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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Babes in arms
Set designer
War
2. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Rodgers and hammerstein
Agnes de Mille
A trip to chinatown
Popular entertainments
3. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
The doctor of alcantara
Professional perfomers
Playwright
Radio city music hall
4. Mama rose is from What show
Pageant wagons and mansions
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Gypsy
The king and i
5. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
John Hollingshead
The pajama game
Jerome Robbins
Catholic church
6. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Comic opera
The metropolitan opera
Brigadoon
Middle ages
7. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The music man
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
8. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
My fair lady
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Romantic music
James michener
9. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Mimes
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Frank Loesser
Someone to watch over me
10. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
George m. cohan
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Stephen sondheim
11. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Leonard Bernstein
South pacific
Guys and Dolls
Comic opera
12. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Leonard Bernstein
The merry widow
Witty dialogue
Borrowed tunes
13. 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 desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Gertrude Lawrence
Annie get your gun
Slapsticks
14. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Plato
Ethel merman
Lerner and Loewe
Leonard bernstein
15. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
Commedia dell-arte
South pacific
Oh Kay
16. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Composer
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Agnes de mille
Can-can
17. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
The king and i
James michener
George and ira gershwin
George m. cohan
18. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Adonis
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
19. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Nine
Flutes - lyres
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Oklahoma
20. 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
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
None all men
Producer
Rose marie
21. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Female roles
Can-can
Julie Andrews
Gypsy
22. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Witty dialogue
Irene
False- it was considred a romantic musical
My Fair Lady
23. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The pajama game
Borrowed tunes
24. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Billy bigelow
BC
Court nobility
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
25. F:who took over those roles
Nine
Stephen Sondheim
Professional perfomers
Rose marie
26. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
False it was stylized
George and ira gershwin
Catholic church
Gene kelly
27. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Ethel merman
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
George gershwin
Julie Andrews
28. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Entertainments
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
St. Augustine
29. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Moved indoors
Cole porter
Mercenary mary
Gene kelly
30. 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
George m. cohan
Timbuktu
Ray Bolger
Jule Styne
31. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Set designer
Leonard Bernstein
Irene
Plato
32. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Tearly Roman empire
George gershwin
Babes in arms
Kurt Weill
33. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Carol Channing
No no nanette
Guys and Dolls
The romantic musicals
34. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
The king and i
Agnes de mille
Producer
Ethel merman
35. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Victor herbert
John Hollingshead
Can-can
Romantic
36. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Leonard bernstein
Cole Porter
Guys and dolls
37. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
No no nanette
Leonard bernstein
Anything goes
38. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
State
Agnes de mille
Mercenary mary
39. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Brigadoon
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Playwright
Pal Joey
40. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Oh Kay
Kurt Weill
Burlesqued
41. Where they fly things on stage
The new moon
Oh Kay
If i loved you
Fly loft
42. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Greeks
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
43. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The Threepenny opera
Ethel merman
Deus ex machina
44. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Jerome Robbins
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The Sound of Music
Ethel merman
45. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Angel
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The book uncle toms cabin
Kiss me - kate
46. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Producer
Rodgers and hammerstein
St. Augustine
47. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Mama rose
Intense training
Romantic
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
48. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Producer
Music director
Robin hood
The book
49. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
The Sound of Music
Satyr plays
Julie Andrews
Leonard bernstein
50. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
A contrived ending
The merry widow
Oscar hammerstein II