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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The doctor of alcantara
West side story
The pajama game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
2. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
3 to 5
West side story
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Rodgers and hammerstein
3. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Burlesqued
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Producer
Irene
4. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Marilyn Miller
Brigadoon
The student prince
Richard d'oyly carte
5. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Gertrude Lawrence
Oh Kay
The desert song
6. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Entertainments
George m. cohan
24
7. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The student prince
Leonard Bernstein
The marx brothers
My fair lady
8. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Producer
Kiss me - kate
Stephen Sondheim
9. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Parodied
George gershwin
Catholic church
Librettist
10. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Gypsy
South pacific
The Sound of Music
Evangeline
11. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Oh Kay
Richard rodgers
Same person
Parodied
12. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
West side story
Fly loft
On the town
13. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Julie Andrews
Georges balanchine
John Hollingshead
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
14. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
On your toes and babes in arms
Oh Kay
Popular entertainments
15. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Good news
Rodgers and hammerstein
Rodgers and hammerstein
16. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Professional perfomers
None all men
Librettist
17. where did performers go
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Victor herbert
Oscar hammerstein II
Took to the streets and traveled -
18. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Can-can
Commedia dell-arte
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Producer
19. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
The music man
Agnes de mille
Yul Brenner
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
20. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Popular entertainments
No
Cole Porter
War
21. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
South pacific
Jerome robbins
Cole porter
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
22. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Someone to watch over me
None all men
Good news
Once upon a mattress
23. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Evangeline
False it was stylized
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
East Side Story
24. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Commedia dell-arte
Of thee i sing
Mulligan guards routines
Oscar hammerstein II
25. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Before common era
The student prince
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Kurt Weill
26. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Popular dance
Anti-hero
Masks and costumes
27. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Rex Harrison
Court nobility
A trip to chinatown
28. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Changing masks and costumes
Can-can
The king and i
The belle of new york
29. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Comedy
Brigadoon
Gypsy
Changing masks and costumes
30. Who stages the dances?
On your toes and babes in arms
Choreographer
Carol Channing
Athens
31. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Jerome robbins
On your toes
I got rhythm
Eliza Doolittle
32. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Moliere
Babes in arms
Bernstein and Sondheim
33. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Mercenary mary
The book uncle toms cabin
False- it was considred a romantic musical
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
34. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Stephen sondheim
Rodgers and hammerstein
Set designer
Agnes de mille
35. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Cole Porter
Rodgers and Hart
Radio city music hall
36. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
Guys and dolls
King Louis XIV
George gershwin
37. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Catholic church
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Jerome robbins
38. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Same person
Gertrude lawrence
BC
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
39. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Middle ages
Bernstein and Sondheim
Ancient baghdad
Oklahoma
40. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The marx brothers
American politics
Lerner and Loewe
41. F:who took over those roles
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
War
Mercenary mary
Professional perfomers
42. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Kiss me - kate
Political satire
HMS pinafore
Sally
43. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The mikado
A trip to chinatown
44. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
Eliza Doolittle
Kiss me - kate
City dionysia
45. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Commedia dell-arte
The cotton blossom
Candide
Disappears
46. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Middle ages
Frank Loesser
Irving Berlin
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
47. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
The student prince
Libretto
Irving Berlin
George m. cohan
48. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
I got rhythm
Comedies
Restoration
No no nanette
49. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Richard rodgers
Mulligan guards routines
Costume designer
Marilyn Miller
50. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
George m. cohan
Changing masks and costumes
Marilyn Miller
No no nanette