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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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1. G: How many lead actors were there?
3 to 5
Pants role or trousers role
Pal Joey
Lyricist
2. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Kurt Weill
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Evangeline
Spectacle
3. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Tragedy
Fly loft
Lerner and Loewe
The student prince
4. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Yul Brenner
John Hollingshead
Producer
Marilyn Miller
5. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
Candide
Took to the streets and traveled -
The savoy operas
6. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Can-can
Ballet and modern dance
Comedy
HMS pinafore
7. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Nine
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Once upon a mattress
Restoration
8. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Michael Kidd
Lerner and Loewe
James michener
Leonard Bernstein
9. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Mary martin
The belle of new york
Masks and costumes
The Threepenny opera
10. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Cole porter
Oklahoma
Bert williams and george walker
Middle ages
11. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Timbuktu
Orchestration
BC
3 to 5
12. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Took to the streets and traveled -
Jerome robbins
The marx brothers
King Louis XIV
13. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
14. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
American politics
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Agnes de mille
15. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Gwen verdon
John Hollingshead
Deus ex machina
16. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
No no nanette
George and Ira Gershwin
Director
Romantic music
17. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Court nobility
Jerome kern
Richard d'oyly carte
Crazy for you
18. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
The Threepenny Opera
Agnes de mille
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
19. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Satyr plays
Patriotic
Middle ages
Librettist
20. Commedia performers used...
West side story
Lyricist
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Slapsticks
21. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Lowering
Jerome kern
Flutes - lyres
Director
22. Who is the composer for music man
The new moon
Cole porter
Meredith wilson
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
23. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Swing
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Director
24. What comic duo was the show centered around
False- it was considred a romantic musical
George gershwin
The cotton blossom
Bert williams and george walker
25. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Orchestration
None all men
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
26. Who is the star of Sally
The cotton blossom
Marilyn Miller
Professional perfomers
Girl crazy
27. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Librettist
Rodgers and hammerstein
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Comic opera
28. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
James michener
The merry widow
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Irving Berlin
29. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
Girl crazy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
St. Augustine
30. Who stages the dances?
Ballet and modern dance
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The doctor of alcantara
Choreographer
31. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Set designer
Mary rodgers
Nine
The merry widow
32. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Director
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
33. What was a 'claquer?'
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Kismet
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
34. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Gertrude lawrence
A contrived ending
John Gay
Lowering
35. What character are in anything goes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Irving Berlin
Meredith wilson
36. F:who took over those roles
Gwen verdon
George and Ira Gershwin
BC
Professional perfomers
37. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Restoration
Burlesqued
No no nanette
Oklahoma
38. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
The book uncle toms cabin
Mercenary mary
South pacific
Adonis
39. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Michael Kidd
None all men
King Louis XIV
40. Who is the composer of the King and I
A contrived ending
Richard rodgers
Oklahoma
4th and 5th centuries bce
41. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
42. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Bert williams and george walker
West side story
I got rhythm
The mikado
43. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
The merry widow
Same person
Irving Berlin
Music man
44. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Cole porter
George and ira gershwin
24
Bob Fosse
45. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Producer
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Music director
Director
46. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Thespis
American politics
Director
He was the producer
47. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Crazy for You
James michener
Tragedies
Comic opera
48. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
East Side Story
State
On the town
The mikado
49. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
Angel
The music man
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
50. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Jule Styne
Crazy for You
Betty comden and adolph green
Romantic