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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. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Leonard Bernstein
Agnes de Mille
Kurt Weill
Annie get your gun
2. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
HMS pinafore
George and ira gershwin
The cotton blossom
Court nobility
3. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Can-can
Producer
4. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Comedy
Carmen jones
My Fair Lady
None all men
5. G: What does BCE mean?
Tragedies
Tragedies
Before common era
If i loved you
6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Singin in the rain
Costume designer
George m. cohan
7. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Once upon a mattress
The desert song
Producer
Damn yankees
8. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
No no nanette
Julie Andrews
Mimes
BC
9. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Swing
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
The Sound of Music
The doctor of alcantara
10. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Tragedies
Stephen Sondheim
Lerner and Loewe
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
11. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mimes
Producer
On your toes
Librettist
12. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Popular entertainments
Mimes
4th and 5th centuries bce
Greeks
13. What characters are in show boat
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14. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Radio city music hall
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
East Side Story
Borrowed tunes
15. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Court nobility
Oscar hammerstein II
City dionysia
Libretto
16. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
The student prince
Jerome Robbins
Gwen verdon
The cotton blossom
17. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Kiss me - Kate
The merry widow
Oil lamps
Same person
18. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Can-can
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Rebirth
Of thee i sing
19. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
On your toes
George gershwin
Voice type
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
20. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Mary martin
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Comedies
The metropolitan opera
21. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Sally
Gwen verdon
The king and i
Victor herbert
22. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Of thee i sing
Swing
South pacific
The desert song
23. Laurie's dream ballet
Oklahoma
Jule Styne
Commedia dell-arte
George and Ira Gershwin
24. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Of thee i sing
24
The Threepenny Opera
BC- before christ
25. What was the continental
Choreographer
Popular dance
Comic opera
Satyr plays
26. Who wrote the music for show boat
Gypsy
West side story
Victor herbert
Jerome kern
27. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Libretto
Slapsticks
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
28. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Meredith wilson
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Ancient baghdad
Lowering
29. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
Eliza Doolittle
The book
Spectacle
30. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
24
Eliza Doolittle
24
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
31. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The belle of new york
Carousel
The merry widow
Can-can
32. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
John Gay
Annie get your gun
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
33. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
BC- before christ
No no nanette
West side story
34. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Harry tierney
The merry widow
Ethel merman
Of thee i sing
35. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Popular entertainments
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The marx brothers
36. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Before common era
Comedies
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Can-can
37. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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38. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Ethel merman
Mary rodgers
Crazy for you
Political satire
39. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Irene
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Aristotle
40. What characters are in show boat
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41. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Oklahoma
I got rhythm
Leonard bernstein
42. Who is the composer of Candide
Comedies
Victor herbert
Agnes de mille
Leonard bernstein
43. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
A stevedore
The marx brothers
Nine
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
44. G: How many lead actors were there?
3 to 5
His 'confessions'
Comedy
George and ira gershwin
45. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Richard d'oyly carte
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Eliza Doolittle
No no nanette
46. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Borrowed tunes
War
Victor herbert
Bert williams and george walker
47. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Leonard Bernstein
On your toes and babes in arms
The marx brothers
48. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
War
Kiss me - kate
Candide
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
49. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Timbuktu
False- it was considred a romantic musical
50. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Bob Fosse
Robin hood
Ray Bolger
South pacific