New York Theater Quiz for January 2020

Q.1

True or false The typical Broadway theatergoer is still a well-to-do , middle-aged white woman from out-of-town, according to statistics presented by The Broadway League’s report released in January, The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2018-2019.

True
False

Q.2

Which of the following nominees won the 2020 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album?

“Ain’t Too Proud: The Life And Times Of The Temptations “
"Hadestown"
"Moulin Rogue! The Musical”
“The Music Of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child – In Four Contemporary Suites”
“Oklahoma!”

Q.3

The nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced in January. Which 2020 best picture Oscar nominee was presented in a Broadway theater?

"Ford v Ferrari”
"The Irishman"
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Joker”
“Little Women”
“Marriage Story”
“1917”
“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”
“Parasite”

Q.4

Which of this year’s Oscar nominated directors previously won a Tony Award for best director?

Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite”
Todd Phillips, “Joker”
Sam Mendes, “1917”
Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman”
Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”

Q.5

After 15 years in which it presented more than 400 shows, the New York Musical Festival announced in January that it was declaring bankruptcy and shutting down immediately. True or false, one of the four NYMF shows over the years that eventually opened on Broadway was a musical about the process of writing and entering a musical in the New York Musical Festival.

True
False

Q.6

True or false. In a show that opened in January that originated at NYMF, Broadway veteran Ann Harada is playing a pile of poo

True
False

Q.7

Which of the three plays that opened on Broadway in January was recorded and will be sold as an audiobook?

Grand Horizons
My Name is Lucy Barton
A Soldier’s Play

Q.8

Which current Broadway show did NOT announce in January that it is being made into a movie?

David Byrne’s American Utopia
Jagged Little Pill
Mean Girls

Q.9

Which recent Tony winning musical did Jake Gyllenhaal announce in January he will produce as a movie and star in?

The Band’s Visit
Fun Home
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Kinky Boots

Q.10

At the fifth annual BroadwayCon, reporters expressed amazement that an entire ballroom of fans could sing the lyrics of a musical that hasn’t yet opened on Broadway. Which musical was it?

Girl from the North Country
Mrs. Doubtfire
Sing Street
Six

Q.11

January is the month for theater festivals in New York, thanks to the annual convention in the city of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. The oldest such festival is the Public Theater’s Under the Radar, just finished its 16th year. But several of the annual festivals have recently called it quits. Which of the following still existed in January, 2020?

American Realness
Coil
Exponential

Q.12

The fifth Broadway revival of West Side Story, though currently still in previews, has generated much attention, some of it negative. What is NOT true about it?

A couple of injuries resulted in one cast member being replaced and the show’s opening night being delayed two weeks.
Thirty-three members of the large multiracial cast are making their Broadway debuts.
At least one prominent writer has publicly objected to the dominance of white people in the creative and production team, and charged that their ignorance has resulted in several cultural missteps in the show.
The cast demanded that a new choreographer be hired to make the movement in the show more "authentically Latino"
There has been picketing outside the Broadway Theater, and an online petition with thousands of signatures, protesting the casting of Amar Ramasar, because while a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, he texted nude pictures of a woman in the company without her consent.
Whether or not a result of the negative attention, ticket sales have recently slumped.