New York Theater Quiz September 2018

Q.1

Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend, and Tim Rice all won 2018 Emmy Awards in September for Jesus Christ Superstar Live -- and all three, as a result, are now among the 15 people in the world to have achieved competitive EGOT status (winning Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys.) Which musical theater composer is NOT among the 15?

Mel Brooks
Marvin Hamlisch
Robert Lopez
Richard Rodgers
Stephen Sondheim

Q.2

Bernhardt/Hamlet, one of the two plays that opened on Broadway in September, stars Janet McTeer as the renowned 19th century French actress Sarah Bernhardt tackling the role of Hamlet. Which of the following do we see at some point on the stage of Roundabout’s American Airlines Theater?

A skull
The coffin in which Bernhardt slept
A fully staged scene from “Hamlet”
A fully staged scene from Edmond Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac”

Q.3

Though in the play people are aghast that the actress would take on a male role, the actual Sarah Bernhardt made a point of performing what were called “trouser roles” from the very start of her career

True
False

Q.4

Times Square Theater, built in 1920, is the final historic theater on 42nd Street to be redeveloped. What, as announced in September, is it slated to become?

A state of the art Broadway theater
Much needed rehearsal studios
A Museum of Broadway
A retail mall

Q.5

The Nap, which opened on Broadway in September, features a one-armed trans woman gangster named Waxy Bush, who speaks in malapropisms (“I live in hope; I am nothing if not an optometrist.") True or false, the character is portrayed by the second trans woman actress currently performing on Broadway.

True
False

Q.6

Which will be the most produced play or musical in non-profit theaters nationwide in the 2018-2019 season, according to a survey by American Theatre Magazine?

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Simon Stephens
A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath
Fun Home by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad: A Pseudoclassical Tragifarce in a Bastard French Tradition by Arthur Kopit
Sweat by Lynn Nottage

Q.7

True or false: In The True, Edie Falco portrays Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand’s grandmother.

True
False

Q.8

Which of the following plays that opened in September has the longest full title? (Some of those below are shortened)

Because I Could Not Stop
Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
I Was Most Alive With You
The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d

Q.9

Which title comes from a poem by Walt Whitman?

Because I Could Not Stop
Collective Rage: A Play in FiveBetties
I Was Most Alive With You
The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d

Q.10

In which were there two complete casts, one of them a “shadow cast” signing their lines in American Sign Language?

Because I Could Not Stop
Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
I Was Most Alive With You
The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d

Q.11

All the following are coming to an end, as announced in September, EXCEPT

Cynthia Nixon’s campaign for governor
Kinky Boots
Perfect Crime
Theater Talk TV show

Q.12

All the following shows are opening soon on Broadway, as announced in September, EXCEPT:

A revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
Be More Chill
Beetlejuice
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Perfect Crime

Q.13

In honor of which of the following members of the theater community who died in September were all the theater marquees of Broadway dimmed?

Theatrical press agent Merle Debuskey
Cabaret and She Loves Me librettist Joe Masteroff
Actress Marin Mazzie
Actress Carole Shelley
All
None