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1Which production won best new musical at this year’s Tony Awards?
a. The Outsiders
b. Water for Elephants
c. Hell’s Kitchen
d. Suffs

a. The Outsiders. A gritty adaptation of the classic young adult novel won the Tony Award for best new musical. The musical based on the beloved S. E. Hinton book is about rival gangs of haves and have-nots in 1960s Oklahoma. The musical’s director Danya Taymor became the sixth woman to win a Tony award for directing a musical, following in the footsteps of her aunt Julie Taymor, who was the first woman to win the award.

2TIFF unveiled its 2024 festival lineup this week, including films starring Amy Adams, Tom Hiddleston, Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and Elton John (as himself). Which film won the 2023 Festival’s People’s Choice Award?
a. The Holdovers directed by Alexander Payne
b. The Boy and the Heron directed by Hayao Miyazaki
c. American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson
d. Electra, directed by Daria Kashcheeva

c. American Fiction. The film stars Jeffrey Wright as an African-American novelist grappling with an industry that is limiting his work to trauma and poverty narratives. The film is half cultural satire and half rom-com, the Globe and Mail’s theatre critic Barry Hertz wrote in his review.

3Justin Timberlake arrested and accused of driving while intoxicated on New York’s Long Island this week. Where did the star get his start?
a. Family Channel
b. American Idol
c. Growing Pains
d. The Mickey Mouse Club

d. The Mickey Mouse Club. Timberlake began performing as a Disney Mouseketeer in 1993, where his castmates included Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, JC Chasez, Ryan Gosling, and Keri Russell. He was released without bond after being arraigned in Sag Harbor and charged with a driving-while-intoxicated misdemeanour. His next court date was scheduled for July 26, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said.

4A new documentary about Celine Dion premiered this week in select theatres. I Am: Celine Dion mourns for the singer’s once-mighty voice. Who else is featured in the documentary?
a. John Farnham
b. Pepe Munoz
c. Shania Twain
d. No one, Dion was the lone subject in the documentary

d. No one. The chanteuse is the film’s lone voice, writes Brad Wheeler in his review, no one else is interviewed, not even a doctor to explain the syndrome that caused the suspension of her career.

5Famed professor activist Noam Chomsky was falsely reported dead this week. What academic field did he work in?
a. Chemistry
b. Linguistics
c. Law
d. Statistics

b. Linguistics. Chomsky’s universal grammar theory is based on the idea that all languages hold similar structures and rules.

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