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Musical Theatre
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1. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Athens
South pacific
The romantic musicals
2. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Burlesqued
Ethel merman
Brigadoon
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
3. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Patriotic
Rodgers and hammerstein
Director
Plato
4. Who composed the music for Irene
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Brigadoon
Harry tierney
Carol Channing
5. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Patriotic
Babes in arms
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Gwen verdon
6. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Music director
Intense training
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
7. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Oscar hammerstein II
Timbuktu
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
8. Who wrote the music for show boat
On your toes and babes in arms
Jerome kern
The metropolitan opera
John Gay
9. What characters are in show boat
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10. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mercenary mary
The king and i
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
11. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Ethel merman
Voice type
Librettist
Guys and Dolls
12. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Richard d'oyly carte
Before common era
Comic opera
Producer
13. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
Kiss me - kate
Mercenary mary
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
14. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
Satyr plays
The Sound of Music
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
15. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Stephen Sondheim
The new moon
Plato
16. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Librettist
Yul Brenner
The marx brothers
He was the producer
17. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
3 to 5
Kismet
Adonis
18. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
West side story
Gypsy
Pageant wagons and mansions
Moliere
19. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Ancient baghdad
Conductor
Robin hood
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
Rose marie
Leonard bernstein
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
21. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
None all men
Satyr plays
No no nanette
22. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
John Hollingshead
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Jule Styne
His 'confessions'
23. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Mercenary mary
James michener
George m. cohan
A contrived ending
24. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Annie get your gun
George and Ira Gershwin
The book uncle toms cabin
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
25. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
The metropolitan opera
Swing
The Threepenny Opera
Babes in arms
26. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Evangeline
Voice type
Tearly Roman empire
Spectacle
27. 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
Timbuktu
Voice type
The marx brothers
28. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
The king and i
Romantic music
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The metropolitan opera
29. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
The book uncle toms cabin
Harrigan and hart
Athens
Stand by
30. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Angel
Commedia dell-arte
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Yul Brenner
31. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Flutes - lyres
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Romantic music
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
32. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Mimes
Burlesqued
Witty dialogue
My Fair Lady
33. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Moved indoors
Anti-hero
Can-can
South pacific
34. Bloody Mary is from What show
South pacific
Oh Kay
Jerome robbins
My fair lady
35. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Comedies
Oklahoma
The Sound of Music
Rex Harrison
36. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Plato
Gypsy
No no nanette
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
37. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Greeks
James michener
Cleverly concoted
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
38. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Crazy for you
Of thee i sing
Bob Fosse
Middle ages
39. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Richard rodgers
Good news
Gertrude Lawrence
South pacific
40. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Mary rodgers
Singin in the rain
Librettist
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
41. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Brigadoon
Masks and costumes
Victor herbert
Ethel merman
42. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The cotton blossom
Music man
The Sound of Music
The king and i
43. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Middle ages
Lerner and Loewe
Changing masks and costumes
44. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Ray Bolger
Changing masks and costumes
He died in 1937
45. Who stages the dances?
South pacific
No no nanette
Choreographer
Permissiveness and crazes
46. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Satyr plays
Rex Harrison
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
47. What show is i want to be happy
He died in 1937
Cole porter
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
No no nanette
48. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
False it was stylized
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The Threepenny opera
Michael Kidd
49. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Pageant wagons and mansions
No no nanette
Political satire
Rex Harrison
50. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Guys and Dolls
Oil lamps
The Threepenny opera
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
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