Q.1
Of the 10 shows that had been scheduled to open on Broadway in April (but were canceled due to the pandemic) how many could New Yorkers have seen on stage at some point previously (even if different productions years ago) -- if not on Broadway, then Off-Broadway?

Q.2
April is usually the month when the New York theater season ends and the New York theater award season begins. Which of the following has been suspended indefinitely, pending the reopening of theater buildings?

Q.3
Which New York theater award announced that, in a change of its practice in previous years, this year it would have honorees, rather than nominees, and no single winner chosen in any category?

Q.4
Which gave an award to ”the New York theater community for perseverance in the face of loss during the COVID-19 pandemic”?

Q.5
Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday was celebrated in an online concert spectacular in April that was given the title “Take Me To The World,” named after a song. True or false: The song is not from any of Sondheim’s Broadway musicals.

Q.6
The songs from which Sondheim musical were the most frequently performed during the concert?

Q.7
Theater went online in April heavily and in a variety of ways. Which Tony-winning best play was given a reading live online by its original cast?

Q.8
The cast of which Tony-winning best musical re-created its large ensemble opening number virtually although each of the performers was sheltering separately?

Q.9
Each of the following plays was performed live online in April, but (while some were viewable for several days) in only one did the cast perform it live more than once, as a way of better approximating the experience of live theater on stage.

Q.10
Which critic dismissed all online theater in an essay in mid-April, writing: “As margarine is to butter, theater online comes across as an artificial substitute, with less flavor. It’s not the way these productions were meant to be seen and heard and felt.” (To which playwright Jeremy O. Harris replied “'It’s better the normal way’ is wasting a lot of the great time we can be thinking about evolving our medium. “)

Q.11
David Byrne, Joel Grey, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Brian Stokes Mitchell each delivered one of the following uplifting messages in April, whether at an awards ceremony (Byrne and Mitchell), in a newspaper essay (Grey) or in a public service announcement on the radio (Miranda). Which one is Miranda’s?

Q.12
There were many deaths in the theater community in April, including those below, who ranged in age from 52 to 97. Which of them said: Theater has four elements: a building, artists, money and an audience. “How you mix them, how you adjust them, how you administer them is the secret of success or failure.”