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Trivia Time – Sittin’ February 9, 2018
He may have been “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” but he also wrote the anthem made famous by Aretha Franklin and that serves as a highlight in the Off-Broadway hit The Marvelous Wonderettes, “RESPECT.” Who is he?

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The answer is Otis Redding.

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Trivia Time – Berry Gordy February 9, 2018
Berry Gordy’s accomplishments and life are chronicled in what jukebox musical that premiered on Broadway in 2013?

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The musical about Berry Gordy is named after the record company he founded, Motown. The musical is known as Motown: The Musical

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Trivia Time – Heat Wave February 9, 2018
Heat Wave was recorded on the Gordy label, which was a subsidiary of Motown. What is the
full name of “Gordy” and what was he famous for?

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The full name of Gordy is Berry Gordy, and he created the Motown label, wrote numerous hot songs, and produced some of the company’s biggest artists.

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The answer is Otis Redding.

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The musical about Berry Gordy is named after the record company he founded, Motown. The musical is known as Motown: The Musical

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The full name of Gordy is Berry Gordy, and he created the Motown label, wrote numerous hot songs, and produced some of the company’s biggest artists.

Trivia Time – Leader of the Pack January 27, 2018

All Tickets Theatre Trivia “Leader of the Pack,” which is featured in The Marvelous Wonderettes, was a number one hit
for The Shangri-Las in 1965. What pop music genre is this song classified under?

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Like other songs of its ilk, including “Teen Angel” by Mark Dinning (1959), “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ray Peterson (1960), and “Dead Man’s Curve” by Jan and Dean (1964), “Leader of the Pack” by George “Shadow” Morton, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich is classified as a teen tragedy song.

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Trivia Time – The Marvelous Wonderettes – Sugartime January 25, 2018

Continuing from last week and for the next few weeks we’ll feature theatre trivia related to the 1950s and 60s and the hit Off-Broadway musical comedy The Marvelous Wonderettes. Here’s our next question.

What American trio sang the hit “Sugartime” and in what year?”

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The answer is The McGuire Sisters. “Sugartime” was big on the pop charts in 1958. “Sugartime” is one of three upbeat and harmonious love songs, with the other two being “Mr. Sandman” and “Lollipop,” that get The Marvelous Wonderettes off to a rollicking start.

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Friday Trivia Time: The Marvelous Wonderettes January 19, 2018
Friday Trivia Time! – Featuring: The Marvelous Wonderettes!

Who originally sang the 1963 hit song featured in The Marvelous Wonderettes “You Don’t Own Me?”

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Lesley Gore was the singer who made the song “You Don’t Own Me,” written by John Madara and Dave White, a hit.

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Lesley Gore was the singer who made the song “You Don’t Own Me,” written by John Madara and Dave White, a hit.

Trivia Time – The Marvelous Wonderettes January 18, 2018

The next few weeks we’ll feature theatre trivia related to the 1950s and 60s and the hit Off-Broadway musical comedy The Marvelous Wonderettes. Here’s our first question. Follow us on Twitter for more fun trivia!

What American girl group recorded the number one song “Leader of the Pack?”

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That would be The Shangri-Las. It was number one on the pop charts in 1964 and their biggest hit. “Leader of the Pack” and more than 30 other hits are featured in The Marvelous Wonderettes.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Desperate Love August 21, 2015
Knightley

This naturalistic drama, which was first penned by Emile Zola, focuses on a young wife and her lover who conspire to brutally kill her husband.

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The play is entitled Thérèse Raquin. This Broadway season’s production will star Keira Knightley.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Desert Relationship August 19, 2015
Eddie and May

This Sam Shepard play focuses on former lovers May and Eddie and their chance meeting in a Mohave Desert motel.

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The play is Fool for Love, and it will be on Broadway this season.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: O’Neill’s Family Portrait August 17, 2015
Ella O’Neill, mother of Eugene O’Neill, in “Miles to Babylon”

O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning play that was produced after his death and focused very specifically on his family, and his mother’s drug addiction.

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The play, Long Days Journey Into Night, will be revived this year on Broadway

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Passion and a Three-Time Tony Winner August 14, 2015
Passion

He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion and the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George. What is his name?

