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theatre quiz  by Andrew Gans

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HUGO GLENDENNING
LOIS GREENFIELD
ART NY
JOAN MARCUS

State of the Art When it opened at the Royale Theatre in 1998, Yasmina Reza's Art, a play that uses an all-white painting to dissect the complicated relationships among three male friends, won the Tony Award for Best Play. In May an entirely new, starry company - Buck Henry, George Segal and Wayne Knight - took over on B'way, and to date the play has been produced in over 35 languages. Pictured below are several other productions that dealt with art and/or artists. Can you name them?

The Broadway companies of Art (clockwise from bottom left): The current stars (l.-r.) Buck Henry, George Segal and Wayne Knight; the original company: Alan Alda, Alfred Molina and Victor Garber; Judd Hirsch, George Wendt and Joe Morton; Brian Cox, David Haig and Henry Goodman.

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JOAN MARCUS
MARTHA SWOPE
JOAN MARCUS

1 This Steve Martin play concerned a fictitious meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in 1904. 
2 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical was based on the life of a French painter and starred Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters.
3 This Pam Gems play was based on the life of an English painter, who was portrayed on Broadway by Antony Sher.
4 The 1984 revival of this Noël Coward comedy - starring (l.-r.) Raul Julia, Jill Clayburgh and Frank Langella - concerned a ménage à trois with  Gilda, Otto (a painter) and Leo (a playwright).

Answers: 1 Picasso at the Lapin Agile 
2 Sunday in the Park with George
3 Stanley
4 Design for Living


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