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Musical Theatre
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1. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
The mikado
Oh Kay
Radio city music hall
New comedy
2. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Ethel merman
Singin in the rain
Billy bigelow
Leonard bernstein
3. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Ethel merman
Official beginning of western theatre
Tragedy
Parodied
4. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Ray Bolger
Victor herbert
Gwen verdon
Mary Martin
5. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Can-can
Witty dialogue
Thespis
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
6. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Kurt Weill
Harrigan and hart
4th and 5th centuries bce
Gypsy
7. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Comic opera
The savoy operas
Eliza Doolittle
8. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
West side story
South pacific
Fly loft
9. F:who took over those roles
Agnes de mille
Professional perfomers
Gypsy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
10. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
New comedy
4th and 5th centuries bce
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
11. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Patriotic
Crazy for You
George and Ira Gershwin
Slapsticks
12. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Romantic music
Bob Fosse
Candide
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
13. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The belle of new york
14. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Cole porter
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
George m. cohan
South pacific
15. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Julie Andrews
Before common era
16. Where they fly things on stage
Director
Fly loft
Mimes
Yul Brenner
17. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Gertrude lawrence
Athens
Candide
Tragedies
18. G: What is BCE same as
The mikado
BC- before christ
Betty comden and adolph green
Once upon a mattress
19. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Irene
Mulligan guards routines
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Annie get your gun
20. Who is the composer for wonderful town
False it was stylized
Annie get your gun
Anything goes
Leonard bernstein
21. where did performers go
Girl crazy
Eliza Doolittle
The book
Took to the streets and traveled -
22. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
The king and i
Romantic music
Carol Channing
Producer
23. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
The belle of new york
Spectacle
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
24. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
No no nanette
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The book
Music director
25. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Mary martin
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Tragedies
Composer
26. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Mulligan guards routines
The metropolitan opera
Good news
Oh Kay
27. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Kiss me - kate
Commedia dell-arte
Restoration
Guys and dolls
28. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Someone to watch over me
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jerome robbins
No no nanette
29. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Richard rodgers
Thespis
Betty comden and adolph green
Jerome kern
30. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Disappears
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Ethel merman
The student prince
31. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
George m. cohan
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mary rodgers
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
32. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
The music man
Carmen jones
Middle ages
City dionysia
33. 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
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Kiss me - kate
4th and 5th centuries bce
34. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Threepenny opera
Plato
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Kismet
35. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Bernstein and Sondheim
Costume designer
South pacific
Julie Andrews
36. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Playwright
BC- before christ
Stephen sondheim
BC
37. G: Male actors played...
Yul Brenner
Jerome robbins
Female roles
Satyr plays
38. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Music director
Harrigan and hart
Producer
West side story
39. What instruments accompanied the dancing
New comedy
Robin hood
Flutes - lyres
Kismet
40. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
The music man
None all men
Jerome kern
Spectacle
41. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
The merry widow
Public enemy no. 13
Brigadoon
War
42. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Jule Styne
Agnes de Mille
Thespis
He died in 1937
43. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
3 to 5
Harry tierney
Athens
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
44. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
The Threepenny opera
Gertrude Lawrence
Producer
Comic opera had music and dialogue
45. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Rodgers and Hart
George and Ira Gershwin
Masks and costumes
Tragedies
46. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Jerome robbins
Agnes de mille
Witty dialogue
Oklahoma
47. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Commedia dell-arte
Agnes de mille
4th and 5th centuries bce
Once upon a mattress
48. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Lerner and Loewe
Adonis
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Restoration
49. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Can-can
Mary Martin
Jerome kern
50. What characters are in show boat
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