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Musical Theatre
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1. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Entertainments
BC- before christ
Rodgers and hammerstein
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
2. G: What does BCE mean?
Jule Styne
Permissiveness and crazes
Before common era
Georges balanchine
3. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Cleverly concoted
Bob Fosse
Once upon a mattress
Harrigan and hart
4. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Popular entertainments
Can-can
3 to 5
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
5. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
Producer
Restoration
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Marilyn Miller
Annie get your gun
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Costume designer
7. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
The student prince
Eliza Doolittle
Librettist
Changing masks and costumes
8. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Once upon a mattress
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Can-can
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
9. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
Enzio pinza
Harry tierney
Of thee i sing
10. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Tragedy
Julie Andrews
Ancient baghdad
State
11. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Patriotic
Entertainments
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Adonis
12. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Librettist
Tearly Roman empire
The puritans took control of the governmetn
13. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Once upon a mattress
Once upon a mattress
Tragedies
14. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Of thee i sing
West side story
George and Ira Gershwin
Romantic
15. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Victor herbert
Oil lamps
Swing
Composer
16. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Witty dialogue
Comedies
A trip to chinatown
Threepenny opera
17. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Marilyn Miller
HMS pinafore
Timbuktu
Guys and dolls
18. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Mercenary mary
Gene kelly
Comic opera
Brigadoon
19. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Cole porter
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Swing
False- it was considred a romantic musical
20. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Jerome Robbins
Masks and costumes
A stevedore
Damn yankees
21. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Annie get your gun
Agnes de mille
Radio city music hall
22. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Tearly Roman empire
Ballet and modern dance
Gertrude Lawrence
Stand by
23. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Swing
24. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
False it was stylized
Good news
The king and i
25. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The pajama game
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
False it was stylized
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
26. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
The Sound of Music
The king and I
Can-can
The serenade and the fortune teller
27. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Georges balanchine
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
28. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Producer
Oscar hammerstein II
Choreographer
Stephen sondheim
29. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Athens
Carol Channing
State
Nine
30. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Kismet
Agnes de mille
Stephen Sondheim
31. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
The shows they came from
Kiss me - Kate
Guys and Dolls
Stephen Sondheim
32. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Permissiveness and crazes
33. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Gwen verdon
Damn yankees
Cole porter
Cleverly concoted
34. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Babes in arms
Comedies
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Agnes de Mille
35. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Frank Loesser
John Gay
Horace
The king and I
36. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Stephen sondheim
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Cole porter
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
37. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Jerome robbins
Mary martin
Costume designer
Carmen jones
38. Who composed the music for Irene
Harry tierney
Singin in the rain
Rebirth
Rodgers and Hart
39. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Female roles
On your toes and babes in arms
John Gay
40. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Before common era
Thespis
A contrived ending
41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Carousel
Damn yankees
Pants role or trousers role
42. What was the original name of West Side Story
Meredith wilson
Kiss me - kate
East Side Story
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
43. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Brigadoon
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Of thee i sing
Meredith wilson
44. Where they fly things on stage
Crazy for you
Evangeline
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Fly loft
45. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
My Fair Lady
Deus ex machina
Brigadoon
46. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Rodgers and Hart
Took to the streets and traveled -
Pants role or trousers role
47. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Agnes de mille
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Guys and Dolls
Tearly Roman empire
48. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Jule Styne
Mulligan guards routines
South pacific
Ballet and modern dance
49. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Oklahoma
Playwright
Aristotle
Guys and dolls
50. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Took to the streets and traveled -
Gypsy
Victor herbert
He was the producer
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