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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. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Cole porter
Mama rose
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Comedy
2. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Jerome kern
False it was stylized
The music man
Guys and Dolls
3. Greek: 534 BCE
Director
Director
Official beginning of western theatre
Ray Bolger
4. Who composed the music for Irene
Mercenary mary
Harry tierney
Meredith wilson
Brigadoon
5. Who is the composer for on the town
Before common era
On your toes and babes in arms
Patriotic
Leonard bernstein
6. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Ethel merman
Brigadoon
Before common era
7. 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
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Ray Bolger
Bert williams and george walker
8. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Can-can
New comedy
Gwen verdon
Entertainments
9. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Gestures and poses
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Julie Andrews
Sally
10. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Director
Carol Channing
Can-can
Lyricist
11. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Gypsy
Playwright
Librettist
Plato
12. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Guys and Dolls
Stand by
Mary rodgers
Victor herbert
13. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Victor herbert
Burlesqued
War
Lerner and Loewe
14. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Gwen verdon
Mama rose
BC
Greeks
15. Laurie is from What show
Political satire
Gertrude Lawrence
Oklahoma
Rodgers and Hart
16. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Oklahoma
Slapsticks
No no nanette
Gene kelly
17. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Pal Joey
American politics
Michael Kidd
18. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
Comic opera
Rose marie
Gestures and poses
19. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Good news
Deus ex machina
King Louis XIV
20. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
Lyricist
The king and I
Tearly Roman empire
21. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Costume designer
HMS pinafore
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The shows they came from
22. 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'
Brigadoon
Middle ages
My Fair Lady
Harrigan and hart
23. What comic duo was the show centered around
The music man
Oscar hammerstein
South pacific
Bert williams and george walker
24. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
The merry widow
Gertrude lawrence
Richard d'oyly carte
The king and i
25. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
George m. cohan
Girl crazy
The merry widow
26. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
Thespis
Kiss me - kate
Ethel merman
27. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
Agnes de Mille
Rex Harrison
Ray bolger
28. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
Director
Bert williams and george walker
Marilyn Miller
29. Who is the composer of the King and I
Ethel merman
Richard rodgers
Victor herbert
Carol Channing
30. where did performers go
Took to the streets and traveled -
Thespis
Lerner and Loewe
Horace
31. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Playwright
Greeks
Swing
Took to the streets and traveled -
32. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Of thee i sing
Richard rodgers
Stephen sondheim
33. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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34. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mimes
Music man
Director
Popular entertainments
35. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
The Sound of Music
The belle of new york
Political satire
The king and i
36. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Public enemy no. 13
The new moon
4th and 5th centuries bce
37. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Oklahoma
Rose marie
Julie Andrews
The new moon
38. Who is the star of Sally
Gertrude Lawrence
Marilyn Miller
Evangeline
George m. cohan
39. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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40. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
The music man
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Tragedies
Romantic music
41. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Voice type
Mercenary mary
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Anything goes
42. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Conductor
Libretto
Slapsticks
The Sound of Music
43. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
4th and 5th centuries bce
Ethel merman
West side story
The new moon
44. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Gypsy
Spectacle
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
45. What show is -love is sweeping the country
The desert song
George and ira gershwin
Of thee i sing
Carmen jones
46. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Mama rose
Ray Bolger
Flutes - lyres
Producer
47. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
The Sound of Music
Libretto
Can-can
Evangeline
48. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Lyricist
The music man
Gwen verdon
Political satire
49. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
Producer
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Kiss me - kate
50. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Oh Kay
If i loved you
Gwen verdon