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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 the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Annie get your gun
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
2. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
The king and i
Guys and dolls
Of thee i sing
Playwright
3. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Guys and dolls
Jule Styne
Agnes de mille
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
4. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
South pacific
The merry widow
Irene
Damn yankees
5. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Choreographer
Evangeline
Jerome robbins
Gestures and poses
6. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Aristotle
Permissiveness and crazes
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
7. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Gwen verdon
His 'confessions'
Frank Loesser
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
8. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Burlesqued
Meredith wilson
The merry widow
South pacific
9. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Crazy for you
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Gypsy
Librettist
10. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Commedia dell-arte
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Same person
11. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Cleverly concoted
Timbuktu
Jerome Robbins
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
12. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Entertainments
Threepenny opera
Singin in the rain
13. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Libretto
Costume designer
My fair lady
Richard d'oyly carte
14. Who made in dahomey unique
Gertrude lawrence
A contrived ending
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Comic opera
15. What show is- tea for two
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Ethel merman
No no nanette
16. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Cole porter
Jerome kern
Of thee i sing
Eliza Doolittle
17. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Comic opera
Director
Annie get your gun
New comedy
18. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Director
Mimes
A trip to chinatown
Oil lamps
19. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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20. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Burlesqued
The pajama game
Billy bigelow
21. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Ethel merman
Guys and Dolls
Mimes
The desert song
22. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Brigadoon
Oklahoma
Annie get your gun
Court nobility
23. Commedia performers used...
BC- before christ
Music director
The new moon
Slapsticks
24. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Commedia dell-arte
New comedy
Professional perfomers
Gertrude Lawrence
25. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Ethel merman
South pacific
A trip to chinatown
26. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Rose marie
Gertrude Lawrence
Producer
Nine
27. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Carmen jones
No no nanette
Catholic church
The Threepenny Opera
28. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Lerner and Loewe
Radio city music hall
Brigadoon
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
29. What character are in anything goes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Babes in arms
Marilyn Miller
Voice type
30. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Michael Kidd
Intense training
Director
American dance music
31. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
George gershwin
Irene
Rose marie
Gestures and poses
32. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Greeks
Parodied
South pacific
Thespis
33. 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?
The belle of new york
Guys and dolls
Moliere
The king and I
34. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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35. Pal Joey was written by...
3 to 5
Harry tierney
Rodgers and Hart
He was the producer
36. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
If i loved you
Singin in the rain
The doctor of alcantara
A contrived ending
37. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Before common era
Bob Fosse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Deus ex machina
38. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
State
Restoration
Gwen verdon
Richard rodgers
39. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The Sound of Music
None all men
The mikado
40. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Ancient baghdad
Gwen verdon
Oil lamps
Music director
41. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Popular dance
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Commedia dell-arte
Rose marie
42. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Babes in arms
My fair lady
Nine
Mary martin
43. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
George and Ira Gershwin
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Tragedy
44. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Moliere
Leonard bernstein
Guys and Dolls
Conductor
45. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
The book uncle toms cabin
Meredith wilson
Jerome kern
None all men
46. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
George m. cohan
Radio city music hall
Oscar hammerstein
Gene kelly
47. Bloody Mary is from What show
Damn yankees
The belle of new york
South pacific
Agnes de mille
48. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Julie Andrews
Witty dialogue
The marx brothers
Female roles
49. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
South pacific
Official beginning of western theatre
Voice type
Jerome kern
50. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Once upon a mattress
Rose marie
The Threepenny opera
Parodied