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Musical Theatre
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1. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
Agnes de mille
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Ballet and modern dance
2. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
The mikado
Guys and dolls
Same person
Stephen Sondheim
3. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
New comedy
Carmen jones
Babes in arms
Ray Bolger
4. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Catholic church
Carol Channing
BC
Pants role or trousers role
5. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
War
Oscar hammerstein
Cleverly concoted
Producer
6. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Threepenny opera
Eliza Doolittle
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
John Hollingshead
7. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
The cotton blossom
Evangeline
On your toes and babes in arms
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
8. What was the continental
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The pajama game
Georges balanchine
Popular dance
9. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
South pacific
The music man
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
10. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Jerome kern
Producer
Georges balanchine
Cole Porter
11. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Producer
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Political satire
George and Ira Gershwin
12. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
None all men
South pacific
Ancient baghdad
Meredith wilson
13. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Kismet
Choreographer
Masks and costumes
14. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
No no nanette
The book
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Pants role or trousers role
15. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
Kismet
Guys and dolls
HMS pinafore
16. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
The student prince
Leonard bernstein
17. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Girl crazy
Mary Martin
The king and i
Kismet
18. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Singin in the rain
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Rebirth
19. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
BC
Director
Kurt Weill
Victor herbert
20. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Can-can
The Threepenny Opera
Producer
Jule Styne
21. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Richard d'oyly carte
Oh Kay
Patriotic
Director
22. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Carol Channing
Patriotic
Timbuktu
Brigadoon
23. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
Victor herbert
Disappears
Gertrude lawrence
24. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
I got rhythm
Cole porter
The belle of new york
25. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
The shows they came from
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Brigadoon
He died in 1937
26. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Of thee i sing
Agnes de mille
Orchestration
Kiss me - kate
27. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
No no nanette
Set designer
Oscar hammerstein
Rose marie
28. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Plato
Comedy
HMS pinafore
A contrived ending
29. Laurie is from What show
Timbuktu
The Threepenny opera
Of thee i sing
Oklahoma
30. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Bert williams and george walker
Evangeline
Gestures and poses
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
31. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Moved indoors
The music man
Oklahoma
Someone to watch over me
32. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
George m. cohan
Damn yankees
Oscar hammerstein
Stephen sondheim
33. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
If i loved you
Betty comden and adolph green
Robin hood
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
34. G: What does BCE mean?
Before common era
Official beginning of western theatre
Cole Porter
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
35. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Gypsy
Ballet and modern dance
36. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Official beginning of western theatre
The Sound of Music
Commedia dell-arte
Conductor
37. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
Pants role or trousers role
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Borrowed tunes
38. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Satyr plays
Stand by
On the town
Restoration
39. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Billy bigelow
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Georges balanchine
Carousel
40. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Kiss me - Kate
Changing masks and costumes
Of thee i sing
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
41. What are the three types of greek plays
Leonard bernstein
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Parodied
Horace
42. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Mary Martin
The pajama game
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
43. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Masks and costumes
Lerner and Loewe
The music man
Before common era
44. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
George m. cohan
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
He was the producer
Orchestration
45. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Rex Harrison
Harrigan and hart
46. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
City dionysia
4th and 5th centuries bce
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Kurt Weill
Bernstein and Sondheim
New comedy
Comedies
48. where did performers go
The shows they came from
The Threepenny Opera
Victor herbert
Took to the streets and traveled -
49. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Bert williams and george walker
Romantic
Ethel merman
False- it was considred a romantic musical
50. ____________ presents men better than they are...
HMS pinafore
The music man
Conductor
Tragedy
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