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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 storyline and the book of a musical?
Gypsy
Playwright
Voice type
Before common era
2. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Comic opera
New comedy
My fair lady
Librettist
3. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Evangeline
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Harry tierney
The new moon
4. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Nine
Tragedies
Moliere
Masks and costumes
5. Who is the composer of the King and I
Ethel merman
Restoration
Richard rodgers
Robin hood
6. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Richard d'oyly carte
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
Pageant wagons and mansions
7. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
On your toes
Victor herbert
South pacific
Producer
8. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
4th and 5th centuries bce
If i loved you
Cole Porter
Director
9. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
George and Ira Gershwin
Director
Rodgers and hammerstein
Girl crazy
10. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Lyricist
Damn yankees
Bob Fosse
Permissiveness and crazes
11. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
His 'confessions'
I got rhythm
Someone to watch over me
12. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Angel
Girl crazy
Popular entertainments
HMS pinafore
13. Who is the composer for on the town
Rodgers and hammerstein
George gershwin
Victor herbert
Leonard bernstein
14. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
King Louis XIV
3 to 5
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
15. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Mimes
Agnes de mille
The student prince
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
16. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Jerome robbins
Oh Kay
Libretto
Court nobility
17. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Kiss me - kate
Gertrude Lawrence
Commedia dell-arte
Yul Brenner
18. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Ray bolger
Jule Styne
Gertrude Lawrence
On the town
19. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Rodgers and hammerstein
The shows they came from
Commedia dell-arte
Producer
20. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Disappears
Cole Porter
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Robin hood
21. Where they fly things on stage
A trip to chinatown
Romantic
Fly loft
The serenade and the fortune teller
22. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
No no nanette
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Someone to watch over me
Lerner and Loewe
23. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Set designer
State
The king and i
Cleverly concoted
24. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Ray Bolger
Radio city music hall
Gene kelly
Kiss me - Kate
25. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Can-can
Rodgers and Hart
Jule Styne
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
26. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
On your toes and babes in arms
Adonis
Orchestration
Moved indoors
27. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Oklahoma
None all men
4th and 5th centuries bce
Stephen sondheim
28. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Oscar hammerstein
Damn yankees
Kiss me - kate
Jerome kern
29. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
The king and i
South pacific
Billy bigelow
Catholic church
30. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Oscar hammerstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
No no nanette
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
31. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
The savoy operas
Producer
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Set designer
32. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
John Hollingshead
Horace
3 to 5
Intense training
33. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Kismet
False it was stylized
Eliza Doolittle
On your toes
34. What show is- tea for two
St. Augustine
No no nanette
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
24
35. What character are in anything goes
BC- before christ
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Jerome robbins
Cleverly concoted
36. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Moliere
The Sound of Music
Agnes de mille
Producer
37. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Rodgers and hammerstein
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Oil lamps
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
38. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Thespis
Rodgers and Hart
Popular entertainments
Bert williams and george walker
39. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
HMS pinafore
The merry widow
Pants role or trousers role
Oscar hammerstein
40. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Mimes
The Sound of Music
Can-can
41. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
Bernstein and Sondheim
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Ancient baghdad
42. What was the setting for Kismet
Romantic
Ancient baghdad
Kiss me - kate
If i loved you
43. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Irene
Restoration
Ethel merman
Damn yankees
44. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Nine
Romantic music
Adonis
Producer
45. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The belle of new york
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Ethel merman
46. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
Rose marie
Thespis
No no nanette
47. Where they fly things on stage
Singin in the rain
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Fly loft
The new moon
48. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Stand by
Someone to watch over me
Took to the streets and traveled -
Permissiveness and crazes
49. G: how did they play female roles
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
George gershwin
Changing masks and costumes
50. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Can-can
Leonard bernstein
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
John Hollingshead