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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
The book uncle toms cabin
Aristotle
Agnes de mille
The pajama game
2. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Leonard bernstein
Babes in arms
New comedy
Set designer
3. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Comic opera
Producer
Gwen verdon
4. G: What is BCE same as
Yul Brenner
Eliza Doolittle
BC- before christ
Stephen Sondheim
5. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Yul Brenner
The king and i
Official beginning of western theatre
Gestures and poses
6. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Intense training
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
My fair lady
Lerner and Loewe
7. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Court nobility
South pacific
False it was stylized
Julie Andrews
8. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Ancient baghdad
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Ray bolger
Threepenny opera
9. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Of thee i sing
Thespis
10. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Leonard Bernstein
South pacific
My fair lady
Mary rodgers
11. Bloody Mary is from What show
Producer
Ray Bolger
South pacific
Producer
12. Mama rose is from What show
Cole porter
Romantic
If i loved you
Gypsy
13. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Yul Brenner
The doctor of alcantara
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Gertrude Lawrence
14. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Burlesqued
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Agnes de Mille
Librettist
15. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Crazy for You
Timbuktu
Julie Andrews
The king and I
16. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Annie get your gun
Director
Permissiveness and crazes
East Side Story
17. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Lowering
Richard d'oyly carte
Producer
South pacific
18. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Director
Brigadoon
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
19. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
No no nanette
Aristotle
Orchestration
20. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Richard rodgers
Ethel merman
Ethel merman
21. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Moliere
Cole porter
Slapsticks
The serenade and the fortune teller
22. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
State
Julie Andrews
Cleverly concoted
The new moon
23. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
West side story
Ethel merman
George and ira gershwin
24. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
The romantic musicals
Moliere
Burlesqued
Moved indoors
25. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Pal Joey
Female roles
Rodgers and Hart
26. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
American politics
West side story
Girl crazy
Director
27. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Mary rodgers
Producer
South pacific
28. What are the three types of greek plays
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The Sound of Music
Oklahoma
29. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
James michener
New comedy
Masks and costumes
Betty comden and adolph green
30. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Mama rose
Libretto
Jerome Robbins
A trip to chinatown
31. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Jerome robbins
Burlesqued
Mimes
Jule Styne
32. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
Harry tierney
Leonard Bernstein
HMS pinafore
33. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Cleverly concoted
The book
I got rhythm
Moliere
34. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Comedies
Official beginning of western theatre
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Mary martin
35. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Oscar hammerstein
Mary rodgers
False it was stylized
Gypsy
36. 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'
Director
Fly loft
Moliere
Annie get your gun
37. Who is the star of Sally
Same person
George m. cohan
Satyr plays
Marilyn Miller
38. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Threepenny opera
St. Augustine
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
39. What show is -love is sweeping the country
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Borrowed tunes
Of thee i sing
Rodgers and Hart
40. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Playwright
The Sound of Music
Harrigan and hart
My fair lady
41. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Singin in the rain
Kiss me - kate
On the town
New comedy
42. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Damn yankees
Lerner and Loewe
The new moon
Romantic
43. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Comic opera
The merry widow
My Fair Lady
James michener
44. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Agnes de mille
Frank Loesser
George m. cohan
Director
45. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Composer
Court nobility
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Orchestration
46. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
John Gay
Tearly Roman empire
Marilyn Miller
South pacific
47. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Tragedies
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Choreographer
48. Greek: 534 BCE
Mercenary mary
The king and i
Official beginning of western theatre
New comedy
49. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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50. Mama rose is from What show
Gypsy
Oklahoma
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Jule Styne