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 (15[1])to a street, (15[1])resulting in heat melting (15[1])(*) Ariana DuBose’s shoes; in that sequence, this place’s (10[2]-5[1])name ends (10[1])pairs of lines beginning, “life is all right” and “if you’re (10[1])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■ (10[2])

ANSWER: America” [or “in America”; accept Amerigo; prompt on United States of America or USA; reject “United States” or “US”] (The first two lines refer to the 1961 adaptation of West Side Story, while the remaining lines refer to the 2021 adaptation.)
<AP, USA> | Spec-Script_09
= Average correct buzzpoint

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