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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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1. G: What is BCE same as
BC- before christ
Ethel merman
Disappears
Public enemy no. 13
2. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Julie Andrews
Eliza Doolittle
Producer
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
3. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
The Threepenny opera
Once upon a mattress
Gypsy
BC- before christ
4. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Oscar hammerstein II
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Music man
Leonard bernstein
5. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
The Threepenny Opera
The desert song
Good news
Aristotle
6. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Rodgers and hammerstein
Conductor
Greeks
HMS pinafore
7. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Oscar hammerstein
Singin in the rain
HMS pinafore
Athens
8. 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
Rose marie
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Gypsy
Disappears
9. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
The music man
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
10. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
The king and I
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Brigadoon
Kismet
11. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Yul Brenner
Deus ex machina
Cole porter
Julie Andrews
12. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Spectacle
The cotton blossom
Lerner and Loewe
John Gay
13. 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
The romantic musicals
Rodgers and hammerstein
The merry widow
14. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Plato
Music director
Mary Martin
Rex Harrison
15. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
A contrived ending
HMS pinafore
Comedy
16. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Victor herbert
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Damn yankees
17. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Jerome robbins
Thespis
Mimes
Comic opera had music and dialogue
18. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Gypsy
Pants role or trousers role
Anything goes
19. What was the setting for Kismet
Stephen sondheim
Public enemy no. 13
Candide
Ancient baghdad
20. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Stephen sondheim
Tragedy
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
21. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
George gershwin
Jerome robbins
22. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Moved indoors
Kurt Weill
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
23. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Oklahoma
Music man
Oscar hammerstein
Kiss me - Kate
24. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Kurt Weill
Lowering
Leonard Bernstein
25. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Rodgers and hammerstein
Jerome kern
Producer
George m. cohan
26. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Disappears
James michener
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Mercenary mary
27. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Music man
The Threepenny opera
The metropolitan opera
The king and I
28. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Voice type
Julie Andrews
Once upon a mattress
Mary martin
29. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Deus ex machina
The romantic musicals
Masks and costumes
30. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
New comedy
West side story
HMS pinafore
Kismet
31. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Nine
John Gay
Rodgers and hammerstein
32. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Kiss me - kate
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Tearly Roman empire
Pageant wagons and mansions
33. What team wrote the Sound of music
Fly loft
My fair lady
Rodgers and hammerstein
HMS pinafore
34. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Cole Porter
Rodgers and hammerstein
Thespis
Comedies
35. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
John Gay
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The mikado
36. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Adonis
Flutes - lyres
Burlesqued
37. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Music director
Can-can
His 'confessions'
On your toes and babes in arms
38. Bloody Mary is from What show
Comedies
South pacific
George gershwin
Romantic
39. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Producer
Angel
George m. cohan
Witty dialogue
40. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
On the town
Cole porter
Intense training
Romantic music
41. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
The music man
State
Rebirth
No no nanette
42. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Sally
Oscar hammerstein
Music director
Damn yankees
43. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Librettist
Enzio pinza
Marilyn Miller
44. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
City dionysia
Damn yankees
Michael Kidd
Yul Brenner
45. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Parodied
The merry widow
Voice type
46. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Popular dance
24
Athens
South pacific
47. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Singin in the rain
Cleverly concoted
The doctor of alcantara
Oscar hammerstein
48. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
American dance music
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
49. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Brigadoon
Tragedies
Athens
George and ira gershwin
50. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Popular entertainments
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Mimes
Producer