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Musical Theatre
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1. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Mary rodgers
The serenade and the fortune teller
2. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
The king and i
Parodied
Richard rodgers
South pacific
3. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
George and Ira Gershwin
Crazy for You
Rex Harrison
4. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Oscar hammerstein
Girl crazy
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Lyricist
5. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Bob Fosse
The music man
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
6. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Can-can
Cole Porter
Once upon a mattress
Mercenary mary
7. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Swing
Producer
Restoration
Oscar hammerstein
8. What was the continental
Comic opera had music and dialogue
BC- before christ
The Threepenny Opera
Popular dance
9. What was the setting for Kismet
Voice type
George and Ira Gershwin
Ancient baghdad
Rodgers and Hart
10. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Voice type
South pacific
Catholic church
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
11. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Carol Channing
Jerome Robbins
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
My Fair Lady
12. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Billy bigelow
Lerner and Loewe
Irene
Court nobility
13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Tragedy
Gypsy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Ethel merman
14. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Commedia dell-arte
Conductor
Babes in arms
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
15. Who is the composer for music man
Billy bigelow
Meredith wilson
Harrigan and hart
Annie get your gun
16. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Tearly Roman empire
The music man
Timbuktu
17. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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18. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Ethel merman
Leonard bernstein
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Oh Kay
19. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Pants role or trousers role
Romantic music
Jule Styne
Oklahoma
20. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Parodied
Voice type
South pacific
Someone to watch over me
21. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
BC- before christ
Borrowed tunes
New comedy
Spectacle
22. 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?
Restoration
Official beginning of western theatre
Ethel merman
Guys and dolls
23. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
South pacific
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
24. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
No
Gwen verdon
BC- before christ
Ray Bolger
25. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
American politics
Athens
His 'confessions'
Cole porter
26. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
His 'confessions'
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Stephen sondheim
27. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Thespis
Pants role or trousers role
Greeks
28. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Can-can
Yul Brenner
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Greeks
29. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mimes
Moliere
New comedy
George and Ira Gershwin
30. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Julie Andrews
Jerome Robbins
Kiss me - kate
The mikado
31. G: What does BCE mean?
Pants role or trousers role
New comedy
Before common era
No no nanette
32. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Moved indoors
Victor herbert
HMS pinafore
Cole Porter
33. Greek: 534 BCE
Official beginning of western theatre
Julie Andrews
Music man
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
34. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Popular dance
Public enemy no. 13
Radio city music hall
The music man
35. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Ballet and modern dance
My fair lady
Brigadoon
Annie get your gun
36. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Ethel merman
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
My Fair Lady
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gertrude Lawrence
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Entertainments
38. G: What does BCE mean?
Before common era
No no nanette
Popular entertainments and comic opera
He was the producer
39. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Permissiveness and crazes
Oklahoma
Mulligan guards routines
Timbuktu
40. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Pal Joey
The Sound of Music
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Public enemy no. 13
41. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Ethel merman
Rex Harrison
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Stand by
42. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
The cotton blossom
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
43. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
A contrived ending
Oklahoma
Greeks
George gershwin
44. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Mary rodgers
Comedies
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
45. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Restoration
Carmen jones
Victor herbert
46. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Pants role or trousers role
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Director
Lyricist
47. 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
Aristotle
Oklahoma
Once upon a mattress
48. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Ray Bolger
Stephen sondheim
Mama rose
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
49. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Leonard Bernstein
Disappears
Carmen jones
50. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Timbuktu
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Agnes de Mille
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