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Musical Theatre
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1. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
His 'confessions'
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
The marx brothers
2. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
The serenade and the fortune teller
The Threepenny opera
Ethel merman
3. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
Agnes de mille
Meredith wilson
Composer
4. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Ethel merman
Jerome robbins
Mercenary mary
5. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Director
Rodgers and Hart
6. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The savoy operas
Carmen jones
He died in 1937
7. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Meredith wilson
Ancient baghdad
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Librettist
8. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Gwen verdon
Stand by
Music director
George gershwin
9. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Jerome kern
Kiss me - kate
The king and i
John Hollingshead
10. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Crazy for You
Moliere
South pacific
Gertrude Lawrence
11. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Anything goes
Producer
The belle of new york
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
12. G: Greek actors had...
Annie get your gun
Pants role or trousers role
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Intense training
13. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Stephen sondheim
American dance music
Director
Carousel
14. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Gypsy
Damn yankees
Moliere
Carmen jones
15. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
State
George m. cohan
Costume designer
16. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Kismet
Same person
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
17. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Anti-hero
Lerner and Loewe
Irene
Leonard bernstein
18. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Meredith wilson
Singin in the rain
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Nine
19. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
The metropolitan opera
Bob Fosse
Director
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
20. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Can-can
Yul Brenner
Damn yankees
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
21. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Oklahoma
Mulligan guards routines
False- it was considred a romantic musical
The cotton blossom
22. Who composed the music for Irene
Gene kelly
HMS pinafore
East Side Story
Harry tierney
23. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
George gershwin
Oklahoma
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Anti-hero
24. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Female roles
My fair lady
Public enemy no. 13
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
25. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Borrowed tunes
He was the producer
Girl crazy
No no nanette
26. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Frank Loesser
Comic opera
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
New comedy
27. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Guys and Dolls
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Spectacle
Victor herbert
28. Where they fly things on stage
American politics
Fly loft
Composer
Ethel merman
29. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Victor herbert
George gershwin
St. Augustine
Irving Berlin
30. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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31. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
King Louis XIV
Ethel merman
Burlesqued
32. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Gene kelly
George m. cohan
Cleverly concoted
The book uncle toms cabin
33. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
George and Ira Gershwin
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Music director
None all men
34. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Damn yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The doctor of alcantara
35. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
State
Richard d'oyly carte
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Carol Channing
36. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
South pacific
Gene kelly
Ethel merman
37. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Flutes - lyres
False- it was considred a romantic musical
George gershwin
No no nanette
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard d'oyly carte
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Ancient baghdad
The belle of new york
39. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
The belle of new york
John Gay
Before common era
Michael Kidd
40. G: How many lead actors were there?
Gypsy
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
3 to 5
Middle ages
41. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Set designer
Pants role or trousers role
Producer
42. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Middle ages
Ethel merman
South pacific
43. Who is the composer of the music man
The serenade and the fortune teller
John Gay
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Meredith wilson
44. Commedia performers used...
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Thespis
Slapsticks
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
45. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
East Side Story
Pageant wagons and mansions
Horace
Jerome kern
46. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
East Side Story
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Anything goes
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
47. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Producer
Eliza Doolittle
St. Augustine
48. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Catholic church
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
A trip to chinatown
49. Who picks the actors?
Entertainments
Permissiveness and crazes
Director
No
50. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Girl crazy
Mary Martin
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
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