Q.1
Which LGBTQ moment did not actually happen at the 73rd annual Tony Awards in June?
The red carpet was decorated with a Gay Pride-inspired rainbow floral background.
A lesbian kiss was featured during a performance of The Prom,
The Boys in the Band won for best revival of a play, with playwright Mart Crowley thanking the original cast – “nine brave men who didn’t listen to their agents when they told them their careers would be over for doing this play.”
In introducing a scene from his play Choir Boy, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney said: "The bodies that uphold the great legacy of spirituals are often black and queer. When will we love all them for who they are and not just for what they can do?"
Taylor Mac appeared in headdress and glam gown to describe his play “Gary,” explaining later “I spent too many years being a cater waiter to enjoy wearing a tux.”
After a commercial break, actor Ben Platt welcomed the audience back by saying, “For anyone just tuning in, yes, these are the Tony Awards and you are in fact gay.”
Bryan Cranston, winning his second Tony Award, for Network, began his acceptance speech by saying: “We need to make Broadway less white, less cis, and less male.”
Openly LGBT theater artists Ali Stroker, André DeShields, Bob Mackie, Terrence McNally, and Sergio Trujillo all won Tonys
Q.2
Which of these current shows on Broadway does not have any (explicitly out) LGBT characters?
Burn This
Come From Away
Mean Girls
The Prom
Tootsie
What The Constitution Means to Me
Q.3
The following Broadway shows, none of which won any of the competitive Tony Awards for which they were nominated, either closed in June, or announced in June the date that they would be closing. Which of them will have had the longest run?
Be More Chill
The Cher Show
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Hillary and Clinton
King Kong
The Prom
Q.4
True or false. An all-star cast performed a stage adaptation of The Mueller Report in June
True
False
Q.5
True or false. A Broadway theater was named after a popular female impersonator at the beginning of the twentieth century.
True
False
Q.6
Which of the following plays that opened in June did not have an African-American in a leading role and/or as a leading character?
Dying City
Fairview
Little Women
Much Ado About Nothing
The Secret Life of Bees
Toni Stone
Underground Railroad Game
Q.7
Which gay-themed play did NOT win the Tony Award for Best Play?
Angels in America
As Is
Torch Song Trilogy
Love, Valour and Compassion
Q.8
In what venue was a gay-themed work not performed in June?
The Highline
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater
La MaMa ETC
Queens Museum
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Repertorio Espanol
Theatre for a New Audience
Q.9
The following works dramatized the Stonewall riots that launched the modern gay rights movement. Which was the earliest?
Hit the Wall by Ike Holter
Stonewall by Iain Bell and Mark Campbell
Stonewall by Rikki Beadle-Blair
Stonewall: Night Variations by En Garde Arts
Q.10
True or false: Actress Sylvia Miles, heiress and entrepreneur Gloria Vanderbilt, and director Franco Zeffirelli, all of whom died in June, were all Broadway veterans.
True
False