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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. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Agnes de mille
Music man
Leonard bernstein
2. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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3. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Director
Voice type
Damn yankees
Fly loft
4. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Satyr plays
Kiss me - Kate
Popular dance
Babes in arms
5. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
His 'confessions'
John Hollingshead
Flutes - lyres
Babes in arms
6. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
The king and i
Director
Parodied
Threepenny opera
7. 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
Guys and Dolls
Popular entertainments
Ray Bolger
Jule Styne
8. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Lowering
The music man
Annie get your gun
Same person
9. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
State
Aristotle
False- it was considred a romantic musical
The marx brothers
10. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
South pacific
Jerome kern
South pacific
Ballet and modern dance
11. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Oklahoma
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Frank Loesser
12. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Stand by
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Oh Kay
Eliza Doolittle
13. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
George m. cohan
Oscar hammerstein II
Director
Stand by
14. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The metropolitan opera
The serenade and the fortune teller
Thespis
Swing
15. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Comedy
Guys and Dolls
Producer
16. Who picks the actors?
Director
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Producer
Rebirth
17. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Brigadoon
Gertrude Lawrence
Jerome kern
The king and i
18. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Julie Andrews
Director
War
Jerome Robbins
19. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Popular entertainments
Stephen Sondheim
Moved indoors
Damn yankees
20. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Kiss me - kate
If i loved you
Commedia dell-arte
Oscar hammerstein
21. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
East Side Story
Rodgers and Hart
South pacific
The desert song
22. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
He died in 1937
Director
Victor herbert
George gershwin
23. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
A contrived ending
Oklahoma
Jule Styne
The desert song
24. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
George gershwin
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Music man
Leonard Bernstein
25. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Harry tierney
Oil lamps
Good news
Set designer
26. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
The savoy operas
Playwright
Mercenary mary
27. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Producer
Ethel merman
Irving Berlin
Carmen jones
28. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Can-can
South pacific
Satyr plays
Leonard bernstein
29. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
The Threepenny Opera
Catholic church
Brigadoon
South pacific
30. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Gypsy
Commedia dell-arte
Oklahoma
Timbuktu
31. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Tearly Roman empire
Sally
South pacific
Kismet
32. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Satyr plays
Guys and Dolls
Richard rodgers
Female roles
33. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
On the town
Producer
Agnes de Mille
Took to the streets and traveled -
34. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Richard d'oyly carte
Once upon a mattress
Patriotic
Victor herbert
35. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Carmen jones
Once upon a mattress
Aristotle
Popular entertainments
36. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Meredith wilson
James michener
Once upon a mattress
Carmen jones
37. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Victor herbert
Of thee i sing
Pal Joey
The music man
38. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
South pacific
Aristotle
Tragedies
4th and 5th centuries bce
39. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Harry tierney
Libretto
40. Who was the choreographer for carousel
The metropolitan opera
Agnes de mille
Robin hood
Female roles
41. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Director
Producer
Moved indoors
Gypsy
42. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
George and Ira Gershwin
Female roles
Deus ex machina
43. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Ethel merman
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
George m. cohan
Georges balanchine
44. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Gypsy
The Sound of Music
Nine
Guys and Dolls
45. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Of thee i sing
Lyricist
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Commedia dell-arte
46. What comic duo was the show centered around
Gwen verdon
Bert williams and george walker
The Threepenny opera
George m. cohan
47. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
His 'confessions'
The merry widow
Threepenny opera
Restoration
48. Who is the composer of the King and I
Plato
Ethel merman
Director
Richard rodgers
49. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mimes
The romantic musicals
War
Billy bigelow
50. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
The book
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Kiss me - kate
Anti-hero