Q.1
Which was not true about Lin-Manuel Miranda in March?
President Barack Obama challenged him to a freestyle rap in the Rose Garden of the White House
He met with Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew, whom he had been lobbying to keep Hamilton on the ten-dollar bill. Lew told him “You’re going to be very happy.”
He spoke about gender quality for an hour with the U.N. women’s goodwill ambassador (and Harry Potter actress) Emma Watson.
He wrote an Op-Ed article in the New York Times calling on Congress to help bail out Puerto Rico
He sang bars from Hamilton -- "I do, I do, I do, I do!” -- to accompany a pre-show marriage proposal between two Hamilton theatergoers who had requested a backstage tour.
Fortune Magazine selected him as one of the 50 “world’s greatest leaders”
None of this is true
All of this is true
Q.2
As of March, Wicked is now one of only three shows to gross $1 billion on Broadway. Which is not one of the other two?
Chicago
The Lion King
The Phantom of the Opera
Q.3
Which of the following shows that opened in March is the first of a trilogy of plays that will follow one fictional family’s reaction to this election year?
Disaster!
Dry Powder
Hungry
The Royale
Stupid F…ing Bird
Q.4
True or false: Three bluegrass musicals opened in New York in March, one featuring transgender characters.
True
False
Q.5
Turn Me Loose, a play produced by John Legend about a comedian portrayed by Joe Morton, will open Off-Broadway in May, according to an announcement in March. Which comedian is it?
Bill Cosby
Dick Gregory
Richard Pryor
Garry Shandling
Robin Williams
Q.6
Which Robin Williams movie will be made into a stage play this fall at the Classic Stage Company, as announced in March?
Awakenings
Dead Poets Society
Good Will Hunting
Moscow on the Hudson
Mrs. Doubtfire
Q.7
True or false: In an interview with American Theatre Magazine in March, Todd Haimes, the artistic director of the 50-year-old non-profit, Roundabout Theater Company, complained that he only made $450,000 a year.
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True
False
Q.8
What is not true about Akosua Busia, who portrays a peace activist in Eclipsed, a play by Danai Gurira that opened on Broadway in March?
Eclipsed marks her Broadway debut
She is a princess
She played Nettie in Steven Spielberg’s film The Color Purple
She was married to John Singleton, director of Boyz n the Hood
She is a published novelist and a produced screenwriter
She wrote a song with Stevie Wonder
Q.9
Nerds, a musical about the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, was abruptly canceled in March while the cast was rehearsing for an April opening. Why?
The chatters on Broadway World were so nasty to it.
Rory O’Malley, who was slated to play Bill Gates, one of the two leads, was hired to portray King George in Hamilton.
The estate of Steve Jobs threatened to sue.
A major investor backed out at the last minute.
Q.10
Patty Duke died in March at age 69. What was not true about her?
At age 12, she starred as Helen Keller in the original Broadway production of “The Miracle Worker.”
She won an Academy Award at age 16 for the same role on film
While still a teenager, she starred in The Patty Duke Show on television, portraying two “identical cousins,” typical American Patty and classy Scottish Cathy
At age 21, she portrayed an alcoholic, drug-addicted singer in The Valley of the Dolls, now a camp classic.
As an adult, she performed primarily in the movies, and never returned to the Broadway stage.
She served as president of the Screen Actors Guild
Diagnosed relatively late in life as bipolar, she became an activist for mental health, as well as an advocate for AIDS awareness and nuclear disarmament
She was the mother of Sean Astin, star of the Lord of the Rings
Her family called her Anna Banana