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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. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
He was the producer
The serenade and the fortune teller
Court nobility
The music man
2. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Pageant wagons and mansions
Same person
Of thee i sing
3. G: Male actors played...
None all men
State
Michael Kidd
Female roles
4. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Masks and costumes
Intense training
Mimes
5. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
No no nanette
Rex Harrison
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
My fair lady
6. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
No no nanette
Carousel
Ethel merman
Once upon a mattress
7. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Satyr plays
The new moon
American politics
Nine
8. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Aristotle
Singin in the rain
Director
Irving Berlin
9. What characters are in show boat
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10. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
West side story
False it was stylized
Mulligan guards routines
Court nobility
11. Who wrote the music for show boat
The music man
Jerome kern
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Julie Andrews
12. What are the three types of greek plays
Leonard bernstein
Evangeline
Sally
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
13. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Crazy for you
If i loved you
Ray Bolger
Ballet and modern dance
14. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
None all men
BC- before christ
Middle ages
The puritans took control of the governmetn
15. G: What is BCE same as
South pacific
BC- before christ
Lerner and Loewe
South pacific
16. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Playwright
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Burlesqued
Lyricist
17. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Mercenary mary
BC- before christ
18. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Carousel
Kiss me - kate
BC
Lowering
19. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Victor herbert
Public enemy no. 13
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Jule Styne
20. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
New comedy
The student prince
21. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Julie Andrews
Irving Berlin
22. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Girl crazy
Oklahoma
Composer
Good news
23. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
The king and i
George gershwin
Carol Channing
The savoy operas
24. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Oh Kay
Leonard Bernstein
Crazy for you
The king and i
25. Who is the star of sweet charity
Richard d'oyly carte
Gwen verdon
Playwright
South pacific
26. What comic duo was the show centered around
Bert williams and george walker
Librettist
Gertrude lawrence
Flutes - lyres
27. 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'
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Brigadoon
Leonard bernstein
Gypsy
28. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Greeks
The student prince
Borrowed tunes
29. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
No
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
West side story
John Hollingshead
30. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Sally
East Side Story
Oh Kay
Restoration
31. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Music director
Harry tierney
Thespis
32. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
He was the producer
Took to the streets and traveled -
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
33. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Ray Bolger
Gertrude Lawrence
My fair lady
Richard rodgers
34. Billy Bigelow is form What show
New comedy
Pageant wagons and mansions
Carousel
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
35. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The desert song
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The belle of new york
The mikado
36. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Moved indoors
Voice type
Took to the streets and traveled -
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
37. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
The doctor of alcantara
Once upon a mattress
Gene kelly
Slapsticks
38. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Producer
He died in 1937
39. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
My Fair Lady
The romantic musicals
Radio city music hall
Kiss me - kate
40. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
The music man
Anything goes
Harrigan and hart
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
41. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Satyr plays
No no nanette
Witty dialogue
State
42. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Of thee i sing
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
My Fair Lady
43. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gertrude Lawrence
Gene kelly
Fly loft
Rodgers and hammerstein
44. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Producer
No
The king and i
Damn yankees
45. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
Kiss me - kate
Agnes de mille
Producer
46. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Enzio pinza
The Threepenny opera
Can-can
Parodied
47. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
No no nanette
Pants role or trousers role
The marx brothers
Spectacle
48. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
The king and i
None all men
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Ethel merman
49. Who stages the dances?
Leonard bernstein
Entertainments
Tearly Roman empire
Choreographer
50. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Librettist
None all men
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Oklahoma