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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Gertrude lawrence
Annie get your gun
Aristotle
Ethel merman
2. Who is the composer of Candide
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
A trip to chinatown
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Leonard bernstein
3. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Agnes de Mille
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
My fair lady
South pacific
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Gypsy
Of thee i sing
Director
5. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Kiss me - kate
South pacific
Burlesqued
6. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Lowering
East Side Story
Librettist
Popular entertainments and comic opera
7. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Crazy for you
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Carousel
8. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Leonard bernstein
Leonard bernstein
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Victor herbert
9. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Girl crazy
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
West side story
The marx brothers
10. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
Horace
Georges balanchine
Lowering
11. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Director
On your toes
Libretto
Bob Fosse
12. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
No
Pants role or trousers role
Lyricist
13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Bert williams and george walker
Libretto
The mikado
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
14. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Stephen sondheim
Jule Styne
Ethel merman
15. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Libretto
Agnes de mille
Flutes - lyres
16. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Tragedies
Meredith wilson
Oscar hammerstein
Voice type
17. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
24
George and Ira Gershwin
Bert williams and george walker
18. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
The king and I
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
19. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Sally
Can-can
Spectacle
24
20. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Someone to watch over me
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Mary martin
Oil lamps
21. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
His 'confessions'
Someone to watch over me
Ethel merman
Georges balanchine
22. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Gestures and poses
Entertainments
Oh Kay
Good news
23. F:who took over those roles
Professional perfomers
Sally
Director
Once upon a mattress
24. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
On your toes
Middle ages
Julie Andrews
Yul Brenner
25. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Julie Andrews
Lerner and Loewe
American politics
Librettist
26. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Crazy for you
Evangeline
Oil lamps
Can-can
27. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Kurt Weill
Agnes de Mille
Aristotle
Carol Channing
28. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
Of thee i sing
4th and 5th centuries bce
West side story
Bernstein and Sondheim
29. Greek: 534 BCE
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The new moon
Can-can
Official beginning of western theatre
30. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
George and Ira Gershwin
The new moon
A contrived ending
Slapsticks
31. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
Lerner and Loewe
Bernstein and Sondheim
The book
32. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Libretto
War
The Sound of Music
Flutes - lyres
33. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Deus ex machina
Oil lamps
Female roles
34. What show is -the continental
Victor herbert
Disappears
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Mercenary mary
35. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
South pacific
Entertainments
Romantic music
36. G: What does BCE mean?
Julie Andrews
Political satire
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Before common era
37. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Cole Porter
Deus ex machina
Mercenary mary
Julie Andrews
38. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Singin in the rain
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Director
Sally
39. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
The marx brothers
Romantic
Female roles
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
40. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Betty comden and adolph green
Leonard bernstein
Gertrude lawrence
Entertainments
41. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Rex Harrison
Damn yankees
Ray Bolger
West side story
42. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
Director
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Sally
43. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
44. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
Oklahoma
Popular entertainments
Music director
45. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
George m. cohan
Carousel
Mercenary mary
Good news
46. 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
A contrived ending
Director
Rose marie
Richard d'oyly carte
47. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
Evangeline
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
48. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
The belle of new york
George m. cohan
Ethel merman
Adonis
49. What characters are in show boat
50. What show is the song bewitched from
His 'confessions'
Pal Joey
Girl crazy
Rodgers and hammerstein