* Gulevache – a fictional joke romance language created by the Argentinian comedy-musical group Les luthiers for its opera Cardoso en Gulevandia

Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 romantic comedy-musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli.

The Producers is a 2005 American comedy-musical film directed by Susan Stroman.

Bromato De Armonio was a show made by the Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

The latest US import to be broadcast on 3e is the comedy-musical Glee, which has its first showing every Friday night at 21: 00 on 3e before TV3 on Wednesday night.

They produced a number of comedy-musical shorts that featured an all-black cast from the Lafayette Players Stock Company out of Harlem, New York.

Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking countries such as Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela.

Jorge Maronna is an Argentine multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, author and a founding member of the comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

" great god ") on the Japanese game cover, makes a play on words between the word for wolf ( 狼 ) and the word Kami, as 大神 and 狼 are pronounced the same way ; the pivotal protagonist is a statue of a wolf possessed by Amaterasu.

A 2008 study analyzing the sexual fantasies of 200 heterosexual men by using the Wilson Sex Fantasy Questionnaire exam, determined that males with a pronounced degree of fetish interest had a greater number of older brothers, a high 2D: 4D digit ratio ( which would indicate excessive prenatal estrogen exposure ), and an elevated probability of being left-handed, suggesting that disturbed hemispheric brain lateralization may play a role in deviant attractions.

Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a ' stayer ,' recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot.

One of the most limiting aspects of analog technology is the sensitivity of analog media to minor physical degradation ; however, when the degradation is more pronounced, analog systems usually perform better, often still producing recognizable sound, while digital systems will usually fail completely, unable to play back anything from the medium.

The Cincinnati Celts ( pronounced with a hard C ) was the first professional football team to play in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek ; ena ( ένα ) is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna ( Αντέννα ).

It is a play on words from the alternative meaning of " fukuro " as " owl " ( although owl is pronounced with a long final " oh ", rather than a short " o " in the word " fukuro " for bag ).

Her name is a play on her nature as a bibliomania — the verb " to read " in Japanese is pronounced yomu.

They use the other participant's oral cavity as resonators but may also play under a kitchen pot for the resonances to be more pronounced.

Coward himself pronounced the play " psychologically unstable ", and John Lahr in a 1982 study of Coward's plays writes, " Elyot and Amanda's outrageousness is used to propound the aesthetics of high camp – an essentially homosexual view of the world that justifies detachment.

" Writing over 150 years later, Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the world's strongest players in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pronounced the opening " a decisive mistake " and wrote that " it is almost madness to play the King's Gambit.

All the materials he had to work with was a strip board nailed to the floor with a row of tallow candles It wasn ’ t until 1849, when Jefferson returned to New York that he began to earn both critical and financial success though not nearly to the extent he would earn later in life In 1861 due to his failing health and the death of his wife, he left to go to San Francisco and then on to Australia After spending four years in Australia, he left for London and met Dion Boucicault who would revise Rip Van Winkle, turning it from just a play in Jefferson ’ s repertoire to being “ a pronounced success and ran for one hundred and seventy nights .” Opening night on September 5, 1865 at the Adelphi Theatre in London sparked what would become one of the most celebrated characters of the stage in the 19th century.

The Zurna ( pronounced zewer-na ), like the duduk and Kaval, is a woodwind instrument used to play Anatolian and Middle Eastern folk music.

The Drillers play at ONEOK Field ( pronounced " wun-oak "), in downtown Tulsa's Greenwood district.

In plays like the Four PP, ( which would have been pronounced Ps ) Heywood takes a page from Chaucer ’ s book in representing a corrupt Pardoner, but at the end of the play the Pedler chastises the Pothecary for “ raylynge her openly / At pardons and relyques so leudly ” ( 1199-1200 ).

Parkin has stated in at least one interview that the name is a play on one of her favorite words, " aria ", as in the melodic operatic form of singing and composition, but pronounced " area ," because music has spatial properties.

The drudgery of a lawyer's office was uncongenial to the ardently poetical youth, and, encouraged by the encomiums pronounced by the Hungarian Academy upon his first play, Zsidó fiú ( The Jewish Boy ), he flitted, when barely twenty, to Pest in 1845 with an MS. romance in his pocket ; he was introduced by Petőfi to the literary notabilities of the Hungarian capital, and the same year his first notable romance Hétköznapok ( Working Days ), appeared, first in the columns of the Pesti Divatlap, and subsequently, in 1846, in book form.

