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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
24
West side story
Anything goes
2. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Leonard Bernstein
Producer
George m. cohan
24
3. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Permissiveness and crazes
The book
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Director
4. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
A stevedore
Anti-hero
5. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Good news
South pacific
Music director
Voice type
6. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Gertrude Lawrence
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
The merry widow
Lerner and Loewe
7. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
South pacific
The Threepenny Opera
24
Comic opera
8. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
George and ira gershwin
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Adonis
Frank Loesser
9. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Meredith wilson
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Victor herbert
Billy bigelow
10. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Cole porter
Stephen Sondheim
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
False it was stylized
11. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Anything goes
Before common era
12. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Victor herbert
The desert song
Frank Loesser
13. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
My fair lady
The Threepenny opera
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
14. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Richard d'oyly carte
Thespis
Mercenary mary
Masks and costumes
15. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Ray Bolger
Jule Styne
George gershwin
Producer
16. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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18. 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
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Rose marie
Julie Andrews
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
19. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
South pacific
Carousel
Producer
20. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Cleverly concoted
City dionysia
None all men
St. Augustine
21. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Kiss me - kate
Good news
Orchestration
Anything goes
22. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Carousel
Mulligan guards routines
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
On the town
23. where did performers go
Robin hood
Took to the streets and traveled -
Harry tierney
No no nanette
24. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
Music director
Composer
Witty dialogue
25. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Radio city music hall
Carol Channing
Gwen verdon
Anti-hero
26. G: Male actors played...
Kiss me - kate
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Female roles
Producer
27. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
Billy bigelow
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
The music man
28. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Gypsy
Jule Styne
Mercenary mary
His 'confessions'
29. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Meredith wilson
Oil lamps
Crazy for you
Can-can
30. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
BC- before christ
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Masks and costumes
Victor herbert
31. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Brigadoon
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Athens
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
32. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Rodgers and Hart
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The shows they came from
Leonard Bernstein
33. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Once upon a mattress
Michael Kidd
Stephen Sondheim
The Threepenny opera
34. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Restoration
Oh Kay
War
American dance music
35. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Cole porter
Moliere
Victor herbert
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
36. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Oscar hammerstein
Radio city music hall
South pacific
George gershwin
37. What character are in anything goes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Producer
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Agnes de mille
38. Who is the star of sweet charity
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Julie Andrews
Gwen verdon
Stand by
39. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
George m. cohan
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Borrowed tunes
40. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Commedia dell-arte
Director
The pajama game
Romantic
41. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Rodgers and hammerstein
Irving Berlin
Flutes - lyres
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
42. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
The belle of new york
Eliza Doolittle
My fair lady
Ethel merman
43. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
George and Ira Gershwin
West side story
Jule Styne
44. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
The music man
On your toes
Spectacle
Marilyn Miller
45. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
Flutes - lyres
King Louis XIV
The student prince
46. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Anti-hero
Damn yankees
Carol Channing
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
47. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Tragedies
No no nanette
Moliere
The belle of new york
48. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Kurt Weill
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
James michener
Set designer
49. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Radio city music hall
Costume designer
3 to 5
On your toes and babes in arms
50. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Meredith wilson
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Ethel merman
Stephen Sondheim