Q.1
What announcement was made in November about Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Mamma Mia and The Phantom of the Opera?
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They’re all switching theaters
They will all be offering discounted tickets to the unemployed
They will each be an entire category in forthcoming episodes of the TV game show Jeopardy
They will all be offering matinees on Thursdays
Q.2
Broadway shows have been incorporated into the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from the very first parade in 1924. What sparked complaints during the 87th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
A Night With Janis Joplin
First Date
Kinky Boots
Matilda
The Spider-Man balloon
Q.3
Nine plays and musicals opened on Broadway in November (two pair in repertory.) Which are the only two that are open-ended (as opposed to limited) runs?
Il Divo – A Musical Affair and 700 Sundays
After Midnight and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
No Man’s Land and Waiting for Godot
Twelfth Night and Richard III
Macbeth and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Q.4
Four Broadway shows announced in November that they were closing. Which of them closed in November?
A Time To Kill
Big Fish
First Date
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
Q.5
What record was NOT achieved by Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark in the three years since it began performances for the public?
The longest preview period in Broadway history
The 16th highest grossing Broadway production of all time
The most innovative ticket pricing policy, including discounts for the unemployed
The Broadway show quickest to be seen by a million people
The biggest Broadway money-loser of all time
Q.6
True or false. Belting out show tunes like Oklahoma can boost the brain function of people with dementia, according to a study released in November.
True
False
Q.7
A Thanksgiving Eve performance of Macbeth at Lincoln Center was halted and canceled after 20 minutes. Why?
There was a police emergency
An audience member fell ill
A performer was injured
Some automated scenery didn’t work
Q.8
Three years ago, the final Kander and Ebb musical, The Scottsboro Boys, inspired by a true story that occurred in the 1930s, appeared briefly on Broadway. True or false, in November, Alabama’s parole board pardoned the Scottsboro Boys.
True
False
Q.9
Who said the following quotations? 1. “Art is dangerous. It’s one of the attractions. When it ceases to be dangerous, you don’t want it.” 2. “Before something can be brilliant, it first has to be competent” 3. “I was smitten, captured, put in a spell,” 4. “I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.”
1. Spider-Man book writer Glen Berger, 2. Director, actor and August Wilson interpreter Ruben Santiago-Hudson, 3. JFK, 4. Duke Ellington
1. Glen Berger. 2. Duke Ellington, 3. Ruben Santiago-Hudson. 4. JFK
1.Duke Ellington, 2. JFK, 3. Glen Berger, 4. Ruben Santiago-Hudson
1. Duke Ellington, 2.Glen Berger, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, 4. JFK
Q.10
Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen are performing in a new Broadway production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. How do the actors in the production pronounce Godot?
guh-DOH
GOD-oh
GOD-OH
It's bleeped