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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. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Agnes de mille
Professional perfomers
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
A contrived ending
2. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Once upon a mattress
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
3. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Producer
West side story
My Fair Lady
3 to 5
4. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The king and i
Fly loft
George gershwin
Director
5. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
George m. cohan
The Sound of Music
The pajama game
Cleverly concoted
6. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
He died in 1937
Romantic music
Rose marie
Gertrude Lawrence
7. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
None all men
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Someone to watch over me
8. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Stephen sondheim
Cole porter
Producer
Anti-hero
9. Mama rose is from What show
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Girl crazy
Gypsy
No no nanette
10. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Irving Berlin
Producer
The doctor of alcantara
11. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
West side story
Producer
The belle of new york
On your toes and babes in arms
12. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Flutes - lyres
Spectacle
Ray bolger
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
13. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Ethel merman
Masks and costumes
Mercenary mary
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
14. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Mary martin
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Pageant wagons and mansions
No no nanette
15. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Angel
Oscar hammerstein II
Comic opera
4th and 5th centuries bce
16. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
Mimes
He was the producer
Libretto
17. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
None all men
No no nanette
Playwright
18. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
The metropolitan opera
Ethel merman
Damn yankees
Kurt Weill
19. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Betty comden and adolph green
Flutes - lyres
The doctor of alcantara
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
20. Who is the composer of the King and I
No no nanette
Richard rodgers
South pacific
Eliza Doolittle
21. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
22. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Gypsy
Director
Rebirth
Richard rodgers
23. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
George and ira gershwin
South pacific
The Threepenny Opera
Julie Andrews
24. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Meredith wilson
Victor herbert
Ethel merman
Horace
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'
Of thee i sing
Brigadoon
Ray Bolger
Leonard Bernstein
26. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Oklahoma
Carmen jones
Gestures and poses
Oscar hammerstein
27. What character are in anything goes
Irene
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
The merry widow
Popular entertainments and comic opera
28. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Ray bolger
Anything goes
Yul Brenner
Carousel
29. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
Jule Styne
Julie Andrews
Oh Kay
30. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Guys and dolls
Took to the streets and traveled -
Voice type
31. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Rodgers and Hart
Robin hood
Can-can
Evangeline
32. What show is- tea for two
Horace
The cotton blossom
No no nanette
Cole Porter
33. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
The merry widow
Cole porter
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Rodgers and Hart
34. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Can-can
Mama rose
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
He was the producer
35. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
John Hollingshead
Betty comden and adolph green
3 to 5
36. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Timbuktu
Stand by
American politics
37. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Leonard bernstein
Romantic
Producer
The marx brothers
38. Who wrote the music for show boat
Jerome kern
Annie get your gun
The new moon
The king and i
39. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Jerome kern
Comedies
Cleverly concoted
Costume designer
40. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Spectacle
Oklahoma
Athens
Anything goes
41. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Catholic church
Oil lamps
Restoration
42. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Carol Channing
Romantic music
Romantic
My fair lady
43. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
The doctor of alcantara
South pacific
Middle ages
The Sound of Music
44. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Parodied
Ethel merman
Playwright
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
45. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Annie get your gun
Carmen jones
Librettist
American dance music
46. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Playwright
Ethel merman
Guys and Dolls
Entertainments
47. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Music director
Oklahoma
The new moon
Sally
48. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Patriotic
The savoy operas
Commedia dell-arte
Michael Kidd
49. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Crazy for You
John Hollingshead
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Candide
50. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The pajama game
Oklahoma
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931