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Current Location: Gumdrop Mountains
Current Location Steps: 5/25
Total Of All Steps - 59

100 Steps-Lord Licorice

Congratulations! You have taken 100 Steps on the Path, and you have met Lord Licorice!


In his original appearance, Lord Licorice is said to live alone in Licorice Castle with his Bitter Chocolate Bats. He is described as "always gloomy, ever grim" with a heart "as hard as rock candy." Through unknown means, he managed to hide King Kandy and Candy Castle, causing the land to fade in color. The Candy Land Kids are sent by Princess Lolly to thwart him. Lord Licorice is known by other inhabitants for his plots and evil plans.

The Kids successfully thwarted Lord Licorice again when they discovered he had been eating Gramma Nutt's Peanut Brittle House. He confessed to his crime, and King Kandy sentenced him to rebuild the property. In another scheme, he sent Jolly and Plumpy on a false errand to Queen Frostine. While the two were distracted, he plundered the Gingerbread Plum Trees and Gumdrop Mountains of plums and gumdrops. Jolly and Plumpy were able to realize this and confront Licorice before he got away with the stolen goods. He later captured King Kandy again, imprisoning him in the dungeon of his own castle. This time he was defeated by the Candy Kids.
Lord Licorice is later seen no longer living in a castle, instead occupying the Licorice Forest. He is described as "nothing like the other sweet characters" in the land, and known for trying to block the way of travelers. Following this, he is shown occupying Licorice Lagoon. His appearance becomes more pirate-like, including a skull-emblazoned ship with a crew. He is next seen in more dandy attire without the ship, but still residing in the lagoon.
Notes
Lord Licorice was present as the antagonist in every version of Candy Land from his introduction in 1984 until the 2014 edition. The 2021 edition is the first since his introduction not to feature Lord Licorice, including no villain at all.






Current Location: Crooked Old Peanut Brittle House
Current Location Steps: 21/30
Total Of All Steps: 102

75 Steps-Plumpy


Congratulations! You have taken 75 Steps on the Path, and you have met Plumpy!


Plumpy is described as "The Last of the Plumpa Trolls," the only living member of his species. It is unknown what tragedy caused the others to disappear. His job in Candy Land is "Caretaker of the Gingerbread Plum Trees." It is his duty to collect the ripe plums as they fall from the trees. When King Kandy was kidnapped by Lord Licorice, Plumpy developed a problem with stress-related binge eating in response.

Plumpy's gender pronouns are established as He/Him in his debut appearance.
Plump was removed from the franchise following his appearance in the 1999 version for unknown reasons. The 2002 version replaces Plumpy with Mama Gingertree.
Plumpy appears to be at least partially inspired by The Lorax, a character created by Dr. Seuss. Both characters share visual similarities, a connection to trees, and are the last of their kind.








Current Location: Gumdrop Mountains
Current Location Steps: 24/25
Total Of All Steps: 76

Current Location: Start
Current Location Steps: 6/10
Total Of All Steps: 6

Current Location: Lollipop Woods
Current Location Steps: 35/40
Total Of All Steps: 140

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4. John Gielgud




Sir Arthur John Gielgud April 14, 1904 – May 21, 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.

During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Queen's Theatre, London. He was regarded by many as the finest Hamlet of his era, and was also known for high comedy roles such as John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest.

John Gielgud received his fourth distinct award in 1991. Between 1948 and 1991, Gielgud received a total of five competitive awards. Gielgud was the first winner to win any award other than the Oscar as their first award (his first award was a Tony). At age 87 when he won his Emmy, he also became the oldest winner, the first male performer, the first LGBTQ winner, and the first non-American.

1982: Academy Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role “Arthur”
1991: Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special “Summer's Lease”
1980: Grammy Award Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording “Ages of Man”
1948: Tony Award Outstanding Foreign Company “The Importance of Being Earnest”
1961: Tony Award Best Director of a Drama “Big Fish, Little Fish”


Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has an LGBTQ MPG
2.Read a book that has a character named “John” or “Arthur” (variations are accepted)
3.Read a book that has the word “Director” in the text (Please state Page/Location number and short passage)

Excellent! You have earned the John Gielgud Button!




5. Audrey Hepburn





Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema, inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List, and is one of a few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards.

Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent from 1936 to 1939. Hepburn returned to the Netherlands with the Second World War's outbreak. She studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory during the war. By 1944, Hepburn was performing ballet to raise money to support the resistance. She studied with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam from 1945 to 1948 and then with Marie Rambert in London.

Hepburn began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. The same year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden; Funny Face (1957), a musical in which she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964).

In 1967, Hepburn starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. After that role, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in Always (1989), an American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.
Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia.

