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Friday, May 02, 2008

Spring Theatre Trivia Challenge

It's that time again, end of the semester and your chance to WOW the world with your knowledge of theatre and entertainment current events trivia.

Send answers by email to dboevers@cmu.edu

Contest will close Thursday May 15th. Winners get a plug on the blog and the envy of their peers.

Have the big fun:

Week Ending 1/22
  1. Where will the new musical based on Shreck preview?
  2. What union struck a deal with the AMPTP this week?
  3. Who is Tom Cruise's partner at United Artists?
  4. Who was the beneficiary of CM's Chain Hoist Raffle at LDI?
  5. What was the LA Convention Center the first major West Coast venue to do recently?
  6. What shop is building Bette Midler's Vegas Show?
  7. Who is Rocco Landesman?
  8. How will the next person to play Elle Woods in Legally Blond be cast?
  9. What's got people riled up about the Sydney production of /Corpus Cristy/?
  10. What does the play /Life in a Jar/ have to do with the Nobel Peace Prize?
Week Ending 1/30
  1. What device did Disney recently set up for use as a Disney World park guide?
  2. Who sold off the last of their theatre businesses to Key Brands?
  3. Mark Rylance and Robert Bly collaborated on what play running in Minneapolis?
  4. What's wrong with James Srodon's complaint against Blue Man Group?
  5. Theatre By The Blind is now calling themselves what?
  6. What Canadian show is being cast through a reality TV show?
  7. What were the subjects of the two rigging standards ESTA released for public review this week?
  8. Where in town is Sweeney Todd running?
  9. The FCC says ABC stations should be fined for an episode of NYPD Blue that showed what "sexual organ?"
  10. What's got people abuzz about Albee's The Zoo Story?
Week Ending 2/5
  1. What is the difficulty with Chicago's About Face Theater Company's production of Little Dog Laughed?
  2. What local company is about to mount the premiere of "Breakfast With Mugabe" on the second floor of the former downtown Lazarus store?
  3. Who recently got a piece of the profits from the revival of A Chorus Line?
  4. What recently completed Philadelphia arts center may be having a renovation?
  5. What do the Thea Awards recognize?
  6. What was interesting about the UCF Conservatory Theatre's production of Alice Experiments in Wonderland?
  7. What is the plot inspiration for the new ballet Meltdown?
  8. What was peculiar about the positive review of Peer Gynt that ran in the Sunday Minneapolis Star-Tribune?
  9. What is the mission of the LA based Unusual Suspects Theatre Company?
  10. What recent Carnegie Hall show featured a fat pole dancer and a man in a diaper?
Week Ending 2/26
  1. What is VITA
  2. Why is London's Arcola Theatre notable at the moment?
  3. Whose retirement at the end of the 08/09 academic year was recently announced?
  4. What play did Arkansas Tech cancel recently, and why?
  5. What is notable about the current NYC production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
  6. Who, locally, is doing The Vertical Hour?
  7. What does Bessie Nelson do for a living?
  8. What play did the Classical Theatre of Harlem recently perform in town?
  9. What award did the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences recently give to Look Solutions?
  10. What is Shakespeare's Global Globe?
Week Ending 3/4
  1. Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., is asking the House Foreign Affairs Committee to investigate something, what is it?
  2. Dozens of bars in Minnesota have started having "Theatre Nights", why?
  3. Plus or minus $300,000, how much was cut from the NEA budget for next year?
  4. Who is the director of the upcoming production of MacBeth at the Folger Theatre in Washington?
  5. What two shows received the first Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway awards?
  6. Locally, where would you recently have gone to see The Drowsy Chaperone?
  7. What is Rosco using to size an annual donation to Behind the Scenes?
  8. What school has the most USITT award winners this year?
  9. What is the theme of next years SOD season?
  10. What is the new play Betrayed about?
Week Ending 3/26
  1. Who is Mary Blair
  2. What do Frankenstein, Ghostbusters, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force have in common?
  3. Where is Toy Story:The Musical premiering?
  4. Name two films currently or recently filming in Pittsburgh.
  5. What of note happened just recently at the Stratford Festival?
  6. What does IALD stand for?
  7. What has stagehands at Las Vegas' Orleans casino upset?
  8. Why will tour bookers have to start looking more carefully at the dates they are booking in various cities?
  9. Where will Gone With the Wind: The Musical premiere?
  10. What was the CMU connection to the Live Design article "Project Yourself?"
Week Ending 4/8
  1. What did website talkinbroadway.com recently say it would no longer publish?
  2. What is “FuseCal?”
  3. How did the US House of Representatives help domestic arts organizations this week?
  4. Who is Anthony Walker?
  5. What’s the theatrical significance of April 23rd?
  6. Who currently has IATSE Local 6 and Local 143 locked out?
  7. What opens in Pittsburgh May 3rd?
  8. Who is the author of “August: Osage County
  9. Who is the AMPTP currently negotiating a new contract with?
  10. Who, locally, opened their season with “King Lear?”
Week Ending 4/15
  1. What is the "Tartan Square" concept?
  2. Where did ETC just open another branch campus?
  3. What is the nature of the Star Wars legal fight in Britain?
  4. Why won't the producers of the BBC (and SciFi Channel) TV show Doctor Who be televising in High Definition?
  5. Who is Phil Lin
  6. Who, locally, just ran Romeo & Juliet?
  7. What is the nature/genre of work done by Project Bandaloop?
  8. Who is Ken Brannigan?
  9. Who, locally, is producing an "Evening with Alfre Woodard" 4/25-26?
  10. Why, according to the company, did the New York Theatre Workshop lay off its production staff this week?
Week Ending 4/23
  1. Who is the featured speaker for CMU commencement?
  2. Who, locally, just produced Cymbeline?
  3. What is the name of the Louisville, KY festival of new work?
  4. How many writers resigned from the WGA during the strike?
  5. What is the name of the current Broadway play starring Mark Rylance & Bradley Whitford?
  6. Who is Mary O'Brien?
  7. What is the name of Mike Daisy's current one man show?
  8. Who is Aliza Shvarts?
  9. Why is Steve Wynn significant to theatre?
  10. Who, locally, recently produced A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum?
Week Ending 4/30
  1. What was the play Russian "authorities" just banned from performance about?
  2. The AMPTP just filed an "unfair labor practices" complaint against the WGA, why?
  3. How big is a "Flogo?"
  4. What does Equity want people to know about "Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy?"
  5. What John Waters play just opened on Broadway?
  6. Where did "August: Osage County" move?
  7. Who was just recently announced as an inductee to the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame?
  8. Who was Jerome Robbins?
  9. Syntic Theatre won a Helen Hayes award for their production of MacBeth, what city did it run in?
  10. What organization just announced they will join the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust?

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