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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. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Irene
American politics
The king and i
Ancient baghdad
2. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Timbuktu
The metropolitan opera
24
Nine
3. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
The cotton blossom
Ray Bolger
Jule Styne
Satyr plays
4. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Producer
Greeks
Cleverly concoted
Producer
5. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Agnes de mille
Voice type
Court nobility
Cole Porter
6. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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7. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Rex Harrison
Tearly Roman empire
Gypsy
8. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Pal Joey
Ethel merman
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
9. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
The music man
Pal Joey
Sally
Evangeline
10. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ethel merman
Commedia dell-arte
Candide
11. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Entertainments
Brigadoon
Mama rose
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
12. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Kiss me - kate
Conductor
Director
Director
13. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
No no nanette
Jerome robbins
New comedy
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
14. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Voice type
Good news
Ethel merman
Victor herbert
15. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Popular entertainments
Jerome kern
Catholic church
Brigadoon
16. Laurie is from What show
Oklahoma
Swing
Cleverly concoted
Flutes - lyres
17. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
False- it was considred a romantic musical
George gershwin
Pageant wagons and mansions
18. What show is the song bewitched from
Jule Styne
Rodgers and hammerstein
Stephen sondheim
Pal Joey
19. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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20. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Ethel merman
A stevedore
Director
My fair lady
21. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Once upon a mattress
BC- before christ
Took to the streets and traveled -
Can-can
22. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Tragedies
Director
Kiss me - kate
Can-can
23. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Female roles
I got rhythm
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
24. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
The book
Irene
Brigadoon
Agnes de mille
25. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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27. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Set designer
Jule Styne
The desert song
Agnes de mille
28. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
John Gay
My Fair Lady
Julie Andrews
29. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Parodied
Jerome kern
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Julie Andrews
30. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
No no nanette
South pacific
Kiss me - kate
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
31. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
On your toes and babes in arms
Crazy for You
Harrigan and hart
32. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Meredith wilson
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The Sound of Music
Sally
33. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
A trip to chinatown
George gershwin
Producer
He died in 1937
34. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Brigadoon
My fair lady
The marx brothers
Professional perfomers
35. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
BC
None all men
Moliere
36. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Professional perfomers
Rodgers and hammerstein
Moliere
Commedia dell-arte
37. Who wrote the music for show boat
Burlesqued
Producer
Jerome kern
Gwen verdon
38. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Michael Kidd
John Hollingshead
Of thee i sing
Gypsy
39. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Popular entertainments
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
My Fair Lady
40. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Damn yankees
Gestures and poses
Thespis
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
41. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Jerome kern
Greeks
Timbuktu
42. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
South pacific
He was the producer
Carol Channing
43. 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'
Borrowed tunes
Mary martin
Annie get your gun
Music director
44. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
A stevedore
Angel
Parodied
Composer
45. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
State
Singin in the rain
Patriotic
46. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Betty comden and adolph green
Satyr plays
Slapsticks
Fly loft
47. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
City dionysia
Female roles
Oklahoma
Ethel merman
48. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
My fair lady
Michael Kidd
Mary martin
49. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
The pajama game
No no nanette
Political satire
A contrived ending
50. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
The marx brothers
The savoy operas
Kiss me - Kate
The music man