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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 i want to be happy
Brigadoon
Irving Berlin
No no nanette
Jerome kern
2. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
My fair lady
Greeks
Choreographer
3. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Damn yankees
New comedy
Julie Andrews
Professional perfomers
4. Lotte Lenya is from What show
The Threepenny Opera
Jule Styne
The king and i
Producer
5. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Gwen verdon
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Aristotle
Moliere
6. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Agnes de mille
Libretto
Gypsy
7. Who composed the music for Irene
Meredith wilson
Kiss me - kate
Romantic music
Harry tierney
8. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
His 'confessions'
George gershwin
Cole Porter
Meredith wilson
9. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
The shows they came from
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Stephen Sondheim
10. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Libretto
My fair lady
11. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
No no nanette
Comic opera
12. Who is the composer for on the town
Leonard bernstein
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
13. Mama rose is from What show
Gypsy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
False it was stylized
Tragedy
14. Mama rose is from What show
Gypsy
The king and I
American dance music
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
15. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Julie Andrews
Conductor
No no nanette
Oscar hammerstein
16. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Burlesqued
No no nanette
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Stand by
17. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Plato
The music man
John Gay
Comic opera had music and dialogue
18. Bloody Mary is from What show
South pacific
Gertrude Lawrence
Playwright
The student prince
19. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Cole porter
George and ira gershwin
The savoy operas
South pacific
20. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Michael Kidd
Adonis
My Fair Lady
A stevedore
21. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
War
Deus ex machina
James michener
Pal Joey
22. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Public enemy no. 13
Deus ex machina
Richard rodgers
23. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Michael Kidd
Playwright
Ballet and modern dance
Court nobility
24. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
The cotton blossom
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Richard rodgers
25. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Rodgers and Hart
Of thee i sing
Billy bigelow
New comedy
26. What was the setting for Kismet
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Rodgers and hammerstein
Ray bolger
Ancient baghdad
27. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Victor herbert
Ethel merman
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
28. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
My Fair Lady
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Pants role or trousers role
Oklahoma
29. Who composed the music for Irene
Radio city music hall
Harry tierney
Horace
The book uncle toms cabin
30. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Satyr plays
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mimes
Fly loft
31. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
A stevedore
Mimes
War
Parodied
32. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Carmen jones
Candide
Anything goes
33. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Producer
Jule Styne
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Commedia dell-arte
34. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Popular entertainments
BC
Aristotle
Took to the streets and traveled -
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Harry tierney
John Hollingshead
Conductor
36. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Director
On your toes
Agnes de mille
Restoration
37. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Lerner and Loewe
The Sound of Music
Ethel merman
Restoration
38. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The music man
Betty comden and adolph green
39. 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
Rodgers and hammerstein
4th and 5th centuries bce
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
40. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Director
Court nobility
Guys and dolls
Mary martin
41. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Tragedies
Aristotle
Disappears
Guys and dolls
42. Who is the star of sweet charity
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
George and ira gershwin
The Sound of Music
Gwen verdon
43. Who is the composer of the music man
Evangeline
Leonard bernstein
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Meredith wilson
44. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Permissiveness and crazes
Rodgers and hammerstein
The book
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
45. What was a 'claquer?'
Producer
South pacific
Playwright
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
46. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Libretto
Oh Kay
Radio city music hall
Costume designer
47. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
24
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
George gershwin
Oklahoma
48. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Moved indoors
Gertrude Lawrence
I got rhythm
49. Who wrote the music for show boat
Jerome kern
Oklahoma
Before common era
Victor herbert
50. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Mercenary mary
The savoy operas
Once upon a mattress
Mercenary mary