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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. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Good news
Commedia dell-arte
Restoration
2. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Irene
Producer
False it was stylized
3. 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?
Spectacle
Evangeline
Conductor
Crazy for you
4. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Mulligan guards routines
No no nanette
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Can-can
5. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Moliere
Voice type
Plato
Lyricist
6. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Frank Loesser
On the town
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Babes in arms
7. Who composed the music for Irene
Pants role or trousers role
The Sound of Music
Damn yankees
Harry tierney
8. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Oscar hammerstein
Popular dance
Gertrude Lawrence
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
9. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Set designer
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Mary martin
Before common era
10. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Thespis
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
11. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
Radio city music hall
Commedia dell-arte
None all men
West side story
12. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Ray Bolger
Producer
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Ethel merman
13. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
Mary martin
Bert williams and george walker
Lerner and Loewe
14. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
War
Witty dialogue
Libretto
15. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Guys and Dolls
Mama rose
South pacific
New comedy
16. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Middle ages
George gershwin
Composer
Damn yankees
17. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
Borrowed tunes
Timbuktu
Female roles
18. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Jerome kern
George and Ira Gershwin
My Fair Lady
Court nobility
19. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Tragedies
False- it was considred a romantic musical
20. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Ethel merman
Once upon a mattress
Producer
Bernstein and Sondheim
21. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Oscar hammerstein
The merry widow
Producer
22. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
John Hollingshead
Irene
Librettist
Ray bolger
23. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Georges balanchine
Radio city music hall
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Director
24. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Rose marie
George and ira gershwin
The student prince
25. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Playwright
The Sound of Music
Lerner and Loewe
The serenade and the fortune teller
26. where did performers go
Cleverly concoted
Agnes de mille
The Threepenny Opera
Took to the streets and traveled -
27. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Agnes de mille
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Crazy for you
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
28. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Jule Styne
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Choreographer
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
29. Bloody Mary is from What show
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
James michener
South pacific
Timbuktu
30. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Director
Moved indoors
Julie Andrews
Gypsy
31. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Agnes de Mille
Timbuktu
George m. cohan
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
32. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Director
Orchestration
Same person
Mary Martin
33. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Catholic church
Patriotic
On the town
Mulligan guards routines
34. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
The Sound of Music
Director
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Richard d'oyly carte
35. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Can-can
Jerome robbins
South pacific
Carol Channing
36. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Libretto
Pal Joey
Tragedy
Good news
37. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
George gershwin
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Orchestration
James michener
38. 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
Evangeline
The desert song
Kiss me - kate
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
39. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Ancient baghdad
Popular entertainments and comic opera
The Sound of Music
Female roles
40. What team wrote the Sound of music
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Rodgers and hammerstein
Richard d'oyly carte
Victor herbert
41. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Witty dialogue
Pants role or trousers role
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Julie Andrews
42. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Crazy for you
Carousel
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
43. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
Singin in the rain
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Mary martin
44. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Carmen jones
Romantic
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Jule Styne
45. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
HMS pinafore
Jerome Robbins
The doctor of alcantara
46. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
The king and I
Stephen sondheim
Fly loft
The shows they came from
47. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Brigadoon
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
A stevedore
48. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
East Side Story
Middle ages
My fair lady
South pacific
49. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Producer
Kiss me - kate
Gwen verdon
Catholic church
50. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
The music man
West side story
Agnes de Mille
Producer