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Musical Theatre
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1. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Witty dialogue
Agnes de mille
Of thee i sing
Leonard Bernstein
2. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Flutes - lyres
Tragedy
Oil lamps
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
3. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Agnes de mille
The romantic musicals
4. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Deus ex machina
The Threepenny opera
Jerome kern
Guys and dolls
5. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Mama rose
Richard rodgers
No no nanette
Jerome Robbins
6. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
Orchestration
No no nanette
Lowering
7. Who wrote the music for show boat
Marilyn Miller
Oklahoma
Jerome kern
Comedy
8. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
He died in 1937
Director
American dance music
Harry tierney
9. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
George gershwin
South pacific
Composer
10. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Once upon a mattress
Timbuktu
Parodied
John Hollingshead
11. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
No no nanette
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Jerome kern
Same person
12. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Of thee i sing
The music man
Angel
Rose marie
13. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
My fair lady
Pal Joey
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Leonard Bernstein
14. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Slapsticks
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Mulligan guards routines
15. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Ray Bolger
The shows they came from
My fair lady
Mulligan guards routines
16. Who made in dahomey unique
Angel
No no nanette
Damn yankees
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
17. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Jule Styne
Yul Brenner
Director
Agnes de mille
18. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Pal Joey
Witty dialogue
Of thee i sing
The book
19. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Leonard bernstein
American dance music
Director
Of thee i sing
20. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Before common era
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Gestures and poses
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
21. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Nine
Gypsy
Threepenny opera
South pacific
22. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Marilyn Miller
Harrigan and hart
Greeks
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
23. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Damn yankees
Meredith wilson
Of thee i sing
Libretto
24. What was the continental
The belle of new york
Meredith wilson
Popular dance
Julie Andrews
25. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Rex Harrison
Fly loft
Gypsy
26. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Richard d'oyly carte
4th and 5th centuries bce
Pageant wagons and mansions
Eliza Doolittle
27. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Mama rose
Kurt Weill
The puritans took control of the governmetn
John Gay
28. What show is the song bewitched from
Deus ex machina
Pal Joey
Music man
Rebirth
29. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Jerome kern
Pageant wagons and mansions
Threepenny opera
The king and i
30. Pal Joey was written by...
Tearly Roman empire
Rodgers and Hart
Stand by
Gypsy
31. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Voice type
Took to the streets and traveled -
Conductor
Comedy
32. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Oklahoma
No
Of thee i sing
Adonis
33. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Harrigan and hart
Evangeline
Bert williams and george walker
Entertainments
34. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Director
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Good news
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Candide
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Victor herbert
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
36. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Good news
Michael Kidd
Parodied
Rodgers and hammerstein
37. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
American politics
George m. cohan
South pacific
South pacific
38. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Can-can
The belle of new york
Greeks
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
39. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
The cotton blossom
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
None all men
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
40. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Leonard bernstein
The music man
Horace
Meredith wilson
41. 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
Catholic church
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
West side story
42. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
On your toes and babes in arms
Ray Bolger
No no nanette
Bert williams and george walker
43. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
The king and I
Babes in arms
Ethel merman
44. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
South pacific
Crazy for You
My fair lady
John Gay
45. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Leonard bernstein
Mama rose
Ballet and modern dance
Entertainments
46. Greek: 534 BCE
Rebirth
Official beginning of western theatre
Timbuktu
Spectacle
47. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Agnes de mille
Sally
BC- before christ
48. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The shows they came from
Producer
49. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
The king and i
Permissiveness and crazes
4th and 5th centuries bce
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
50. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
King Louis XIV
War
Bert williams and george walker
Kiss me - kate
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