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That would be the multi-talented James Lapine.

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The play is entitled Thérèse Raquin. This Broadway season’s production will star Keira Knightley.

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The play is Fool for Love, and it will be on Broadway this season.

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The play, Long Days Journey Into Night, will be revived this year on Broadway

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That would be the multi-talented James Lapine.

Theatre Trivia Tweet: They Keep Pulling Him Back August 12, 2015

Al Pacino has appeared in about a dozen Broadway shows. His next one will be David Mamet’s new play China Doll. His first Broadway appearance was in 1969. What play was he in?

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His first Broadway appearance was in on February 25, 1969 in the play Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie where he played Bickham. The show closed on March 29^th of that same year.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Riding the Playboy Wave August 10, 2015
Irish actors Sara Allgood (“Widow Quin”) and J. M. Kerrigan (“Shawn Keogh”), in The Playboy of the Western World, Plymouth Theatre, Boston, 1911

What Irish playwright wrote Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World?

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John Millington Synge, whose The Playboy of the Western World caused a riot at the Abbey Theatre.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Time Does Fly When the Rent Is Due July 31, 2015
How many minutes in a year and from what song in Rent do we get that fact?

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Jonathan Larson wrote that there are 525,600 minutes in a year. The name of the song from Rent is “Seasons of Love.”

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John Millington Synge, whose The Playboy of the Western World caused a riot at the Abbey Theatre.

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Jonathan Larson wrote that there are 525,600 minutes in a year. The name of the song from Rent is “Seasons of Love.”

Theatre Trivia Tweet: How High Is THAT corn? July 31, 2015

According to the lyric of “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” how high is the corn and high tall might it grow?

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In the musical’s opening song, the “corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, An’ it looks like it’s climbin’ clear up to the sky.” Which is, mighty tall considering an average African elephant is 12-feet tall, putting it’s eye at about the 10- to 11-foot mark.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: The Mystery of Rupert Holmes July 29, 2015

Rupert Holmes, the multi-talented artist, penned the Tony winning musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Holmes was first known as a pop singer/songwriter. His first international hit was “Timothy” recorded by the Buoys. What is “Timothy” about?

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“Timothy” is a song about a mine cave-in during which one miner, named Timothy, dies, and to survive the others cannibalize him. Leading to another type of mystery, as the lyric queries, “Timothy, where on earth did you go?”

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Amazing Grace Writer July 27, 2015
Amazing Grace

The musical Amazing Grace focuses on the man, who was the son of a slave trader, who penned that song. What is his name?

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The name of the writer, who is the main character in the musical Amazing Grace, is John Newton.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Not So Good to be the King July 17, 2015
A raging King Lear railing against one of his daughters.

In Shakespeare’s King Lear, which of his three daughters really does love him and is true to him?

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Although Goneril and Regan claim that they love him, it is Cordelia, who he has banished, who truly does.

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The name of the writer, who is the main character in the musical Amazing Grace, is John Newton.

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Although Goneril and Regan claim that they love him, it is Cordelia, who he has banished, who truly does.

Theatre Trivia Tweet: What a Riot! July 15, 2015

On May 10, 1949, the Astor Place Riot took place outside the Astor Opera House where a performance was to occur. There were more than 120 injured and 25 people we killed. What two feuding actors fueled the animosity for this night of violence?

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The ongoing dispute between Edwin Forrest, one of the most esteemed American actors of the mid-19^th century, and William Charles Macready, a similarly esteemed English actor, fueled the energies for the riot. The dispute between the two actors was over which of them was best at playing Shakespeare’s great roles.

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Theatre Trivia Tweet: Greg, Kate and…? July 13, 2015
Playwright A.R. Gurney

In this A.R. Gurney play Greg finds a new companion, which upsets his wife, Kate. The name of that companion is the same as the title of the play. What’s the name?

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That would be Sylvia, the name of the stray dog who Greg befriends. The comedy will be on Broadway in September.

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That would be Sylvia, the name of the stray dog who Greg befriends. The comedy will be on Broadway in September.

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