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Musical Theatre
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1. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Oscar hammerstein
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
False- it was considred a romantic musical
George m. cohan
2. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
South pacific
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Court nobility
The music man
3. What show is i want to be happy
New comedy
No no nanette
Pageant wagons and mansions
Mercenary mary
4. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
My fair lady
The Threepenny Opera
Crazy for You
False- it was considred a romantic musical
5. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Billy bigelow
Court nobility
St. Augustine
A contrived ending
6. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Agnes de mille
Mama rose
War
Enzio pinza
7. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Of thee i sing
Popular entertainments
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
8. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Mimes
Oh Kay
Oscar hammerstein
False it was stylized
9. What comic duo was the show centered around
Good news
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Bert williams and george walker
Can-can
10. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Costume designer
Jule Styne
Oklahoma
King Louis XIV
11. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
State
Commedia dell-arte
Rebirth
Adonis
12. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Rex Harrison
Gene kelly
Cleverly concoted
Disappears
13. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
The merry widow
Pal Joey
George gershwin
Guys and Dolls
14. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
On your toes
The merry widow
Angel
Gene kelly
15. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Threepenny opera
Oh Kay
The merry widow
Cole Porter
16. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Agnes de mille
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Witty dialogue
17. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Leonard bernstein
Bob Fosse
Deus ex machina
Gypsy
18. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
George gershwin
Tearly Roman empire
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Of thee i sing
19. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
4th and 5th centuries bce
Julie Andrews
Once upon a mattress
Rex Harrison
20. where did performers go
Took to the streets and traveled -
On the town
Kismet
Someone to watch over me
21. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
No no nanette
Georges balanchine
Jerome kern
My fair lady
22. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Girl crazy
Cole porter
Oklahoma
Anything goes
23. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Oil lamps
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Bernstein and Sondheim
24. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Commedia dell-arte
BC
George gershwin
Nine
25. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Tragedy
Yul Brenner
American politics
The savoy operas
26. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Burlesqued
Ray Bolger
Voice type
Gertrude Lawrence
27. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Comedies
On your toes
Horace
28. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Ethel merman
East Side Story
Lerner and Loewe
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
29. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Moliere
Ray bolger
Julie Andrews
Agnes de mille
30. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The Sound of Music
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Stand by
Ethel merman
31. Who is the composer for on the town
Leonard bernstein
Music director
Agnes de mille
Rex Harrison
32. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
John Hollingshead
The mikado
Public enemy no. 13
Pants role or trousers role
33. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Good news
Rebirth
Changing masks and costumes
34. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Guys and dolls
False- it was considred a romantic musical
35. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
None all men
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The puritans took control of the governmetn
36. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
Meredith wilson
Director
Restoration
37. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Bob Fosse
Pageant wagons and mansions
Oklahoma
Ethel merman
38. Who is the composer for music man
Adonis
The doctor of alcantara
Guys and dolls
Meredith wilson
39. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George m. cohan
Plato
Meredith wilson
American dance music
40. What characters are in show boat
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41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Girl crazy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Popular dance
Comedies
42. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Tearly Roman empire
Babes in arms
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
George and ira gershwin
43. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Leonard Bernstein
Gypsy
Political satire
The merry widow
44. Lotte Lenya is from What show
West side story
War
The Threepenny Opera
South pacific
45. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments
American dance music
Stephen sondheim
Producer
46. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Nine
Frank Loesser
Brigadoon
Oscar hammerstein II
47. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Flutes - lyres
Enzio pinza
Guys and Dolls
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
48. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Kiss me - kate
Mary rodgers
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Popular entertainments
49. Who is the composer for music man
He died in 1937
Meredith wilson
Oklahoma
Costume designer
50. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Masks and costumes
Jule Styne
Anything goes
Julie Andrews
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