New York Theater Quiz November 2017

Q.1

Which Broadway musical was represented in the 91st annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade by both a character from the show featured as a balloon, and the cast performing a number from the show during the broadcast?

Anastasia
Dear Evan Hansen
Frozen
SpongeBob SquarePants

Q.2

Which show was not nominated for a 2018 Grammy Award for best musical theater album?

Come from Away
Dear Evan Hansen
Hello, Dolly
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Q.3

True or false? Lin-Manuel Miranda announced in November that he will reprise the title role in Hamilton in 2019.

True
False

Q.4

Which Hamilton star won the 25th season competition of Dancing With The Stars?

Daveed Diggs
Jordan Fisher
Taran Killam
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Phillipa Soo

Q.5

Andrew Lloyd Webber announced in November what he called his next and “most boring” project. What is it?

A sequel to Love Never Dies
A musical adaptation of Waiting For Godot
His memoir

Q.6

Is The Parisian Woman about a Parisian woman?

Yes
No

Q.7

Which play that opened in November is about an accusation of sexual assault on a college campus?

Actually
Hot Mess
The Wolves

Q.8

"Red Roses, Green Gold,” a musical currently at the Minetta Lane, features the songs of which rock band?

Aerosmith
E Street Band
The Grateful Dead
Guns n Roses
Hootie and the Blowfish

Q.9

Which show that was supposed to have a short run, was extended – and, then in November, extended for a second time?

Jesus Hopped the A Train
School Girls, or the African Mean Girls Play
Springsteen on Broadway
All three shows

Q.10

Lincoln Center announced it was killing Lincoln Center Festival, after 22 summers presenting dance, music, film and theater from around the world. Why according to interviews with (or statements from) artistic director Jane Moss and other Lincoln Center officials, is it killing the popular festival?

It's too expensive
Its founder retired
Moss had been the head of the Mostly Mozart Festival, and prefers to beef that up.
They were reacting to criticism last year in the Times that the festival has “felt jumbled and tired in recent years”
While all these reasons may be true, the officials said nothing explictly about why they were killing the festival.

Q.11

What is the reported reason why the Tony Awards nominating committee ruled “1984” ineligible for 2018 Tony Awards?

It opened in the Hudson Theatre, which hadn’t been used as a legitimate Broadway theater for nearly a half century
It didn’t file the necessary paperwork by the deadline
It originated in London
It was just too disturbing
The production refused to allow one of the 49 members of the Tony nominating committee to see the play

Q.12

David Cassidy, teen heartthrob best known for his starring role in The Partridge Family musical TV series, died in November at the age of 67. True or false: His father and stepmother were both Broadway musical theater stars, and he and his two brothers all Broadway veterans. *

True
False