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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. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Once upon a mattress
Rodgers and hammerstein
Rodgers and hammerstein
Kismet
2. where did performers go
Set designer
Took to the streets and traveled -
Commedia dell-arte
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
3. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Parodied
Music man
Director
Nine
4. Laurie's dream ballet
Oklahoma
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Conductor
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
5. What show is i want to be happy
No no nanette
Victor herbert
Kismet
Good news
6. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
War
Pageant wagons and mansions
Sally
7. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
BC
Cole porter
A stevedore
Producer
8. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Sally
Annie get your gun
On the town
The music man
9. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
24
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Jule Styne
Leonard bernstein
10. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Plato
Director
Flutes - lyres
Gertrude lawrence
11. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Crazy for you
Pageant wagons and mansions
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Jule Styne
12. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Victor herbert
Guys and Dolls
Mercenary mary
Timbuktu
13. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Enzio pinza
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Kiss me - kate
South pacific
14. What does 'renaissance' mean
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Timbuktu
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Rebirth
15. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Betty comden and adolph green
The Sound of Music
Damn yankees
The serenade and the fortune teller
16. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
BC
Playwright
Tragedy
Jerome kern
17. Who composed the music for Irene
Agnes de Mille
Crazy for you
Harry tierney
The music man
18. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
American dance music
Leonard bernstein
Jule Styne
The desert song
19. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Rodgers and Hart
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gwen verdon
Can-can
20. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Satyr plays
Timbuktu
Moved indoors
21. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Kiss me - Kate
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
22. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
No
Meredith wilson
Mary Martin
23. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Conductor
Oklahoma
The new moon
24. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
HMS pinafore
Producer
The new moon
Catholic church
25. What are the three types of greek plays
Irene
Kismet
Timbuktu
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
26. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
His 'confessions'
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Choreographer
27. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gwen verdon
The Sound of Music
Oklahoma
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
28. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Gwen verdon
Conductor
The student prince
Cole porter
29. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Plato
Ancient baghdad
The mikado
Good news
30. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Rose marie
Jule Styne
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Julie Andrews
31. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Tragedies
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Producer
32. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
Tearly Roman empire
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Gypsy
33. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Kismet
Producer
Victor herbert
Eliza Doolittle
34. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Rebirth
Radio city music hall
Costume designer
35. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Ancient baghdad
George and Ira Gershwin
Borrowed tunes
Comic opera
36. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Leonard bernstein
A contrived ending
George gershwin
Slapsticks
37. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
Mary Martin
Burlesqued
Ray Bolger
38. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Changing masks and costumes
Mimes
St. Augustine
Of thee i sing
39. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Lerner and Loewe
Restoration
Patriotic
Choreographer
40. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
Catholic church
Meredith wilson
Political satire
41. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Ethel merman
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Kismet
42. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Oh Kay
Meredith wilson
I got rhythm
Jerome robbins
43. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Brigadoon
Before common era
John Hollingshead
Mimes
44. 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
Threepenny opera
The romantic musicals
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
East Side Story
45. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
His 'confessions'
Set designer
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Conductor
46. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Lerner and Loewe
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Moved indoors
Mama rose
47. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
American dance music
Lyricist
State
Brigadoon
48. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Public enemy no. 13
I got rhythm
Rodgers and Hart
American dance music
49. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Political satire
He was the producer
Can-can
50. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Mama rose
West side story
Cole Porter