Let’s trod the boards and answer some theater questions.
- Accused murderers Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner were the inspiration for two of the main characters in a long running musical. Name either character.
- The montage below shows three different actors playing the same character. Name the nightclub where that character works.
- Nine of the ten plays in August Wilson’s “Century Cycle” (including Fences) are set in the Hill District of what American city for which the cycle is also sometimes named?
- Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 are both works of “documentary theater” based on interviews conducted with people connected with riots in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, respectively. What actress, whose small screen work includes roles in The West Wing and Nurse Jackie, conducted the interviews and performed the plays?
- What revue-style production, currently the 8th longest running on Broadway, takes it’s name (indirectly, by way of a painting) from a French pun that translates roughly to “What an ass you have!”?
Answers
- Roxy Hart, Velma Kelly
- Kit Kat Klub
- Pittsburgh
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Oh! Calcutta!