No sentence was ever pronounced, but the House of Osuna was out of the royal favour for three decades, and only during the reign of Charles II did it again play an important role in Spanish political life.

It was a play on words or rebus based on his surname, which would probably have been pronounced at the time as owl-dom.

The québécois analogue to Saturday Night Live, the title is itself a clever play on words: it literally means " Saturday of laughs ", but is phonetically pronounced similar to ça me dit de rire, or " I feel like laughing ".

Lakorn (, pronounced or, ), while usually meaning play in the Thai language, is also the term for dramatic television serials ( soap operas ).

( The character Aud is recognizable as Anya ; her name is pronounced " odd "— this is a play on the fact that people are always telling Anya she is odd.

Barbara Steele, a British actress originally signed to play the love interest, was replaced during filming by Barbara Eden after studio executives decided that Steele's accent was too pronounced.

Other companies that have a more pronounced brass and woodwind section will play more marches such as Aces High.

He / she might play ' A man's a man for a ' that ', ' Robbie Burns Medley ' or ' The Star O ' Robbie Burns '.

Following this example, Quixote would suggest ' The Great Quijano ', a play on words that makes much sense in light of the character's delusions of grandeur.

Schaeffer's use of the word jeu, from the verb jouer, carries the same double meaning as the English verb play: ' to enjoy oneself by interacting with one's surroundings ', as well as ' to operate a musical instrument ' ( Dack 2002 ).

It is not unusual to pay to play in a feeder tournament that gives the winner ( s ) a free entry to another tournament but it is debatable whether these second level tournaments can be called ' freerolls ', since they require a buy-in, albeit smaller than the major tournament one.

Video slot machines typically encourage the player to play multiple ' lines ', so rather than simply taking the middle of the three symbols displayed on each reel, a line could go from top left to bottom right, or any of the other patterns specified by the manufacturer.

The same week the album was released, the Undertones embarked on their ' Humming tour ', which saw the band play a total of 25 gigs across the UK between April and June.

When Dorian is telling Lord Henry Wotton about his new ' love ', Sibyl Vane, he refers to all of the Shakespearean plays she has been in, referring to her as the heroine of each play.

The demonym for Van Diemen's Land was ' Van Diemonian ', though contemporaries used Vandemonian, possibly as a play on words relating to the colony's penal origins.

Consequently, they often play a ' day to day ' role in parliament, answering questions and defending the government on the ' floor of the House ', while in semi-presidential systems they may not be required to play as much of a role in the functioning of parliament.

However, although the Bible records Salome's dance, the first mention of her removing seven veils occurs in Oscar Wilde's play of ' Salome ', in 1893: which some have claimed as the origin of modern striptease.

After Wilde's play and Richard Strauss's operatic version of the same, first performed in 1905, the erotic ' dance of the seven veils ', became a standard routine for dancers in opera, vaudeville, film and burlesque.

Every year, Eton employs a ' Director-in-Residence ', an external professional director on a one-year contract who normally directs one house play and the Lower Boy play ( a school play open solely to the first two year groups ), as well as teaching Drama and Theatre Studies to most year groups.

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

He has written plays for stage, radio and television, including ' Mister Lowry ' staged by the Bristol Old Vic and ' On the Knocker ', a play for radio and winner of an LBC Radio Drama Award.

His play is articulated in forty separate ' scenes ', more than he used for any other play.

* In the last sequence of Derek Jarman's The Tempest ( 1979 ), a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, the singer / actress Elisabeth Welch, appearing as ' a goddess ', sings the song ; which she had taken as her signature tune since 1933.

* In an episode of Southland titled ' The Winds ', the Santa Ana Winds are mentioned multiple times and play a key role throughout the episode.

Theodore Kaczynski, more commonly known as ' The Unabomber ', wrote a play Ship of Fools while in prison, which uses the allegory for the state and advocates violent revolution on environmentalist grounds.

* Unity of action meant that the play should be constructed around a single ' plot-line ', such as a tragic love affair or a conflict between honour and duty.

In March 2006, Telewest merged with fellow cable telecom company NTL, and created ' NTL: Telewest ', which then also merged with Virgin Mobile and Virgin. net in June 2006, creating the UK's first " quadruple play " telecom provider, offering television, internet, landline phone and mobile phone services.