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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. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Oklahoma
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Producer
Oscar hammerstein II
2. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Robin hood
Damn yankees
Gwen verdon
Ballet and modern dance
3. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Oklahoma
False it was stylized
A trip to chinatown
Georges balanchine
4. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
South pacific
George and Ira Gershwin
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
5. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Of thee i sing
Enzio pinza
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Singin in the rain
6. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Producer
Pal Joey
Can-can
Gestures and poses
7. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Oscar hammerstein II
Libretto
Guys and dolls
Rose marie
8. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Permissiveness and crazes
George gershwin
Lyricist
He was the producer
9. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Pal Joey
Middle ages
Rose marie
Evangeline
10. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Playwright
The cotton blossom
American dance music
11. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
South pacific
Gypsy
Jule Styne
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
12. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Costume designer
Stand by
The music man
13. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments
Oklahoma
Lerner and Loewe
Julie Andrews
14. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Music man
Moved indoors
Entertainments
15. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
No no nanette
Georges balanchine
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ballet and modern dance
16. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Oscar hammerstein II
Ethel merman
The metropolitan opera
17. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Victor herbert
Timbuktu
South pacific
Stephen Sondheim
18. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Stephen sondheim
Oil lamps
George gershwin
The merry widow
19. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Girl crazy
St. Augustine
Carmen jones
20. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Michael Kidd
None all men
Voice type
Ethel merman
21. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Ray Bolger
Ray Bolger
Meredith wilson
Babes in arms
22. Who is the composer for on the town
Richard d'oyly carte
Playwright
Permissiveness and crazes
Leonard bernstein
23. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Rodgers and hammerstein
Conductor
Fly loft
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
24. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
City dionysia
Stand by
Oklahoma
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
25. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Music man
George and Ira Gershwin
Oscar hammerstein II
26. What does 'renaissance' mean
Comic opera had music and dialogue
No no nanette
Rebirth
Moved indoors
27. Who is the star of sweet charity
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Professional perfomers
Gwen verdon
Oscar hammerstein II
28. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Enzio pinza
Jerome robbins
American politics
Singin in the rain
29. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Commedia dell-arte
None all men
Rex Harrison
Agnes de Mille
30. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Carmen jones
Julie Andrews
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Comic opera
31. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Damn yankees
HMS pinafore
Masks and costumes
Nine
32. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Of thee i sing
Producer
George gershwin
Voice type
33. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
New comedy
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Burlesqued
34. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Ray bolger
On your toes and babes in arms
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Librettist
35. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Disappears
Can-can
Set designer
My fair lady
36. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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37. Who is the composer of the music man
Oscar hammerstein
A stevedore
Popular entertainments
Meredith wilson
38. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Ballet and modern dance
The cotton blossom
George m. cohan
Mary Martin
39. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Yul Brenner
Athens
Gertrude Lawrence
The romantic musicals
40. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Mary Martin
Public enemy no. 13
41. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Director
American politics
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Mimes
42. What show is -i got rhythm
Girl crazy
Flutes - lyres
South pacific
Conductor
43. Who picks the actors?
The book
Once upon a mattress
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Director
44. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
Director
Stand by
Popular entertainments
45. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Michael Kidd
Julie Andrews
Gertrude Lawrence
Greeks
46. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Leonard bernstein
Meredith wilson
Carol Channing
47. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
Carousel
Athens
Robin hood
48. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Oil lamps
Tragedy
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
49. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Oil lamps
Middle ages
South pacific
Adonis
50. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
HMS pinafore
East Side Story
Timbuktu
The king and I