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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Kiss me - Kate
Angel
Rex Harrison
2. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Borrowed tunes
Gypsy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Brigadoon
3. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Radio city music hall
Timbuktu
Sally
4. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Jerome robbins
Oscar hammerstein II
Intense training
Oklahoma
5. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Gypsy
Satyr plays
Mulligan guards routines
South pacific
6. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Comedies
The music man
Mary martin
New comedy
7. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Mimes
Voice type
Ethel merman
Stand by
8. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
The cotton blossom
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
The king and I
Jerome Robbins
9. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Public enemy no. 13
He was the producer
The cotton blossom
10. Who is the composer of Can-Can
If i loved you
The serenade and the fortune teller
Gwen verdon
Cole Porter
11. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein
His 'confessions'
BC
Jerome robbins
12. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Fly loft
Harrigan and hart
Nine
Can-can
13. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
Harrigan and hart
New comedy
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
14. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Jule Styne
The king and i
South pacific
American dance music
15. Bloody Mary is from What show
Anything goes
Meredith wilson
My fair lady
South pacific
16. What was the continental
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Popular dance
Ethel merman
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
17. G: Male actors played...
Deus ex machina
Female roles
New comedy
George and ira gershwin
18. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
A stevedore
Middle ages
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Lerner and Loewe
19. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Carol Channing
The music man
Once upon a mattress
20. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
The pajama game
Spectacle
Set designer
Lowering
21. Billy Bigelow is form What show
John Gay
James michener
Mercenary mary
Carousel
22. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Aristotle
Permissiveness and crazes
Mulligan guards routines
Director
23. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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24. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Oklahoma
Masks and costumes
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
New comedy
25. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
If i loved you
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Libretto
26. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Popular entertainments
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Tragedies
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
27. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Carmen jones
Jerome Robbins
Tragedies
The book uncle toms cabin
28. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
The king and i
He died in 1937
Gypsy
Plato
29. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
The Sound of Music
Ethel merman
Music director
Director
30. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Pants role or trousers role
Annie get your gun
George gershwin
The king and i
31. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Victor herbert
Georges balanchine
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
32. Who wrote the music for show boat
Carmen jones
Georges balanchine
Bert williams and george walker
Jerome kern
33. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
South pacific
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Michael Kidd
American politics
34. Commedia performers used...
Mulligan guards routines
Eliza Doolittle
Conductor
Slapsticks
35. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Libretto
George and ira gershwin
Took to the streets and traveled -
Greeks
36. Laurie's dream ballet
Burlesqued
Oklahoma
Meredith wilson
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
37. What was Oh Kays most famous song
His 'confessions'
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Someone to watch over me
Lerner and Loewe
38. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Slapsticks
New comedy
Greeks
The merry widow
39. Pal Joey was written by...
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Rodgers and Hart
War
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
40. Who is the star of sweet charity
The cotton blossom
Gwen verdon
Leonard bernstein
The serenade and the fortune teller
41. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
South pacific
Changing masks and costumes
Gertrude Lawrence
42. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
St. Augustine
Gypsy
George m. cohan
Rex Harrison
43. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Girl crazy
My fair lady
44. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Playwright
Leonard bernstein
The Sound of Music
Lerner and Loewe
45. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
24
The student prince
The Sound of Music
46. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
No no nanette
Lowering
On your toes
Playwright
47. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
The merry widow
Adonis
He died in 1937
Meredith wilson
48. What show is -i got rhythm
The merry widow
Girl crazy
The marx brothers
Irene
49. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Music director
Producer
Meredith wilson
Orchestration
50. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
Mary Martin
Good news
Plato