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Musical Theatre
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1. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Damn yankees
Romantic music
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Carmen jones
2. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Kiss me - Kate
Brigadoon
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Can-can
3. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The romantic musicals
Plato
4. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Commedia dell-arte
Rodgers and hammerstein
The serenade and the fortune teller
Satyr plays
5. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Mary rodgers
Lerner and Loewe
Gestures and poses
Once upon a mattress
6. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Aristotle
3 to 5
Tragedies
7. What characters are in show boat
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8. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Anti-hero
South pacific
Conductor
Masks and costumes
9. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Playwright
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Ray bolger
George m. cohan
10. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
The Sound of Music
Set designer
The music man
Mary rodgers
11. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Official beginning of western theatre
Irene
Gwen verdon
Greeks
12. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Jerome robbins
Female roles
John Hollingshead
13. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Stephen Sondheim
Cleverly concoted
Leonard bernstein
Stephen sondheim
14. Thespis ________ greek mythology
No no nanette
Burlesqued
Bert williams and george walker
Music man
15. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
None all men
American dance music
If i loved you
Producer
16. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Brigadoon
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
George and ira gershwin
17. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Oklahoma
Conductor
Nine
18. What comic duo was the show centered around
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Oh Kay
Disappears
Bert williams and george walker
19. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Anything goes
Julie Andrews
Oh Kay
Candide
20. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Billy bigelow
Librettist
Enzio pinza
No no nanette
21. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
The king and i
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
No no nanette
Director
22. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Cole porter
Costume designer
Irving Berlin
Rodgers and Hart
23. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
A trip to chinatown
Lerner and Loewe
Commedia dell-arte
Conductor
24. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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25. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Mama rose
Damn yankees
Agnes de Mille
Oklahoma
26. Where they fly things on stage
Playwright
Good news
East Side Story
Fly loft
27. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Gene kelly
Evangeline
American politics
Crazy for You
28. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Jerome Robbins
Oklahoma
The student prince
Annie get your gun
29. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
Ethel merman
Bernstein and Sondheim
The new moon
30. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gwen verdon
Gene kelly
Lerner and Loewe
Deus ex machina
31. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Romantic music
Political satire
Betty comden and adolph green
32. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Cole porter
No
The savoy operas
Playwright
33. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Gwen verdon
Agnes de Mille
Julie Andrews
Kismet
34. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
American politics
The new moon
On your toes and babes in arms
Gypsy
35. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
The shows they came from
The king and I
The shows they came from
36. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Lowering
My Fair Lady
Costume designer
Yul Brenner
37. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Fly loft
Burlesqued
City dionysia
38. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
The metropolitan opera
The serenade and the fortune teller
Richard rodgers
Annie get your gun
39. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
24
Public enemy no. 13
East Side Story
George and ira gershwin
40. Who is the composer of the King and I
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Mary martin
None all men
Richard rodgers
41. Who picks the actors?
The new moon
Lerner and Loewe
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Director
42. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
4th and 5th centuries bce
Mercenary mary
George m. cohan
43. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Leonard bernstein
Producer
The cotton blossom
The pajama game
44. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Choreographer
Ethel merman
Brigadoon
Comedies
45. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
Can-can
Oklahoma
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
46. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Ballet and modern dance
Mimes
The music man
Guys and Dolls
47. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Commedia dell-arte
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Burlesqued
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
48. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
Jule Styne
Julie Andrews
King Louis XIV
49. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
John Hollingshead
He was the producer
Ray bolger
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
50. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Victor herbert
George and Ira Gershwin
St. Augustine
Before common era
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