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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Deus ex machina
King Louis XIV
Pal Joey
Rex Harrison
2. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
On the town
The savoy operas
Ballet and modern dance
Mercenary mary
3. What character are in anything goes
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Carousel
Rodgers and hammerstein
4. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Lyricist
George m. cohan
Playwright
5. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Someone to watch over me
Carmen jones
Agnes de Mille
Deus ex machina
6. G: What is BCE same as
Oklahoma
Burlesqued
Jerome kern
BC- before christ
7. Commedia performers used...
Slapsticks
The metropolitan opera
Adonis
Leonard Bernstein
8. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Pants role or trousers role
Kiss me - kate
None all men
Evangeline
9. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Bert williams and george walker
Annie get your gun
Romantic
West side story
10. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
24
Girl crazy
John Gay
His 'confessions'
11. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Adonis
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Victor herbert
12. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Victor herbert
Crazy for you
Agnes de mille
A stevedore
13. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
The shows they came from
If i loved you
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
14. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
George and Ira Gershwin
Girl crazy
Commedia dell-arte
15. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Mama rose
Georges balanchine
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
16. Who is the composer of the King and I
The shows they came from
Political satire
Richard rodgers
Playwright
17. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Director
Gertrude Lawrence
St. Augustine
Damn yankees
18. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Mary rodgers
Producer
Victor herbert
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
19. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Witty dialogue
On the town
BC- before christ
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
20. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Babes in arms
Plato
Ray bolger
Ethel merman
21. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Romantic music
Mama rose
22. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Can-can
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Lerner and Loewe
23. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Mary Martin
Victor herbert
Ballet and modern dance
Thespis
24. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
The music man
Masks and costumes
Oklahoma
Cleverly concoted
25. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Once upon a mattress
Female roles
Julie Andrews
George gershwin
26. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Cleverly concoted
Gwen verdon
Commedia dell-arte
Burlesqued
27. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
None all men
Gestures and poses
Director
Oscar hammerstein
28. Who made in dahomey unique
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Girl crazy
Cole porter
Leonard bernstein
29. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Leonard bernstein
Once upon a mattress
George gershwin
30. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Michael Kidd
24
Victor herbert
New comedy
31. What show is- tea for two
The student prince
Romantic
No no nanette
The king and i
32. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Official beginning of western theatre
The Sound of Music
Mimes
Popular dance
33. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
Slapsticks
Cole Porter
Popular entertainments and comic opera
34. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Producer
Oklahoma
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Restoration
35. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Frank Loesser
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Producer
The Threepenny opera
36. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Set designer
Producer
Ethel merman
37. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
The student prince
None all men
Jerome kern
Kismet
38. Who is the composer for on the town
Greeks
Brigadoon
Rodgers and hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
39. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The Sound of Music
New comedy
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The book uncle toms cabin
40. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Spectacle
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Marilyn Miller
Ethel merman
41. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Producer
Gypsy
Adonis
Julie Andrews
42. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
A stevedore
Michael Kidd
Catholic church
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
43. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Court nobility
Rebirth
No no nanette
Flutes - lyres
44. Annie Oakley is from What show
Annie get your gun
Crazy for You
His 'confessions'
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
45. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Satyr plays
Witty dialogue
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
46. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Michael Kidd
Brigadoon
Victor herbert
Rose marie
47. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
The pajama game
Jerome Robbins
Parodied
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
48. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Julie Andrews
Can-can
Agnes de mille
My fair lady
49. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Threepenny opera
Babes in arms
The shows they came from
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
50. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
The metropolitan opera
Ethel merman
Slapsticks
Oklahoma