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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Irving Berlin
Julie Andrews
Adonis
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
2. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
BC- before christ
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The king and i
3. G: How many lead actors were there?
Jerome robbins
3 to 5
Orchestration
West side story
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Rodgers and hammerstein
Conductor
The Threepenny opera
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
5. G: how did they play female roles
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Changing masks and costumes
Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
6. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Agnes de mille
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The book uncle toms cabin
Entertainments
7. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Babes in arms
Cole porter
The desert song
Slapsticks
8. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
The metropolitan opera
Once upon a mattress
Bernstein and Sondheim
Richard d'oyly carte
9. Who made in dahomey unique
The serenade and the fortune teller
Middle ages
South pacific
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
10. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Richard rodgers
Rose marie
Someone to watch over me
Gertrude Lawrence
11. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Nine
Conductor
James michener
Fly loft
12. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Bernstein and Sondheim
The Threepenny Opera
BC
Ballet and modern dance
13. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
The new moon
South pacific
James michener
Playwright
14. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Playwright
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The music man
15. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
BC- before christ
Victor herbert
Jerome Robbins
Once upon a mattress
16. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Director
Flutes - lyres
Kiss me - kate
Kismet
17. Laurie is from What show
Middle ages
George gershwin
Oklahoma
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
18. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The puritans took control of the governmetn
State
Bob Fosse
19. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Carmen jones
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
East Side Story
20. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Damn yankees
Flutes - lyres
East Side Story
Kiss me - kate
21. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Athens
HMS pinafore
Ethel merman
Playwright
22. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Leonard bernstein
Changing masks and costumes
Julie Andrews
23. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Victor herbert
Director
Kiss me - kate
Stephen Sondheim
24. What is Bali H'ai from
Victor herbert
South pacific
Lerner and Loewe
The mikado
25. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The king and i
George and ira gershwin
Once upon a mattress
Damn yankees
26. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Costume designer
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Agnes de mille
Ethel merman
27. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Playwright
Bob Fosse
Libretto
Cole porter
28. What character are in anything goes
BC- before christ
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Leonard Bernstein
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
29. 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 ___________.
Director
The shows they came from
Georges balanchine
Music man
30. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
Mercenary mary
The merry widow
Harrigan and hart
31. What show is -the continental
Producer
Producer
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Mercenary mary
32. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Libretto
Lowering
War
Flutes - lyres
33. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
BC
Crazy for you
The king and I
34. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Slapsticks
The king and i
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Director
35. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
False- it was considred a romantic musical
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Agnes de mille
Oklahoma
36. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
A stevedore
Leonard bernstein
Middle ages
The king and i
37. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Brigadoon
South pacific
Catholic church
Leonard bernstein
38. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Sally
Before common era
Set designer
HMS pinafore
39. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Candide
Anything goes
40. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Jule Styne
South pacific
Entertainments
Official beginning of western theatre
41. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
The marx brothers
American dance music
Michael Kidd
Romantic music
42. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Kismet
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Georges balanchine
Gwen verdon
43. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Moliere
George gershwin
The merry widow
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
44. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
My Fair Lady
Set designer
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Victor herbert
45. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Once upon a mattress
The merry widow
Aristotle
The Threepenny opera
46. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Meredith wilson
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
47. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Pants role or trousers role
The belle of new york
Deus ex machina
48. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Kiss me - Kate
Adonis
Rodgers and hammerstein
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
49. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Mercenary mary
Eliza Doolittle
Betty comden and adolph green
50. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Agnes de mille
Producer
Director
Carol Channing