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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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1. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
The belle of new york
Set designer
Kurt Weill
No no nanette
2. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
Ethel merman
Bert williams and george walker
Official beginning of western theatre
3. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
No no nanette
BC
Libretto
Conductor
4. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
No no nanette
Oklahoma
Evangeline
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
5. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Composer
Anti-hero
George and Ira Gershwin
6. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
BC- before christ
Producer
Lowering
On your toes and babes in arms
7. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
Bob Fosse
My Fair Lady
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
8. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Can-can
The king and I
Agnes de mille
West side story
9. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gwen verdon
Irving Berlin
Kismet
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
10. 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
Kiss me - kate
Same person
Agnes de Mille
The student prince
11. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Agnes de mille
Anti-hero
Can-can
Lerner and Loewe
12. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Sally
Oklahoma
Jerome robbins
Meredith wilson
13. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
No no nanette
Romantic music
My fair lady
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
14. What show is 'broadway melody' from
False it was stylized
Oscar hammerstein II
Singin in the rain
Same person
15. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Good news
A stevedore
Mimes
Orchestration
16. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
The king and i
A contrived ending
Nine
17. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Harrigan and hart
Once upon a mattress
HMS pinafore
Rodgers and hammerstein
18. Who is the composer for music man
Rose marie
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Patriotic
Meredith wilson
19. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
Kiss me - Kate
Babes in arms
Richard d'oyly carte
20. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Parodied
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
No no nanette
21. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
Can-can
False it was stylized
Lowering
22. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Playwright
Moved indoors
Mercenary mary
Romantic music
23. What show is -i got rhythm
Bob Fosse
Girl crazy
Angel
Of thee i sing
24. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Angel
BC
The new moon
Can-can
25. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
John Gay
Tragedies
26. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
James michener
The book uncle toms cabin
Robin hood
Jerome kern
27. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Oscar hammerstein II
Of thee i sing
Tearly Roman empire
Marilyn Miller
28. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Frank Loesser
Anti-hero
Gwen verdon
The serenade and the fortune teller
29. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Intense training
My fair lady
Stand by
Jule Styne
30. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
A contrived ending
The Threepenny opera
New comedy
Mary rodgers
31. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
George and Ira Gershwin
No no nanette
City dionysia
Ray bolger
32. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
South pacific
Costume designer
The puritans took control of the governmetn
The metropolitan opera
33. G: What is BCE same as
Richard d'oyly carte
BC- before christ
Restoration
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
34. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
Julie Andrews
Athens
Moved indoors
35. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Mercenary mary
Middle ages
South pacific
James michener
36. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Producer
My Fair Lady
Kiss me - Kate
Gertrude Lawrence
37. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Borrowed tunes
The shows they came from
Kismet
George and ira gershwin
38. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Agnes de mille
St. Augustine
I got rhythm
John Hollingshead
39. What is Bali H'ai from
Greeks
The cotton blossom
The Threepenny Opera
South pacific
40. 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?
Mary rodgers
Tearly Roman empire
Crazy for you
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
41. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Victor herbert
Rodgers and hammerstein
Anything goes
Athens
42. Who writes the words to the songs?
Lyricist
City dionysia
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Brigadoon
43. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de mille
My fair lady
Lerner and Loewe
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
44. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Stephen sondheim
Harry tierney
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
George gershwin
45. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Commedia dell-arte
Jule Styne
46. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
John Gay
Victor herbert
Betty comden and adolph green
47. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Producer
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
48. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Agnes de mille
War
Enzio pinza
Burlesqued
49. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
James michener
The doctor of alcantara
The music man
American politics
50. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
A stevedore
Betty comden and adolph green
Richard d'oyly carte
The doctor of alcantara