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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 is the composer for on the town
George and Ira Gershwin
Jerome robbins
Leonard bernstein
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
2. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
If i loved you
Cleverly concoted
Jerome Robbins
Court nobility
3. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Satyr plays
Lowering
Oil lamps
The student prince
4. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Crazy for You
Sally
Director
Singin in the rain
5. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
New comedy
Official beginning of western theatre
Lowering
6. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Anti-hero
Angel
Kismet
Playwright
7. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Billy bigelow
Took to the streets and traveled -
Ballet and modern dance
8. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Annie get your gun
Meredith wilson
Popular dance
9. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Swing
Director
Popular entertainments
Producer
10. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Ethel merman
Of thee i sing
Agnes de mille
The music man
11. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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12. What is Bali H'ai from
Pants role or trousers role
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
South pacific
Deus ex machina
13. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The Threepenny Opera
Music man
Sally
14. What is a 'pasticcio' score
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Girl crazy
Borrowed tunes
Director
15. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Producer
Lerner and Loewe
The Threepenny Opera
16. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Deus ex machina
Annie get your gun
Political satire
Leonard bernstein
17. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
Ancient baghdad
Director
Kiss me - kate
18. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
A trip to chinatown
Adonis
The music man
19. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Choreographer
Tragedy
Popular entertainments
Gwen verdon
20. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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21. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
The music man
Comedies
Mary martin
Popular entertainments
22. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Mary martin
Rex Harrison
I got rhythm
Jule Styne
23. What characters are in show boat
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24. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
St. Augustine
Richard rodgers
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Oklahoma
25. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Cole porter
Professional perfomers
A stevedore
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
26. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Rodgers and Hart
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Ray Bolger
Set designer
27. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Commedia dell-arte
Popular entertainments and comic opera
South pacific
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
28. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Oklahoma
False- it was considred a romantic musical
South pacific
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
29. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
Producer
Radio city music hall
Agnes de mille
30. Who wrote the music for show boat
Meredith wilson
Jerome kern
George m. cohan
Guys and dolls
31. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Timbuktu
Robin hood
Mercenary mary
32. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Kiss me - Kate
Comic opera
Nine
Singin in the rain
33. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
New comedy
Ballet and modern dance
Director
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
34. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Producer
Mimes
Singin in the rain
Someone to watch over me
35. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Jerome kern
Harrigan and hart
36. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Court nobility
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Timbuktu
37. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Lyricist
Kurt Weill
New comedy
No no nanette
38. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Popular entertainments
Jerome Robbins
Intense training
Mama rose
39. Who is the composer of the music man
Nine
Frank Loesser
Meredith wilson
A contrived ending
40. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
A trip to chinatown
False it was stylized
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
41. Who stages the dances?
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The merry widow
Choreographer
42. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Ethel merman
Satyr plays
The Sound of Music
Librettist
43. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
East Side Story
Brigadoon
The merry widow
Timbuktu
44. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
John Gay
The king and i
Comedies
45. What show is i want to be happy
The Sound of Music
Music man
No no nanette
Julie Andrews
46. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
South pacific
The Sound of Music
The Threepenny Opera
47. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Harrigan and hart
Candide
George and Ira Gershwin
West side story
48. F:who took over those roles
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Professional perfomers
Rose marie
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
49. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Radio city music hall
Flutes - lyres
Enzio pinza
Disappears
50. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
West side story
The mikado
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The metropolitan opera