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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. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Mercenary mary
Rodgers and Hart
Costume designer
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
2. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
No no nanette
Librettist
Spectacle
New comedy
3. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Slapsticks
Of thee i sing
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Mary Martin
4. Who is the composer of the music man
Plato
King Louis XIV
Bernstein and Sondheim
Meredith wilson
5. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Jule Styne
Commedia dell-arte
Victor herbert
Billy bigelow
6. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
BC- before christ
Moved indoors
West side story
The metropolitan opera
7. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
No
The music man
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Sally
8. What was the setting for Kismet
Choreographer
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The romantic musicals
Ancient baghdad
9. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Harrigan and hart
Entertainments
Rodgers and hammerstein
The puritans took control of the governmetn
10. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Timbuktu
Anti-hero
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Voice type
11. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Music man
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Popular entertainments and comic opera
12. What does 'renaissance' mean
Rebirth
Mary martin
The merry widow
Mimes
13. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Ray bolger
Guys and Dolls
George gershwin
Mary Martin
14. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Commedia dell-arte
Mercenary mary
Brigadoon
Parodied
15. G: Male actors played...
Robin hood
The pajama game
Female roles
Threepenny opera
16. What was the original name of West Side Story
Librettist
Meredith wilson
Horace
East Side Story
17. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
The pajama game
Satyr plays
Timbuktu
18. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Timbuktu
False it was stylized
Richard rodgers
Romantic
19. 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
Bob Fosse
New comedy
No no nanette
20. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
The doctor of alcantara
Same person
Parodied
Patriotic
21. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Of thee i sing
Mary Martin
Michael Kidd
Same person
22. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
The Sound of Music
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Lyricist
The puritans took control of the governmetn
23. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
No no nanette
Political satire
West side story
Gertrude Lawrence
24. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
BC- before christ
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
George gershwin
Irene
25. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Sally
John Gay
If i loved you
26. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Professional perfomers
Composer
Sally
Pageant wagons and mansions
27. G: How many lead actors were there?
War
Intense training
3 to 5
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
28. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Oklahoma
Pageant wagons and mansions
Moved indoors
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
29. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
The music man
Once upon a mattress
Official beginning of western theatre
King Louis XIV
30. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Ethel merman
Agnes de Mille
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
31. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Mercenary mary
Conductor
George and ira gershwin
The pajama game
32. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
Gestures and poses
Parodied
Richard rodgers
33. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Damn yankees
Tearly Roman empire
Crazy for you
Meredith wilson
34. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
No no nanette
Meredith wilson
Gypsy
No
35. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Agnes de Mille
Gypsy
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
The music man
36. 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
Music director
Oklahoma
The merry widow
Damn yankees
37. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Mama rose
Jerome Robbins
The Threepenny Opera
George gershwin
38. 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 ___________.
Damn yankees
Gertrude Lawrence
The shows they came from
Moliere
39. Who stages the dances?
Mama rose
Timbuktu
Choreographer
BC- before christ
40. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Anything goes
Gertrude lawrence
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Babes in arms
41. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
South pacific
The student prince
Georges balanchine
42. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Playwright
Agnes de mille
Oscar hammerstein II
Crazy for You
43. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Jerome robbins
If i loved you
Playwright
Carol Channing
44. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
Thespis
Took to the streets and traveled -
Public enemy no. 13
If i loved you
45. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Jule Styne
Mimes
Set designer
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
46. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Agnes de mille
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Mercenary mary
Once upon a mattress
47. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Gypsy
Greeks
Irene
HMS pinafore
48. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Victor herbert
The Sound of Music
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
West side story
49. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
Singin in the rain
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Timbuktu
50. 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
John Hollingshead
The romantic musicals
Timbuktu
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee