Can you name the Tony Winner for Best Play?

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Tony Best Play Quiz

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Created Aug 19, 2009 in Entertainment
Featured Aug 21, 2009
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	Smee:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 17:18 GMT		4 points
	So basically the only plays that anyone knows were written by Arthur Miller...

	Thalia:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 17:23 GMT		5 points
	Please accept the written word "and" in addition to the & symbol for Rosencrantz...

	ElDavo:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 17:42 GMT		-3 points
	If only Will Ferrell had won for "Bush," I'd have gotten a single one. However that is, unfortunately, not the case.

	cigarette:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 17:48 GMT		1 point
	Seconded on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Also, the proper abbreviation is "Marat/Sade", with the full title being The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. And August should really by August: Osage County.

	rockgolf:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 18:08 GMT		2 points
	Whoof! Tough but good quiz. Remarkable that relatively few have become movies in the past 20-30 years. @Admin: The 1993/94 answers should include the subtitles when the answers are revealed. Part 1 is AIA: Millennium Approaches, part 2 is AIA: Perestroika.

	k3lit0:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 18:08 GMT		2 points
	Wow, I love theatre and I got two. Probably could have got about... 5 if I'd stuck with it, but this is a really really hard one. Kudos to anyone who got more than that, impressive. :)

	rockgolf:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 18:11 GMT		1 point
	@cigarette: Ah, that makes sense. The "/" is used to separate alternate answers. So the text in the answer should be "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (a.k.a. Marat\|Sade)/The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade/Marat\|Sade". Bet more people will go for the short one.

	Guinevere:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 19:01 GMT		1 point
	I got 12 but had heard of at least 2/3 of the ones I missed. Just couldn't think of them. I was thinking in terms of playwrights I know of. Mostly Miller, Tennessee Williams (I was surprised he wasn't on there more), Sam Shepard - though I couldn't actually think of any of his plays and David Mamet (ditto). I got Fences by remembering August Wilson, which reminded me of August: Osage County. I'm not sure if the Tonys are just for American playwrights? I would've tried some Stoppard if I could think of any titles. The other thing that was helpful was thinking of movies - got Proof and Doubt that way, though I missed a bunch as well - Amadeus, Elephant Man, etc. I loved this quiz but I wish I could've done better on it.

	wistfulabacus:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 19:22 GMT		3 points
	I had an amazing score, but it was for a quiz called 'Lots and lots of well-known plays that never won the Tony'. The winners' list is fascinating; does anyone know whether the bulk of these plays would still be highly regarded?

leviper:

Aug 21st, 2009 at 20:21 GMT

0 points

1971 = Jesus

	mungar:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 21:16 GMT		1 point
	Scarsdale Surprise should be a bonus

	RandallPinkston:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 01:13 GMT		2 points
	@Guinevere: Foreign playwrights are eligible as well. Which is why Stoppard qualified and won four (!) times. That's pretty impressive, both for him and for the Tony voters. @wistfulabacus: I think I played that quiz as well! To my mind, the winners list is about 50% plays that will endure and 50% plays that will recede into memory. I give the Tony voters some props for occasionally going for markedly challenging stuff--Pinter, Albee, Marat/Sade, these are not middlebrow works. I love the quiz, but another minute or two would have really helped.

	rockgolf:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 04:07 GMT		1 point
	@elDavo: Sorry, you wouldn't have got one point for "Bush", since the show was actually called "You're Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush".

	ruffnerj:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 05:15 GMT		3 points
	Would love to have seen the playwright's names as hints.

	shakescene:	Aug 22nd, 2009 at 20:02 GMT		-2 points
	I only got three. I'm probably more interested in the legitimate theatre than in musical theatre, but so many great or well-received plays either started as or became musicals (Ragtime, Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Rent, etc.); when there was a non-musical version, it doesn't seem to have won a Tony.

	prspeed:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 09:54 GMT		2 points
	Awesome quiz...Shakescene, there's no straight play of Ragtime, Sweet Charity, or Rent.

	exackerly:	Nov 9th, 2009 at 21:04 GMT		1 point
	Not enough time...

	steel03:	Aug 18th, 2010 at 16:01 GMT		1 point
	Needs to be updated with Red by John Logan.