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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Babes in arms
Same person
The metropolitan opera
Bernstein and Sondheim
2. 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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3. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
American politics
Rebirth
Cleverly concoted
Producer
4. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
The Sound of Music
Michael Kidd
Music man
Borrowed tunes
5. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
No
Annie get your gun
The Threepenny Opera
Irving Berlin
6. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
A trip to chinatown
George m. cohan
Cole porter
South pacific
7. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Political satire
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
8. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
Pants role or trousers role
Mercenary mary
State
9. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Leonard bernstein
On the town
Good news
Rodgers and Hart
10. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
American politics
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Meredith wilson
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
11. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
The merry widow
Stephen sondheim
The cotton blossom
The music man
12. What was a 'claquer?'
Costume designer
Ballet and modern dance
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Leonard bernstein
13. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Director
Playwright
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
14. What was the original name of West Side Story
Spectacle
Official beginning of western theatre
Moved indoors
East Side Story
15. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Timbuktu
Can-can
George m. cohan
Annie get your gun
16. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Set designer
Music man
Libretto
The romantic musicals
17. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Gertrude Lawrence
Horace
Romantic
John Hollingshead
18. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Commedia dell-arte
Oklahoma
Billy bigelow
Cleverly concoted
19. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Victor herbert
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Tragedies
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
20. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
The king and i
My Fair Lady
Female roles
Disappears
21. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Music director
The king and I
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
22. Pal Joey was written by...
Rodgers and Hart
Agnes de Mille
South pacific
Choreographer
23. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Kismet
Fly loft
4th and 5th centuries bce
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
24. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Kiss me - kate
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Producer
The merry widow
25. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Richard d'oyly carte
Gwen verdon
Sally
Michael Kidd
26. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
St. Augustine
Conductor
South pacific
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
27. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Set designer
Can-can
Oscar hammerstein
Anything goes
28. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
A trip to chinatown
Parodied
Meredith wilson
Voice type
29. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Oscar hammerstein II
Kiss me - kate
Victor herbert
Gypsy
30. Who made in dahomey unique
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Mulligan guards routines
Deus ex machina
31. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Annie get your gun
Comedies
Flutes - lyres
Romantic music
32. Greek: 534 BCE
Radio city music hall
Julie Andrews
My Fair Lady
Official beginning of western theatre
33. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Of thee i sing
Once upon a mattress
The book uncle toms cabin
South pacific
34. Who is the composer for music man
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Mama rose
Meredith wilson
Julie Andrews
35. What was the continental
Popular dance
Girl crazy
No no nanette
Timbuktu
36. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Political satire
Lowering
A contrived ending
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
37. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Permissiveness and crazes
South pacific
38. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
George gershwin
A trip to chinatown
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Commedia dell-arte
39. What is Bali H'ai from
His 'confessions'
South pacific
Romantic music
Meredith wilson
40. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Masks and costumes
Female roles
The Sound of Music
Spectacle
41. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Moved indoors
Ancient baghdad
Betty comden and adolph green
42. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Guys and dolls
The Sound of Music
Same person
Aristotle
43. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Georges balanchine
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Director
Producer
44. What was the setting for Kismet
Swing
The doctor of alcantara
Ancient baghdad
Oklahoma
45. Who is the star of Sally
Julie Andrews
King Louis XIV
Marilyn Miller
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
46. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
Political satire
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Jule Styne
47. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
John Hollingshead
Rodgers and hammerstein
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
48. What show is i want to be happy
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Someone to watch over me
No no nanette
A trip to chinatown
49. G: What does BCE mean?
Orchestration
Before common era
Carol Channing
BC- before christ
50. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Brigadoon
Professional perfomers
The Threepenny Opera
Frank Loesser