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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. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The merry widow
Masks and costumes
None all men
2. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Of thee i sing
Damn yankees
Same person
King Louis XIV
3. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Witty dialogue
Annie get your gun
4. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Mary martin
The king and I
Bob Fosse
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
5. Who is the composer for on the town
Leonard bernstein
Stand by
Choreographer
The merry widow
6. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
James michener
Conductor
George gershwin
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
7. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
Evangeline
Ancient baghdad
Comedies
8. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Harrigan and hart
Mulligan guards routines
Agnes de mille
9. Who is the star of sweet charity
Ray Bolger
King Louis XIV
Gwen verdon
Burlesqued
10. Mama rose is from What show
Gypsy
Ethel merman
Aristotle
The pajama game
11. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Rebirth
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Robin hood
12. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Aristotle
Commedia dell-arte
George m. cohan
False- it was considred a romantic musical
13. What show is the song bewitched from
Crazy for you
Mimes
Crazy for You
Pal Joey
14. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Professional perfomers
Borrowed tunes
The book uncle toms cabin
Ray Bolger
15. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Of thee i sing
Middle ages
The new moon
Rex Harrison
16. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
Producer
If i loved you
Masks and costumes
Leonard bernstein
17. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Ray bolger
BC- before christ
The book uncle toms cabin
The king and I
18. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Gestures and poses
Music man
Once upon a mattress
Leonard bernstein
19. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
South pacific
New comedy
Masks and costumes
Burlesqued
20. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
The king and i
The mikado
Singin in the rain
Comic opera
21. What was the setting for Kismet
Producer
Rex Harrison
Moved indoors
Ancient baghdad
22. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Michael Kidd
Evangeline
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
None all men
23. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
HMS pinafore
The Sound of Music
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Of thee i sing
24. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Deus ex machina
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
If i loved you
25. What show is i want to be happy
Before common era
John Hollingshead
West side story
No no nanette
26. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Producer
Damn yankees
Patriotic
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
The shows they came from
Plato
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jerome Robbins
28. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Jule Styne
Horace
George and Ira Gershwin
Gestures and poses
29. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Guys and dolls
The music man
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
30. Who is the star of Sally
Marilyn Miller
Flutes - lyres
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
4th and 5th centuries bce
31. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Kiss me - kate
BC
Intense training
Ethel merman
32. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Professional perfomers
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Timbuktu
The book
33. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Yul Brenner
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Producer
34. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Mama rose
Irving Berlin
Tragedies
Commedia dell-arte
35. Who is the star of Sally
Oscar hammerstein
Official beginning of western theatre
Marilyn Miller
Threepenny opera
36. Where they fly things on stage
Bert williams and george walker
Oklahoma
Fly loft
Kurt Weill
37. Pal Joey was written by...
Rodgers and Hart
Permissiveness and crazes
Jerome robbins
The king and i
38. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Comedy
Kismet
Intense training
The savoy operas
39. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Catholic church
Yul Brenner
My fair lady
Carousel
40. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Frank Loesser
Kiss me - Kate
War
41. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
The Sound of Music
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
On your toes
42. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Meredith wilson
The doctor of alcantara
Agnes de mille
Can-can
43. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Crazy for you
Entertainments
Irving Berlin
Producer
44. G: How many lead actors were there?
Oscar hammerstein
3 to 5
Anti-hero
False- it was considred a romantic musical
45. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
The student prince
Costume designer
American politics
Crazy for you
46. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Witty dialogue
American dance music
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Mary martin
47. Who hires the creative team for a production?
John Gay
The book uncle toms cabin
Producer
Anything goes
48. Who is the composer of Can-Can
My fair lady
The Sound of Music
Ethel merman
Cole Porter
49. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
No
Comedy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Threepenny opera
50. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Court nobility
Gwen verdon
Someone to watch over me
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus