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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Restoration
Gwen verdon
He died in 1937
2. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Julie Andrews
King Louis XIV
3. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Once upon a mattress
A contrived ending
East Side Story
Lerner and Loewe
4. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Gertrude lawrence
Mary rodgers
Composer
He was the producer
5. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Candide
South pacific
Political satire
6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Rodgers and hammerstein
Mulligan guards routines
Ethel merman
7. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
South pacific
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Of thee i sing
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
8. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
Billy bigelow
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
The mikado
9. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
The cotton blossom
Frank Loesser
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Oil lamps
10. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Producer
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Stephen Sondheim
Permissiveness and crazes
11. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Comedies
Same person
Can-can
George gershwin
12. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
West side story
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Ray bolger
Of thee i sing
13. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
George and Ira Gershwin
Parodied
14. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Singin in the rain
No no nanette
The romantic musicals
The Threepenny opera
15. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Michael Kidd
Director
Kiss me - Kate
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
16. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Cole Porter
The Sound of Music
Evangeline
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
17. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
Kiss me - kate
Romantic music
Julie Andrews
18. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
The Sound of Music
Librettist
Threepenny opera
American dance music
19. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
A trip to chinatown
The music man
Of thee i sing
Gypsy
20. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Ray bolger
Rodgers and hammerstein
Agnes de mille
21. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Mary martin
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Nine
My Fair Lady
22. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
A contrived ending
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Comedies
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
23. Where they fly things on stage
Fly loft
West side story
Can-can
Music director
24. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mary martin
Can-can
South pacific
25. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Political satire
Leonard Bernstein
Cleverly concoted
26. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
A stevedore
Victor herbert
Female roles
Masks and costumes
27. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
The mikado
Public enemy no. 13
Kiss me - kate
28. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Intense training
Parodied
Gertrude Lawrence
Producer
29. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Can-can
State
Leonard Bernstein
Rodgers and hammerstein
30. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Plato
Producer
A trip to chinatown
Kismet
31. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Thespis
Nine
Gypsy
Greeks
32. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Gwen verdon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Jerome Robbins
Kismet
33. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
On the town
Producer
34. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
The serenade and the fortune teller
Victor herbert
Gwen verdon
Director
35. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
Ray bolger
A stevedore
City dionysia
36. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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37. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Tearly Roman empire
No no nanette
Ethel merman
38. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Julie Andrews
Annie get your gun
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
John Gay
39. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Spectacle
Commedia dell-arte
State
Athens
40. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Rodgers and Hart
Adonis
Sally
Michael Kidd
41. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Frank Loesser
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Anti-hero
Comedy
42. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Good news
Producer
Aristotle
Crazy for you
43. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
Kiss me - kate
Annie get your gun
Guys and Dolls
44. where did performers go
East Side Story
Took to the streets and traveled -
Horace
Rebirth
45. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
No no nanette
Oh Kay
Mercenary mary
No no nanette
46. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Mimes
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Lerner and Loewe
47. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Set designer
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Victor herbert
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
48. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Crazy for you
The king and i
Jerome robbins
Meredith wilson
49. Who wrote the music for show boat
The new moon
Director
Jerome kern
Mulligan guards routines
50. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
South pacific
Richard rodgers
Timbuktu
Greeks