Audrey Hepburn received her fourth distinct award posthumously in 1994. Between 1954 and 1994, Hepburn received a total of four competitive awards. She was the fifth person to complete the feat and the first to do so posthumously. She was also the first winner to win two of their awards in consecutive awards shows (the 1994 Grammys were the first Grammys since her posthumous win at the 1993 Emmys). She is the only EGOT winner to not win multiple awards in any of the four award fields.



1954: Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role – Roman Holiday

1993: Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (Episode: "Flower Gardens")
1994: Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album for Children – Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
1954: Tony Award Distinguished Dramatic Actress – Ondine


Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has a cover model that you think is dressed elegantly. (Must post picture of the cover)
2.Read a book that has an MPG of Historical Fiction
3.Read a book where both of the author’s initials can be found in the words “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

Awesome! You have earned the Jonathon Tunick Button!




8. Mel Brooks




Melvin James Brooks (né Kaminsky; born June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, and songwriter. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies.

Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's variety show Your Show of Shows (1950–1954). There he worked with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, and Carl Reiner. With Reiner, he co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man and released several comedy albums, starting with 2000 Year Old Man in 1960. Brooks received five nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album finally winning in 1999. With Buck Henry, he created the hit satirical spy NBC television comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970).
Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967). He then rose to prominence directing a string of successful comedy films such as The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977). Later Brooks made History of the World, Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), Life Stinks (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995).A musical adaptation of his first film, The Producers, ran on Broadway from 2001 to 2007 and earned Brooks three Tony Awards. The project was remade into a musical film in 2005. He wrote and produced the Hulu series History of the World, Part II (2023).
Brooks was married to actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death in 2005.



Mel Brooks (born 1926) received his fourth distinct award in June 2001. Between 1968 and 2002, Brooks received a total of 11 awards. Brooks was the first person to win the Emmy as the first award, and the first winner to have won his Oscar for screenwriting. He is the only person to have won the Triple Crown of Writing, having won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony in writing categories.

Brooks is one of only two people to have two awards of each type, though unlike the other (Robert Lopez) one of Brooks's Oscars was honorary. When he appeared on the January 30, 2015 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Brooks called himself an EGOTAK, noting that he had also received awards from the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center.

1969 Academy Awards-Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen – The Producers

1967 Primetime Emmy Award-Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety – The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special
1997 Primetime Emmy Award-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You
1998 Primetime Emmy Award-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You
1999 Primetime Emmy Award-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You

1999 Grammy Award-Best Spoken Comedy Album – The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000
2002 Grammy Award-Best Long Form Music Video – Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
2002 Grammy Award-Best Musical Show Album – The Producers

2001 Tony Award-Best Musical – The Producers
2001 Tony Award-Best Book of a Musical – The Producers
2001 TonyAward-Best Original Score – The Producers


Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has Comedy MPG or Humor MPG
2.Read a book that has the number “7” on the Average Goodreads Star Rating
3.Read a book that has fire or some kind of Fire/Flame on the cover of the book (Must Post the Cover of the book)

One Singular Sensation! You have earned the Marvin Hamlisch Button!




7. Jonathan Tunick




Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021.

Tunick's principal instrument is the clarinet. Much of his work has arisen from his involvement in theatre, and he is associated especially with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim.

Tunick's band, "Broadway Moonlighters", played in 2008 with Barbara Cook as special guest, and played at Birdland jazz club in March 2012. He has also worked as an arranger and/or conductor on recordings with Judy Collins, Kiri Te Kanawa, Brian Asawa, Sir Neville Mariner, Itzhak Perlman, Plácido Domingo, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, and Bernadette Peters.

Jonathan Tunick (born 1938) received his fourth distinct award in 1997. Between 1977 and 2024, Tunick received a total of five awards. Tunick is the first EGOT winner to have won an Emmy as their second award as well as the first to win the Tony as their fourth award.

1978 Academy Award Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score – A Little Night Music.
1982 Primetime Emmy Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction – Night of 100 Stars
1989 Grammy Award Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "No One is Alone"
1997 Tony Award Best Orchestrations – Titanic
2024 Tony Award Best Orchestrations – Merrily We Roll Along

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that was written by two authors
2.Read a book that has both of the author’s initials found in the words “Broadway Moonlighters”
3.Read a book that has a series name that can be found in the word “Clarinet”

Beautiful! You have earned the Audrey Hepburn Button!




6. Marvin Hamlisch




Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch was born in Manhattan to Viennese-born Jewish parents Lilly (née Schachter) and Max Hamlisch. His father was an accordionist and bandleader. Hamlisch was a child prodigy; by age five, he began mimicking the piano music he heard on the radio. A few months before he turned seven, in 1951, he was accepted into what is now the Juilliard School Pre-College Division.

Hamlisch attended Queens College, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. His first job was as a rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand. Even on tour he would take time to book Kenny Veenstra's Progressive Music Studio to send musical ideas back to "Babs" in New York. Shortly afterward, producer Sam Spiegel hired him to play piano at parties.

