SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Musical Theatre
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
performing-arts
,
music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Director
Timbuktu
St. Augustine
Jerome robbins
2. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Producer
City dionysia
American politics
The book
3. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Ancient baghdad
George and Ira Gershwin
The king and i
4. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Oklahoma
Athens
Director
Michael Kidd
5. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
No no nanette
Deus ex machina
Anti-hero
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
6. 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'
My Fair Lady
Took to the streets and traveled -
Annie get your gun
Damn yankees
7. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Irene
Leonard bernstein
Jule Styne
Michael Kidd
8. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Ethel merman
Moved indoors
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Costume designer
9. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Ballet and modern dance
Masks and costumes
Music man
Irene
10. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Oscar hammerstein
Guys and dolls
Orchestration
Frank Loesser
11. What was a 'claquer?'
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
The Threepenny Opera
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Kurt Weill
12. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
George gershwin
Anything goes
Leonard bernstein
Guys and Dolls
13. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Kiss me - Kate
Victor herbert
Jerome Robbins
Libretto
14. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Popular dance
The king and i
Radio city music hall
The desert song
15. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Thespis
The Sound of Music
James michener
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
16. Who stages the dances?
Romantic
Bob Fosse
Choreographer
Ethel merman
17. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Producer
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The metropolitan opera
South pacific
18. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
Comedies
Producer
Ray Bolger
19. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Mimes
The music man
Jerome kern
George and ira gershwin
20. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
St. Augustine
The cotton blossom
The student prince
The serenade and the fortune teller
21. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
George m. cohan
Bernstein and Sondheim
Once upon a mattress
Director
22. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Producer
Adonis
He was the producer
Libretto
23. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Ancient baghdad
Director
Damn yankees
The king and I
24. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Once upon a mattress
Jule Styne
Leonard bernstein
On your toes
25. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
South pacific
Ray Bolger
Damn yankees
Kiss me - kate
26. Who is the composer for music man
Oklahoma
Meredith wilson
Cole porter
Tearly Roman empire
27. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Same person
Leonard bernstein
Kiss me - kate
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
28. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Producer
The marx brothers
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Leonard bernstein
29. G: How many lead actors were there?
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
On your toes and babes in arms
The student prince
3 to 5
30. What is Bali H'ai from
The serenade and the fortune teller
Stephen sondheim
South pacific
Greeks
31. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Enzio pinza
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Slapsticks
32. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Swing
Tragedy
New comedy
Gene kelly
33. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
None all men
Greeks
Jerome robbins
Composer
34. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
James michener
The Sound of Music
Cleverly concoted
35. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Tearly Roman empire
Of thee i sing
Jule Styne
Julie Andrews
36. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
24
None all men
Harrigan and hart
37. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
The desert song
George and ira gershwin
Rodgers and Hart
38. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
St. Augustine
John Hollingshead
The romantic musicals
Producer
39. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Evangeline
George gershwin
New comedy
40. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Public enemy no. 13
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Julie Andrews
Jerome robbins
41. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
My fair lady
Oklahoma
Comic opera
Lowering
42. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The serenade and the fortune teller
Richard d'oyly carte
Stephen sondheim
Kiss me - Kate
43. G: Male actors played...
Rodgers and hammerstein
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Female roles
Set designer
44. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Leonard bernstein
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Director
He was the producer
45. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Crazy for you
Meredith wilson
Popular entertainments and comic opera
War
46. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
King Louis XIV
Voice type
Sally
47. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Middle ages
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Rodgers and Hart
The pajama game
48. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Once upon a mattress
Georges balanchine
The belle of new york
Catholic church
49. G: What is BCE same as
BC- before christ
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Girl crazy
Same person
50. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Choreographer
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
James michener