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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. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Middle ages
My Fair Lady
Gertrude lawrence
Oh Kay
2. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Enzio pinza
The book uncle toms cabin
South pacific
3. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Annie get your gun
Agnes de mille
Director
4. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Bert williams and george walker
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Lowering
Brigadoon
5. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Entertainments
BC
James michener
6. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Entertainments
Middle ages
7. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
The serenade and the fortune teller
Carmen jones
South pacific
Mary rodgers
8. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
His 'confessions'
Popular entertainments
24
Kismet
9. Laurie's dream ballet
Gwen verdon
Oklahoma
South pacific
The Sound of Music
10. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
Oklahoma
The doctor of alcantara
Guys and dolls
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
11. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Leonard Bernstein
Director
BC- before christ
Eliza Doolittle
12. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Lerner and Loewe
Intense training
The puritans took control of the governmetn
My fair lady
13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Someone to watch over me
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
No no nanette
George and Ira Gershwin
14. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Playwright
A stevedore
Voice type
Ancient baghdad
15. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Meredith wilson
My fair lady
Enzio pinza
16. Pal Joey was written by...
Official beginning of western theatre
The marx brothers
Rodgers and Hart
George and ira gershwin
17. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
My fair lady
BC- before christ
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Popular entertainments
18. Who is the star of sweet charity
Middle ages
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Gwen verdon
Mercenary mary
19. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gwen verdon
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
No no nanette
American dance music
20. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Frank Loesser
Aristotle
Restoration
War
21. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
St. Augustine
A trip to chinatown
Victor herbert
Oscar hammerstein II
22. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Court nobility
Catholic church
South pacific
Gertrude lawrence
23. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Gypsy
Set designer
Gertrude Lawrence
24. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Lerner and Loewe
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Richard d'oyly carte
25. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Kismet
American politics
Composer
Masks and costumes
26. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Kiss me - kate
State
3 to 5
Producer
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Horace
Producer
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gypsy
28. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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29. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Once upon a mattress
Anti-hero
Gertrude Lawrence
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
30. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Mercenary mary
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Mary martin
New comedy
31. Bloody Mary is from What show
No
Borrowed tunes
South pacific
Ethel merman
32. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
South pacific
BC
The shows they came from
Victor herbert
33. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Director
Fly loft
Oil lamps
Pants role or trousers role
34. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Cole porter
Mercenary mary
Agnes de mille
35. Mama rose is from What show
Michael Kidd
Gypsy
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Julie Andrews
36. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Producer
Orchestration
The Threepenny Opera
Patriotic
37. __________ presents men worse than they are...
West side story
Producer
Comedy
Cole porter
38. Who hires the creative team for a production?
The music man
On your toes and babes in arms
Producer
I got rhythm
39. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
On the town
Music director
Professional perfomers
City dionysia
40. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Agnes de Mille
Georges balanchine
41. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Librettist
He died in 1937
Director
On your toes and babes in arms
42. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Cole porter
A trip to chinatown
Lerner and Loewe
43. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
City dionysia
New comedy
On your toes
The book
44. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Permissiveness and crazes
West side story
Good news
45. G: What does BCE mean?
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Thespis
Before common era
Oscar hammerstein II
46. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Carmen jones
Kiss me - Kate
Librettist
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
47. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Composer
James michener
Popular dance
Gestures and poses
48. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Meredith wilson
My fair lady
Ethel merman
49. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Girl crazy
His 'confessions'
Leonard Bernstein
50. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Mary Martin
Voice type
South pacific
Entertainments