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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Disappears
Comedy
Anti-hero
Agnes de mille
2. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Borrowed tunes
Director
Leonard Bernstein
The king and I
3. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The romantic musicals
South pacific
Michael Kidd
The marx brothers
4. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
Good news
George m. cohan
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
5. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Parodied
Threepenny opera
No
6. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Comedy
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Mercenary mary
Greeks
7. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Playwright
Julie Andrews
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Stand by
8. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Victor herbert
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Burlesqued
9. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Leonard bernstein
Agnes de mille
Betty comden and adolph green
Leonard bernstein
10. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Sally
Agnes de Mille
The serenade and the fortune teller
11. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Comedies
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
12. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Billy bigelow
Ancient baghdad
Lyricist
13. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Playwright
Director
BC
14. Greek: 534 BCE
Spectacle
Same person
The king and i
Official beginning of western theatre
15. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Guys and Dolls
Cole porter
Changing masks and costumes
Greeks
16. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Ethel merman
Masks and costumes
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Producer
17. 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'
Stephen sondheim
Mary rodgers
Annie get your gun
Timbuktu
18. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Jerome Robbins
Agnes de mille
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
American politics
19. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Julie Andrews
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
My fair lady
The puritans took control of the governmetn
20. 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?
Guys and dolls
Oscar hammerstein II
War
Jule Styne
21. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
The book uncle toms cabin
Kiss me - kate
22. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
The music man
Mama rose
Ancient baghdad
23. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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24. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Aristotle
Director
New comedy
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
25. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Damn yankees
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The book uncle toms cabin
Same person
26. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
Ethel merman
Pageant wagons and mansions
Irving Berlin
27. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Can-can
Professional perfomers
Producer
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
28. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Director
Meredith wilson
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
29. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
BC
Director
Rex Harrison
30. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
The desert song
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
A contrived ending
War
31. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Agnes de mille
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
New comedy
Rebirth
32. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Professional perfomers
Oklahoma
Set designer
Once upon a mattress
33. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Once upon a mattress
The merry widow
Oklahoma
Popular entertainments
34. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
The king and i
A stevedore
Georges balanchine
Music man
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Mulligan guards routines
Director
Took to the streets and traveled -
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
36. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
The king and I
South pacific
Lerner and Loewe
Gypsy
37. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Richard rodgers
Costume designer
Spectacle
Carol Channing
38. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Witty dialogue
Irene
Gwen verdon
39. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Director
Candide
Irene
Moved indoors
40. Who made in dahomey unique
South pacific
Damn yankees
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Lerner and Loewe
41. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
On the town
Tragedies
James michener
Frank Loesser
42. Who is the composer of the music man
Gertrude Lawrence
Director
Meredith wilson
Girl crazy
43. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Cole Porter
George m. cohan
Gypsy
44. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
George m. cohan
The student prince
The mikado
45. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Burlesqued
Anti-hero
Irving Berlin
Director
46. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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47. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Composer
Patriotic
Intense training
Romantic music
48. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Ethel merman
Political satire
Evangeline
Permissiveness and crazes
49. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
Bob Fosse
Annie get your gun
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
50. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Female roles
John Gay
Mama rose
Burlesqued