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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Parodied
Slapsticks
Restoration
Rose marie
2. Where they fly things on stage
The king and i
Fly loft
Someone to watch over me
Parodied
3. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Stephen sondheim
Julie Andrews
The new moon
Playwright
4. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Rodgers and Hart
BC
Restoration
Kiss me - kate
5. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Threepenny opera
Rex Harrison
Borrowed tunes
Before common era
6. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Damn yankees
Gertrude lawrence
King Louis XIV
East Side Story
7. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Producer
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Satyr plays
Thespis
8. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Rex Harrison
On the town
Ethel merman
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
9. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Rex Harrison
Lerner and Loewe
Mimes
10. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
My fair lady
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Music man
Kiss me - Kate
11. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Someone to watch over me
South pacific
Anti-hero
Mary rodgers
12. Who is the composer for on the town
Director
Can-can
Agnes de mille
Leonard bernstein
13. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Kismet
Bob Fosse
Moved indoors
Parodied
14. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Brigadoon
Leonard Bernstein
Kiss me - Kate
Horace
15. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
East Side Story
Yul Brenner
Moliere
South pacific
16. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Bert williams and george walker
Anti-hero
Patriotic
Meredith wilson
17. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Court nobility
Patriotic
A contrived ending
Can-can
18. where did performers go
Ancient baghdad
Aristotle
Took to the streets and traveled -
American politics
19. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Mama rose
Richard d'oyly carte
The marx brothers
St. Augustine
20. where did performers go
The book uncle toms cabin
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Jerome kern
Took to the streets and traveled -
21. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Someone to watch over me
The Sound of Music
Meredith wilson
The merry widow
22. Who composed the music for Irene
Ethel merman
Mercenary mary
West side story
Harry tierney
23. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Radio city music hall
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Julie Andrews
Official beginning of western theatre
24. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Lerner and Loewe
Parodied
Stand by
Good news
25. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Greeks
South pacific
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
26. Annie Oakley is from What show
Sally
Rodgers and hammerstein
Mama rose
Annie get your gun
27. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
Mercenary mary
George m. cohan
Pal Joey
28. G: What does BCE mean?
Before common era
Gypsy
Kiss me - Kate
Oklahoma
29. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
State
Candide
Masks and costumes
Sally
30. What show is the song bewitched from
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Pal Joey
Changing masks and costumes
Orchestration
31. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Political satire
Harrigan and hart
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Commedia dell-arte
32. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
The music man
Rebirth
His 'confessions'
He was the producer
33. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Good news
East Side Story
Commedia dell-arte
Someone to watch over me
34. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Deus ex machina
Voice type
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
35. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Libretto
Timbuktu
Eliza Doolittle
36. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
He was the producer
Gypsy
On your toes and babes in arms
37. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Stephen sondheim
Athens
Popular dance
Ethel merman
38. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The king and I
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Patriotic
39. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Gypsy
George and Ira Gershwin
Oklahoma
Director
40. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Lowering
3 to 5
Cleverly concoted
41. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Georges balanchine
South pacific
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Romantic music
42. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Annie get your gun
Brigadoon
Once upon a mattress
Ethel merman
43. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Professional perfomers
Intense training
44. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Gertrude lawrence
Catholic church
The cotton blossom
Thespis
45. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Voice type
South pacific
Horace
Anything goes
46. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
The Threepenny opera
The shows they came from
Catholic church
47. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
Tragedy
Tragedies
None all men
48. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Took to the streets and traveled -
The king and I
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
49. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
New comedy
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Playwright
Meredith wilson
50. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Victor herbert
John Hollingshead
American dance music