New York Theater Quiz for June 2020

Q.1

The Broadway League announced at the end of June that Broadway theaters would remain closed “at least” until January 3, 2021. While no Broadway shows that were running prior to the pandemic have made any statements about when they will return, four yet-to-open Broadway productions have announced specific new opening dates in 2021. In chronological order, these are The Minutes, American Buffalo, MJ the Musical, and The Music Man. What month is the earliest new show now scheduled to open?

January
February
March
April

Q.2

The title of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s tell-all book about the Trump Administration takes its title from a line in what Broadway show?

1776
1984
Hamilton
Les Misérables
Moose Murders

Q.3

Which of the following did not occur in the June aftermath of the May killing of George Floyd and the sweeping protests that resulted in support of the Black Lives Matter movement?

Many theaters and theater organizations issued statements of support for the movement
Although the theaters were all closed by the pandemic, some of them opened their lobbies to supply rest and restoration to street protesters
Among the many videos produced in response to the moment was one of prominent Black theater artists taking turns reciting the “To Be or Not To Be” soliloquy from “Hamlet”
Two separate celebrations of the Broadway season that had been scheduled for June 7th (the original date of the canceled Tony Awards) turned into fundraising and consciousness-raising events for the Black Lives Matter movement.
More than 300 theater artists identifying themselves as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color signed an open letter addressed to “Dear White American Theater” accusing every sector of the theater community of promoting anti-Blackness.
Scores of theaters across the country simultaneously engaged in a virtual reading of a play entitled “Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids” on Juneteenth
Dozens of New York theaters contacted their patrons to lobby for #NYCBudgetJustice, a campaign to cut funding for the New York Police Department

Q.4

Which Broadway veteran said on television that the phrase “The Great White Way” should be replaced by “The Great Bright Way” – a suggestion to which The Broadway League Tweeted “We agree.”

Whoopi Goldberg
Tom Hanks
Brian Stokes Mitchell

Q.5

Several statements of solidarity expressed by theaters and theater artists provoked charges of hypocrisy and the airing of grievances. The Flea Theater responded to just such a complaint, initiated by an actor who had appeared in a play about police violence against black people, by declaring that it was “pausing all production activity to reflect on the misalignment of our values and actions.” True or false: For the first time in the quarter century of its existence, it has committed to paying its actors.

True
False

Q.6

"As a black queer man myself, I was disappointed to see certain people...say Black Lives Matter, but hold their tongue when Trans/Queer was added...If your revolution does not include Black Queer voices, it is anti-black.” Who said this on Instagram, which some people took to be his coming-out. (“i didn’t come out, y’all came in,” he responded on Twitter.)

Andre De Shields
Michael R. Jackson
Raja Feather Kelly
Griffin Matthews
Justice Smith
Niegel Smith

Q.7

Three New York-based theater awards were presented in June: the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, the 86th Drama League Awards, and the inaugural Antonyo Awards. Who organized the Antonyos?

American Theatre Wing
Broadway Black
Broadway World
Disney
Nissan

Q.8

A Strange Loop won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize and many other awards this season, but it won best musical in only one of the three June awards. Which one?

Antonyo Awards
Drama Desk Awards
Drama League Awards

Q.9

Which theater publication became a theater producer in June, presenting a series of new online readings of old “Pride Plays” on its website?

American Theatre Magazine
Broadway.com
Playbill

Q.10

Milton Glaser, who died in June on his 91st birthday, was one of the world's most celebrated graphic designers, co-founder of New York Magazine, famous for creating the I ❤ NY logo in 1977, to help a city that was falling apart, and modifying the design after 9/11 when the city was falling apart again. He also did work in theater, designing a poster of a crouching angel for “Angels in America” that became an iconic image, used in the playbill and in the published script. With which Brooklyn theater did he have a 20-year relationship, creating posters and logos and modernist portraits of Shakespeare for them, and designing the signage and banners and other visual material for their new building?

Brooklyn Academy of Music
Kings Theater
St Ann's Warehouse
Theater for a New Audience