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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What character are in anything goes
George and ira gershwin
Julie Andrews
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Bob Fosse
2. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Stand by
Kismet
Comedies
Comedy
3. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
False it was stylized
Carousel
Aristotle
4. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Agnes de mille
The pajama game
Jerome kern
The music man
5. G: How many lead actors were there?
Conductor
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Harry tierney
3 to 5
6. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Witty dialogue
East Side Story
Comic opera
7. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
A trip to chinatown
Anything goes
Stand by
Deus ex machina
8. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Director
St. Augustine
George and Ira Gershwin
My Fair Lady
9. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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10. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Carousel
Deus ex machina
Irene
The book uncle toms cabin
11. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
Tragedies
Spectacle
Burlesqued
12. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Borrowed tunes
Producer
Same person
Mary martin
13. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
He was the producer
Before common era
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Timbuktu
14. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de Mille
Kismet
Middle ages
Comic opera had music and dialogue
15. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Agnes de mille
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
16. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Leonard bernstein
Gypsy
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The marx brothers
17. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
On your toes
Stephen sondheim
Rex Harrison
No no nanette
18. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The romantic musicals
Jerome robbins
Stephen sondheim
19. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Threepenny opera
HMS pinafore
On your toes and babes in arms
Oscar hammerstein
20. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Damn yankees
Public enemy no. 13
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Mulligan guards routines
21. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Damn yankees
Timbuktu
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Comedy
22. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Agnes de Mille
George m. cohan
Julie Andrews
Sally
23. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
No
The Sound of Music
Stephen Sondheim
Rebirth
24. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
George m. cohan
Nine
Commedia dell-arte
Plato
25. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
A stevedore
Agnes de mille
Director
Composer
26. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
A stevedore
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Yul Brenner
Orchestration
27. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
George and ira gershwin
Anti-hero
Catholic church
The cotton blossom
28. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Jule Styne
Crazy for you
Leonard bernstein
Oklahoma
29. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Rose marie
The marx brothers
Leonard Bernstein
The pajama game
30. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Once upon a mattress
Commedia dell-arte
31. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Political satire
Deus ex machina
Comedies
32. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Ethel merman
Victor herbert
Evangeline
Kismet
33. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
City dionysia
Sally
Crazy for You
Girl crazy
34. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
The metropolitan opera
Victor herbert
New comedy
Official beginning of western theatre
35. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Restoration
Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The king and i
36. What was the setting for Kismet
The shows they came from
Ancient baghdad
Bert williams and george walker
Deus ex machina
37. Who is the star of sweet charity
Lerner and Loewe
The romantic musicals
Gwen verdon
Official beginning of western theatre
38. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
No no nanette
Threepenny opera
HMS pinafore
39. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Agnes de mille
Tearly Roman empire
40. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
The doctor of alcantara
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Rodgers and hammerstein
Producer
41. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Romantic music
Agnes de mille
Catholic church
Yul Brenner
42. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
The merry widow
Enzio pinza
Producer
The mikado
43. Who is the star of Sally
The music man
Marilyn Miller
BC
Victor herbert
44. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
The metropolitan opera
Meredith wilson
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Guys and Dolls
45. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Harrigan and hart
Once upon a mattress
Cole Porter
The serenade and the fortune teller
46. What comic duo was the show centered around
The king and I
Bert williams and george walker
The new moon
Librettist
47. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
The merry widow
Agnes de mille
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
48. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
A trip to chinatown
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Pants role or trousers role
Spectacle
49. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
South pacific
Georges balanchine
Deus ex machina
Gypsy
50. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Ethel merman
The Sound of Music
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Damn yankees