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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
A contrived ending
Flutes - lyres
Ray Bolger
Annie get your gun
2. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Disappears
The Threepenny Opera
Director
Plato
3. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Oil lamps
Oh Kay
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Robin hood
4. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Enzio pinza
New comedy
Horace
5. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
Ray bolger
My fair lady
The savoy operas
6. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
City dionysia
South pacific
Producer
Swing
7. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Conductor
Marilyn Miller
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
8. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Gertrude Lawrence
Angel
George m. cohan
The mikado
9. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Timbuktu
Restoration
Rex Harrison
On the town
10. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
The king and i
A trip to chinatown
Oklahoma
No no nanette
11. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Cole porter
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Evangeline
Spectacle
12. What was the setting for Kismet
Frank Loesser
Ancient baghdad
Spectacle
Carmen jones
13. G: What does BCE mean?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Before common era
Damn yankees
Leonard bernstein
14. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Mary Martin
None all men
Billy bigelow
Oklahoma
15. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
24
Patriotic
16. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Disappears
The doctor of alcantara
Popular entertainments and comic opera
My fair lady
17. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Aristotle
Horace
The merry widow
Brigadoon
18. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Babes in arms
Mama rose
Angel
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
19. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Lowering
George gershwin
Cole Porter
Gypsy
20. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Gertrude lawrence
Director
Of thee i sing
21. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
My fair lady
The music man
22. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Comedy
Playwright
Libretto
23. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
South pacific
Moliere
Gertrude Lawrence
Music man
24. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Carol Channing
Cleverly concoted
He died in 1937
St. Augustine
25. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
BC
Babes in arms
Irving Berlin
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
26. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Nine
Jule Styne
27. Mama rose is from What show
Oklahoma
Gypsy
Conductor
Entertainments
28. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
No
False it was stylized
Disappears
Comedy
29. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Damn yankees
Julie Andrews
Oil lamps
Flutes - lyres
30. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The desert song
On the town
If i loved you
31. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
The cotton blossom
Set designer
Annie get your gun
Can-can
32. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Moliere
Richard rodgers
Leonard bernstein
33. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Costume designer
Stephen sondheim
Rebirth
Orchestration
34. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
BC
Tearly Roman empire
Playwright
Kurt Weill
35. Who wrote the music for show boat
Damn yankees
Jerome kern
Comedy
The shows they came from
36. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
Set designer
Michael Kidd
Director
37. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Nine
Gypsy
Damn yankees
Billy bigelow
38. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
Stand by
On your toes
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
39. Annie Oakley is from What show
Set designer
Leonard bernstein
Annie get your gun
South pacific
40. What show is- tea for two
Agnes de mille
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
No no nanette
The king and I
41. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
If i loved you
His 'confessions'
Oil lamps
42. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Once upon a mattress
Gypsy
Ballet and modern dance
Mama rose
43. What show is the song bewitched from
Yul Brenner
Pal Joey
New comedy
Rex Harrison
44. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
4th and 5th centuries bce
Restoration
Commedia dell-arte
45. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Official beginning of western theatre
Of thee i sing
A contrived ending
Victor herbert
46. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Threepenny opera
The music man
Swing
Victor herbert
47. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Pal Joey
Enzio pinza
3 to 5
Oklahoma
48. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Borrowed tunes
Threepenny opera
Official beginning of western theatre
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
49. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
My fair lady
Comic opera had music and dialogue
South pacific
Anything goes
50. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
24
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The Threepenny Opera
Moved indoors