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Musical Theatre
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1. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Harrigan and hart
Librettist
Deus ex machina
The king and i
2. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Gypsy
Burlesqued
Gypsy
War
3. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Middle ages
New comedy
4. What show is- tea for two
The book uncle toms cabin
Pageant wagons and mansions
No no nanette
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
5. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Tragedies
Leonard bernstein
Anti-hero
George m. cohan
6. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Witty dialogue
Popular dance
Borrowed tunes
The serenade and the fortune teller
7. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Jerome kern
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
8. What comic duo was the show centered around
Bert williams and george walker
Ancient baghdad
The mikado
Rebirth
9. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Can-can
Angel
Restoration
Commedia dell-arte
10. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
A stevedore
The Sound of Music
Georges balanchine
Middle ages
11. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Rodgers and hammerstein
Timbuktu
Richard d'oyly carte
Female roles
12. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
American dance music
Entertainments
Babes in arms
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
13. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Irene
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Catholic church
14. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Plato
Oklahoma
Music man
Brigadoon
15. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Damn yankees
Gypsy
Court nobility
Pageant wagons and mansions
16. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Moliere
Comedy
Someone to watch over me
The Threepenny opera
17. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Someone to watch over me
Swing
Comedies
Leonard bernstein
18. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Guys and Dolls
Comic opera
Producer
Agnes de Mille
19. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
The Threepenny Opera
Sally
Candide
Gestures and poses
20. What was the continental
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Gwen verdon
State
Popular dance
21. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Eliza Doolittle
Popular entertainments
Popular dance
22. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Stephen sondheim
Oh Kay
Producer
George and Ira Gershwin
23. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Producer
Crazy for you
4th and 5th centuries bce
Oklahoma
24. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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25. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Gertrude Lawrence
Flutes - lyres
Disappears
Annie get your gun
26. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Mary rodgers
Music director
On your toes
The marx brothers
27. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
American dance music
None all men
Commedia dell-arte
The cotton blossom
28. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
The serenade and the fortune teller
Oscar hammerstein
St. Augustine
George gershwin
29. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Leonard bernstein
Middle ages
The serenade and the fortune teller
Deus ex machina
30. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Cole porter
Romantic
South pacific
31. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Entertainments
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
32. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Gwen verdon
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Director
Voice type
33. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
Brigadoon
South pacific
Took to the streets and traveled -
34. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Julie Andrews
The mikado
Commedia dell-arte
35. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Crazy for You
The Threepenny Opera
Brigadoon
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
36. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
3 to 5
Oklahoma
False it was stylized
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
37. G: Male actors played...
His 'confessions'
Female roles
The merry widow
Radio city music hall
38. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Ray Bolger
Betty comden and adolph green
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
South pacific
39. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Restoration
The desert song
He died in 1937
South pacific
40. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Intense training
No no nanette
State
Oil lamps
41. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Rodgers and hammerstein
Brigadoon
None all men
Agnes de mille
42. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
My Fair Lady
Restoration
Librettist
No no nanette
43. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
Tragedy
Julie Andrews
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
44. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Producer
Ballet and modern dance
Crazy for you
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
45. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
The king and I
On the town
Swing
Agnes de mille
46. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Witty dialogue
Cole Porter
Burlesqued
Ballet and modern dance
47. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Stephen sondheim
The king and i
Parodied
Gertrude Lawrence
48. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Crazy for you
BC
James michener
New comedy
49. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Ethel merman
South pacific
Crazy for You
Guys and Dolls
50. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de Mille
Producer
Babes in arms
Playwright
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