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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Professional perfomers
Spectacle
Swing
Conductor
2. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Gwen verdon
Angel
Once upon a mattress
Candide
3. Who picks the actors?
My fair lady
Fly loft
Director
Leonard bernstein
4. What does 'renaissance' mean
Entertainments
Agnes de mille
Rebirth
Comedy
5. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Comic opera
The new moon
Popular entertainments
Court nobility
6. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Oklahoma
A stevedore
American dance music
He was the producer
7. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
Rodgers and hammerstein
Can-can
The puritans took control of the governmetn
8. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
BC
Harrigan and hart
Playwright
9. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Bob Fosse
Annie get your gun
Irene
American politics
10. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Permissiveness and crazes
Gypsy
George m. cohan
11. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Catholic church
Rebirth
Gestures and poses
Evangeline
12. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
4th and 5th centuries bce
Gypsy
John Hollingshead
13. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Fly loft
Conductor
Timbuktu
Gene kelly
14. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Rose marie
Comedy
Lowering
City dionysia
15. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The serenade and the fortune teller
Cole porter
Burlesqued
Comedy
16. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Of thee i sing
Middle ages
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
17. Laurie is from What show
Jerome robbins
Oscar hammerstein II
West side story
Oklahoma
18. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Leonard bernstein
Music director
Mama rose
Stand by
19. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Crazy for You
Bob Fosse
The metropolitan opera
The book uncle toms cabin
20. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Brigadoon
Bernstein and Sondheim
Borrowed tunes
Tearly Roman empire
21. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
Anti-hero
Richard rodgers
New comedy
22. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
Director
Ethel merman
Took to the streets and traveled -
23. Who made in dahomey unique
4th and 5th centuries bce
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
24. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Victor herbert
Michael Kidd
The doctor of alcantara
Flutes - lyres
25. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Changing masks and costumes
Music man
The book
Gypsy
26. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Leonard bernstein
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Deus ex machina
Lerner and Loewe
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Jerome kern
The book
George and Ira Gershwin
State
28. What show is -i got rhythm
Girl crazy
Producer
The desert song
Swing
29. G: What does BCE mean?
Gypsy
Conductor
Before common era
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
30. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Threepenny opera
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Meredith wilson
31. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Commedia dell-arte
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Jule Styne
Tragedy
32. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Oklahoma
Tragedies
Slapsticks
Set designer
33. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Richard d'oyly carte
Babes in arms
Swing
Oil lamps
34. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Libretto
Aristotle
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Professional perfomers
35. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Mama rose
Choreographer
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Librettist
36. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Nine
Greeks
Mercenary mary
Director
37. Where they fly things on stage
His 'confessions'
Ray Bolger
Lyricist
Fly loft
38. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Carousel
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Gwen verdon
39. Billy Bigelow is form What show
My Fair Lady
Athens
Crazy for You
Carousel
40. What show is -the continental
Mercenary mary
Orchestration
The king and i
Costume designer
41. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Damn yankees
Stephen sondheim
The shows they came from
42. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Deus ex machina
Costume designer
Bernstein and Sondheim
Cole Porter
43. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Mama rose
BC
On the town
Ethel merman
44. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Playwright
Borrowed tunes
Witty dialogue
Sally
45. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Librettist
Mary rodgers
Leonard bernstein
The merry widow
46. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
None all men
Oscar hammerstein II
Timbuktu
James michener
47. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
Oklahoma
If i loved you
The Sound of Music
48. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The king and i
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Lerner and Loewe
49. What show is the song bewitched from
Ray Bolger
Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Tragedy
50. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
The pajama game
Changing masks and costumes
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
On your toes and babes in arms