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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 operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
Rex Harrison
Rodgers and hammerstein
Kiss me - kate
2. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
The merry widow
BC- before christ
BC
I got rhythm
3. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Oklahoma
Flutes - lyres
Commedia dell-arte
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
4. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Evangeline
George and ira gershwin
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
South pacific
5. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Evangeline
Ethel merman
War
Romantic
6. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
The music man
Kurt Weill
Lyricist
7. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Mulligan guards routines
A stevedore
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Adonis
8. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
9. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Producer
Deus ex machina
South pacific
Bob Fosse
10. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Candide
Director
Carmen jones
Tragedy
11. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Angel
Moved indoors
Gertrude Lawrence
My fair lady
12. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
Comic opera
None all men
Playwright
13. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Rodgers and hammerstein
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
George m. cohan
14. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Rex Harrison
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
South pacific
Anti-hero
15. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Jerome kern
Gertrude Lawrence
Billy bigelow
The mikado
16. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Plato
Ethel merman
The pajama game
Guys and Dolls
17. Mama rose is from What show
Horace
Popular entertainments
Crazy for you
Gypsy
18. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Romantic music
Enzio pinza
Producer
19. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Rodgers and Hart
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Ray Bolger
South pacific
20. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Leonard bernstein
Of thee i sing
Michael Kidd
George m. cohan
21. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Mercenary mary
Mary martin
Once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
22. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Irene
Oil lamps
23. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Georges balanchine
Horace
Rodgers and hammerstein
24. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Jule Styne
Oklahoma
Yul Brenner
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
25. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Gene kelly
Yul Brenner
Orchestration
Crazy for You
26. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Good news
Angel
Georges balanchine
My fair lady
27. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Jerome Robbins
George and Ira Gershwin
A stevedore
Producer
28. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Betty comden and adolph green
Rodgers and Hart
No no nanette
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
29. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Victor herbert
Mercenary mary
Producer
George gershwin
30. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Anti-hero
Harrigan and hart
My Fair Lady
Romantic
31. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
False it was stylized
Kurt Weill
Intense training
Frank Loesser
32. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Parodied
Witty dialogue
Ballet and modern dance
33. Who is the composer for on the town
Nine
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Leonard bernstein
Ray Bolger
34. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Billy bigelow
Producer
Crazy for you
Babes in arms
35. What show is -i got rhythm
Girl crazy
Music director
Billy bigelow
Pants role or trousers role
36. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Pageant wagons and mansions
Crazy for you
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
37. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
The serenade and the fortune teller
Tragedies
Gene kelly
South pacific
38. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
Julie Andrews
Director
Ballet and modern dance
West side story
39. Who is the star of sweet charity
Commedia dell-arte
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gwen verdon
Meredith wilson
40. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
Mary martin
Bernstein and Sondheim
American dance music
41. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Ethel merman
Babes in arms
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Enzio pinza
42. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
The Threepenny opera
East Side Story
Public enemy no. 13
43. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Fly loft
Agnes de mille
Cole porter
Borrowed tunes
44. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Kurt Weill
Permissiveness and crazes
The belle of new york
Aristotle
45. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
No no nanette
Crazy for You
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
South pacific
46. Who composed the music for Irene
Mary rodgers
Harry tierney
A contrived ending
Ethel merman
47. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gwen verdon
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Same person
Witty dialogue
48. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
The mikado
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The marx brothers
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
49. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Aristotle
Rodgers and Hart
Singin in the rain
Comic opera had music and dialogue
50. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Commedia dell-arte