Q.1
True or false: There were more productions of Shakespeare’s plays on Broadway in 2013 than at any year since 1958.
True
False
Q.2
Which two shows won Tony Awards for best play and best musical in 2013, respectively?
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Jekyll and Hyde
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Matilda
Lucky Guy and Matilda
Lucky Guy and Kinky Boots
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Kinky Boots
Q.3
Which pop singer will succeed Laura Osnes in the title role of Cinderella, as announced in December?
Adele
Miley Cyrus
Lady Gaga
Carly Rae Jepsen
Taylor Swift
Q.4
What was not a trend in New York theater this year?
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Performers getting naked in tubs on stage.
Cross-dressing performers
Experiments in marathon or epic theater
Productions of Shakespeare
An orchestrated effort by theaters to reach out to the unemployed and other victims of tough economic times
Q.5
Which of the following is false?
One of the principal cast members of the 1965 movie of The Sound of Music died shortly after NBC broadcast a live production of the musical starring Carrie Underwood.
When asked what she thought of the broadcast, Julie Andrews replied that she did not see it. “But my kids did record it. I’ll get around to it.”
During the broadcast, there were tens of thousands of snarky Tweets about the show (sample: “Someone give Audra a back massage. It must be sore after carrying that whole show.”) This prompted Justin Guarini to tweet: “People like 2b evil on twitter, don't they?... have some respect for artists doing live theater, people!”
The Time Magazine reviewer wrote: "When Carrie Underwood stepped out on the (wooded, not grassy) hills and started singing, I wished the hills were alive with the sound of hungry mountain lions."
The NBC broadcast drew a larger audience to its live broadcast of The Sound of Music than it has for any non-sports show in almost a decade, and will do another live broadcast of a Broadway show next year.
It's all false
None of it is false
Q.6
Which of the following was not a plot of a show on Broadway or Off-Broadway this year?
Ten people try to keep one of their hands on a truck for four days.
Three people work in an old movie theater over the summer, mostly sweeping the aisles
A crazy, ill woman stalks a military hero and then he falls in love with her
A group of archaeologists dig up artifacts in Illinois
None were
They all were
Q.7
Which of the following did NOT make his or her Broadway debut in 2013?
Orlando Bloom
Emilia Clarke
Cuba Gooding Jr
Tom Hanks
Shia LaBeouf
Zachary Levi
Zachary Quinto
Rachel Weisz
Q.8
Which of the following is NOT set to make his or her Broadway debut in 2014?
Christian Bale
Bryan Cranston
Fran Drescher
James Franco
Debra Messing
Chris O’Dowd
Michelle Williams
Q.9
All of the following real-life people were each featured one way or another on a New York stage this year. Which pair were each featured on MORE THAN ONE (two or more) stages this year? (not necessarily in the same shows together.)
Billie Holiday and John Lennon
John Lennon and Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand and Nina Simone
Nina Simone and Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin and Marie Antoinette
Q.10
Which of the following did not happen in 2013?
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Truman Capote's ashes were invited to attend the opening night party of Breakfast At Tiffany's.
To promote their performances in Waiting for Godot and No Man’s Land on Broadway, Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen posed for photographs with Elmo in Times Square, at Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in Coney Island, on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, at the Gay Liberation Monument in Christopher Street Park, and on the curb in front of New York City big black plastic garbage bags
The NYC Department of Transportation told Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, which for 17 seasons has been performing Shakespeare in a municipally owned parking lot on the Lower East Side, that from now on it would have to pay a parking fee to use the lot for its performances and also get auto insurance.
The Beatles "tribute" show Rain sued the Beatles “tribute” show "Let It Be" for plagiarism.
Playwright Neil LaBute called a drama critic a portly eunuch for not liking his play “Reasons To Be Happy.”
Producer Scott Rudin attacked theater reporter Patrick Healy in advertisement in the pages of the New York Times
Signs on the doors of the Ethel Barrymore Theater during the production of Macbeth starring Alan Cumming requested that the patrons not mention the name of the show they're seeing
How can any of this be true? No
It's all true, baby