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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who is the star of sweet charity
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Gestures and poses
Playwright
Gwen verdon
2. G: Male actors played...
Gypsy
Female roles
The student prince
Leonard Bernstein
3. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Deus ex machina
The merry widow
Bernstein and Sondheim
James michener
4. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Intense training
New comedy
A stevedore
Mary martin
5. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Ballet and modern dance
Cole porter
George gershwin
Jule Styne
6. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
No no nanette
Evangeline
Victor herbert
Carol Channing
7. Bloody Mary is from What show
George gershwin
South pacific
A stevedore
HMS pinafore
8. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
American politics
9. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Mulligan guards routines
Mama rose
Stand by
Harrigan and hart
10. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Music director
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Once upon a mattress
11. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
On your toes
Jule Styne
Burlesqued
Mary martin
12. What was the original name of West Side Story
Catholic church
A trip to chinatown
South pacific
East Side Story
13. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
The Sound of Music
Female roles
BC
Oklahoma
14. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Borrowed tunes
Intense training
George gershwin
Oil lamps
15. Lotte Lenya is from What show
The Threepenny Opera
Meredith wilson
Ancient baghdad
Entertainments
16. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Mulligan guards routines
Carmen jones
Agnes de mille
The merry widow
17. Who is the composer for music man
Annie get your gun
Mercenary mary
Meredith wilson
Plato
18. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
A trip to chinatown
Damn yankees
Meredith wilson
Once upon a mattress
19. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Threepenny opera
The Threepenny opera
Nine
Spectacle
20. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
New comedy
My fair lady
The metropolitan opera
My Fair Lady
21. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Rex Harrison
Masks and costumes
Angel
22. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Ray Bolger
Orchestration
Producer
Cleverly concoted
23. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Irene
State
Ray bolger
24. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Bert williams and george walker
Leonard bernstein
Music director
Set designer
25. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
West side story
HMS pinafore
Oklahoma
False- it was considred a romantic musical
26. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Slapsticks
Pants role or trousers role
None all men
Stand by
27. G: What is BCE same as
Comedies
Aristotle
BC- before christ
Carousel
28. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Julie Andrews
The metropolitan opera
Gene kelly
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
29. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
3 to 5
The merry widow
George and Ira Gershwin
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
30. G: Male actors played...
Pal Joey
Female roles
Court nobility
Jerome Robbins
31. Laurie is from What show
Crazy for you
Director
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma
32. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Director
The pajama game
Comedy
Kiss me - Kate
33. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Julie Andrews
Producer
Masks and costumes
Pageant wagons and mansions
34. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Masks and costumes
New comedy
Enzio pinza
35. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Mercenary mary
Ray Bolger
Cole porter
Lowering
36. What characters are in show boat
37. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Meredith wilson
Gene kelly
My fair lady
Carmen jones
38. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Bernstein and Sondheim
Voice type
Intense training
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
39. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Victor herbert
Timbuktu
4th and 5th centuries bce
40. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Jerome robbins
City dionysia
41. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Agnes de mille
I got rhythm
The mikado
Set designer
42. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Greeks
Voice type
New comedy
43. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
No no nanette
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Aristotle
The music man
44. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Carmen jones
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Kiss me - kate
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
45. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Playwright
3 to 5
Producer
New comedy
46. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Irving Berlin
Leonard Bernstein
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Oklahoma
47. Who wrote the music for show boat
Jerome kern
Ethel merman
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Set designer
48. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Choreographer
Cleverly concoted
Gertrude Lawrence
Rodgers and hammerstein
49. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Comic opera
A contrived ending
Nine
Entertainments
50. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Pants role or trousers role
Frank Loesser
No no nanette
The desert song