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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. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Marilyn Miller
Richard rodgers
The book
Lerner and Loewe
2. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
The book
Comic opera
Ethel merman
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
3. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Satyr plays
Michael Kidd
BC
I got rhythm
4. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Once upon a mattress
Agnes de mille
John Gay
Romantic
5. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Julie Andrews
Harry tierney
6. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
Gertrude Lawrence
Kismet
John Gay
7. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Producer
Mercenary mary
Ray bolger
Ethel merman
8. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Costume designer
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Producer
9. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Carmen jones
Pageant wagons and mansions
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Spectacle
10. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Comedy
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Richard d'oyly carte
Librettist
11. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Intense training
Carol Channing
Gwen verdon
12. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
The Threepenny opera
Music director
Popular dance
13. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de Mille
Fly loft
He was the producer
The book
14. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Crazy for You
Mary Martin
HMS pinafore
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
15. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Burlesqued
Mama rose
He died in 1937
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
16. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Gwen verdon
A contrived ending
Flutes - lyres
Michael Kidd
17. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
Timbuktu
Bert williams and george walker
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
18. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
Producer
Ethel merman
Playwright
19. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Oklahoma
St. Augustine
20. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
No no nanette
Pal Joey
Swing
Director
21. What show is- tea for two
No no nanette
Anti-hero
Rebirth
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
22. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
Greeks
The king and i
Evangeline
23. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Catholic church
On your toes and babes in arms
He died in 1937
Of thee i sing
24. What show is i want to be happy
No no nanette
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ray bolger
My Fair Lady
25. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
On your toes and babes in arms
Satyr plays
Annie get your gun
Threepenny opera
26. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Ray bolger
Set designer
The new moon
Agnes de mille
27. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
My fair lady
Tragedy
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
28. What show is the song bewitched from
The Sound of Music
Pal Joey
My fair lady
No
29. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Rodgers and hammerstein
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
The serenade and the fortune teller
30. What show is -the continental
East Side Story
Mercenary mary
The Threepenny Opera
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
31. What show is -the continental
The savoy operas
Mercenary mary
Spectacle
Threepenny opera
32. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Cole Porter
Irving Berlin
Comedy
New comedy
33. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Rebirth
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Agnes de mille
Same person
34. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Playwright
Crazy for you
Director
Plato
35. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Mary rodgers
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Permissiveness and crazes
36. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Victor herbert
Nine
Slapsticks
Producer
37. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
The Sound of Music
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Jerome Robbins
Restoration
38. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Brigadoon
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Burlesqued
39. Who made in dahomey unique
Jerome robbins
He was the producer
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Billy bigelow
40. Who was the choreographer for carousel
The king and i
Bernstein and Sondheim
Agnes de mille
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
41. What is Bali H'ai from
Agnes de Mille
South pacific
The book uncle toms cabin
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
42. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Gwen verdon
Music director
Pants role or trousers role
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
43. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Threepenny opera
Rebirth
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Carmen jones
44. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Agnes de mille
The belle of new york
The metropolitan opera
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
45. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mimes
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
George gershwin
Jerome kern
46. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Professional perfomers
Lowering
I got rhythm
The metropolitan opera
47. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Richard rodgers
Leonard bernstein
Stand by
King Louis XIV
48. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Mary Martin
Sally
New comedy
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
49. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Orchestration
Richard d'oyly carte
West side story
Agnes de Mille
50. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Stand by
Kurt Weill
Candide
Director