Q.1
“Anything You Do/Let It Come from You/Then It Will be New” is prominently displayed in neon in a theater lobby, the lyrics taken from the musical that opened this month in that theater. Which show is it?
Beardo
Big River
Kid Victory
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Boulevard
Q.2
Which show, with music by the composer of "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," is being performed in a church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Beardo
Big River
Kid Victory
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Boulevard
Q.3
The producer of what show that opened in February wrote to the Times theater editors calling the newspaper’s review of the show a “ significant humiliation for the paper, a stunningly amateurish piece of work.”
Beardo
Big River
Kid Victory
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Boulevard
Q.4
The New York Times fired its longtime theater critic Charles Isherwood in February. True or false: The Times won’t say publicly why it did so, and, Isherwood says through his union rep, the Times honchos did not tell him the reason either.
True
False
Q.5
Performers from which show sang at the Super Bowl LI pre-show?
Aladdin
Beardo
Hamilton
On Your Feet
School of Rock
Q.6
True or false: The Trump Culture and Performance Center, located in Istanbul, in February staged "The Diary of a Madman”
True
False
Q.7
Which album won the 2017 Best Musical Theater Grammy?
Bright Star
The Color Purple
Fiddler on the Roof
Waitress
Q.8
Which 2017 Oscar nominee never won a Tony Award?
Viola Davis
Meryl Streep
Denzel Washington
Q.9
True or false: Fences is the only one of the nine 2017 Best Picture Oscar nominees to be based on a play.
True
False
Q.10
Dear Evan Hansen cast recording made it to the Billboard Top 10 in February. Since 1965, only three other cast recordings have done so. Which of the following did not?
Book of Mormon
Cabaret
Hair
Hamilton
Q.11
Theater artist Anna Deavere Smith won the George Polk Career Award, which is a top award in what field?
Academia
Journalism
Performance
Q.12
All of the following were finalists for the 2017 Edward Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, and its $100,000 prize. Which won?
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray
Indecent by Paula Vogel
Roe by Lisa Loomer
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Vietgone by Qui Nguyen
Q.13
A play by which Pulitzer winning playwright has been turned into a weekly TV sitcom starting in February?
Edward Albee
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Tony Kushner
Tracy Letts
Neil Simon