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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
I got rhythm
Irene
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
The savoy operas
2. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Damn yankees
Oil lamps
24
Ethel merman
3. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Bernstein and Sondheim
Director
Richard rodgers
The Sound of Music
4. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Gypsy
Cole porter
Jerome kern
Julie Andrews
5. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Timbuktu
Once upon a mattress
Tragedy
Ethel merman
6. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
West side story
The cotton blossom
Gertrude Lawrence
BC
7. What was the continental
Popular dance
Costume designer
Nine
Gene kelly
8. What was the setting for Kismet
Oil lamps
Kiss me - Kate
The merry widow
Ancient baghdad
9. Who is the composer of the music man
Moved indoors
Before common era
Meredith wilson
The shows they came from
10. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Mary Martin
Harrigan and hart
Borrowed tunes
Timbuktu
11. G: What does BCE mean?
Pants role or trousers role
Before common era
Brigadoon
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
12. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Librettist
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Stand by
The metropolitan opera
13. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Took to the streets and traveled -
The Sound of Music
Jerome kern
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
14. Who made in dahomey unique
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Leonard bernstein
Oscar hammerstein II
No no nanette
15. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Lerner and Loewe
Can-can
South pacific
Producer
16. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Angel
Frank Loesser
On the town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
17. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Ray Bolger
Angel
Orchestration
18. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Damn yankees
South pacific
19. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Masks and costumes
Oklahoma
Brigadoon
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?
Producer
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Guys and dolls
Carol Channing
21. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
West side story
Jerome robbins
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Of thee i sing
22. 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'
Annie get your gun
The new moon
Victor herbert
Carmen jones
23. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Can-can
Cole porter
Mercenary mary
King Louis XIV
24. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
The Sound of Music
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Ethel merman
25. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Mary rodgers
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Slapsticks
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
26. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Ray bolger
Playwright
Of thee i sing
Angel
27. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Producer
Tragedy
John Gay
The cotton blossom
28. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
John Hollingshead
Robin hood
The shows they came from
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
29. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
The Sound of Music
Jule Styne
Witty dialogue
Timbuktu
30. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Babes in arms
I got rhythm
The cotton blossom
Leonard bernstein
31. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Bert williams and george walker
Singin in the rain
32. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Set designer
Entertainments
Director
George and ira gershwin
33. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Oklahoma
Babes in arms
The book
34. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
No no nanette
Marilyn Miller
Official beginning of western theatre
35. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
Radio city music hall
Composer
Composer
36. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Athens
Enzio pinza
The marx brothers
Athens
37. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Gypsy
Ray bolger
Oklahoma
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
A contrived ending
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Cole Porter
39. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
On your toes
The book
Eliza Doolittle
Director
40. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
South pacific
Once upon a mattress
Kismet
Restoration
41. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Intense training
The doctor of alcantara
Eliza Doolittle
Director
42. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Victor herbert
Permissiveness and crazes
James michener
George and ira gershwin
43. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Once upon a mattress
Irene
The book uncle toms cabin
44. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Gypsy
Gertrude Lawrence
Ethel merman
Playwright
45. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Kismet
The shows they came from
Jerome kern
Disappears
46. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Crazy for You
Public enemy no. 13
Restoration
Betty comden and adolph green
47. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Jule Styne
Can-can
The belle of new york
Michael Kidd
48. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Comedy
Cole porter
Greeks
49. 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
South pacific
Agnes de mille
Ray Bolger
The puritans took control of the governmetn
50. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
On the town
Once upon a mattress
Jerome kern
HMS pinafore