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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 are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
St. Augustine
Babes in arms
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Julie Andrews
2. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Ancient baghdad
The Threepenny Opera
Pageant wagons and mansions
Stephen sondheim
3. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Mary martin
Lowering
Oh Kay
4. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Ethel merman
Carousel
Timbuktu
Agnes de Mille
5. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Permissiveness and crazes
Playwright
Costume designer
James michener
6. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
Producer
John Gay
Mercenary mary
7. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Lowering
American dance music
8. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
The music man
Oklahoma
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Ethel merman
9. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Took to the streets and traveled -
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Carmen jones
South pacific
10. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Mercenary mary
Victor herbert
Irving Berlin
Victor herbert
11. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Rodgers and hammerstein
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The book
James michener
12. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Cole Porter
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Plato
13. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
City dionysia
Cole porter
The Threepenny Opera
James michener
14. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Anti-hero
Jerome robbins
The mikado
Choreographer
15. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
Pal Joey
West side story
Agnes de Mille
Commedia dell-arte
16. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Girl crazy
Bob Fosse
Cole porter
Julie Andrews
17. What does 'renaissance' mean
American politics
Bernstein and Sondheim
Middle ages
Rebirth
18. What show is -i got rhythm
Official beginning of western theatre
Popular entertainments
Girl crazy
Richard d'oyly carte
19. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Ethel merman
Comedies
On your toes and babes in arms
Crazy for You
20. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Director
Leonard bernstein
Composer
A trip to chinatown
21. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Agnes de mille
Kiss me - kate
Sally
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
22. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Once upon a mattress
Irene
Middle ages
Producer
23. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Parodied
Anything goes
Meredith wilson
The book uncle toms cabin
24. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Nine
New comedy
Ballet and modern dance
Girl crazy
25. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
Gertrude lawrence
Pageant wagons and mansions
Jerome robbins
26. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Yul Brenner
Nine
Aristotle
Crazy for You
27. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Gertrude Lawrence
Mary martin
Jule Styne
Orchestration
28. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Romantic
The music man
Oklahoma
A stevedore
29. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Romantic music
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Brigadoon
Commedia dell-arte
30. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Oklahoma
The Threepenny Opera
Ancient baghdad
31. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Stephen sondheim
The Threepenny opera
Timbuktu
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
32. Pal Joey was written by...
Rodgers and Hart
Middle ages
Lerner and Loewe
West side story
33. Bloody Mary is from What show
Georges balanchine
South pacific
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
3 to 5
34. 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
Ray Bolger
Entertainments
Rose marie
3 to 5
35. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Leonard Bernstein
On the town
Harrigan and hart
The metropolitan opera
36. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
No no nanette
I got rhythm
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Choreographer
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Timbuktu
Annie get your gun
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Commedia dell-arte
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Adonis
George and Ira Gershwin
Carmen jones
John Hollingshead
39. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Director
40. What show is -i got rhythm
St. Augustine
The savoy operas
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Girl crazy
41. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
My fair lady
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Athens
Professional perfomers
42. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Jerome Robbins
Witty dialogue
43. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Damn yankees
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
A trip to chinatown
Julie Andrews
44. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Popular dance
Burlesqued
Gypsy
45. Who is the star of Sally
A stevedore
Marilyn Miller
Deus ex machina
Meredith wilson
46. 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
Oklahoma
Librettist
Conductor
Official beginning of western theatre
47. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
Gypsy
James michener
Harrigan and hart
48. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Jerome kern
Betty comden and adolph green
Frank Loesser
Nine
49. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George and ira gershwin
No no nanette
George m. cohan
Lowering
50. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
The cotton blossom
The romantic musicals
The new moon
John Gay