July 4, 2012

This Week's Trivia Question:

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Q:        Spring Awakening playwright Frank Wedekind served a nine-month prison sentence when he was 34 years-old.  With what offense was he charged?

Prize:   Two (2) tickets to Spring Awakening on Thurs, July 19 at 8pm. 

To enter:       
Be the first to contact the Box Office by e-mail only please using this link with the correct answer. Be sure to put "Trivia" in the subject line, and tell us in which town you live. Only those who have not won in the past 12 months are eligible please. Only the winner will be notified.

Last Week's Trivia Winner:

In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist drama, Fruhlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise. That night, Sater came home and began writing the first lyric of Spring Awakening: "Mama Who Bore Me" - a lyric which still stands, verbatim, just as he first wrote it.

Thanks to all for playing and good luck this week!

June 27, 2012

This Week's Trivia Question:

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Q:        What was the first song that Steven Sater wrote for the Tony Award-winning
play Spring Awakening?

Prize:   Two (2) tickets to Spring Awakening on Thurs, July 19 at 8pm. 

To enter:       
Be the first to contact the Box Office by e-mail only please using this link with the correct answer. Be sure to put "Trivia" in the subject line, and tell us in which town you live. Only those who have not won in the past 12 months are eligible please. Only the winner will be notified.

Last Week's Trivia Winner:

 Who has the rare distinction of winning the prestigious “Best of Boston” award as both a performer in 2001 in the “stand up comedy” category and as a producer in 2007?  That would be Boston's very own Jimmy Tingle.

Thanks to all for playing and good luck this week!

June 20, 2012 Trivia

This Week's Trivia Question:

Q:        Who has the rare distinction of winning the prestigious “Best of Boston” award as both a performer in 2001 in the “stand-up comedy” category and as a producer in 2007?

Prize:   Two (2) tickets to Jimmy Tingle  on Sat, June 23 at 8pm. 

To enter:       
Be the first to contact the Box Office by e-mail only please using this link with the correct answer. Be sure to put "Trivia" in the subject line, and tell us in which town you live. Only those who have not won in the past 12 months are eligible please. Only the winner will be notified.

Last Week's Trivia Winner:

Bridey Murphy was the name Virginia Tighe claimed to have had in her previous life. In 1952 amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put the housewife (Tighe) under a trance using hypnotic regression.  He took her back to her childhood and then attempted to go back before her birth. "Bridey" told of her life in 19th century Ireland in remarkable detail despite the fact that Tighe had never been out of the US. The case was studied by psychiatrists and psychologists for many years trying to determine the veracity of Bridey's claims. The Search for Bridey Murphy was also made into a 1956 movie starring Teresa Wright as Ruth Simmons.

Thanks to all for playing and good luck this week.

June 13, 2012

This Week's Trivia Question:

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Q:        What was the alias of Virginia Tighe (1923-1995)?

Prize:   Two (2) tickets to Get Hypnotized with Peter Gross on Sat, June 16 at 8pm.

To enter:       
Be the first to contact the Box Office by e-mail only please using this link with the correct answer. Be sure to put "Trivia" in the subject line, and tell us in which town you live. Only those who have not won in the past 12 months are eligible please. Only the winner will be notified.

Last Week's Trivia Winner:

Last week Trivia was on vacation and rumored to be with the Car Talk Trivia in a romantic Vermont inn. 

Thanks to all for playing this week!

June 6, 2012

This Week's Trivia Question:

photo by Sharon K. King

Q:        Why is there no trivia this week?

  A:         Trivia is on vacation and will return June 13.
              Until then, have a great week!



To enter:       
Be the first to contact the Box Office by e-mail only please using this link with the correct answer. Be sure to put "Trivia" in the subject line, and tell us in which town you live. Only those who have not won in the past 12 months are eligible please. Only the winner will be notified.

Last Week's Trivia Winner:

In A Midsummer Night's Dream who said, "At the Duke's Oak we meet?  Peter Quince.  The  Duke's Oak was the wood where the play was to be rehearsed.

Congratulations to Beth Yuskaitis of Merrimac our winner last week.  Thanks to all for playing!