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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. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The cotton blossom
Comedies
The doctor of alcantara
2. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
The metropolitan opera
Plato
Oscar hammerstein
Disappears
3. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Carousel
Mary Martin
False it was stylized
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Damn yankees
The cotton blossom
Orchestration
5. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
The serenade and the fortune teller
The serenade and the fortune teller
George and ira gershwin
Patriotic
6. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
7. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
West side story
Crazy for you
Commedia dell-arte
8. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On the town
Intense training
Romantic
Leonard bernstein
9. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
A trip to chinatown
The book uncle toms cabin
Tragedy
The belle of new york
10. What characters are in show boat
11. Who picks the actors?
Jerome kern
The Threepenny Opera
Director
False- it was considred a romantic musical
12. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Carol Channing
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Tragedies
Rodgers and Hart
13. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Producer
Ethel merman
On your toes
Permissiveness and crazes
14. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Thespis
The mikado
Playwright
Director
15. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
John Hollingshead
Can-can
American dance music
Bob Fosse
16. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
Ancient baghdad
Harrigan and hart
Ballet and modern dance
17. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Producer
Lyricist
Once upon a mattress
Kiss me - kate
18. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Gypsy
Tragedies
19. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
South pacific
West side story
Meredith wilson
East Side Story
20. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Damn yankees
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Ancient baghdad
Gertrude Lawrence
21. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Director
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Music man
Romantic music
22. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Carol Channing
Gertrude Lawrence
Moliere
23. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
A stevedore
Guys and dolls
No no nanette
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
24. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Stephen sondheim
Horace
A trip to chinatown
Betty comden and adolph green
25. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Stand by
He was the producer
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Mercenary mary
26. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Mama rose
Once upon a mattress
The merry widow
Music man
27. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
On your toes and babes in arms
On the town
Oscar hammerstein
Flutes - lyres
28. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
A stevedore
Rebirth
Enzio pinza
West side story
29. Who stages the dances?
Oklahoma
Choreographer
The savoy operas
Fly loft
30. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Damn yankees
Leonard bernstein
The desert song
Of thee i sing
31. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Orchestration
Moliere
Court nobility
Yul Brenner
32. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Masks and costumes
Mimes
BC
Oscar hammerstein II
33. Who made in dahomey unique
Mercenary mary
Yul Brenner
Richard d'oyly carte
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
34. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Gypsy
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
35. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Victor herbert
Ethel merman
Anti-hero
Director
36. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Mercenary mary
The belle of new york
37. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Orchestration
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
38. What are the three types of greek plays
Before common era
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Someone to watch over me
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
39. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Mary rodgers
4th and 5th centuries bce
Stand by
Court nobility
40. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The romantic musicals
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Same person
41. G: What is BCE same as
Anything goes
BC- before christ
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Sally
42. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Damn yankees
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Director
43. What show is- tea for two
Anti-hero
No no nanette
Costume designer
My fair lady
44. What was a 'claquer?'
Victor herbert
Stand by
George gershwin
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
45. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Bob Fosse
The new moon
Comedies
Nine
46. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
The king and I
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Once upon a mattress
South pacific
47. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Swing
Deus ex machina
Spectacle
Orchestration
48. G: Greek actors had...
Intense training
Threepenny opera
Libretto
American dance music
49. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Burlesqued
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
American dance music
Richard d'oyly carte
50. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
Carmen jones
Director
Billy bigelow