Tuesday, October 4, 2011
I DON'T THINK THE LADIES WHO LUNCH WOULD BE VERY GOOD AT THIS: When he's not writing music, lyrics, or bitchy essays about how much hates pretty much every composer and lyricist ever, Stephen Sondheim writes "treasure hunts" for his friends and for charity events, and a Vulture correspondent participated in one last night.
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ReplyDeleteWatson Adventures does hunts along these lines (though quite a bit simpler).
ReplyDeleteI vote for adding a Sondheim treasure hunt to the list of events at ALOTT5MAcon.
ReplyDeleteWell I really want to do a Sondheim Treasure Hunt but those Watson ones look very cool...I may try one. Some friends and I did the Pasadena CityRace a few months ago and had a great time. We came in 2nd overall -- actually beat all the other teams to the finish and won the bonus round, but came in one point behind another team because of a question we still believe had two possible answers. Not that we're competitive.
ReplyDeletePerfect time to mention the Sondheim-penned The Last of Sheila, which is a pretty good murder mystery based around such games.
ReplyDeleteI rather enjoyed the City Room blog's account of the evening, which featured a lot of trying to pin down Sondheim only to lose him. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/at-the-museum-hunting-treasure-and-the-man-who-hid-it/
ReplyDeleteStephen Fry has a story that once, right after he'd met Sondheim, he (Sondheim) wrote a treasure hunt in which everyone had to send a fax and receive one back. This was in the early, early days of faxing but Sondheim had one and he knew Fry did too, so he asked Fry to be on the other end of the faxing. So, sitting in the UK in the early, early hours, he did so...getting little "hi! This is us sending a fax!" notes and writing back.
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