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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. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Carmen jones
Tragedy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
2. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Comic opera
Fly loft
Deus ex machina
Angel
3. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
The puritans took control of the governmetn
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Director
4. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
Good news
Oscar hammerstein
Jerome kern
5. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Yul Brenner
The serenade and the fortune teller
Popular entertainments
6. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Julie Andrews
George m. cohan
Irving Berlin
Composer
7. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Gene kelly
City dionysia
South pacific
Producer
8. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Director
Gestures and poses
Political satire
Ethel merman
9. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
George and ira gershwin
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Rodgers and hammerstein
Can-can
10. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
South pacific
John Gay
South pacific
11. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
South pacific
George and ira gershwin
Oklahoma
On your toes
12. where did performers go
Took to the streets and traveled -
Sally
The king and I
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Tearly Roman empire
Threepenny opera
14. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The marx brothers
Kurt Weill
The Sound of Music
15. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Middle ages
My fair lady
Annie get your gun
Music man
16. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
George m. cohan
Good news
Gertrude Lawrence
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
17. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Intense training
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
3 to 5
Damn yankees
18. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Cole porter
Athens
Ballet and modern dance
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
19. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
The new moon
Victor herbert
Greeks
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
20. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Voice type
Restoration
BC- before christ
The Sound of Music
21. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
If i loved you
Ray bolger
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
22. What show is -i got rhythm
George and Ira Gershwin
Leonard bernstein
Girl crazy
The shows they came from
23. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Masks and costumes
Meredith wilson
Leonard Bernstein
The merry widow
24. What character are in anything goes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
My fair lady
Director
Gwen verdon
25. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Voice type
Mulligan guards routines
Carol Channing
East Side Story
26. 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 ___________.
Ballet and modern dance
The shows they came from
Kiss me - kate
Jerome Robbins
27. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Michael Kidd
Betty comden and adolph green
New comedy
No no nanette
28. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
BC- before christ
The metropolitan opera
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
29. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Spectacle
30. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Took to the streets and traveled -
Marilyn Miller
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
31. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Popular entertainments
Robin hood
The Sound of Music
32. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Flutes - lyres
Michael Kidd
Producer
Witty dialogue
33. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Rose marie
Swing
Popular entertainments
Gene kelly
34. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The king and i
Billy bigelow
Playwright
Oklahoma
35. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Oklahoma
Kismet
Gypsy
Mulligan guards routines
36. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Gertrude Lawrence
My fair lady
Oh Kay
Composer
37. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Professional perfomers
Oscar hammerstein II
The desert song
Catholic church
38. Bloody Mary is from What show
American politics
Kiss me - kate
South pacific
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
39. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
South pacific
Rodgers and hammerstein
No no nanette
Georges balanchine
40. Laurie is from What show
Same person
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The book
Oklahoma
41. What was a 'claquer?'
The king and i
Billy bigelow
Romantic music
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
42. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
New comedy
Crazy for You
Damn yankees
Kismet
43. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Swing
Can-can
South pacific
44. Who is the star of sweet charity
American dance music
Crazy for you
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Gwen verdon
45. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Kiss me - kate
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
False it was stylized
Adonis
46. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
American dance music
Mimes
Changing masks and costumes
Gestures and poses
47. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Cleverly concoted
Official beginning of western theatre
A stevedore
Masks and costumes
48. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Producer
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Fly loft
Rodgers and hammerstein
49. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Entertainments
Annie get your gun
Music man
Ballet and modern dance
50. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Athens
If i loved you
Jerome kern
Ethel merman