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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. Who writes the words to the songs?
Lyricist
Flutes - lyres
George and Ira Gershwin
Popular entertainments
2. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Cleverly concoted
Stand by
Someone to watch over me
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
3. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Tragedies
Kismet
West side story
George gershwin
4. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Director
Rodgers and hammerstein
The shows they came from
George and ira gershwin
5. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Slapsticks
The metropolitan opera
Annie get your gun
Once upon a mattress
6. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Angel
The marx brothers
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
7. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
Bert williams and george walker
Popular entertainments
The cotton blossom
8. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Music man
Agnes de mille
West side story
The student prince
9. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
Conductor
Girl crazy
Harrigan and hart
10. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Julie Andrews
Oscar hammerstein
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Jerome kern
11. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Choreographer
Thespis
The student prince
12. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Michael Kidd
Cole porter
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Director
13. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Conductor
Greeks
Kiss me - kate
Voice type
14. 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?
Gene kelly
Guys and dolls
False it was stylized
None all men
15. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
The marx brothers
The student prince
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Spectacle
16. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
The Sound of Music
Ethel merman
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Court nobility
17. G: Greek actors had...
Intense training
Carol Channing
Enzio pinza
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
18. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Jerome Robbins
South pacific
Candide
19. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Entertainments
Rebirth
Moliere
20. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Crazy for you
Greeks
Pants role or trousers role
Pants role or trousers role
21. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Guys and Dolls
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Flutes - lyres
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
22. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Girl crazy
Mama rose
On the town
23. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Director
Gertrude lawrence
Meredith wilson
24. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Greeks
Music man
Producer
Jerome Robbins
25. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
Mimes
Guys and dolls
If i loved you
Playwright
26. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
The book
Comic opera had music and dialogue
New comedy
Agnes de mille
27. 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'
Anything goes
Mama rose
Annie get your gun
Comedies
28. 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'
Kismet
Brigadoon
Greeks
City dionysia
29. Who picks the actors?
BC- before christ
Threepenny opera
The belle of new york
Director
30. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Swing
No no nanette
The cotton blossom
John Hollingshead
31. 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
Kiss me - kate
The king and i
His 'confessions'
32. Mama rose is from What show
Gypsy
Popular dance
Of thee i sing
Producer
33. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
The shows they came from
Thespis
Gestures and poses
Mary martin
34. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
On your toes
Moliere
Victor herbert
Librettist
35. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Public enemy no. 13
The serenade and the fortune teller
No
Bob Fosse
36. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Took to the streets and traveled -
Producer
Agnes de mille
The king and i
37. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de Mille
Masks and costumes
Carousel
No
38. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Moved indoors
The student prince
Timbuktu
Kismet
39. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Meredith wilson
On your toes
Producer
40. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Producer
Ballet and modern dance
Jule Styne
South pacific
41. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
South pacific
George gershwin
Jerome kern
Political satire
42. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
American dance music
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Lerner and Loewe
I got rhythm
43. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Once upon a mattress
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Timbuktu
Harrigan and hart
44. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
Voice type
Billy bigelow
American politics
45. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Harrigan and hart
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The merry widow
46. Who is the composer of the King and I
No
Jerome kern
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Richard rodgers
47. Who is the composer for on the town
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Leonard bernstein
The Sound of Music
The Threepenny opera
48. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
Flutes - lyres
Playwright
Court nobility
49. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Gwen verdon
No no nanette
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
The serenade and the fortune teller
50. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Irene
Kiss me - Kate
Robin hood
Permissiveness and crazes