Round 9: Tossup 5

Specific word required. To cover up his self-plagiarism for a song titled for this place, a composer made up a story about hearing a meter called “huapango” on vacation. Two pairs of men mime slapping each other before shouting this place’s name in a sequence that begins with a woman miming a baby bump. To represent the line “12 in a room,” a group of men in a film draw out this place’s name while crowding around a woman in a yellow dress. Justin Peck changed the set of a song titled for this place from a rooftop to a street, (-5[1])resulting in heat melting (*) Ariana DuBose’s shoes; in that sequence, this place’s name ends pairs of lines beginning, “life is all right” and “if you’re all-white.” (10[1])In a film’s opening scene, an undertaker whose first name is a cognate of this place names it twice while talking to a man petting a cat during his daughter’s wedding. For 10 points, a West Side Story song about Puerto Rico and the US is titled for what place that ends the first line of The Godfather? ■END■ (0[1])

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