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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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1. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Restoration
No no nanette
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Adonis
2. Mama rose is from What show
BC
Rodgers and hammerstein
Jule Styne
Gypsy
3. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Disappears
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Agnes de mille
The book uncle toms cabin
4. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Court nobility
Pants role or trousers role
Annie get your gun
Pal Joey
5. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
The merry widow
Gestures and poses
Once upon a mattress
The metropolitan opera
6. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
Guys and dolls
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
A contrived ending
7. Laurie's dream ballet
Good news
Oklahoma
The music man
South pacific
8. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Annie get your gun
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Athens
The king and i
9. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
None all men
Permissiveness and crazes
Anything goes
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
10. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Director
A contrived ending
The mikado
Bernstein and Sondheim
11. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Producer
BC
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Fly loft
12. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Composer
Eliza Doolittle
The student prince
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
13. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Swing
Playwright
Jerome robbins
Cole Porter
14. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Bob Fosse
Plato
South pacific
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
15. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Of thee i sing
Agnes de Mille
Meredith wilson
Victor herbert
16. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Annie get your gun
West side story
New comedy
A contrived ending
17. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Parodied
Georges balanchine
Restoration
Court nobility
18. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
The serenade and the fortune teller
Tearly Roman empire
My fair lady
Timbuktu
19. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Ballet and modern dance
Of thee i sing
Gestures and poses
Orchestration
20. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The new moon
George gershwin
Mulligan guards routines
Comic opera had music and dialogue
21. 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 ___________.
Carousel
Kismet
The shows they came from
Annie get your gun
22. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Composer
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Disappears
Gypsy
23. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Slapsticks
Of thee i sing
Disappears
The student prince
24. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Oklahoma
Satyr plays
Jerome robbins
25. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
BC- before christ
Oklahoma
Director
George m. cohan
26. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Slapsticks
Lerner and Loewe
Julie Andrews
Victor herbert
27. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Thespis
Pal Joey
Angel
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
28. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Official beginning of western theatre
Stephen Sondheim
Tearly Roman empire
Popular dance
29. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Mimes
Oscar hammerstein II
The metropolitan opera
New comedy
30. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
John Gay
Rodgers and Hart
West side story
Good news
31. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Director
Sally
Tearly Roman empire
Librettist
32. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Jerome kern
Comedies
Harrigan and hart
33. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Comedies
The doctor of alcantara
Bob Fosse
American dance music
34. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
George m. cohan
Burlesqued
Can-can
35. Who is the composer for music man
Comedy
Meredith wilson
Mama rose
Mulligan guards routines
36. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Enzio pinza
Pageant wagons and mansions
Agnes de mille
Singin in the rain
37. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Lerner and Loewe
Same person
Gene kelly
My fair lady
38. What character are in anything goes
Rodgers and hammerstein
Harrigan and hart
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
39. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
The king and I
Ethel merman
He was the producer
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
40. What team wrote the Sound of music
Jule Styne
Meredith wilson
Romantic music
Rodgers and hammerstein
41. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Changing masks and costumes
Cole Porter
Commedia dell-arte
Mary Martin
42. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Mulligan guards routines
The book uncle toms cabin
Oklahoma
The king and i
43. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Angel
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Mulligan guards routines
44. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The serenade and the fortune teller
Voice type
45. where did performers go
He died in 1937
South pacific
Candide
Took to the streets and traveled -
46. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Meredith wilson
Comedies
Bert williams and george walker
Borrowed tunes
47. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Composer
Kismet
Oscar hammerstein II
48. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Kismet
Irene
Gypsy
His 'confessions'
49. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Witty dialogue
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Lowering
Ethel merman
50. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Changing masks and costumes
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Music director
The music man