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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. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Babes in arms
Bernstein and Sondheim
Michael Kidd
Annie get your gun
2. Where they fly things on stage
Playwright
Took to the streets and traveled -
Fly loft
Mary Martin
3. What does 'renaissance' mean
War
Restoration
Rebirth
Leonard Bernstein
4. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Director
St. Augustine
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The doctor of alcantara
5. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Flutes - lyres
On your toes
Entertainments
Mary martin
6. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Athens
Athens
Stephen sondheim
Gertrude Lawrence
7. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Cole porter
A trip to chinatown
Commedia dell-arte
King Louis XIV
8. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
South pacific
Stand by
East Side Story
9. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
On your toes and babes in arms
King Louis XIV
Aristotle
Jerome Robbins
10. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
Stephen sondheim
Mary martin
Meredith wilson
11. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Ethel merman
Oklahoma
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Producer
12. G: Male actors played...
Female roles
Disappears
New comedy
Crazy for you
13. 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
Crazy for You
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Kiss me - kate
Mary martin
14. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On the town
Gertrude lawrence
Satyr plays
Mulligan guards routines
15. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Harry tierney
George m. cohan
Ancient baghdad
Stephen sondheim
16. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Nine
Kiss me - kate
Costume designer
Lyricist
17. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
South pacific
George m. cohan
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
18. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Gwen verdon
Same person
Plato
Rodgers and hammerstein
19. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Pants role or trousers role
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Lerner and Loewe
Orchestration
20. Pal Joey was written by...
Rodgers and Hart
Rex Harrison
Greeks
Adonis
21. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Ethel merman
Ethel merman
Mimes
Damn yankees
22. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Lerner and Loewe
Harrigan and hart
Kismet
Robin hood
23. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Gene kelly
Thespis
Jerome robbins
South pacific
24. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Director
Carol Channing
Agnes de Mille
King Louis XIV
25. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Oscar hammerstein II
The book uncle toms cabin
HMS pinafore
26. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Jerome Robbins
Director
Disappears
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
27. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
The mikado
The book uncle toms cabin
South pacific
28. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Gwen verdon
Julie Andrews
War
29. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
On your toes and babes in arms
Restoration
Nine
No
30. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
His 'confessions'
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Robin hood
Adonis
31. What comic duo was the show centered around
Slapsticks
Comedy
Bert williams and george walker
Fly loft
32. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Lowering
Producer
Bob Fosse
Borrowed tunes
33. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Gene kelly
Cole Porter
Meredith wilson
Oscar hammerstein II
34. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
American dance music
Gertrude Lawrence
Can-can
Mercenary mary
35. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
The merry widow
Gwen verdon
Ancient baghdad
Jule Styne
36. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
The merry widow
Carmen jones
On the town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
37. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
West side story
Adonis
Jerome kern
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
38. Laurie's dream ballet
The savoy operas
Oklahoma
On your toes and babes in arms
Director
39. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
A stevedore
South pacific
Producer
Ethel merman
40. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Flutes - lyres
BC- before christ
Meredith wilson
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
41. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Adonis
Romantic music
Gypsy
Oil lamps
42. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Carousel
Cleverly concoted
None all men
Catholic church
43. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Gene kelly
Court nobility
Rodgers and hammerstein
The music man
44. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
The book
False it was stylized
My Fair Lady
Rebirth
45. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Babes in arms
Meredith wilson
Gwen verdon
A stevedore
46. What characters are in show boat
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47. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Agnes de mille
Mary Martin
John Gay
Restoration
48. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments
Comic opera
Lerner and Loewe
Julie Andrews
49. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
A contrived ending
Patriotic
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
50. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Oklahoma
Good news
The marx brothers
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus