New York Theater September 2012 Quiz

Q.1

1. True or False. The Tonys won an Emmy this month, beating out The Grammys and The Oscars in the same category.

True
False

Q.2

The Colony shut down on September 16th after 64 years in business. What could you NOT find in this store at the corner of 49th Street and Broadway?

One of the most extensive collections of sheet music in the country
Broadway albums and posters
Customers who over the years included Michael Jackson, Neil Diamond, James Brown and Tommy Tune
Consistently low prices
Door handles shaped like clef notes
A pet parrot

Q.3

“If There Is, I Haven’t Found It Yet,” a play by Nick Payne that opened Off-Broadway this month at the Laura Pels Theater, marks the American stage debut of which performer?

Jessica Chastain
Jake Gyllenhaal
David Schwimmer
Debra Winger

Q.4

Rob McClure plays Charlie Chaplin in the new musical Chaplin, which opened on Broadway in September. Which of the following does he NOT do during the course of the show?

Backflip into a handstand
Eat a shoe
Play the violin
Rollerskate with a blindfold on
Walk a tightrope
Does all of this
Does none of this

Q.5

True or false. Rebecca has been "postponed" once again, this time, according to the producer, because of the death of an investor who is more mysterious than any of the characters in the musical, and then the scaring away of a new investor due to an anonymous e-mail.

(This question has been updated.)

True
False

Q.6

The 21st edition of Forbidden Broadway opened this month after a hiatus of three years. Which of the following Broadway figures does it NOT mock?

Carol Channing
Audra McDonald
Idina Menzel
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Stephen Sondheim
Julie Taymor
It mocks them all
It mocks none of them

Q.7

The tenth Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People has opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, using an adaptation written by British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Which famous American playwright wrote an adaptation that was used in two previous Broadway revivals?

Lillian Hellman
Tony Kushner
David Mamet
Arthur Miller
Neil Simon

Q.8

Which of the following shows has announced that it is closing on Broadway in January?

Peter and the Starcatcher
War Horse
Both
Neither

Q.9

Which of the following shows that were presented on a New York stage will receive the most number of productions throughout the United States in the 2012-2013 season, according to a Theatre Communications Group survey of its member theaters?

Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire
Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Red by John Logan
The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez
Carrie by Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford and Lawrence D. Cohen

Q.10

“He was assigned to get me a chocolate donut…He brought me two… and so our love affair began” Who said that, and whom was she talking about?

Vanessa Redgrave about actor-playwright Jesse Eisenberg, with whom she is starring in his play The Revisionist, opening February 21 at Rattlesnake Playwrights Theater.
Amy Morton about actor-playwright Tracy Letts, with whom she is starring in the role of Martha his wife in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which is opening on Broadway on October 13th.
Scarlett Johansson about actor Benjamin Walker, with whom she will be co-starring as Maggie in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on A Hot Tin Roof,” which is scheduled to open at the Richard Rodgers on January 17.
Barbra Streisand about composer Marvin Hamlisch at the invitation-only memorial concert for him.