Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate quiz, Trump and Theater 2017.) Test how much you were paying attention to the theater news in 2017 by answering the 13 questions below, most selected from my monthly quizzes.

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Barbara Cook

Sam Shepard

Ben Platt, the original Evan Hansen

Anthony Rapp

the original Schuyler Sisters

Lin-Manuel Miranda in the recording studio

Okierete “Oak” Onaodowan

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Salman Rushdie and F. Murray Abraham as the Ayatollah in Fatwa the Musical

Superior Donuts, TV series and Broadway play

Bette Midler accepting her Tony as Best Actress in a musical, in a speech that rambled on for more than four minutes.

Olaf the balloon from Frozen