Q.1
True or false: #Ham4Ham, the short performances that accompany the Hamilton lottery, were discontinued at the end of August, after more than a year.
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True
False
Q.2
True or false: Jennifer Holliday, who will be portraying Shug Avery in The Color Purple, as announced in August, was last on Broadway as a teenager three decades ago in Dream Girls, for which she won a Tony Award.
True
False
Q.3
Stephen Sondheim’s new musical, in collaboration with David Ives, was given a reading in August at the Public Theater, which plans to present it to the public in 2017. What is the working title of the musical at this time?
All Together Now
Bunuel
Dinner Parties
Discreet Angel
Exterminating Bourgeoisie
Road Show
Q.4
According to the Associated Press, what is true of most of Barbra Streisand’s 11 duet partners in her new album “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway,” which was released in August?
They have never appeared with Streisand in a movie
They had never met her before the recording session.
They have never sung on Broadway.
All of these are true
None of these are true
Q.5
One of the winners of the Overall Excellence Awards at the 20th annual Fringe NYC festival in August retold the story of “The Sound of Music” from the point of view of Rolfe (“I am 17 going on 18”), who is not only a Nazi, but gay.
True
False
Q.6
Which historical figure was NOT the subject of a solo show at the Fringe?
Stokely Carmichael
W.E.B. Du Bois
Albert Einstein
Cole Porter
Richard Pryor
Pete Seeger
Q.7
Which performer wrote an essay in the New York Times in August about how she’s forced to play an ingénue yet again, because there are few roles in musical theater for middle-aged women.
Laura Benanti
Melissa Errico
Jackie Hoffman
Patti Murin
Q.8
Which performer wrote a blog post about the ups and downs of being an actress, focusing on auditions (“Sometimes, “But it’s work” is not a good reason to accept a job or an audition….Sometimes, “But it’s work” is absolutely a good reason to accept a job or an audition.”)
Laura Benanti
Melissa Errico
Jackie Hoffman
Patti Murin
Q.9
Which performer is writing a book due out in 2017 entitled “I Stole Your Boyfriend, and Other Monster Acts on My Way to Becoming a Human Woman”?
Laura Benanti
Melissa Errico
Jackie Hoffman
Patti Murin
Q.10
In which show did the idea originate for Broadway for Black Lives Matters, an evening in August of solidarity and song?
The Color Purple
Hamilton
Kinky Boots
Shuffle Along
Something Rotten
Q.11
True or false: Gene Wilder, best-known as a comic film actor, who died in August, once portrayed U.S. Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes, John Tyler, and John Quincy Adams on Broadway.
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True
False
Q.12
Which of the following is not true about James Houghton, who died in August at age 57?
He helped found a theater company at the age of 18.
He was at one time the artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
He was director of the drama division at the Juilliard School.
He founded the Signature Theater Company in 1991 with the idea of devoting an entire season to the work of a single playwright.
At the time of Signature’s founding, Houghton was only intermittently employed as an actor and director. He made a living waiting tables and doing carpentry.
Among the playwrights he championed, and whose careers he helped revive were Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Horton Foote.
As the mission of Signature and its venue expanded, so necessarily did the tickets rise in price
“I don’t think there was anyone in the theater community more beloved than Jim,” playwright Tony Kushner said of him.