Q.1
What was not a trend in New York theater this year?
Hollywood stars on Broadway stages
Stage adaptations of novels
Theater about theater
Petitions and marches by theater artists in protest of theater-related matters and more global issues
An orchestrated effort by theater owners and producers to reach out to the unemployed and other victims of tough economic times
Q.2
“There is always something left to love.” From which 2014 Tony-winning show does this line of dialogue come from?
All The Way
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
A Raisin in the Sun
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Q.3
For the first time ever, a New York City theater was chosen to be the winner of the 2014 Regional Theater Tony Award.
True
False
Q.4
What is not true of Iain Armitage?
His reviews of Broadway, Off-Broadway and Washington D.C theater appear on YouTube
His YouTube review of Peter Pan Live got more than 46,000 views.
He appeared on The View with Rosie O'Donnell
Perez Hilton called him his favorite theater critic
He sang at Signature Theater with Broadway performer Christine Pedi, who called him “a true cabaret raconteur.”
He had a one-to-one interview with Sting, who called him one of the best interviewers he’s ever had.
He turned six years old in 2014
None of this is true
It's all true
Q.5
Which did not make his or her Broadway debut in 2014?
Michael Cera
Bryan Cranston
Kieran Culkin
Fran Drescher
James Franco
Rupert Grint
Debra Messing
Chris O'Dowd
Keke Palmer
Sting
Emma Stone
Michelle Williams
Q.6
The theater community lost many people in 2014. Which of them said: “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou
Lauren Bacall
Amiri Baraka
Joan Rivers
Eli Wallach
Q.7
Which said “You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.”
Geoffrey Holder
Mike Nichols
Mickey Rooney
Elaine Stritch
Q.8
Which said "The greatest gift is not being afraid to question."
Ruby Dee
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Mitch Leigh
James Rebhorn
Robin Williams
Q.9
What show on Broadway and in productions around the world in 2014 became the highest grossing live theater of all time, raking in some $6.2 billion?
Chicago
Les Miserables
The Lion King
Phantom of the Opera
Wicked
Q.10
The answer to the previous question has grossed more than the highest-grossing film of all time.
True
False
Q.11
What is the Association of Artists United for a Smile?
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Jokey impromptu title by cast and crew from the Broadway shows who dumped ice water on their heads as part of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
The name given to the 10,000 petition-signers to save the Café Edison
The name adopted by the organizers of the 32,000-signature petition to restore the Tony Awards for sound design.
A group of people who wear costumes of cartoon characters and superheroes in Times Square organized to fight back against negative publicity
The 60 Broadway artists who slept on the street during the summer to help raise funds for Covenant House’s mission of helping homeless youth
Q.12
"If you could sing and dance you know we’d have it made”
Dominic Fumusa said this to Jessica Hecht in Sarah Ruhl’s backstage comedy Stage Kiss at Playwrights Horizons
Adrian Lester said this to Charlotte Lucas in Lolita Chakrabarti’s backstage drama Red Velvet, about the life of the 19th century African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge, at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Fantine said this to her daughter Cosette in Les Miz
Aladdin sang this to his three friends who replace his monkey companion Abu in the musical Aladdin
Rocky sang this to his turtles in Rocky
Q.13
Which of the following did not happen in 2014?
Ira Glass, esteemed host of the cultural program “This American Life” on NPR, attended King Lear in Central Park and Tweeted: “I think I'm realizing: Shakespeare sucks.”
During the 68th Annual Antoinette Perry Awards, Neil Patrick Harris licked Samuel L. Jackson’s glasses, rubbed his crotch in Orlando Bloom’s face, and gave Sting a lap dance
A columnist in Time attacked Audra McDonald, who broke several records by winning her 6th Tony Award, for thanking her parents for steering her to the theater rather than putting her on medication for her hyperactivity
The play that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Flick, received so many complaints and walk-outs from theatergoers when it was produced at Playwrights Horizons that the artistic director wrote the theater’s subscribers a letter.
Five days before it was due to start performances at Radio City Music Hall, James Dolan, executive chairman of the Madison Square Garden Company, who has no known expertise in theatrical productions, scrapped Heart and Lights until 2015.
The Broadway League blamed the decrease in ticket sales to the Elmos in Times Square, and some city officials vowed to crack down on them. A New York Times editorial expressed support for the Times Square Elmos, proclaiming that free speech is a right “even for furry monsters”
How can any of this be true?
It all happened in 2014, baby.