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Musical Theatre
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1. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
False- it was considred a romantic musical
West side story
The Sound of Music
Parodied
2. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Leonard bernstein
Producer
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Conductor
3. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Pageant wagons and mansions
BC- before christ
War
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
4. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Cole porter
Oscar hammerstein II
Comic opera
War
5. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Michael Kidd
On your toes and babes in arms
Comic opera had music and dialogue
False it was stylized
6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Stephen Sondheim
Richard d'oyly carte
Gertrude lawrence
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
7. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
City dionysia
Playwright
Irving Berlin
He died in 1937
8. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Gypsy
Masks and costumes
Once upon a mattress
Crazy for You
9. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Playwright
Carousel
Lerner and Loewe
Music man
10. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Rodgers and Hart
Babes in arms
Mercenary mary
11. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
The serenade and the fortune teller
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Frank Loesser
The music man
12. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
My fair lady
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
My fair lady
Cole porter
13. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
John Hollingshead
Gene kelly
Libretto
Spectacle
14. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
The book
West side story
Spectacle
Popular entertainments and comic opera
15. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
West side story
Damn yankees
George and ira gershwin
Kurt Weill
16. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Tragedy
Female roles
Orchestration
17. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Adonis
Victor herbert
Gwen verdon
18. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The book
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Kiss me - Kate
19. 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
The king and I
Thespis
Rodgers and hammerstein
The romantic musicals
20. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
The Sound of Music
Witty dialogue
Oklahoma
Gypsy
21. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Ray Bolger
Damn yankees
Timbuktu
Gypsy
22. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
The king and I
Agnes de mille
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Kismet
23. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Leonard bernstein
Enzio pinza
Deus ex machina
Sally
24. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
The music man
South pacific
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
My Fair Lady
25. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Satyr plays
Mulligan guards routines
Gypsy
26. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Yul Brenner
Rodgers and Hart
Ethel merman
27. Billy Bigelow is form What show
The king and I
Carousel
Moliere
George gershwin
28. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Richard d'oyly carte
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Tragedy
Jule Styne
29. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
Georges balanchine
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
John Gay
30. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Kiss me - kate
The pajama game
Oscar hammerstein
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
31. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Mulligan guards routines
South pacific
Leonard bernstein
Music man
32. 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
Commedia dell-arte
Ray Bolger
Romantic
Rebirth
33. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Harry tierney
Before common era
34. Where they fly things on stage
Fly loft
Oil lamps
Candide
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
35. 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
Bernstein and Sondheim
My fair lady
Betty comden and adolph green
36. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Official beginning of western theatre
Popular entertainments
Damn yankees
Choreographer
37. What comic duo was the show centered around
The savoy operas
Female roles
Bert williams and george walker
Jerome kern
38. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Timbuktu
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Girl crazy
39. G: What is BCE same as
West side story
BC- before christ
The savoy operas
John Gay
40. What show is -i got rhythm
The merry widow
The serenade and the fortune teller
Evangeline
Girl crazy
41. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Ballet and modern dance
Michael Kidd
Parodied
The Threepenny Opera
42. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
American politics
Babes in arms
His 'confessions'
Annie get your gun
43. Who made in dahomey unique
Plato
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Threepenny opera
South pacific
44. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Swing
On the town
Moliere
Deus ex machina
45. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Damn yankees
Crazy for You
Producer
Gwen verdon
46. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
No no nanette
Jerome kern
Official beginning of western theatre
Pageant wagons and mansions
47. Who wrote the music for show boat
Tearly Roman empire
Jerome kern
The doctor of alcantara
Guys and dolls
48. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Pageant wagons and mansions
Ethel merman
Producer
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
49. What show is 'broadway melody' from
No
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Singin in the rain
Ray Bolger
50. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Carousel
Plato
Librettist
The doctor of alcantara
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