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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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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. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Jerome robbins
The new moon
Harry tierney
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
2. What characters are in show boat
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3. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
BC- before christ
Jerome robbins
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Bob Fosse
4. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Kiss me - kate
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Bob Fosse
John Hollingshead
5. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Playwright
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Jerome kern
6. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Radio city music hall
The savoy operas
Gwen verdon
Once upon a mattress
7. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
George and ira gershwin
Oklahoma
Gypsy
Kiss me - kate
8. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Billy bigelow
The Threepenny Opera
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Evangeline
9. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The king and i
BC- before christ
Guys and Dolls
The Threepenny opera
10. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
The Threepenny Opera
No no nanette
The music man
The student prince
11. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
The king and i
Director
Music director
Agnes de Mille
12. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Oklahoma
Of thee i sing
Director
Producer
13. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Comedies
Good news
Agnes de mille
Georges balanchine
14. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
South pacific
George and ira gershwin
A contrived ending
Timbuktu
15. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Mary martin
No no nanette
Rodgers and hammerstein
Director
16. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Cleverly concoted
Bernstein and Sondheim
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Official beginning of western theatre
17. G: Greek actors had...
Intense training
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Fly loft
Libretto
18. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Commedia dell-arte
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Damn yankees
19. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Carousel
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Oscar hammerstein
Guys and dolls
20. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Public enemy no. 13
Julie Andrews
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
King Louis XIV
21. What was a 'claquer?'
Flutes - lyres
Changing masks and costumes
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Librettist
22. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
South pacific
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
State
Once upon a mattress
23. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Director
My fair lady
Mary rodgers
Slapsticks
24. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Enzio pinza
Gertrude Lawrence
Agnes de mille
Set designer
25. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
On your toes and babes in arms
The marx brothers
Commedia dell-arte
Conductor
26. What show is -i got rhythm
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Parodied
American politics
Girl crazy
27. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
South pacific
Music man
No no nanette
His 'confessions'
28. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Kiss me - kate
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Babes in arms
29. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Rodgers and Hart
The book uncle toms cabin
The shows they came from
Damn yankees
30. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
A contrived ending
Lerner and Loewe
Irving Berlin
Masks and costumes
31. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Librettist
George and Ira Gershwin
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Fly loft
32. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Playwright
The pajama game
Robin hood
Kiss me - kate
33. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Catholic church
Comic opera
Producer
Nine
34. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The king and i
My fair lady
Annie get your gun
Brigadoon
35. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
My fair lady
Richard rodgers
Same person
War
36. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Brigadoon
Plato
Carmen jones
Of thee i sing
37. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Brigadoon
Harrigan and hart
Voice type
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
38. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Conductor
The doctor of alcantara
Mercenary mary
Anything goes
39. What was the setting for Kismet
Ethel merman
Agnes de mille
Rodgers and Hart
Ancient baghdad
40. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
A stevedore
Evangeline
Candide
Playwright
41. What was the continental
Rodgers and Hart
Romantic
Popular dance
The Sound of Music
42. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Threepenny opera
Burlesqued
Once upon a mattress
43. G: how did they play female roles
Kurt Weill
George gershwin
Spectacle
Changing masks and costumes
44. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Slapsticks
I got rhythm
American dance music
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
45. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Someone to watch over me
Julie Andrews
Disappears
Gertrude lawrence
46. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
No
Anti-hero
Robin hood
The romantic musicals
47. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Jerome robbins
Playwright
The king and i
Greeks
48. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Parodied
St. Augustine
Oil lamps
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
49. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Ray bolger
The mikado
George m. cohan
Orchestration
50. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Voice type
Lerner and Loewe
Deus ex machina