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Musical Theatre
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1. Pal Joey was written by...
Playwright
Rodgers and Hart
The belle of new york
My fair lady
2. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Agnes de mille
No no nanette
Middle ages
3. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
New comedy
Threepenny opera
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
George and ira gershwin
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Voice type
Richard rodgers
No
5. 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?
City dionysia
Leonard bernstein
Guys and dolls
Richard rodgers
6. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Mercenary mary
Adonis
The student prince
No
7. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Took to the streets and traveled -
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Carmen jones
The king and i
8. What was the original name of West Side Story
East Side Story
The romantic musicals
Jerome kern
Comic opera
9. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
Oscar hammerstein
Of thee i sing
Public enemy no. 13
10. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Restoration
Bob Fosse
Horace
South pacific
11. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Ballet and modern dance
Timbuktu
12. Billy Bigelow is form What show
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Anything goes
Oklahoma
Carousel
13. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Meredith wilson
Lerner and Loewe
Commedia dell-arte
My fair lady
14. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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15. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Changing masks and costumes
Oscar hammerstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
BC- before christ
16. G: Male actors played...
Female roles
Tearly Roman empire
Gwen verdon
On your toes and babes in arms
17. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Kiss me - kate
Can-can
Ballet and modern dance
Playwright
18. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
The romantic musicals
Jerome robbins
Thespis
Witty dialogue
19. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Georges balanchine
Gypsy
Gypsy
20. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Crazy for you
Masks and costumes
4th and 5th centuries bce
HMS pinafore
21. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
No no nanette
Cole Porter
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Betty comden and adolph green
22. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
My fair lady
Before common era
Plato
George and ira gershwin
23. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
My fair lady
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Babes in arms
24. Who wrote the music for show boat
I got rhythm
Political satire
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Jerome kern
25. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Yul Brenner
Timbuktu
Thespis
26. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Producer
Victor herbert
27. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Producer
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
28. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Cole Porter
The Sound of Music
Mary martin
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
29. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Borrowed tunes
George gershwin
Evangeline
South pacific
30. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
State
Moliere
Professional perfomers
31. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
Can-can
Damn yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
32. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Victor herbert
American dance music
Agnes de mille
Enzio pinza
33. Pal Joey was written by...
Gertrude Lawrence
Rodgers and hammerstein
Director
Rodgers and Hart
34. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Victor herbert
Brigadoon
Moved indoors
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
35. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
The student prince
Slapsticks
Oscar hammerstein
Meredith wilson
36. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Harry tierney
Agnes de mille
Producer
The pajama game
37. What is Bali H'ai from
He died in 1937
Frank Loesser
South pacific
Kiss me - Kate
38. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Female roles
Satyr plays
Costume designer
Parodied
39. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
Once upon a mattress
The Sound of Music
The cotton blossom
40. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Swing
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Oh Kay
Director
41. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Julie Andrews
Radio city music hall
The cotton blossom
Richard d'oyly carte
42. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Adonis
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Commedia dell-arte
43. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Librettist
Conductor
4th and 5th centuries bce
George m. cohan
44. Who picks the actors?
Oscar hammerstein II
Cole porter
Director
Nine
45. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
Director
Michael Kidd
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
46. Who stages the dances?
The savoy operas
The new moon
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Choreographer
47. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
The book uncle toms cabin
Once upon a mattress
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Choreographer
48. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Popular entertainments
Popular entertainments
Jerome Robbins
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
49. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
Witty dialogue
A stevedore
George gershwin
50. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
The new moon
George gershwin
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Popular entertainments and comic opera
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