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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. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
The Threepenny Opera
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Jule Styne
Moved indoors
2. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Composer
The savoy operas
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Commedia dell-arte
3. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George gershwin
George m. cohan
Georges balanchine
New comedy
4. What show is -the continental
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
South pacific
Mercenary mary
Deus ex machina
5. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
HMS pinafore
Damn yankees
Comedies
Kismet
6. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Witty dialogue
Director
Gene kelly
7. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
The book uncle toms cabin
Rex Harrison
I got rhythm
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
8. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
3 to 5
Ethel merman
Damn yankees
A stevedore
9. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
George m. cohan
Evangeline
War
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
10. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Marilyn Miller
Tragedies
Nine
Playwright
11. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Comedy
East Side Story
Moliere
Irene
12. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Tragedy
The book uncle toms cabin
Stand by
Ray bolger
13. 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'
Carousel
Cole Porter
Brigadoon
Pants role or trousers role
14. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
Mulligan guards routines
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Librettist
15. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Popular dance
Orchestration
16. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Marilyn Miller
Girl crazy
False- it was considred a romantic musical
17. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
4th and 5th centuries bce
Candide
Enzio pinza
Anything goes
18. Lotte Lenya is from What show
War
My Fair Lady
Entertainments
The Threepenny Opera
19. __________ presents men worse than they are...
A contrived ending
Comedy
Kurt Weill
Mary rodgers
20. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
The Threepenny opera
Producer
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Evangeline
21. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Oil lamps
Leonard bernstein
The king and I
22. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
State
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Oklahoma
23. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Borrowed tunes
Jerome robbins
Oscar hammerstein
None all men
24. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Stephen sondheim
Evangeline
Nine
25. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Cleverly concoted
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Threepenny opera
Lyricist
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Tragedies
Timbuktu
George and Ira Gershwin
Burlesqued
27. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Conductor
Lerner and Loewe
George gershwin
Jule Styne
28. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
George gershwin
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The Sound of Music
29. What was the setting for Kismet
BC
Ancient baghdad
Jerome kern
Deus ex machina
30. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Director
The Sound of Music
Popular entertainments and comic opera
31. Who is the composer for music man
Costume designer
Oklahoma
Meredith wilson
Can-can
32. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Kurt Weill
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Satyr plays
Anything goes
33. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
South pacific
Plato
Romantic
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
34. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Bert williams and george walker
Irving Berlin
No no nanette
He was the producer
35. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
South pacific
Guys and Dolls
Meredith wilson
Candide
36. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
None all men
George and Ira Gershwin
Cole porter
Michael Kidd
37. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
Frank Loesser
Michael Kidd
Damn yankees
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Fly loft
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
39. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Political satire
A stevedore
Victor herbert
Kurt Weill
40. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
A trip to chinatown
Can-can
Comedy
Meredith wilson
41. What does 'renaissance' mean
Girl crazy
Gene kelly
Rebirth
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
42. Where they fly things on stage
Agnes de Mille
Popular dance
Carmen jones
Fly loft
43. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ethel merman
The music man
BC- before christ
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
44. What does 'renaissance' mean
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Rebirth
Pageant wagons and mansions
The Sound of Music
45. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Conductor
Fly loft
Radio city music hall
Lerner and Loewe
46. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Borrowed tunes
Permissiveness and crazes
The cotton blossom
Julie Andrews
47. Who is the star of sweet charity
Gwen verdon
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Greeks
4th and 5th centuries bce
48. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
George and ira gershwin
Irene
Greeks
Irving Berlin
49. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Lerner and Loewe
Oklahoma
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Greeks
50. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
24
The Threepenny Opera
Timbuktu
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals