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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. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments
Director
Richard rodgers
War
2. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Can-can
A trip to chinatown
HMS pinafore
His 'confessions'
3. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
The mikado
The desert song
East Side Story
4. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
No no nanette
Rodgers and Hart
Intense training
5. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Set designer
Carmen jones
Greeks
Jerome kern
6. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
The metropolitan opera
Lyricist
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Oscar hammerstein II
7. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Brigadoon
Tragedies
He died in 1937
Betty comden and adolph green
8. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Irene
The pajama game
South pacific
9. G: What does BCE mean?
Burlesqued
Before common era
Gwen verdon
False- it was considred a romantic musical
10. Annie Oakley is from What show
On the town
Disappears
Timbuktu
Annie get your gun
11. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Before common era
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
South pacific
Aristotle
12. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
Parodied
Playwright
Bob Fosse
13. F:who took over those roles
Professional perfomers
Comedies
Gestures and poses
The music man
14. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Producer
Producer
A stevedore
George m. cohan
15. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
A trip to chinatown
No no nanette
Before common era
Julie Andrews
16. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Slapsticks
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Cole porter
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
17. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
The merry widow
Sally
Set designer
Leonard bernstein
18. Who wrote the music for show boat
My fair lady
Jerome kern
Gertrude Lawrence
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
19. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Catholic church
Official beginning of western theatre
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The book
20. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Playwright
South pacific
The belle of new york
Took to the streets and traveled -
21. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
4th and 5th centuries bce
Popular dance
Gestures and poses
The merry widow
22. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Once upon a mattress
If i loved you
City dionysia
23. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Of thee i sing
Libretto
Voice type
New comedy
24. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Oscar hammerstein
The Sound of Music
Kismet
Sally
25. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
Georges balanchine
Public enemy no. 13
Cole porter
26. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
I got rhythm
Ray Bolger
Gypsy
The belle of new york
27. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
HMS pinafore
Babes in arms
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
28. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Harry tierney
John Hollingshead
Jule Styne
The Sound of Music
29. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Meredith wilson
The new moon
Gwen verdon
Betty comden and adolph green
30. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Spectacle
Political satire
Tearly Roman empire
31. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Annie get your gun
Female roles
My fair lady
Rebirth
32. Who picks the actors?
Director
Took to the streets and traveled -
Producer
Julie Andrews
33. Bloody Mary is from What show
No
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Popular dance
South pacific
34. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Deus ex machina
Kiss me - kate
Flutes - lyres
Popular entertainments
35. What show is- tea for two
No no nanette
South pacific
The metropolitan opera
George m. cohan
36. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Oklahoma
George gershwin
Victor herbert
Good news
37. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
George m. cohan
Mary rodgers
Brigadoon
38. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
George gershwin
Good news
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
39. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Pageant wagons and mansions
Stephen sondheim
Leonard bernstein
Crazy for you
40. Who is the composer for music man
Timbuktu
Cole Porter
Meredith wilson
Irving Berlin
41. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Spectacle
Gypsy
Anything goes
42. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
The book
Once upon a mattress
Thespis
Meredith wilson
43. Who is the composer for on the town
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Leonard bernstein
HMS pinafore
Annie get your gun
44. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Tragedy
Oil lamps
Gwen verdon
45. What show is 'broadway melody' from
On your toes
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Singin in the rain
Popular entertainments
46. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Political satire
Anything goes
Brigadoon
47. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
West side story
War
False it was stylized
South pacific
48. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Timbuktu
Annie get your gun
Cole Porter
The pajama game
49. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Damn yankees
Victor herbert
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
50. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Someone to watch over me
Director
Radio city music hall