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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Fall Theatre Trivia Quiz - Answers

Did you take the quiz? (If you did, you probably didn't send it in to me - how sad.) Here are the answers for this semester. To refresh your recollection of the questions, click here.

Winners will be posted tomorrow.

The Answers:

9-3
1. Denver
2. ETCP Council
3. PICT
4. MC Escher
5. Moises Kaufman
6. They wouldn’t give his wife the lead
7. They are performing on a barge
8. Three from: Douglas, Gray, Hahn, Harris, Hines, Kline, Pino, or Warman
9. Seattle
10. Nevada

9-10
11. Look Solutions
12. Mark Rylance
13. La Cage aux Folles
14. Film subsidies
15. Point Park
16. Milan Stitt
17. MTV
18. Equity Showcase
19. By partnering with a university
20. Weekly Grosses

9-18
21. The actors can’t commit to schedule due to a possible Hollywood writers strike.
22. That Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays.
23. It opened, of campus, in spite of the request of the Bishop of Central Florida.
24. Head of the Conservatory of Performing Arts at Point Park University.
25. A fellow of the Carnegie Mellon Studio for Creative Inquiry and the creator of echo::system.
26. It is bi-lingual in English and German.
27. Varying the crew during the install.
28. IA 480 – New Mexico.
29. Left a bunch of nooses hanging about.
30. They are “sound plays” – downloadable through iTunes.

9-24
31. August Wilson’s boyhood home.
32. A Japanese principal puppeteer.
33. PNC Broadway Across America, at the Benedum.
34. A platform for viewing and collaborating on digital drawings without having the program.
35. Fifty.
36. Jed Harris.
37. Renewal of their AZA Accreditation.
38. The weak American Dollar.
39. Xanadu.
40. Minneapolis/St. Paul

10-2
41. Los Angeles
42. Korean martial arts spectacle
43. New York Innovative Theatre Awards, which honors the best of Off-Off Broadway
44. "Batman: The Dark Knight"
45. Projection Designers, principals in MODE Studios
46. They are Irish Wolfhounds
47. IN THEIR OWN WORDS & 110 IN THE SHADE and THE MOLIERE PROJECT & THE WHITE DEVIL
48. Opera Theatre
49. Noted Australian Festival artistic director – here doing workshops
50. Fired by the Lyric Opera Chicago for missing rehearsals.

10-8
51. Designs fountains.
52. Attack Theatre
53. In a swimming pool.
54. It is TCG’s “Free Night of Theatre.”
55. Challenger and Christa McAuliffe.
56. “Mother Teresa is Dead”
57. Philadelphia
58. The CLO and The ASCAP Foundation
59. How install calls are structured.
60. The Cultural Trust’s “Australia Festival.”

10-15
61. PPT
62. Point Park – The Pittsburgh Playhouse
63. Madison Square Garden Entertainment
64. Pittsburgh Opera
65. Live Nation
66. Pittsburgh Opera
67. They are planning to disrupt feature animation writing, which is IA jurisdiction.
68. Design Awards for Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off Off Broadway.
69. October 21st.
70. They want to protect “white space” spectrum typically used by wireless mics.

10-22
71. Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum.
72. Altria Group.
73. Pay disparity.
74. Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Bricolage Theatre
75. A Pittsburgh International Black Arts Festival.
76. Proprietor of Hudson Scenic Studios.
77. Underwritten a $20 ticket program.
78. Suzan-Lori Parks
79. December 1st.
80. The Broadway yellow card determines the yellow card for national tours.

10-29
81. “Things need to go where they need to go.”
82. “The Typographer’s Dream” or “The Dark Lady of Sonnets”
83. Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks
84. Six
85. The stage collapsed during set up.
86. One
87. They are using recorded music.
88. Minneapolis
89. Founder of Quantum Theatre.
90. Disruption of the area community due to fires.

11-5
91. On average people are heavier than when it was designed and the boats are bottoming out.
92. A filing system with 12 folders for months and 31 for days.
93. New rules with regard to event scheduling, damage deposit, and heavy equipment will make the festival impossible.
94. November 7th
95. Black playwrights with White directors and vice-versa.
96. Writers Guild of America with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
97. Head of IATSE
98. CMU Professor of Robotics – head of Tartan Racing.
99. Aaron Sorkin
100. Five

11-12
101. A writer who is also a producer.
102. Los Angeles.
103. Pittsburgh CLO
104. Producing Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh Public Theatre.
105. Stoppard
106. IATSE (841) and Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople (ACFC West)
107. a spokeswoman for the League of American Theatres and Producers
108. President of IATSE Local #1
109. Atlanta
110. It was the first $100 ticket.

11-19
111. It’s a New York transfer and is not able to play in its theatre because of the Local#1 strike.
112. “Dinosaurs in their time” at the Carnegie.
113. The employees of La Scala (in Milan).
114. The Pittsburgh Opera (“Elixir of Love”)
115. 10 years.
116. City Theatre
117. AutoCAD
118. Pittsburgh Public Theatre
119. The producers have a separate contract with Local #1 due to a 12 performance a week schedule.
120. A weaker US dollar may keep audiences from traveling.

11-25
121. Disney labor lawyer who was added to the Local #1 negotiations this week.
122. "Nina Hartley's Guide To Better Cunnilingus," "Nina Hartley's Guide To Couples' Sexploration," and "Nina Hartley's Guide To Better Fellatio."
123. Patricia MacKay, the founder of LDI.
124. "Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!"
125. Broadway Theatrical Wardrobe Union
126. CLO Cabaret
127. CMU Alum, new Associate Artistic Director at City Theatre
128. Steven Cosson
129. So prosecutors could decide what to charge them with.
130. Alan Ayckbourne

12-3
131. The New Frontier Hotel
132. The city’s 250th birthday!
133. that Local One struck the Nederlander theaters as a means to pressure the League of American Theatres and Producers to settle with the union, which, in turn, makes the strike an “unlawful secondary boycott.” (Nederlander theatres have a separate contract)
134. Two stuntmen were burned during the filing of “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan.”
135. 'Sister's Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold'
'A Musical Christmas Carol'
'This Wonderful Life'
'Plaid Tidings'
'A Tuna Christmas'
'A Lyrical Christmas Carol'
'A Christmas Carol' in Washington
'A Christmas Carol' in Johnstown
'Nativity: A Christmas Gift'
'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever'
'Christmas Is Comin' Uptown'
'A Funny NUN-ny Christmas ... Nuns Gone Wild'
'Scrooge Has Left the Building'
'Nuncrackers'
'The Treasure'
'Beauty and the Beast Christmas'
'Madeline's Christmas'
136. 19 days
137. Ten Little Indians
138. Pittsburgh Opera
139. December 9th
140. City Theatre

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