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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
King Louis XIV
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
My fair lady
Harrigan and hart
2. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
HMS pinafore
Mama rose
Brigadoon
24
3. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Public enemy no. 13
The romantic musicals
Tearly Roman empire
Comedies
4. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Oklahoma
Restoration
Mary Martin
5. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Aristotle
Bob Fosse
The Sound of Music
Stephen Sondheim
6. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
The marx brothers
Cole Porter
Gypsy
7. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
The Threepenny Opera
Jule Styne
Damn yankees
Mercenary mary
8. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
John Gay
Of thee i sing
The shows they came from
The cotton blossom
9. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Lerner and Loewe
Good news
Director
10. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Carmen jones
Mama rose
Anything goes
Ethel merman
11. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Horace
George m. cohan
The king and i
Cole porter
12. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
The serenade and the fortune teller
Gypsy
Stand by
The cotton blossom
13. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Lowering
George and ira gershwin
Conductor
American politics
14. Who stages the dances?
Comedy
Choreographer
Eliza Doolittle
Popular entertainments and comic opera
15. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
The king and i
Slapsticks
Oh Kay
Producer
16. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
HMS pinafore
My fair lady
Playwright
Same person
17. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Rose marie
Lyricist
Ethel merman
I got rhythm
18. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
The savoy operas
My fair lady
Took to the streets and traveled -
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
19. What are the three types of greek plays
The shows they came from
West side story
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Romantic
20. What show is -i got rhythm
Girl crazy
Court nobility
Flutes - lyres
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
21. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
James michener
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Tearly Roman empire
Choreographer
22. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Meredith wilson
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
The pajama game
23. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
New comedy
Rodgers and hammerstein
Music director
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
24. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Sally
Producer
The Sound of Music
Swing
25. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
The book
Crazy for you
Kurt Weill
Changing masks and costumes
26. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Ancient baghdad
Betty comden and adolph green
George m. cohan
27. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
BC
Playwright
28. Who picks the actors?
Pal Joey
Rodgers and Hart
Rex Harrison
Director
29. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Tearly Roman empire
Brigadoon
George m. cohan
30. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Producer
Parodied
Kurt Weill
31. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Director
George gershwin
George and Ira Gershwin
32. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Crazy for you
The new moon
Swing
Greeks
33. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
The mikado
He was the producer
My Fair Lady
34. Who is the star of Sally
Oscar hammerstein II
Threepenny opera
Marilyn Miller
The student prince
35. 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
Kiss me - kate
Gypsy
Tearly Roman empire
Oklahoma
36. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Julie Andrews
HMS pinafore
Sally
Producer
37. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
BC- before christ
Rodgers and Hart
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Yul Brenner
38. What show is -the continental
American dance music
Mercenary mary
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Entertainments
39. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The king and i
The student prince
The book uncle toms cabin
40. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Irene
On your toes
Good news
HMS pinafore
41. What show is 'broadway melody' from
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Singin in the rain
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
John Hollingshead
42. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Once upon a mattress
The king and I
Good news
Anti-hero
43. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Public enemy no. 13
New comedy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Agnes de mille
44. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Pageant wagons and mansions
A stevedore
Cleverly concoted
45. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Mary rodgers
The Threepenny Opera
A contrived ending
Costume designer
46. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Cole porter
Oscar hammerstein II
Ray Bolger
Restoration
47. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Entertainments
Masks and costumes
Victor herbert
Leonard bernstein
48. What character are in anything goes
Greeks
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
George and ira gershwin
Burlesqued
49. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
Bernstein and Sondheim
Meredith wilson
Satyr plays
50. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Disappears
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The Sound of Music
Moliere