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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Guys and dolls
Mary Martin
Richard d'oyly carte
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
2. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
South pacific
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Voice type
Rex Harrison
3. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
He died in 1937
James michener
Director
The music man
4. G: What is BCE same as
Gertrude lawrence
Gypsy
Richard rodgers
BC- before christ
5. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
Richard d'oyly carte
Babes in arms
Once upon a mattress
6. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
On your toes
New comedy
Richard rodgers
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
7. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Julie Andrews
Court nobility
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
8. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Oscar hammerstein II
Irene
Kiss me - kate
9. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Frank Loesser
Anti-hero
Kismet
Comedy
10. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Tearly Roman empire
Mary Martin
Robin hood
Comic opera
11. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Comic opera
Ethel merman
Permissiveness and crazes
12. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Gertrude Lawrence
24
Irene
Plato
13. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Oil lamps
Director
Thespis
Disappears
14. 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
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Betty comden and adolph green
Can-can
15. Bloody Mary is from What show
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Music director
South pacific
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
16. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
No no nanette
Political satire
Betty comden and adolph green
Comic opera had music and dialogue
17. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Lyricist
My fair lady
My fair lady
War
18. Who is the composer for music man
The cotton blossom
Meredith wilson
Ray bolger
Agnes de mille
19. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Once upon a mattress
George m. cohan
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Guys and dolls
20. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
American dance music
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Public enemy no. 13
21. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Ethel merman
Intense training
He was the producer
False- it was considred a romantic musical
22. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Of thee i sing
Richard rodgers
Victor herbert
Oil lamps
23. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Rose marie
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Female roles
Commedia dell-arte
24. Who is the composer of Candide
Adonis
Leonard bernstein
Timbuktu
Girl crazy
25. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Director
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
26. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Parodied
Gertrude Lawrence
Jule Styne
Pageant wagons and mansions
27. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Producer
Timbuktu
Carol Channing
No no nanette
28. Pal Joey was written by...
Witty dialogue
Director
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Rodgers and Hart
29. What show is -love is sweeping the country
The music man
Of thee i sing
The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews
30. Greek: 534 BCE
Official beginning of western theatre
Kismet
Lowering
Cleverly concoted
31. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Thespis
The king and i
Ethel merman
Richard rodgers
32. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
On your toes and babes in arms
Swing
Gertrude Lawrence
Carousel
33. G: Greek actors had...
Mary martin
Leonard Bernstein
Cole porter
Intense training
34. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Greeks
Catholic church
Gypsy
Kismet
35. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Ethel merman
I got rhythm
My Fair Lady
Ballet and modern dance
36. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
George m. cohan
Moved indoors
Rex Harrison
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
37. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Lowering
Anything goes
Julie Andrews
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
38. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Jerome Robbins
Flutes - lyres
Sally
Rodgers and Hart
39. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Can-can
The king and i
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Political satire
40. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Annie get your gun
No no nanette
Lerner and Loewe
George gershwin
41. What team wrote the Sound of music
George gershwin
Professional perfomers
Orchestration
Rodgers and hammerstein
42. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Middle ages
Costume designer
Costume designer
43. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
New comedy
Leonard bernstein
Gene kelly
Leonard bernstein
44. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Ethel merman
Frank Loesser
Kiss me - kate
The new moon
45. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Stephen sondheim
Frank Loesser
Carousel
Agnes de mille
46. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Music man
Harry tierney
The book
Kiss me - Kate
47. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
The king and i
Thespis
A contrived ending
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
48. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
South pacific
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The romantic musicals
The metropolitan opera
49. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
The pajama game
Popular entertainments
Aristotle
My Fair Lady
50. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Gwen verdon
The new moon
Anything goes
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein