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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 is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
If i loved you
Timbuktu
Costume designer
Oscar hammerstein II
2. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Flutes - lyres
Harry tierney
BC
3. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Timbuktu
Georges balanchine
Commedia dell-arte
Can-can
4. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Meredith wilson
Comic opera
Mary Martin
Oh Kay
5. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
City dionysia
Agnes de mille
Of thee i sing
Brigadoon
6. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Mercenary mary
George and Ira Gershwin
Gertrude lawrence
Ray Bolger
7. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
4th and 5th centuries bce
Girl crazy
Oil lamps
Producer
8. Who is the composer for on the town
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
4th and 5th centuries bce
Spectacle
Leonard bernstein
9. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Irene
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Carmen jones
Leonard bernstein
10. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Conductor
Rodgers and hammerstein
The book uncle toms cabin
Yul Brenner
11. Who writes the words to the songs?
King Louis XIV
Lyricist
The savoy operas
Rebirth
12. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Once upon a mattress
Oklahoma
Rodgers and Hart
The desert song
13. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Moliere
Satyr plays
False it was stylized
Agnes de mille
14. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Georges balanchine
HMS pinafore
Ethel merman
Lowering
15. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Oklahoma
Lowering
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Agnes de Mille
16. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Victor herbert
Timbuktu
Enzio pinza
17. G: Greek actors had...
Romantic music
BC
Intense training
The king and I
18. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Of thee i sing
Anything goes
Girl crazy
The puritans took control of the governmetn
19. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Jerome Robbins
Spectacle
20. Who is the star of Sally
The book
Yul Brenner
Pants role or trousers role
Marilyn Miller
21. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Tragedies
Threepenny opera
Cole Porter
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
22. Who hires the creative team for a production?
My fair lady
Producer
Oklahoma
Can-can
23. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Borrowed tunes
Lerner and Loewe
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
The book
24. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
24
Tearly Roman empire
Babes in arms
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
25. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
The cotton blossom
Horace
Comedies
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
26. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Jerome Robbins
Kiss me - Kate
No no nanette
27. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
Producer
The Threepenny opera
Middle ages
28. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
4th and 5th centuries bce
None all men
Pageant wagons and mansions
Crazy for You
29. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
No no nanette
West side story
Tragedy
30. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Carousel
A contrived ending
Mary martin
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
31. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
King Louis XIV
The book
Spectacle
Tragedies
32. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
False it was stylized
Greeks
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Guys and dolls
33. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
New comedy
My Fair Lady
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Mulligan guards routines
34. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Pants role or trousers role
Took to the streets and traveled -
A stevedore
Rex Harrison
35. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Leonard bernstein
American dance music
Of thee i sing
Tragedy
36. Mama rose is from What show
Director
Georges balanchine
Gypsy
Intense training
37. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
War
Evangeline
Commedia dell-arte
Music man
38. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
The king and I
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
City dionysia
39. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
City dionysia
Richard d'oyly carte
Playwright
Victor herbert
40. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Plato
Cole porter
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Stephen Sondheim
41. 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?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Cole Porter
Rodgers and hammerstein
Guys and dolls
42. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Irving Berlin
Oh Kay
Evangeline
The belle of new york
43. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Parodied
Court nobility
Aristotle
Set designer
44. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
My Fair Lady
Political satire
Leonard bernstein
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
45. What team wrote the Sound of music
Mary martin
State
Rodgers and hammerstein
East Side Story
46. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
The king and i
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Jerome kern
My fair lady
47. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Irving Berlin
Gypsy
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
On the town
48. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Masks and costumes
Middle ages
Permissiveness and crazes
Producer
49. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Timbuktu
Popular dance
The metropolitan opera
Jerome robbins
50. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Gypsy
Can-can
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The cotton blossom