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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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1. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Tearly Roman empire
Slapsticks
Costume designer
Oh Kay
2. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Voice type
The student prince
The mikado
Harry tierney
3. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
The Threepenny opera
Disappears
Bob Fosse
Victor herbert
4. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Playwright
Libretto
Gertrude Lawrence
Ballet and modern dance
5. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
George and ira gershwin
Satyr plays
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Music man
6. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Tragedy
Rebirth
American politics
Romantic music
7. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Public enemy no. 13
The Sound of Music
Intense training
Agnes de mille
8. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Playwright
Producer
Rex Harrison
Cleverly concoted
9. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The doctor of alcantara
Bernstein and Sondheim
George gershwin
The book uncle toms cabin
10. Laurie is from What show
Oklahoma
Julie Andrews
24
The Sound of Music
11. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Billy bigelow
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
False- it was considred a romantic musical
12. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Yul Brenner
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
24
George m. cohan
13. G: What is BCE same as
BC- before christ
Ethel merman
Meredith wilson
Gertrude Lawrence
14. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
City dionysia
Choreographer
East Side Story
George and ira gershwin
15. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
George gershwin
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Bert williams and george walker
16. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
George m. cohan
Victor herbert
False- it was considred a romantic musical
17. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Mary rodgers
Georges balanchine
Robin hood
Victor herbert
18. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Intense training
The king and i
Aristotle
He was the producer
19. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
False it was stylized
Female roles
The king and i
The music man
20. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
The king and i
Slapsticks
Of thee i sing
Popular entertainments and comic opera
21. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Of thee i sing
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
22. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Agnes de Mille
Spectacle
Anti-hero
Stephen sondheim
23. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Agnes de mille
Eliza Doolittle
Oh Kay
Cole Porter
24. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Victor herbert
Harrigan and hart
Once upon a mattress
Good news
25. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Oklahoma
Aristotle
Director
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
26. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
Oil lamps
Ray bolger
Mercenary mary
27. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
The music man
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Carol Channing
Permissiveness and crazes
28. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Choreographer
Ray bolger
Candide
Same person
29. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Comedy
Timbuktu
Angel
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
30. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Producer
The Threepenny Opera
Set designer
Comedies
31. Who picks the actors?
No no nanette
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Director
Voice type
32. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Popular entertainments
Orchestration
My fair lady
Robin hood
33. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Middle ages
Julie Andrews
The merry widow
The serenade and the fortune teller
34. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
The Threepenny Opera
BC- before christ
He was the producer
BC
35. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Eliza Doolittle
Gypsy
Victor herbert
A trip to chinatown
36. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
3 to 5
On your toes and babes in arms
Producer
City dionysia
37. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Gertrude lawrence
War
Can-can
Mary rodgers
38. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Choreographer
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
American politics
The mikado
39. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Producer
Threepenny opera
Lerner and Loewe
BC- before christ
40. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Comedies
Gertrude lawrence
HMS pinafore
Music man
41. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Mercenary mary
Rodgers and hammerstein
Jerome robbins
BC
42. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
Same person
Rodgers and hammerstein
Michael Kidd
43. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Betty comden and adolph green
Changing masks and costumes
Gestures and poses
Meredith wilson
44. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
The Sound of Music
No
No no nanette
Masks and costumes
45. 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
The romantic musicals
No no nanette
Pants role or trousers role
Annie get your gun
46. where did performers go
The king and i
Stephen sondheim
On your toes and babes in arms
Took to the streets and traveled -
47. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
Richard rodgers
John Gay
Victor herbert
48. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Jerome Robbins
South pacific
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Babes in arms
49. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Jerome Robbins
Political satire
50. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Enzio pinza
Masks and costumes
Evangeline
Betty comden and adolph green