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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Lerner and Loewe
My Fair Lady
Enzio pinza
Crazy for you
2. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
The merry widow
Playwright
The savoy operas
3. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Jule Styne
Producer
Director
Lerner and Loewe
4. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Gestures and poses
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Annie get your gun
The romantic musicals
5. Who picks the actors?
Gypsy
Stand by
Annie get your gun
Director
6. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
The music man
Victor herbert
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
7. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Producer
Gypsy
Masks and costumes
Mercenary mary
8. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
He was the producer
Georges balanchine
Oklahoma
Oscar hammerstein II
9. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
Annie get your gun
Lerner and Loewe
If i loved you
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
10. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
Brigadoon
Popular dance
Horace
11. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Restoration
Mama rose
State
Meredith wilson
12. What comic duo was the show centered around
Rebirth
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Rodgers and Hart
Bert williams and george walker
13. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Cole porter
Carmen jones
Conductor
Leonard bernstein
14. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
None all men
Kiss me - kate
Oscar hammerstein
Producer
15. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Permissiveness and crazes
Catholic church
Burlesqued
Annie get your gun
16. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
BC
Meredith wilson
Gestures and poses
Professional perfomers
17. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
Masks and costumes
A contrived ending
Burlesqued
18. Bloody Mary is from What show
Rodgers and hammerstein
Carmen jones
South pacific
Ethel merman
19. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
American dance music
Jule Styne
20. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Sally
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Costume designer
21. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Court nobility
Plato
Harrigan and hart
22. 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
Witty dialogue
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Kiss me - kate
Harry tierney
23. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
The marx brothers
The Threepenny Opera
Romantic music
Music director
24. What instruments accompanied the dancing
West side story
Flutes - lyres
My Fair Lady
Kurt Weill
25. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Timbuktu
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Public enemy no. 13
Athens
26. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Crazy for you
Gypsy
None all men
27. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Kiss me - kate
Rodgers and hammerstein
Cleverly concoted
28. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Harrigan and hart
Victor herbert
The Sound of Music
Of thee i sing
29. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Oklahoma
John Hollingshead
Kismet
The Sound of Music
30. 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
His 'confessions'
John Hollingshead
Julie Andrews
Kiss me - kate
31. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
BC
Victor herbert
Satyr plays
Michael Kidd
32. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Gene kelly
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Damn yankees
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
33. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Fly loft
Gertrude Lawrence
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
34. Laurie's dream ballet
Oscar hammerstein II
Jerome kern
Oklahoma
The new moon
35. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Oil lamps
Jerome Robbins
Commedia dell-arte
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
36. What are the three types of greek plays
Composer
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Popular dance
37. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Once upon a mattress
American dance music
Girl crazy
Voice type
38. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Victor herbert
Georges balanchine
The doctor of alcantara
Ethel merman
39. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Stand by
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
40. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
A contrived ending
Once upon a mattress
Irving Berlin
41. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Ray Bolger
Kiss me - kate
His 'confessions'
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
42. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Yul Brenner
Gwen verdon
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Aristotle
43. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The desert song
Satyr plays
44. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
South pacific
Agnes de mille
Borrowed tunes
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
45. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
War
Guys and dolls
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
46. Who was the choreographer for carousel
A contrived ending
Comic opera
Agnes de mille
Gertrude Lawrence
47. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
George gershwin
The student prince
Ray bolger
Rose marie
48. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Once upon a mattress
The metropolitan opera
Comedy
Girl crazy
49. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Angel
On your toes
Ballet and modern dance
The Sound of Music
50. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Jerome Robbins
Mama rose
Librettist
Comedy