His first film score was for 1968's The Swimmer. He also wrote music for several early Woody Allen films, including Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971). Hamlisch and Liebling co-wrote the song "California Nights", which was recorded by Lesley Gore for her 1967 hit album of the same name. The Bob Crewe-produced single peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100 in March 1967, two months after Gore had performed the song on the Batman television series, in which she guest-starred as an accomplice to Julie Newmar's Catwoman. Among Hamlisch's better-known works during the 1970s were adaptations of Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the film The Sting, including its theme song, "The Entertainer". It hit No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart and No. 3 on the Hot 100, selling nearly 2 million copies in the U.S. alone. He had great success in 1973, winning two Academy Awards for the title song and the score for the motion picture The Way We Were and an Academy Award for the adaptation score for The Sting. He won four Grammy Awards in 1974, two for "The Way We Were". In 1975, he wrote the original theme music for Good Morning America; the show used it for 12 years. He co-wrote "Nobody Does It Better" for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) with his then-girlfriend Carole Bayer Sager, which would be nominated for an Oscar.[6] In the 1980s, he had success with the scores for Ordinary People (1980) and Sophie's Choice (1982). He also received an Academy Award nomination in 1986 for the film version of A Chorus Line.

Hamlisch's first major stage work was in 1972 playing piano for Groucho Marx at Carnegie Hall for An Evening with Groucho. Hamlisch acted as both straight man and accompanist while Marx, at age 81, reminisced about his career in show business.The performances were released as a two-record set, and remained very popular. He then composed the scores for the 1975 Broadway musical A Chorus Line, for which he won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize; and for the 1978 musical They're Playing Our Song, loosely based on his relationship with Carole Bayer Sager. At the beginning of the 1980s, his romantic relationship with Bayer Sager ended, but their songwriting relationship continued. The 1983 musical Jean Seberg, based on the life of the real-life actress, failed in its London production at the UK's National Theatre and never played in the U.S. In 1986, Smile was a mixed success and had a short run on Broadway. The musical version of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1993) closed after only 188 performances, although he received a Drama Desk nomination, for Outstanding Music.
Shortly before his death, Hamlisch finished scoring a musical theatre version of The Nutty Professor, based on the 1963 film. The show played in July and August 2012, at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in Nashville, aiming for a Broadway run. The book is by Rupert Holmes, and the production was directed by Jerry Lewis.

1974 Academy Awards Best Original Dramatic Score – The Way We Were
1974 Academy Awards Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation – The Sting
1974 Academy Awards Best Song – "The Way We Were"
1995 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction – Barbra: The Concert
1995 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics – "Ordinary Miracles"
1991 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Music and Lyrics – "A Ticket to Dream"
2001 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Music Direction – Timeless: Live in Concert
1975 Grammy Awards Best New Artist
1975 Grammy Awards Song of the Year – "The Way We Were"
1975 Grammy Awards Best Pop Instrumental Performance – "The Entertainer"
1975 Grammy Awards Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special – The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording
1976 Tony Award Best Musical Score – A Chorus Line


Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1. Read a book from the list Music Biographies. (Must have at least 3 votes. Please include the number the book is on the list.)

2.Read a book that has been tagged “Music” at least 5 times
3.Read a book that has the word “Piano” in the text (please state page/location number and short passage) or has a piano on the cover of the book (Most post book cover on the completion)

Excellent! You have earned the Helen Hayes! Button!






3. Rita Moreno



I did get the idea to do this challenge while I was doing the Golden Girls challenge. Rita Moreno was a guest star in one of the episodes, and I came across that she was an EGOT winner and as you can see, I ran with that idea. Sadly, her episode of The Golden Girls was a backdoor pilot of “Empty Nest” that was changed and didn’t include her. However, she has had one helluva career.

Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer Rita Moreno (born 1931) received her fourth distinct award in 1977. Between 1961 and 1978, Moreno received a total of five awards. She is also the first Latina winner and the first winner to win a Grammy as their second award (both previous winners won Tonys as their second award). In addition, she became a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015 and a Peabody Award winner in 2019. Moreno is also the second EGOT recipient and the first Hispanic actress to win the Triple Crown of Acting.

1962 Academy Award-Best Supporting Actress “West Side Story”
1977 Emmy Award-Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music – The Muppet Show and 1978 Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series – The Rockford Files (Episode: "The Paper Palace")
1973 Grammy Award-Best Recording for Children – The Electric Company (She had the Iconic Catch Phrase “Hey You Guys”)
1975 Tony Award-Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play – The Ritz


Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has a Spanish Translation
2.Read a book that has a Children's or Middle Grade MPG
3.Read a book that has all the letters in the word “Anita” in the title

Task 2:
Beautiful!

Task 1:
Brilliant!


All Tasks:
Perfect!

Task 2:
Beautiful!



All Tasks:
Perfect!

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