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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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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. Bloody Mary is from What show
No no nanette
Annie get your gun
South pacific
Oscar hammerstein II
2. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
George gershwin
Victor herbert
Lowering
Lerner and Loewe
3. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
My fair lady
Leonard Bernstein
Bob Fosse
Annie get your gun
4. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Candide
Agnes de mille
Ethel merman
Ray Bolger
5. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Patriotic
Middle ages
Kiss me - Kate
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
6. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Michael Kidd
Playwright
None all men
7. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
He was the producer
Singin in the rain
Satyr plays
8. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Producer
Official beginning of western theatre
No
Jerome Robbins
9. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
He died in 1937
The king and I
American dance music
10. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Burlesqued
Catholic church
Brigadoon
Oscar hammerstein II
11. What show is i want to be happy
Julie Andrews
Sally
No no nanette
Someone to watch over me
12. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Producer
Agnes de mille
The Threepenny opera
Oscar hammerstein II
13. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Mary martin
Parodied
Director
Betty comden and adolph green
14. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Patriotic
Singin in the rain
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Brigadoon
15. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Georges balanchine
24
Tragedy
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
16. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
War
Adonis
Ray bolger
Jerome Robbins
17. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
He was the producer
Rodgers and hammerstein
False it was stylized
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
18. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The Sound of Music
The book uncle toms cabin
Stand by
Commedia dell-arte
19. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Costume designer
Frank Loesser
Popular entertainments
The desert song
20. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
BC
The new moon
Cole porter
Julie Andrews
21. Mama rose is from What show
Gypsy
Tearly Roman empire
Brigadoon
The merry widow
22. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
George and Ira Gershwin
Gwen verdon
Sally
23. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
South pacific
Costume designer
Public enemy no. 13
24. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Ray bolger
Commedia dell-arte
East Side Story
25. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Ray bolger
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Comedies
Carol Channing
26. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Ethel merman
Annie get your gun
Cole porter
27. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Burlesqued
Once upon a mattress
28. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Kiss me - Kate
Comedy
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
29. Who is the composer for music man
Permissiveness and crazes
Meredith wilson
The merry widow
Conductor
30. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Producer
Deus ex machina
George m. cohan
31. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
West side story
City dionysia
Producer
Of thee i sing
32. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
Agnes de mille
Harrigan and hart
Timbuktu
33. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Middle ages
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
My fair lady
34. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
BC
The book
Political satire
A trip to chinatown
35. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
36. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Comic opera
Can-can
Irene
Agnes de mille
37. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Rex Harrison
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
38. What is Bali H'ai from
On your toes
South pacific
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Carol Channing
39. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Oklahoma
Damn yankees
Rebirth
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
40. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Timbuktu
Girl crazy
The desert song
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
41. 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 ___________.
The shows they came from
West side story
Rebirth
Nine
42. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Same person
Cole porter
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
43. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
John Hollingshead
Agnes de mille
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
44. Greek: 534 BCE
Tragedy
Official beginning of western theatre
Intense training
My Fair Lady
45. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Producer
Kiss me - Kate
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
46. G: What is BCE same as
Once upon a mattress
Marilyn Miller
BC- before christ
The serenade and the fortune teller
47. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
Adonis
The Sound of Music
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Oklahoma
48. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
The pajama game
Mary rodgers
Irene
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
49. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
BC
Girl crazy
Deus ex machina
Stand by
50. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
James michener
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
War
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon