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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Moliere
Agnes de mille
Music director
South pacific
2. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Moliere
Stephen Sondheim
4th and 5th centuries bce
East Side Story
3. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Comedies
The music man
Cole Porter
Lerner and Loewe
4. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
The merry widow
Jerome Robbins
Disappears
State
5. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Romantic
Harry tierney
Patriotic
Babes in arms
6. What show is i want to be happy
No no nanette
My fair lady
Rex Harrison
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
7. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
His 'confessions'
No no nanette
Kismet
8. Pal Joey was written by...
Damn yankees
Director
New comedy
Rodgers and Hart
9. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
John Hollingshead
Good news
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
10. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
State
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Julie Andrews
Official beginning of western theatre
11. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
The book uncle toms cabin
Ancient baghdad
No no nanette
Catholic church
12. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Evangeline
George gershwin
George and ira gershwin
Mary Martin
13. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Ballet and modern dance
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
The king and i
Leonard bernstein
14. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Lyricist
None all men
Yul Brenner
Female roles
15. Who is the star of Sally
Marilyn Miller
Official beginning of western theatre
Gypsy
Kurt Weill
16. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Before common era
Lowering
Enzio pinza
Flutes - lyres
17. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Can-can
BC- before christ
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The doctor of alcantara
18. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Robin hood
King Louis XIV
Tragedies
On your toes
19. What show is i want to be happy
No no nanette
Librettist
Eliza Doolittle
The Sound of Music
20. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The king and I
Crazy for you
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
21. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Ray bolger
Rex Harrison
Costume designer
22. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
Agnes de Mille
Director
Before common era
23. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Costume designer
New comedy
Stephen Sondheim
Middle ages
24. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Victor herbert
Agnes de Mille
On your toes and babes in arms
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
25. Who made in dahomey unique
I got rhythm
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Permissiveness and crazes
Intense training
26. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
The music man
He was the producer
Jerome robbins
The mikado
27. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
HMS pinafore
Leonard bernstein
The Sound of Music
Librettist
28. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
The savoy operas
Ethel merman
Tragedy
Candide
29. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Tragedies
Gene kelly
My fair lady
Mary rodgers
30. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
South pacific
George and ira gershwin
My fair lady
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
31. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Billy bigelow
Enzio pinza
My fair lady
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
32. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Rose marie
The merry widow
Lowering
Professional perfomers
33. Lotte Lenya is from What show
On your toes and babes in arms
Comedy
Singin in the rain
The Threepenny Opera
34. F:who took over those roles
Threepenny opera
Lowering
Spectacle
Professional perfomers
35. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Moliere
King Louis XIV
Damn yankees
The Threepenny opera
36. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Babes in arms
I got rhythm
Babes in arms
Michael Kidd
37. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Angel
The Threepenny Opera
Oscar hammerstein
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
38. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Annie get your gun
Once upon a mattress
He died in 1937
39. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
Burlesqued
Rodgers and hammerstein
Permissiveness and crazes
40. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Brigadoon
Meredith wilson
Romantic music
King Louis XIV
41. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Masks and costumes
The marx brothers
A contrived ending
Oklahoma
42. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Mimes
The new moon
Threepenny opera
Julie Andrews
43. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Girl crazy
Costume designer
Popular entertainments
44. 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'
City dionysia
Brigadoon
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Someone to watch over me
45. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
George m. cohan
Can-can
George gershwin
The mikado
46. G: Greek actors had...
Fly loft
Intense training
Cole porter
None all men
47. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
On your toes
Borrowed tunes
The desert song
48. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Ethel merman
Agnes de mille
Annie get your gun
Permissiveness and crazes
49. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Bernstein and Sondheim
Rex Harrison
The new moon
I got rhythm
50. What show is -the continental
The king and i
Ethel merman
Mercenary mary
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner