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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. where did performers go
Took to the streets and traveled -
Agnes de mille
Changing masks and costumes
Harrigan and hart
2. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Court nobility
Carmen jones
The shows they came from
3. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
The Threepenny opera
Mary martin
Kismet
Court nobility
4. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Costume designer
Eliza Doolittle
Ethel merman
3 to 5
5. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Ethel merman
Moliere
Kurt Weill
Gestures and poses
6. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Can-can
The belle of new york
George m. cohan
The merry widow
7. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
The cotton blossom
Leonard bernstein
Angel
Producer
8. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Harry tierney
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Oklahoma
George gershwin
9. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Rodgers and Hart
Betty comden and adolph green
Moliere
Can-can
10. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George m. cohan
Bert williams and george walker
The belle of new york
Radio city music hall
11. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
On your toes
Popular entertainments
Betty comden and adolph green
The marx brothers
12. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
New comedy
Gertrude lawrence
Commedia dell-arte
Oh Kay
13. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
The belle of new york
Jerome kern
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
14. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Georges balanchine
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Director
A trip to chinatown
15. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Irving Berlin
Oklahoma
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Ballet and modern dance
16. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Producer
Swing
Babes in arms
George gershwin
17. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Oklahoma
Bernstein and Sondheim
Can-can
The mikado
18. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
A trip to chinatown
Oklahoma
Restoration
Agnes de Mille
19. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Mimes
South pacific
BC
If i loved you
20. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Set designer
BC
On the town
Carousel
21. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Someone to watch over me
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Female roles
22. Who is the composer of Candide
Lerner and Loewe
Rebirth
Leonard bernstein
Kurt Weill
23. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Mary rodgers
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
24. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Voice type
25. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
The metropolitan opera
Evangeline
Harrigan and hart
Oscar hammerstein II
26. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Adonis
Commedia dell-arte
Gwen verdon
Ray bolger
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Romantic music
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Bert williams and george walker
Singin in the rain
28. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Rodgers and hammerstein
The shows they came from
3 to 5
29. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Harry tierney
Swing
Anything goes
30. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Pants role or trousers role
Timbuktu
Ballet and modern dance
31. G: Male actors played...
No
Female roles
Frank Loesser
Of thee i sing
32. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Lyricist
Sally
Swing
33. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Swing
No no nanette
Changing masks and costumes
Rebirth
34. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Can-can
Moliere
Popular dance
Frank Loesser
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Jule Styne
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Catholic church
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
36. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Singin in the rain
Playwright
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Irving Berlin
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Set designer
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
The shows they came from
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
38. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Lerner and Loewe
Brigadoon
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
State
39. Bloody Mary is from What show
No no nanette
Before common era
Meredith wilson
South pacific
40. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Thespis
South pacific
Orchestration
Producer
41. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Romantic
Jerome kern
Greeks
42. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Threepenny opera
Rex Harrison
South pacific
Mulligan guards routines
43. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Irving Berlin
Director
The Threepenny opera
On your toes
44. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
A stevedore
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
45. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Conductor
Costume designer
Librettist
Georges balanchine
46. What show is i want to be happy
Comic opera
Rodgers and Hart
False it was stylized
No no nanette
47. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
War
Victor herbert
Gene kelly
Richard d'oyly carte
48. Annie Oakley is from What show
Annie get your gun
The new moon
False- it was considred a romantic musical
The king and I
49. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
The serenade and the fortune teller
East Side Story
Official beginning of western theatre
50. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Leonard bernstein
The pajama game
Richard d'oyly carte
William gilbert and arthur sullivan