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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who is the composer of the music man
Threepenny opera
West side story
Meredith wilson
George and ira gershwin
2. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Gertrude Lawrence
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Gypsy
The book
3. G: What is BCE same as
BC- before christ
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Flutes - lyres
Gypsy
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
A stevedore
Crazy for You
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
5. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Crazy for You
Yul Brenner
Mimes
No no nanette
6. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Tearly Roman empire
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
American politics
Pants role or trousers role
7. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Gestures and poses
The cotton blossom
Frank Loesser
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
8. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Director
Aristotle
George and Ira Gershwin
City dionysia
9. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
A trip to chinatown
No
Oklahoma
10. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
The marx brothers
Candide
Billy bigelow
Conductor
11. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
24
The king and I
Playwright
Masks and costumes
12. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Georges balanchine
Ray Bolger
Horace
Commedia dell-arte
13. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Music director
Oklahoma
King Louis XIV
My fair lady
14. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Can-can
Tragedies
Guys and dolls
Ethel merman
15. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
American dance music
Timbuktu
State
Meredith wilson
16. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Deus ex machina
BC
South pacific
My fair lady
17. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Borrowed tunes
War
Lerner and Loewe
18. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Nine
Mary Martin
No no nanette
Ray Bolger
19. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
He was the producer
Composer
Rose marie
The mikado
20. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Of thee i sing
Oscar hammerstein II
Lerner and Loewe
Guys and dolls
21. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Before common era
No
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Babes in arms
22. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ancient baghdad
Oklahoma
23. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Middle ages
He died in 1937
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Disappears
24. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Ethel merman
Mulligan guards routines
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
25. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Good news
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The student prince
Agnes de mille
26. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Lerner and Loewe
Nine
Sally
Radio city music hall
27. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
South pacific
Oscar hammerstein II
A stevedore
Victor herbert
28. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
West side story
Thespis
No no nanette
New comedy
29. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
War
Patriotic
Michael Kidd
30. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Conductor
Victor herbert
Catholic church
Sally
31. where did performers go
Jerome kern
Anything goes
Took to the streets and traveled -
Restoration
32. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Carmen jones
The mikado
My fair lady
33. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Irene
The cotton blossom
Harrigan and hart
Yul Brenner
34. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Oklahoma
Deus ex machina
George and Ira Gershwin
Lowering
35. Pal Joey was written by...
Rodgers and Hart
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The doctor of alcantara
36. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
George gershwin
Intense training
Swing
Music director
37. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Pants role or trousers role
Nine
Of thee i sing
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
38. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Flutes - lyres
Meredith wilson
Singin in the rain
Tragedies
39. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Bob Fosse
Sally
Mary Martin
40. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Michael Kidd
Mulligan guards routines
Victor herbert
George gershwin
41. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Rodgers and hammerstein
Fly loft
On your toes
Borrowed tunes
42. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Masks and costumes
Political satire
Librettist
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
43. Laurie is from What show
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Oklahoma
Carmen jones
Victor herbert
44. What team wrote the Sound of music
Gypsy
The Sound of Music
Gestures and poses
Rodgers and hammerstein
45. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Voice type
James michener
Mary rodgers
Middle ages
46. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Leonard bernstein
If i loved you
Babes in arms
The Threepenny Opera
47. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
James michener
West side story
Crazy for You
Gertrude lawrence
48. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
South pacific
Official beginning of western theatre
Timbuktu
49. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Babes in arms
Anything goes
Orchestration
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
50. What instruments accompanied the dancing
George and ira gershwin
Jule Styne
Flutes - lyres
Ray bolger