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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. G: What is BCE same as
BC- before christ
The shows they came from
Cole porter
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
2. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
St. Augustine
Richard d'oyly carte
Kiss me - Kate
My fair lady
3. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Bernstein and Sondheim
Julie Andrews
Cole porter
Good news
4. Who picks the actors?
St. Augustine
Director
Bob Fosse
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
5. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Greeks
Orchestration
6. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Playwright
King Louis XIV
Music man
Timbuktu
7. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Burlesqued
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
None all men
Adonis
8. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
James michener
The cotton blossom
Libretto
Jule Styne
9. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Director
Crazy for you
Agnes de mille
The music man
10. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Ethel merman
Guys and dolls
Swing
Evangeline
11. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Middle ages
Before common era
Rex Harrison
Angel
12. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Damn yankees
Set designer
Pal Joey
Jerome kern
13. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
The shows they came from
His 'confessions'
Jule Styne
Nine
14. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Once upon a mattress
John Hollingshead
George m. cohan
Producer
15. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
My Fair Lady
Jerome Robbins
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Producer
16. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Brigadoon
Mary rodgers
Leonard bernstein
17. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
24
HMS pinafore
Mimes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
18. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Composer
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Thespis
The doctor of alcantara
19. 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'
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Brigadoon
Rose marie
He died in 1937
20. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Once upon a mattress
Leonard Bernstein
Political satire
If i loved you
21. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
Lyricist
Anything goes
Pageant wagons and mansions
22. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Parodied
Commedia dell-arte
Gertrude Lawrence
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
23. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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24. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On the town
Borrowed tunes
On your toes and babes in arms
Mary martin
25. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Popular entertainments and comic opera
The mikado
War
Timbuktu
26. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Rex Harrison
City dionysia
War
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
27. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
If i loved you
Michael Kidd
Spectacle
Damn yankees
28. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Political satire
Took to the streets and traveled -
Agnes de mille
29. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Female roles
He died in 1937
30. G: Greek actors had...
Mimes
John Gay
Intense training
Kurt Weill
31. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Yul Brenner
Richard d'oyly carte
None all men
32. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Professional perfomers
George and ira gershwin
Annie get your gun
Crazy for You
33. 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 ___________.
The shows they came from
East Side Story
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Commedia dell-arte
34. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
American dance music
Girl crazy
Victor herbert
American politics
35. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
The savoy operas
BC
Tragedy
Same person
36. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
St. Augustine
Jule Styne
Kiss me - Kate
The belle of new york
37. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
American dance music
Richard d'oyly carte
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
False- it was considred a romantic musical
38. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
South pacific
Playwright
Deus ex machina
The metropolitan opera
39. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Candide
Moved indoors
40. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Sally
Carol Channing
Timbuktu
Irene
41. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
The book uncle toms cabin
Ethel merman
American politics
Satyr plays
42. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Ballet and modern dance
Candide
Parodied
43. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Kurt Weill
Agnes de mille
Playwright
Can-can
44. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
King Louis XIV
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Pants role or trousers role
On your toes
45. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Jerome Robbins
Oklahoma
Stand by
The new moon
46. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
None all men
My Fair Lady
Once upon a mattress
Ethel merman
47. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Richard rodgers
Aristotle
Robin hood
The king and I
48. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Permissiveness and crazes
The music man
The doctor of alcantara
Moved indoors
49. What character are in anything goes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Oklahoma
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
50. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Moved indoors
Romantic
Victor herbert
Pageant wagons and mansions
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