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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. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Ethel merman
Satyr plays
Romantic
Eliza Doolittle
2. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
Sally
Voice type
Producer
3. What comic duo was the show centered around
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Bert williams and george walker
Romantic
Angel
4. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
South pacific
Anything goes
Set designer
The student prince
5. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Aristotle
Oil lamps
Irene
No no nanette
6. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Same person
The music man
The king and i
Flutes - lyres
7. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
American politics
Can-can
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
8. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Director
Leonard bernstein
Flutes - lyres
9. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
The shows they came from
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
City dionysia
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
10. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
24
Richard d'oyly carte
Mama rose
George and ira gershwin
11. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Comedy
Jule Styne
King Louis XIV
Ethel merman
12. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Director
Costume designer
The pajama game
Changing masks and costumes
13. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Rodgers and Hart
4th and 5th centuries bce
State
Ethel merman
14. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
The merry widow
Gwen verdon
St. Augustine
Music man
15. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
The mikado
Jule Styne
3 to 5
The serenade and the fortune teller
16. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Playwright
Anti-hero
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Lyricist
17. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Good news
Before common era
Borrowed tunes
18. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
The shows they came from
Gertrude lawrence
Timbuktu
Romantic
19. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
My fair lady
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Popular entertainments and comic opera
20. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
He was the producer
Lerner and Loewe
Julie Andrews
Fly loft
21. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Gypsy
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Director
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
22. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Gertrude Lawrence
Kiss me - kate
False it was stylized
Moliere
23. Who is the composer of the music man
Deus ex machina
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Timbuktu
Meredith wilson
24. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The mikado
The marx brothers
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Entertainments
25. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
No
Kiss me - Kate
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
26. What show is the song bewitched from
Harrigan and hart
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
No
Pal Joey
27. Who picks the actors?
Damn yankees
Choreographer
Director
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
28. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
Thespis
New comedy
Ballet and modern dance
29. Laurie is from What show
Carmen jones
Oklahoma
Ethel merman
Romantic
30. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Jule Styne
24
Moliere
Jule Styne
31. Annie Oakley is from What show
Annie get your gun
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Fly loft
South pacific
32. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Court nobility
Music director
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
33. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Gwen verdon
Carmen jones
Mimes
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
34. What team wrote the Sound of music
Brigadoon
Ethel merman
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Rodgers and hammerstein
35. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Eliza Doolittle
Enzio pinza
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
36. What instruments accompanied the dancing
False it was stylized
Flutes - lyres
Ballet and modern dance
Bert williams and george walker
37. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
South pacific
Costume designer
Michael Kidd
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
38. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Music man
South pacific
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Oklahoma
39. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
On your toes
Spectacle
40. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
My fair lady
Julie Andrews
The student prince
Meredith wilson
41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
South pacific
Horace
Ancient baghdad
Bernstein and Sondheim
42. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
24
Lowering
My fair lady
43. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Brigadoon
Cleverly concoted
Timbuktu
44. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Ballet and modern dance
Ethel merman
Pageant wagons and mansions
Commedia dell-arte
45. 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?
Guys and dolls
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Frank Loesser
46. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
South pacific
Changing masks and costumes
Producer
Crazy for You
47. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
The king and i
Cleverly concoted
Tragedy
48. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Official beginning of western theatre
Music man
South pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
49. Who is the star of Sally
Ray bolger
On your toes and babes in arms
The music man
Marilyn Miller
50. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Popular entertainments and comic opera
George m. cohan
George and ira gershwin
The belle of new york