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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Ancient baghdad
Oil lamps
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Timbuktu
2. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Mercenary mary
Mercenary mary
Flutes - lyres
3. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Producer
George and Ira Gershwin
On your toes
Composer
4. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Librettist
Julie Andrews
Popular dance
24
5. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Damn yankees
A stevedore
Producer
Jerome Robbins
6. Who is the composer for on the town
Leonard bernstein
The new moon
Kiss me - Kate
The book
7. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
A contrived ending
Catholic church
John Hollingshead
Stephen Sondheim
8. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Gertrude Lawrence
Singin in the rain
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Victor herbert
9. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Comedy
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Threepenny opera
Set designer
10. Commedia performers used...
Slapsticks
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Stand by
Kiss me - kate
11. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Brigadoon
Playwright
Commedia dell-arte
South pacific
12. Who is the composer for on the town
Professional perfomers
Gertrude Lawrence
Leonard bernstein
Permissiveness and crazes
13. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Rodgers and Hart
Gypsy
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Moliere
14. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Moved indoors
No
The Threepenny Opera
Producer
15. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Moved indoors
Gwen verdon
Gestures and poses
No no nanette
16. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
Satyr plays
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
3 to 5
17. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Comedy
The marx brothers
Librettist
18. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
The metropolitan opera
The Threepenny opera
City dionysia
George m. cohan
19. 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
Masks and costumes
Producer
The romantic musicals
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
20. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Gypsy
No no nanette
George and Ira Gershwin
Mercenary mary
21. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Restoration
Disappears
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
22. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
None all men
On the town
Composer
23. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Crazy for you
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
4th and 5th centuries bce
24. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Richard d'oyly carte
The king and I
Eliza Doolittle
City dionysia
25. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The king and I
Cole porter
The merry widow
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Leonard bernstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Rodgers and hammerstein
Richard d'oyly carte
27. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Before common era
Carousel
Irving Berlin
Moved indoors
28. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Oscar hammerstein II
Borrowed tunes
Bert williams and george walker
On your toes
29. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
The book
Cleverly concoted
Mercenary mary
Lowering
30. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Voice type
Moved indoors
Good news
Stephen Sondheim
31. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Oscar hammerstein II
Kismet
Ballet and modern dance
Betty comden and adolph green
32. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Flutes - lyres
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Tragedy
Mercenary mary
33. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Romantic
Pal Joey
Yul Brenner
Borrowed tunes
34. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
He was the producer
Billy bigelow
Once upon a mattress
35. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Gertrude Lawrence
HMS pinafore
Set designer
Bob Fosse
36. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Fly loft
The new moon
Ethel merman
37. 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
New comedy
Rose marie
George and ira gershwin
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
38. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
False it was stylized
Carousel
The cotton blossom
Mimes
39. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Producer
Kiss me - kate
Irving Berlin
Swing
40. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Pants role or trousers role
Annie get your gun
My fair lady
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
41. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
The puritans took control of the governmetn
A stevedore
Official beginning of western theatre
42. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Commedia dell-arte
Entertainments
State
He died in 1937
43. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Nine
The book
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Director
44. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Agnes de Mille
New comedy
Oklahoma
Gypsy
45. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
Ray Bolger
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Agnes de mille
46. Who picks the actors?
Agnes de mille
Bob Fosse
Of thee i sing
Director
47. F:who took over those roles
Professional perfomers
Candide
Oscar hammerstein
Stephen sondheim
48. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Betty comden and adolph green
Deus ex machina
Timbuktu
Catholic church
49. Who picks the actors?
Timbuktu
Director
Mimes
Guys and Dolls
50. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Stephen Sondheim
Betty comden and adolph green
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus