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Musical Theatre

Subjects : performing-arts, music
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate






2. What was the 1927 musical about college life






3. Who is the composer for on the town






4. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people






5. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun






6. where did performers go






7. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I






8. __________ presents men worse than they are...






9. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?






10. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character






11. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain






12. 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






13. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette






14. What show is i want to be happy






15. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london






16. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'






17. G: The chorus usually had _____ members






18. Billy Bigelow is form What show






19. Who writes the words to the songs?






20. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes






21. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?






22. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera






23. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story






24. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?






25. Who is the composer for music man






26. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom






27. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today






28. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon






29. What show is -love is sweeping the country






30. What was the setting for Kismet






31. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy






32. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...

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33. What character are in anything goes






34. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers






35. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period






36. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'






37. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man






38. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?






39. What show is 'broadway melody' from






40. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess






41. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?






42. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters






43. What claim to fame does babes in arms have






44. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show






45. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?






46. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom






47. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'






48. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town






49. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?






50. 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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