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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. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Playwright
Tragedy
Set designer
2. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
My fair lady
American politics
Anything goes
3. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
The merry widow
Angel
New comedy
Athens
4. G: How many lead actors were there?
3 to 5
City dionysia
John Hollingshead
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
5. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Of thee i sing
Cleverly concoted
Music director
HMS pinafore
6. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Rebirth
Mary martin
On the town
7. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Damn yankees
Oscar hammerstein
Tearly Roman empire
8. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Mulligan guards routines
Jule Styne
Yul Brenner
Gwen verdon
9. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Babes in arms
Took to the streets and traveled -
Jerome kern
10. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Producer
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
American dance music
Patriotic
11. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Leonard Bernstein
Music director
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Frank Loesser
12. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
None all men
Athens
Gene kelly
13. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Political satire
Librettist
Comic opera
South pacific
14. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
He died in 1937
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Restoration
False it was stylized
15. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Choreographer
The marx brothers
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
James michener
16. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Mama rose
The new moon
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The romantic musicals
17. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
No no nanette
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
My Fair Lady
18. 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
Gertrude lawrence
The romantic musicals
Gertrude lawrence
Jerome kern
19. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
Carousel
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Stephen Sondheim
20. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Harrigan and hart
Michael Kidd
Thespis
The mikado
21. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
The doctor of alcantara
Deus ex machina
BC- before christ
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
22. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Borrowed tunes
Richard d'oyly carte
Timbuktu
Jerome kern
23. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
Leonard Bernstein
Angel
Meredith wilson
24. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
3 to 5
West side story
25. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Restoration
Tearly Roman empire
The Sound of Music
Mulligan guards routines
26. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Victor herbert
Director
South pacific
27. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Bert williams and george walker
Radio city music hall
Agnes de mille
28. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The metropolitan opera
Comedies
Moliere
The doctor of alcantara
29. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Richard d'oyly carte
On the town
The serenade and the fortune teller
30. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Carousel
Conductor
Agnes de mille
31. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
4th and 5th centuries bce
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ethel merman
Catholic church
32. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Ray bolger
The book
Oklahoma
The Threepenny Opera
33. where did performers go
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Music man
Took to the streets and traveled -
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
34. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Changing masks and costumes
Kiss me - kate
Same person
West side story
35. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Julie Andrews
West side story
Once upon a mattress
Comedy
36. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Can-can
Official beginning of western theatre
My fair lady
The music man
37. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
No
Slapsticks
He died in 1937
South pacific
38. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Tragedy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gertrude Lawrence
39. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
New comedy
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Comedies
40. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Jerome robbins
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Of thee i sing
41. Who is the composer for music man
3 to 5
Meredith wilson
The new moon
On your toes and babes in arms
42. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Crazy for you
Someone to watch over me
Evangeline
Gene kelly
43. What was the 1927 musical about college life
The metropolitan opera
Changing masks and costumes
Good news
Once upon a mattress
44. 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
Ethel merman
Pants role or trousers role
Ethel merman
45. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Ray Bolger
Frank Loesser
Damn yankees
BC- before christ
46. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Robin hood
Harry tierney
Deus ex machina
Comedy
47. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
War
The metropolitan opera
Gertrude lawrence
48. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Athens
Middle ages
The savoy operas
The mikado
49. G: Greek actors had...
Michael Kidd
Intense training
West side story
Crazy for You
50. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Disappears
Set designer
Middle ages
Ethel merman