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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. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
Pal Joey
Aristotle
Popular entertainments and comic opera
2. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Gwen verdon
Moliere
Greeks
Gertrude Lawrence
3. 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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4. G: What does BCE mean?
Choreographer
Before common era
Pal Joey
Horace
5. 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
None all men
Oklahoma
Slapsticks
New comedy
6. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
American dance music
False- it was considred a romantic musical
None all men
Producer
7. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
George m. cohan
The savoy operas
Adonis
Director
8. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Set designer
Athens
24
A stevedore
9. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Kiss me - Kate
American dance music
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Female roles
10. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Richard rodgers
Agnes de mille
Bert williams and george walker
11. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Cleverly concoted
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
State
12. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
The music man
The music man
Producer
13. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
Sally
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
On your toes
14. What show is i want to be happy
Ballet and modern dance
Ethel merman
No no nanette
Conductor
15. What comic duo was the show centered around
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Girl crazy
Bert williams and george walker
Disappears
16. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Set designer
Kiss me - Kate
Producer
Official beginning of western theatre
17. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Jule Styne
The Threepenny Opera
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
City dionysia
18. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Director
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Popular entertainments
19. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Cole porter
Parodied
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
War
20. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
The Sound of Music
Can-can
Swing
21. Who is the composer for on the town
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Singin in the rain
Leonard bernstein
Adonis
22. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Can-can
Kiss me - Kate
Kiss me - kate
4th and 5th centuries bce
23. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Brigadoon
St. Augustine
Restoration
Tragedy
24. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Slapsticks
Gypsy
Commedia dell-arte
The Sound of Music
25. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Julie Andrews
Gertrude Lawrence
Once upon a mattress
His 'confessions'
26. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
On the town
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Irving Berlin
Middle ages
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
East Side Story
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
28. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
The king and i
Jule Styne
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
American politics
29. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
Candide
A trip to chinatown
Mary rodgers
30. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Conductor
Catholic church
Agnes de Mille
False it was stylized
31. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Intense training
James michener
Popular entertainments
Conductor
32. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Pal Joey
Oscar hammerstein II
John Hollingshead
The pajama game
33. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Deus ex machina
Spectacle
Jule Styne
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
34. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Rodgers and hammerstein
Choreographer
Romantic music
Political satire
35. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Flutes - lyres
Carousel
Borrowed tunes
Kurt Weill
36. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The romantic musicals
Crazy for You
St. Augustine
37. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Public enemy no. 13
Took to the streets and traveled -
Gertrude Lawrence
The Sound of Music
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Changing masks and costumes
Annie get your gun
Comedies
George and Ira Gershwin
39. What show is- tea for two
Music man
Stand by
No no nanette
Costume designer
40. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Changing masks and costumes
Kiss me - kate
New comedy
41. What characters are in show boat
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42. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
The Threepenny opera
Orchestration
Jerome kern
Lerner and Loewe
43. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
South pacific
Timbuktu
44. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Rebirth
Candide
Mimes
My Fair Lady
45. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Restoration
Romantic music
Commedia dell-arte
Bert williams and george walker
46. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Timbuktu
Irene
47. What character are in anything goes
Burlesqued
Carousel
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
48. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
Jerome robbins
Romantic
Leonard bernstein
49. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Mulligan guards routines
Candide
Slapsticks
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
50. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Borrowed tunes
The serenade and the fortune teller
Playwright
The music man