Plugging In
Q.1
At his press conference in July outside the Booth theater, why did Nick Silvestri , 19, say he attempted to charge his cell phone in the fake electrical outlet on the set of Hand to God?
He wasn't thinking
He had been drinking
He didn’t realize the stage was off limits
His cell phone battery was low
All of these reasons
None of these reasons
Q.2
True or false. Hand to God set designer Beowulf Boritt’s reaction to Charge-Gate: “It’ll keep me from ever putting a toilet on stage.”
True
False
Q.3
After Patti LuPone seized the cell phone from a theatergoer on July 8, the Wall Street Journal ran her five rules of etiquette. True or false, one of those rules was: "Use Judgment Don’t feel obligated to give everything you see a standing ovation."
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True
False
Hamilton
Q.4
What is NOT true about the Broadway previews of the musical Hamilton, which began in July.
On the first day of previews, more than 700 people entered the lottery for ten-dollar tickets
Members of the cast regularly perform for the lottery hopefuls
President Barack Obama attended a performance and later declared the show “fabulous”
Before the performance that the president attended, Lin-Manuel Miranda yelled out to the audience members who were pulling out their cell phones to snap photographs, "Patti LuPone is coming for you all!"
A series of conservative politicians and columnists have dismissed Hamilton for its non-traditional casting and other issues.
Theater Renaming
Q.5
The Shubert organization has renamed The Little Shubert Theater, its only Off-Broadway house, which it built in 2002. What is its new name?
The Tennessee Williams
The Ethel Merman
The Eubie Blake
Stage 42
Amazing Grace
Q.6
Amazing Grace, the musical that opened on Broadway in July about the slave trader turned preacher who wrote the hymn Amazing Grace, offers no information about the making of the hymn.
True
False
The New King
Q.7
What is NOT true about Jose Llana, the new king in The King and I?
He made a splash portraying Ferdinand Marcos in the David Byrne/Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love
This is his seventh Broadway production
He made his Broadway debut 19 years ago playing a different role in an earlier revival of The King and I
All of it is true
None of it is true
Marlee Matlin
Q.8
Marlee Matlin will join the cast of Spring Awakening, it was announced in July. True or False: This will mark her Broadway debut.
True
False
Off Broadway
Q.9
Which of the following shows that opened Off-Broadway in July is adapted from a novel by James Michener?
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
King Liz
Sayonara
Scenes from An Execution
Skippyjon Jones Snow What & the 7 Chihuahuas
RIP
Q.10
Theodore Bikel, E.L. Doctorow, Roger Rees all died in July. Which of them once said: "I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words."
Theodore Bikel
E. L. Doctorow
Roger Rees