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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
John Gay
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
False- it was considred a romantic musical
New comedy
2. G: What is BCE same as
Kiss me - Kate
The desert song
Orchestration
BC- before christ
3. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Meredith wilson
Michael Kidd
John Hollingshead
Radio city music hall
4. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Girl crazy
Comedies
Borrowed tunes
The Sound of Music
5. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Mama rose
George and ira gershwin
6. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
George and Ira Gershwin
Nine
Moliere
Stand by
7. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Of thee i sing
Stephen Sondheim
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Carmen jones
8. 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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9. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Comedy
Borrowed tunes
Intense training
Ethel merman
10. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Pants role or trousers role
Same person
The romantic musicals
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
11. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Singin in the rain
George m. cohan
Playwright
Julie Andrews
12. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Official beginning of western theatre
Pageant wagons and mansions
13. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Candide
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Borrowed tunes
14. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Agnes de mille
American politics
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Gene kelly
15. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Bert williams and george walker
Gene kelly
The king and I
16. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
War
Oklahoma
Carol Channing
Agnes de Mille
17. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Victor herbert
Aristotle
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Annie get your gun
18. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Mary Martin
Cleverly concoted
Spectacle
19. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Annie get your gun
Ray bolger
The Threepenny opera
Political satire
20. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The music man
Anything goes
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
His 'confessions'
21. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Cleverly concoted
Billy bigelow
Timbuktu
The serenade and the fortune teller
22. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Changing masks and costumes
Music director
Pal Joey
Cole Porter
23. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Rex Harrison
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Oklahoma
Gypsy
24. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Moliere
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Anything goes
Julie Andrews
25. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
HMS pinafore
Comic opera
Kiss me - Kate
Angel
26. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Tearly Roman empire
Evangeline
27. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Fly loft
Comedies
Voice type
28. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Patriotic
Of thee i sing
24
Greeks
29. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
Rebirth
Kurt Weill
Jule Styne
30. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Music director
Orchestration
31. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Playwright
The serenade and the fortune teller
The shows they came from
A contrived ending
32. Who picks the actors?
Director
Kiss me - kate
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Richard rodgers
33. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Robin hood
Gertrude Lawrence
Eliza Doolittle
Lyricist
34. Laurie is from What show
Julie Andrews
Fly loft
Oklahoma
Tragedy
35. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Mulligan guards routines
Of thee i sing
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Kiss me - kate
36. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Meredith wilson
Harry tierney
Rose marie
Mercenary mary
37. What character are in anything goes
Betty comden and adolph green
Of thee i sing
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
38. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
Oscar hammerstein
Gwen verdon
Thespis
39. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Composer
Gwen verdon
City dionysia
Took to the streets and traveled -
40. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Tearly Roman empire
Once upon a mattress
My fair lady
41. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
John Hollingshead
The king and I
Robin hood
Once upon a mattress
42. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Choreographer
George m. cohan
No no nanette
43. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Kurt Weill
The merry widow
4th and 5th centuries bce
Frank Loesser
44. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
John Gay
The savoy operas
John Gay
Deus ex machina
45. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
4th and 5th centuries bce
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Oscar hammerstein
46. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Lerner and Loewe
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Political satire
Babes in arms
47. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Cleverly concoted
The belle of new york
Julie Andrews
South pacific
48. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Patriotic
American dance music
Enzio pinza
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
49. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
24
Set designer
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
The king and I
50. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Agnes de mille
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Producer
Masks and costumes