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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Ancient baghdad
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Guys and Dolls
Jerome robbins
2. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Oil lamps
Oklahoma
Patriotic
Mulligan guards routines
3. G: Male actors played...
Eliza Doolittle
Meredith wilson
Popular dance
Female roles
4. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Cleverly concoted
Ancient baghdad
Oil lamps
Michael Kidd
5. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Can-can
Director
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
6. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
South pacific
Radio city music hall
Harrigan and hart
Masks and costumes
7. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Conductor
Betty comden and adolph green
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
8. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Disappears
I got rhythm
Restoration
Kiss me - kate
9. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Before common era
Rose marie
Public enemy no. 13
Brigadoon
10. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Ethel merman
Witty dialogue
Set designer
South pacific
11. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Leonard bernstein
Political satire
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
South pacific
12. 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
Lyricist
Evangeline
The romantic musicals
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
13. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Harrigan and hart
West side story
American dance music
Cole porter
14. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Rex Harrison
Marilyn Miller
Parodied
My fair lady
15. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Evangeline
Victor herbert
Meredith wilson
The mikado
16. F:who took over those roles
Of thee i sing
Leonard bernstein
Choreographer
Professional perfomers
17. 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
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
A contrived ending
Angel
18. What character are in anything goes
Brigadoon
Libretto
Georges balanchine
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
19. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Carousel
Kurt Weill
Producer
I got rhythm
20. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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21. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Producer
Jerome kern
Georges balanchine
Conductor
22. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Julie Andrews
Anything goes
3 to 5
A stevedore
23. 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'
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The desert song
Brigadoon
Victor herbert
24. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Gertrude lawrence
The shows they came from
The king and i
25. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
War
Gestures and poses
Orchestration
The student prince
26. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Once upon a mattress
Stand by
Gypsy
27. Who is the composer for on the town
Oklahoma
Leonard bernstein
Rodgers and hammerstein
Victor herbert
28. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
South pacific
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Eliza Doolittle
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
29. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
Playwright
Threepenny opera
Bob Fosse
30. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
Librettist
Anti-hero
Crazy for you
31. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Guys and dolls
The mikado
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
John Gay
32. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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33. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Producer
Ballet and modern dance
The king and I
West side story
34. 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'
Guys and Dolls
Rex Harrison
Annie get your gun
Ray Bolger
35. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The Sound of Music
Producer
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
No
36. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Rodgers and Hart
Brigadoon
Music director
Adonis
37. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
Producer
Ray Bolger
The doctor of alcantara
38. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
West side story
Kiss me - kate
Irving Berlin
Public enemy no. 13
39. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
Cole porter
BC
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
40. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Kismet
Jule Styne
Popular entertainments and comic opera
A trip to chinatown
41. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Annie get your gun
Leonard Bernstein
Masks and costumes
42. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
Someone to watch over me
Witty dialogue
24
43. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
West side story
BC
Commedia dell-arte
A contrived ending
44. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Sally
George gershwin
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Julie Andrews
45. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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46. 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?
Voice type
Music director
Crazy for you
Kiss me - kate
47. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Irene
George gershwin
Leonard bernstein
Bert williams and george walker
48. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
Brigadoon
Public enemy no. 13
On your toes and babes in arms
49. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Threepenny opera
George gershwin
Victor herbert
Comic opera had music and dialogue
50. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
The book uncle toms cabin
The shows they came from
My Fair Lady
4th and 5th centuries bce