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Broadway First, we can see that the semingly innocuous lights surrounding the Broadway sign actually form some interesting pat- terns. In fact, the three rows of dots above and below the sign seem to form braille, where two letters/characters are separated by one column of dots! If we test this hypothesis, we can spell out letters in the top and bottom rows:

ANTOINETTEPERRYAWARD NUMBEROFWINSPERYEAR

which we can read as “Antoinette Perry award, number of wins per year.” The first clue refers to the , which seem relevant given that the puzzle is about theater.

The tassels at the sides of the stage read “playbill,” which references the fact that each image is the playbill for a musical. The four numbers at the corners of each image represent the year of the musical to examine. We can identify the musicals, using key features of the images, to yield:

Aladdin (2014), Les Miserables (1987), (2005), (2002), (2001), Urinetown (2002), Get Your Gun (1999), Urinetown (2002), (1997) The Color Purple (2006), The Color Purple (2016), (2004), (2006), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), The of the Opera (1988)

Now, we use the remainder of the braille clue; we find the number of Tony award wins that each musical received (this information is available on Wikipedia, for example). Then, we can index into the name of the musical:

Musical Number of Tony Wins Letters Aladdin (2014) 1 A Les Miserables (1987) 8 R Spamalot (2005) 3 A Urinetown (2002) 3 I The Producers (2001) 12 S Urinetown (2002) 3 I Annie Get Your Gun (1999) 2 N Urinetown (2002) 3 I Titanic (1997) 5 N The Color Purple (2006) 1 T The Color Purple (2016) 2 H Avenue Q (2004) 3 E Jersey Boys (2006) 4 S Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) 6 U The Phantom of the Opera (1988) 7 N 1/2 Broadway yielding the final answer, which is also a play,A IN THE SUN.

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