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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. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Horace
Oklahoma
Professional perfomers
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
2. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Middle ages
New comedy
Deus ex machina
Victor herbert
3. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Middle ages
On your toes and babes in arms
Singin in the rain
I got rhythm
4. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
The Threepenny Opera
St. Augustine
No
A contrived ending
5. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Mulligan guards routines
Mercenary mary
Comedy
Once upon a mattress
6. G: What does BCE mean?
Leonard bernstein
Before common era
Gertrude Lawrence
Entertainments
7. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Professional perfomers
Tragedy
Gypsy
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
8. What show is -i got rhythm
Brigadoon
Producer
Girl crazy
The king and i
9. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Satyr plays
10. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Ethel merman
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
11. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Mama rose
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Jerome kern
Julie Andrews
12. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
On the town
Lyricist
Carousel
13. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Stephen sondheim
Music director
Oklahoma
14. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Gene kelly
The Threepenny opera
Mary rodgers
Rose marie
15. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Irene
Set designer
BC- before christ
16. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
The king and I
Billy bigelow
Satyr plays
Comic opera
17. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Irene
The desert song
A stevedore
Georges balanchine
18. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Female roles
Gertrude lawrence
Middle ages
Meredith wilson
19. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Pants role or trousers role
The music man
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
20. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
The shows they came from
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
The serenade and the fortune teller
21. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
The pajama game
My fair lady
John Gay
Evangeline
22. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Mimes
Radio city music hall
Female roles
Someone to watch over me
23. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Cole porter
Girl crazy
Pageant wagons and mansions
Flutes - lyres
24. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Witty dialogue
The cotton blossom
Ethel merman
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
25. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Borrowed tunes
Brigadoon
East Side Story
Catholic church
26. Who is the composer of Candide
Director
Middle ages
Cole porter
Leonard bernstein
27. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Carmen jones
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Meredith wilson
None all men
28. Who is the composer of the music man
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Jerome kern
Babes in arms
Meredith wilson
29. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
I got rhythm
The merry widow
Marilyn Miller
He died in 1937
30. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
The shows they came from
Oscar hammerstein II
Playwright
Comic opera had music and dialogue
31. Greek: 534 BCE
No no nanette
Ballet and modern dance
Eliza Doolittle
Official beginning of western theatre
32. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Annie get your gun
BC
The king and i
33. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Director
Anti-hero
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Victor herbert
34. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Comic opera had music and dialogue
State
George m. cohan
35. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Richard d'oyly carte
None all men
Kurt Weill
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
36. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Ancient baghdad
Kismet
Music director
Good news
37. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Timbuktu
The Sound of Music
South pacific
Commedia dell-arte
38. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Gypsy
Betty comden and adolph green
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
39. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Conductor
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
40. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
False it was stylized
Guys and Dolls
Producer
Director
41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Choreographer
John Gay
Disappears
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
42. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Oil lamps
Gestures and poses
Mary rodgers
Bob Fosse
43. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Brigadoon
Stephen sondheim
Ethel merman
Set designer
44. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Timbuktu
Brigadoon
Mulligan guards routines
George and Ira Gershwin
45. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Horace
No
Angel
Radio city music hall
46. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Mary Martin
Irving Berlin
His 'confessions'
Of thee i sing
47. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
The merry widow
Oil lamps
Kismet
48. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Marilyn Miller
Mercenary mary
Babes in arms
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
49. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Agnes de Mille
Annie get your gun
Masks and costumes
50. What show is -the continental
Same person
Composer
Ethel merman
Mercenary mary