With each new issue of Applause Magazine, we offer readers a puzzle related to our current shows. Here is the most recent crossword puzzle, covering The Who’s Tommy, Disney’s Aladdin and Native Gardens).

The solution is posted below. Print and play! CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE VERSION OF THIS PUZZLE, WITH THE SOLUTION!

ACROSS clues:

• 5 Native Gardens playwright Karen Zacarías previously adapted
  Helen Thorpe’s book ____(three words) for the DCPA Theatre Company
• 9  The setting for Aladdin is the fantastical world of _____
• 10  Benjamin Franklin said: “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are _____.
• 11  “The Who’s Tommy” is considered a _______ album
• 12  Every rose has its ____
• 13  A plant that completes its full life-cycle in two growing seasons
• 14  Michael _______ was Broadway’s original Tommy in
  1993. His brother recently performed in the DCPA Theatre
  Company’s All the Way.
• 16  Aladdin’s master of ceremonies is named ______
• 17  Tommy’s The Acid _____
• 18  In The Fantasticks, conspiring neighbors plotted to build a ____ between them

DOWN clues:

• 1. The showstopping final musical number in Aladdin is called “_____Like Me”
• 2 In Aladdin, nearly 110 of these changes happen in a backstage frenzy taking place in less than one minute
• 3 What Tommy witnessed that sent him into catatonia
• 4 In 1981, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd starred in this film about a quiet man whose life is upended when an obnoxious couple moves in next door.
• 6 Pinball was banned from the early 1940s to mid-70s in many big American cities because it was considered a form of _________
• 7 Terpsichorean is a term related to the art of _______, of which Aladdin features much
• 8 Aladdin takes audiences on a magic ______ ride
• 15 Tommy can’t hear those buzzers and bells. He plays by a sense of ____.

Isabelle McCalla (Jasmine) and Clinton Greenspan (Aladdin) in the touring production of Disney’s ‘Aladdin,’ playing in Denver through April 28. Photo by Deen van Meer.

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An American in Paris, Kinky Boots, Hal Holbrook Tonight and Disgraced DOWNLOAD

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Jersey Boys, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Finding Neverland, A Christmas Carol and The Hip-Hop Nutcracker DOWNLOAD