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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Kiss me - kate
Agnes de Mille
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
2. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Kiss me - kate
Damn yankees
Athens
Once upon a mattress
3. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Athens
New comedy
The Sound of Music
King Louis XIV
4. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
Official beginning of western theatre
Changing masks and costumes
Brigadoon
5. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Director
Angel
HMS pinafore
6. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
Moliere
Harrigan and hart
Parodied
7. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
George gershwin
James michener
Mulligan guards routines
The shows they came from
8. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Victor herbert
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
The cotton blossom
Disappears
9. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
St. Augustine
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Romantic music
Moved indoors
10. G: How many lead actors were there?
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Conductor
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
3 to 5
11. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
The pajama game
24
West side story
Director
12. Who composed the music for Irene
Harry tierney
Irving Berlin
Cole Porter
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
13. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
He was the producer
3 to 5
14. Greek: 534 BCE
Official beginning of western theatre
Gypsy
Changing masks and costumes
The student prince
15. Commedia performers used...
New comedy
Slapsticks
Agnes de mille
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
16. 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'
Girl crazy
Popular entertainments
Annie get your gun
Carol Channing
17. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Nine
Crazy for you
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
18. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
Middle ages
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The Sound of Music
19. What is Bali H'ai from
Court nobility
South pacific
Julie Andrews
Rebirth
20. G: Greek actors had...
Intense training
Brigadoon
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
St. Augustine
21. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de Mille
St. Augustine
Oh Kay
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
22. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Damn yankees
Composer
Cole Porter
Changing masks and costumes
23. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Irving Berlin
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
The king and I
24. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Michael Kidd
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Aristotle
South pacific
25. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
South pacific
New comedy
Rodgers and hammerstein
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
26. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Kiss me - kate
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Adonis
Composer
27. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Harrigan and hart
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Ethel merman
28. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The Sound of Music
Meredith wilson
The merry widow
29. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Kiss me - Kate
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
30. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Producer
James michener
BC- before christ
Robin hood
31. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
War
Mulligan guards routines
Jule Styne
Orchestration
32. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
The new moon
Mimes
Damn yankees
Carmen jones
33. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
The book uncle toms cabin
Horace
Gypsy
Horace
34. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Middle ages
Lowering
South pacific
The student prince
35. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Mulligan guards routines
Tragedies
On the town
Timbuktu
36. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
BC- before christ
Romantic
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Conductor
37. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
The Sound of Music
Cole porter
Meredith wilson
No no nanette
38. Who is the composer of the music man
Damn yankees
Meredith wilson
Georges balanchine
South pacific
39. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
The book uncle toms cabin
Agnes de mille
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
40. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Thespis
My fair lady
Anything goes
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
41. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Librettist
Flutes - lyres
Good news
Lerner and Loewe
42. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Commedia dell-arte
The Threepenny opera
A contrived ending
Lyricist
43. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Before common era
The merry widow
Cole porter
Rebirth
44. Who is the star of sweet charity
Gwen verdon
Jerome kern
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Tearly Roman empire
45. What does 'renaissance' mean
State
Rebirth
Ethel merman
Angel
46. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Irving Berlin
Betty comden and adolph green
The savoy operas
47. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Before common era
Oil lamps
South pacific
Middle ages
48. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Director
Crazy for You
The music man
Thespis
49. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Tragedy
Robin hood
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Leonard bernstein
50. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Borrowed tunes
Before common era
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
The king and i