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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is a 'pasticcio' score
The marx brothers
Kismet
Mama rose
Borrowed tunes
2. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Gertrude Lawrence
The shows they came from
The romantic musicals
The puritans took control of the governmetn
3. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
American politics
Set designer
Gwen verdon
Playwright
4. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
The Sound of Music
The new moon
His 'confessions'
Oil lamps
5. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Moliere
Victor herbert
The doctor of alcantara
Cole Porter
6. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
Robin hood
Jerome kern
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
7. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Pageant wagons and mansions
A trip to chinatown
Moliere
On the town
8. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Gertrude lawrence
Oil lamps
The king and i
No no nanette
9. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Someone to watch over me
Music man
Public enemy no. 13
The Sound of Music
10. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The serenade and the fortune teller
Irving Berlin
11. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Librettist
Changing masks and costumes
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
12. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
American politics
Gertrude Lawrence
John Hollingshead
Babes in arms
13. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Kiss me - Kate
Rodgers and hammerstein
Can-can
Brigadoon
14. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Flutes - lyres
Pants role or trousers role
The student prince
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
15. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
South pacific
No no nanette
Thespis
16. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Slapsticks
Plato
Rex Harrison
Cole porter
17. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Angel
Producer
Court nobility
18. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Pageant wagons and mansions
Romantic music
The metropolitan opera
Deus ex machina
19. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Guys and Dolls
20. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Oil lamps
Director
Gertrude Lawrence
Mimes
21. Who was the choreographer for carousel
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Brigadoon
Disappears
Agnes de mille
22. Laurie is from What show
Guys and Dolls
Meredith wilson
Romantic
Oklahoma
23. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
4th and 5th centuries bce
Damn yankees
Julie Andrews
Spectacle
24. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
The serenade and the fortune teller
Horace
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
25. 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?
Guys and dolls
The merry widow
Radio city music hall
Oklahoma
26. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Carmen jones
HMS pinafore
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Plato
27. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Commedia dell-arte
Ethel merman
Restoration
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
28. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
The book uncle toms cabin
Julie Andrews
Borrowed tunes
George and ira gershwin
29. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
4th and 5th centuries bce
Political satire
The marx brothers
Popular entertainments
30. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
The shows they came from
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Choreographer
Jerome kern
31. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Female roles
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Gypsy
Jerome Robbins
32. F:who took over those roles
The merry widow
Gwen verdon
Ray bolger
Professional perfomers
33. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
Once upon a mattress
Changing masks and costumes
Public enemy no. 13
34. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Ethel merman
George gershwin
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Ancient baghdad
35. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Pageant wagons and mansions
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Cole porter
Once upon a mattress
36. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Bernstein and Sondheim
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Producer
Once upon a mattress
37. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Gertrude lawrence
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Ray Bolger
38. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Enzio pinza
The book uncle toms cabin
Director
Anti-hero
39. Who stages the dances?
Marilyn Miller
Choreographer
Music man
Enzio pinza
40. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Ethel merman
Greeks
Tragedies
Good news
41. 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
Oklahoma
South pacific
Kiss me - kate
Guys and dolls
42. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Borrowed tunes
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Director
43. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Jerome robbins
Rose marie
Kiss me - Kate
A contrived ending
44. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
Oklahoma
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Disappears
45. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
New comedy
South pacific
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
The marx brothers
46. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
American politics
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
He died in 1937
Harry tierney
47. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Once upon a mattress
American politics
Oklahoma
48. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Mulligan guards routines
George gershwin
South pacific
The king and i
49. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Rex Harrison
Tragedies
The king and I
Victor herbert
50. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Aristotle
Moved indoors
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The Sound of Music