Q.1
Which is not news about Lin-Manuel Miranda announced recently?
He will be directing a movie version of Rent composer’s early musical Tick, Tick...Boom!
He will be an executive producer on an FX series about Bob Fosse & Gwen Verdon
He has been cast in the BBC series “His Dark Materials,”
He has created a fund to support the arts in Puerto Rico
He will receive a 2018 Kennedy Center Honor as part of the team that created Hamilton
None of it is news
All of it is news
Q.2
The review in the New York Times of which show that opened in July did NOT generate massive complaints about the critic’s insensitivity?
Head Over Heels
My Life On A Diet
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Q.3
True or false: “This Ain’t No Disco” is set largely in a disco.
True
False
Q.4
Which of the following shows that opened in New York in July is NOT inspired by or based on a text at least 400 years old?
The Damned
Head Over Heels
The Saintliness of Margery Kempe
Twelfth Night
Q.5
In which play that opened in New York in July do six performers portray a single character?
Comfort Women
Fire in Dreamland
Straight White Men
Mary Page Marlowe
Q.6
Concerned that the original name was insensitive to the Roma people, Actors Equity gave a new name to the Gypsy Robe ceremony, a Broadway tradition that reportedly began with Broadway chorus members Bill Bradley and Florence Baum in 1950. A robe is passed down on opening nights from show to show, receiving a new decoration from each musical along the way. What is the new name?
The Baum-Bradley Robe
Broadway and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamrobe
The Chorus Robe
The Legacy Robe
The Mulitcolored Robe
The Multicultural Robe
The Robe
Q.7
The estate of "Gypsy" composer Jule Styne has launched an open contest to come up with a new title for that 1959 musical.
True
False
Q.8
Theater composer Michael John LaChiusa, it was announced in July, is writing a musical adaptation of what recent Pulitzer Prize winning play?
Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
The Flick by Annie Baker
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Q.9
True or false. During previews, Gettin The Band Back Together, which opens on Broadway on August 13, will offer 40 tickets per performance for $40 each for people 40 years of age and older.
True
False
Q.10
Tab Hunter,Hollywood heartthrob, star of Damn Yankees movie musical, and eventual gay icon, died in July at the age of 86. True or false, he performed on Broadway in a play by Tennessee Williams that starred Tallulah Bankhead
True
False