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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. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Conductor
The king and i
Meredith wilson
Richard rodgers
2. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Popular entertainments
Conductor
A contrived ending
Mary martin
3. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Enzio pinza
Producer
Of thee i sing
Conductor
4. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Enzio pinza
On the town
The pajama game
The king and i
5. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Kiss me - kate
Greeks
My fair lady
Girl crazy
6. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Comic opera
James michener
Swing
American dance music
7. What show is the song bewitched from
War
Pal Joey
Ray Bolger
State
8. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Cole porter
Victor herbert
Carousel
BC- before christ
9. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The desert song
Jerome kern
Music man
10. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Gertrude Lawrence
Ethel merman
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Harry tierney
11. What are the three types of greek plays
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Pants role or trousers role
Music director
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
12. Laurie's dream ballet
South pacific
Oklahoma
If i loved you
Aristotle
13. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Annie get your gun
Adonis
Professional perfomers
If i loved you
14. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Ethel merman
24
My fair lady
Lerner and Loewe
15. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
The music man
Leonard Bernstein
Playwright
Oklahoma
16. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Julie Andrews
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Kiss me - kate
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
17. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Anything goes
Sally
4th and 5th centuries bce
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
18. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Of thee i sing
Lerner and Loewe
Music director
19. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
A contrived ending
Libretto
South pacific
20. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Ballet and modern dance
Oklahoma
Set designer
21. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Sally
The mikado
Yul Brenner
Took to the streets and traveled -
22. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ethel merman
The book uncle toms cabin
If i loved you
23. 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'
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The merry widow
Annie get your gun
Oil lamps
24. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Frank Loesser
Bob Fosse
Ethel merman
25. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The Threepenny opera
Same person
The merry widow
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
26. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Ethel merman
Agnes de mille
The savoy operas
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Ethel merman
Once upon a mattress
Director
28. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Enzio pinza
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Tragedy
Meredith wilson
29. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Pants role or trousers role
James michener
Carousel
South pacific
30. 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
Adonis
The romantic musicals
The mikado
Ancient baghdad
31. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The shows they came from
The music man
Gypsy
32. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Ethel merman
Gwen verdon
3 to 5
West side story
33. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
The Sound of Music
Babes in arms
Bernstein and Sondheim
Permissiveness and crazes
34. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Leonard bernstein
South pacific
Jule Styne
The pajama game
35. Who is the composer for on the town
Victor herbert
Comic opera
Victor herbert
Leonard bernstein
36. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Victor herbert
Pants role or trousers role
Angel
37. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Greeks
BC- before christ
Jule Styne
Betty comden and adolph green
38. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
George m. cohan
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Music man
39. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Borrowed tunes
John Gay
Masks and costumes
40. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Oscar hammerstein II
Middle ages
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Nine
41. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
Enzio pinza
Frank Loesser
Ethel merman
42. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Carousel
Gestures and poses
West side story
43. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Irving Berlin
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Mercenary mary
44. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Comic opera
Ethel merman
Political satire
45. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The king and I
The pajama game
46. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Crazy for you
Bernstein and Sondheim
47. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
Gypsy
Producer
The serenade and the fortune teller
48. What show is -the continental
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
BC
Mercenary mary
Professional perfomers
49. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Witty dialogue
Bob Fosse
Public enemy no. 13
Popular entertainments
50. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Marilyn Miller
Masks and costumes
Robin hood