Q.1
Which of the following recently explained that they went to Broadway shows to cheer up? “There’s nothing like a play to make you forget your troubles for a few hours,” they wrote. “In my experience, even a mediocre play can transport you. And show tunes are the best soundtrack for tough times. You think you’re sad? Let’s hear what Fantine from Les Misérables has to say about that!”
Hillary Clinton
World Series-losing Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish
Indicted former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort
Losing Alabama Sen. Luther Strange
Q.2
After Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of making a sexual advance when both were performing on Broadway, and Rapp was 14 years old, 97 theaters in Great Britain issued a joint statement against sexual harassment. True or false, New York theaters issued a similar industry-wide statement soon afterwards.
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True
False
Q.3
Former theater agent Roland Scahill, who admitted scamming investors out of more than $200,000 for a nonexistent play, was sentenced to six months in jail in October. Who did he say the non-existent play was about?
Ben Sprecher, the producer of Rebecca the musical
Canadian producer Garth Drabinsky
Darrell W. Cox, former artistic director of the now defunct Profile Theatre
Opera singer Kathleen Battle
Actress Lupita Nyong'o
Cher
Q.4
In a Tweet in October that began “While not at all presidential I must point out…” President Donald Trump falsely called a Broadway show a “TOTAL BOMB” that was “forced to close.” Which show was it?
Hamilton
Latin History for Morons
Paris Is Out
Springsteen on Broadway
The Terms of My Surrender
Q.5
Harold Pinter wrote a play about the president of the United States nuking the world, recently discovered by his widow.
True
False
Q.6
Which of these three plays that opened in September or October is NOT about an addict?
Desperate Measures
People, Places or Things
Up the Rabbit Hole
Q.7
Which of these three revivals that opened in October was not extensively revised?
M Butterfly
Time and the Conways
Torch Song
Q.8
Bernadette Peters will take over the title role of Hello, Dolly! from Bette Midler, whose final performance will be January 14. True or false, Peters made her Broadway debut in 1959.
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True
False
Q.9
True or false: Every one of the following 2017 Emmy Award winners is also a veteran of the New York stage: John Lithgow, Laura Dern, Alec Baldwin, Ann Dowd, Nicole Kidman, Sterling K. Brown, Elisabeth Moss
True
False
Q.10
All of the following playwrights no longer living are among the 20 most produced in non-profit theaters throughout the United States this season, according to an American Theatre Magazine survey. Which of these is the highest on the list?
Lorraine Hansberry
Arthur Miller
Eugene O’Neill
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
August Wilson
Q.11
Michael Friedman died in September at age 41. Which if anything is NOT true about him?
He died of AIDS
He was the composer, lyricist and orchestrator for “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” the Broadway musical about Andrew Jackson.
He was co-founder of investigative theater company The Civilians, involved in “The Great Immensity,” “In The Footprint,” “Occupy Wall Street: Stories From Liberty Square,” and dozens more.
He served as the dramaturg for the 2004 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun
He wrote the music for the Broadway stage adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery
All of this is true