A Party for Smarties with Says You! Live
Says You! returns to Birmingham for one spectacular performance — just in time for Mother’s Day!
When: Saturday, May 7, 2016 at 3 p.m.
Where: UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center
Get your tickets today!
Says You! may have been called by its creator, Richard Sher, “a simple game with words,” but its undiminished popularity over twenty years on public radio has shown it to be much more than that. The show is a modern parlor game involving wordplay, general knowledge, and music, all played in front of live audiences and broadcast nationally.
Here’s how it works: two teams of clever and urbane panelists answer questions posed by host, emcee, and MENSA member, Barry Nolan. Rounds 1, 3, and 5 vary from week to week in categories such as “Odd Man Out,” “Word Definitions & Derivations,” “Quotes and Quotables” and whatever else challenges the intellect and allows ad-libbed humor. Rounds 2 and 4 are the “Says You!” bluffing rounds wherein an obscure word is given to one member of a team while the other two members must create fake definitions designed to fool the opponents. Throughout each show, local musical performers provide transitions and interstitials. Listeners, as the emcee says, are encouraged to “grab a pencil and paper” and play along. And sometimes listener questions are refined and used on air.
“Says You!” regulars include:
Paula Lyons– Consumer reporter for Good Morning America, The Ladies Home Journal, and WBZ-TV in Boston.
Arnold Reisman– Television performer and documentarian, recently honored for his PBS Special The Powder and the Glory.
Francine Achbar– Peabody Award winning documentarian and Director of Boston’s New Center for Arts and Culture.
Carolyn Faye Fox– Food columnist and critic for the Improper Bostonian.
Fletcher Wiley- Former head of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, national political advisor and counsel.
Murray Horwitz- Former Peabody Award winner, Head of the American Film Institute in Washington, DC, writer, creative consultant to the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center, actor, author and Tony Award winning librettist.
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