New York Theater March 2013 Quiz

Q.1

The 2013 Tony Awards will return to Radio City Music Hall after a two-year absence, according to an announcement made in March. Where has the awards ceremony taken place?

The Beacon
The Belasco
CBS Studio Theater
It was on hiatus

Q.2

Rodger and Hammerstein, the team responsible for “Oklahoma,” “South Pacific,” “The King and I” and many others, wrote their musical “Cinderella” in 1957; it has starred everyone from Julie Andrews to Lesley Ann Warren to Whitney Houston. True or False: It has never been on Broadway before it opened at the Broadway Theater this past month.

True
False

Q.3

Who are Smith and Clarke?

A new song-writing team
The law firm representing Julie Taymor in her continuing lawsuit against the producers and composers of Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
The producing team trying to get new investors for Rebecca
18th century New World explorers who are the subject of a forthcoming musical
The stars of Breakfast At Tiffany's

Q.4

Which show that opened in March contained the following monologue? “We licked postage stamps, we didn’t have answering machines; you had to call people back.…We played Scrabble and Monopoly. We didn’t play video games, in some virtual reality, where we would kill policemen and prostitutes as if that was some sort of entertainment.”

Ann
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Cinderella
Hands on a Hardbody
The Mound Builders
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Q.5

Which influential musical theater composer did NOT have a birthday in March?

Jerry Herman
John Kander
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Stephen Sondheim

Q.6

After which Redgrave will Culture Project rename its 45 Bleecker Street Theater?

Corin Redgrave
Jemma Redgrave
Lynn Redgrave
Michael Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
Natasha Richardson

Q.7

World Theatre Day, celebrated every March 27th since 1961, selects a different theater luminary each year to deliver a message. In his World Theatre Day message, what did Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo attack?

Broadway
The Catholic Church
Commercial theater in general
Television

Q.8

. Which of the following comments did Playwrights Horizons Artistic Director Tim Sanford NOT make in a letter sent to subscribers after many walkouts and complaints about the three-hour plus length of Annie Baker’s “The Flick”?

He said he didn’t know the play was going to be so long, and didn’t expect it to be so polarizing.
He applauded those who disliked the play, saying he preferred a work to evince passionate dislike than a dispassionate shrug.
He promised theatergoers the playwright and the director would look for ways to trim or speed up the pace of the play.
He said the theater would not cut a single second out of the play.

Q.9

There were many announcements in March of plans to bring shows to Broadway in the future. Which of the following famous people is NOT the subject of a show aiming for Broadway?

Country singer and songwriter Patsy Cline
Songwriter Carole King
Baseball player Mickey Mantle
Queen Elizabeth
None of them are subjects of a show aiming for Broadway
All of them are subjects of a show aiming for Broadway

Q.10

Which of the following involving playwrights happened in March?

More than a dozen prominent playwrights, including Neil LaBute, Mike Daisey, Kristoffer Diaz, and Greg Kotis, wrote plays lasting under one minute for the One-Minute Play Festival celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
The Labyrinth Theater launched its first New York, New York Festival, five days of staged readings featuring playwrights ranging from Stephen Adly Giurgis to Imamu Amiri Baraka
Award-winning playwright Mona Mansour, whose previous work has been produced at such venues as the Public Theater and the Humana Festival, wrote a play that received its world premiere performed by undergraduates at York College in Queens
Sixteen playwrights from around the world each contributed to The Around-the-Globe Chain Play, which was performed in a world premiere at the Lark Play Development Center in Manhattan.
None of it happened
It all happened