New York Theater Quiz for September 2019

True or false: The stars of all the shows that opened on Broadway in September are British

True
False

All the cast members of the current Broadway revival of Betrayal are making their Broadway debuts.

True
False

True or False: “Fleabag,” which won Emmy Awards in September for Outstanding Comedy TV Series and for its star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, had a run on an Off-Broadway stage earlier this year as a one-woman show starring Waller-Bridge

True
False

In his acceptance speech after winning an Emmy for his role as Pray Tell in the FX TV series Pose, Billy Porter quoted James Baldwin: “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as if I had a right to be here.” True or False: Porter, who turned 50 in September, didn’t make his Broadway debut until his Tony-winning role as Lola in Kinky Boots at the age of 43.

True
False

Which legendary avant-garde artist did NOT have a show opening in September in New York?

Joanne Akalaitis
Peter Brook
Mac Wellman
Robert Wilson

Felix Starro, a play that opened in September in Theater Row about a faith healer and his grandson who visit San Francisco from their native country, is written, composed, directed and largely performed by theater artists who were born in that country. Which country is it?

China
Mexico
The Philippines

American Theatre Magazine’s annual survey of non-profit theaters nationwide found that two shows tied as the play or musical that will be the most produced in the 2019-2020 season. One was “A Doll’s House, Part 2” by Lucas Hnath. What was the other one?

Bright Star by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
Sweat by Lynn Nottage

Which show did not run in a Brooklyn venue in September?

“A Hill On Which To Drown,” a work in progress about the gay character that August Wilson left out of his Century Cycle plays
“Brooklyn the Musical,” five homeless musicians band together to transform their neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
“The Talmud,” which combined verbatim quotes from the Jewish holy book with choreographed moves inspired by Kung Fu movies
“The Museum of Dead Words,” a performance piece by a Black-Jewish rapper about words that have lost their meaning and are used in combat rather than conversation, like racist and hypocrite and evil.
“Why?” a combination lecture demonstration and theater piece that asks what theater is for.

Betty L. Corwin, who died in September at the age of 98, founded in 1970 the renowned Theater on Film and Tape Archive at Lincoln Center, whose mission is to record live theater for posterity. In recent years, the practice of recording live theater has surged and gone commercial. Which of the following Broadway shows available in September on Netflix was NOT recorded directly from the stage?

All The Way
Latin History for Morons
Oh, Hello
Shrek
Springsteen on Broadway

Phyllis Newman died in September at the age of 86. What was NOT true about her?

She was an entertainer from the age of 4
She was the daughter of a fortune teller and a hypnotist
Her husband the famed director and lyricist Adolph Green, two decades her senior, launched her career on Broadway.
Her costume for her Tony-winning role in “Subways Are For Sleeping” was a towel
She was a frequent panelist on the game shows “What’s My Line?,” “Password,” “To Tell the Truth” and “The Match Game.”
She raised millions of dollars for women’s health
She was the only Tony winner to be streaked by a naked man when accepting her first Tony in 1962.