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Musical Theatre
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1. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Rose marie
My fair lady
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Slapsticks
2. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Candide
4th and 5th centuries bce
Someone to watch over me
Lerner and Loewe
3. Who made in dahomey unique
John Gay
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Permissiveness and crazes
Cole Porter
4. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
James michener
No no nanette
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Swing
5. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Of thee i sing
Patriotic
Aristotle
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Rodgers and hammerstein
Mama rose
Director
The savoy operas
7. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Rodgers and Hart
Official beginning of western theatre
Kismet
Popular dance
8. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Mercenary mary
Public enemy no. 13
9. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The Sound of Music
10. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Oklahoma
On your toes and babes in arms
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
11. Commedia performers used...
George gershwin
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Same person
Slapsticks
12. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Disappears
Popular dance
Comedy
South pacific
13. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
I got rhythm
Set designer
Female roles
Gertrude lawrence
14. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
John Gay
Rex Harrison
Anything goes
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
15. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Carousel
Billy bigelow
The merry widow
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
16. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Gwen verdon
Billy bigelow
The king and i
Permissiveness and crazes
17. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
Swing
Anything goes
The desert song
18. Who is the composer for music man
Richard d'oyly carte
Meredith wilson
Irene
New comedy
19. Who picks the actors?
Producer
Evangeline
Director
Marilyn Miller
20. Bloody Mary is from What show
Pal Joey
South pacific
Horace
John Gay
21. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Evangeline
Conductor
Julie Andrews
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
22. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Adonis
Richard d'oyly carte
Flutes - lyres
Permissiveness and crazes
23. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Oscar hammerstein II
Good news
Anti-hero
Ethel merman
24. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Mary martin
The pajama game
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
25. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
State
Irene
Timbuktu
Producer
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Tearly Roman empire
Bernstein and Sondheim
Mulligan guards routines
Parodied
27. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Director
Julie Andrews
New comedy
New comedy
28. Greek: 534 BCE
Official beginning of western theatre
His 'confessions'
John Gay
Restoration
29. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Female roles
The music man
30. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Mulligan guards routines
Commedia dell-arte
Cleverly concoted
Leonard Bernstein
31. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Tragedy
Masks and costumes
Voice type
32. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Harry tierney
None all men
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Director
33. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
The merry widow
Jerome Robbins
Gwen verdon
Sally
34. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Middle ages
War
Brigadoon
Of thee i sing
35. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
The serenade and the fortune teller
Composer
Playwright
36. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Good news
False it was stylized
Damn yankees
George gershwin
37. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Aristotle
Ancient baghdad
Angel
Bert williams and george walker
38. where did performers go
Jerome Robbins
The merry widow
Jerome kern
Took to the streets and traveled -
39. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Slapsticks
Popular entertainments
40. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Evangeline
Oil lamps
41. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
King Louis XIV
Producer
42. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Oh Kay
The merry widow
Jule Styne
Of thee i sing
43. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Timbuktu
He was the producer
Satyr plays
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
44. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
The romantic musicals
Damn yankees
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Marilyn Miller
45. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
Leonard bernstein
Patriotic
Betty comden and adolph green
46. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
The king and i
Lyricist
Frank Loesser
Julie Andrews
47. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Brigadoon
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Brigadoon
Crazy for You
48. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
A contrived ending
The Sound of Music
Oil lamps
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
49. What show is i want to be happy
No no nanette
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Romantic
Jule Styne
50. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Director
A trip to chinatown
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
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