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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. G: What is BCE same as
Of thee i sing
Thespis
BC- before christ
Adonis
2. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
Burlesqued
The merry widow
Oh Kay
3. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Comedies
Witty dialogue
False it was stylized
No no nanette
4. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Julie Andrews
City dionysia
Mulligan guards routines
West side story
5. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Comedy
The Sound of Music
BC- before christ
Victor herbert
6. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Brigadoon
Of thee i sing
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
7. Who wrote the music for show boat
Ethel merman
A stevedore
Jerome kern
Same person
8. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Victor herbert
He died in 1937
Female roles
Popular entertainments and comic opera
9. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Bob Fosse
George and ira gershwin
Betty comden and adolph green
10. F:who took over those roles
Robin hood
Oh Kay
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Professional perfomers
11. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Timbuktu
Comedies
Oklahoma
Cole Porter
12. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Gertrude Lawrence
The Threepenny Opera
Middle ages
Tearly Roman empire
13. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Moved indoors
Victor herbert
Lerner and Loewe
Ethel merman
14. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Lyricist
Jerome kern
Ray bolger
Yul Brenner
15. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Anything goes
On the town
Intense training
Rodgers and Hart
16. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Cole Porter
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Jule Styne
Costume designer
17. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
Producer
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Marilyn Miller
18. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Oscar hammerstein II
Bernstein and Sondheim
Fly loft
A trip to chinatown
19. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
George and ira gershwin
Tragedy
20. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Deus ex machina
Public enemy no. 13
Costume designer
Babes in arms
21. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Catholic church
Stand by
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Greeks
22. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
Plato
Witty dialogue
Marilyn Miller
23. Who made in dahomey unique
Public enemy no. 13
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Rose marie
John Hollingshead
24. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
East Side Story
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Oscar hammerstein II
25. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
The mikado
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Brigadoon
Kiss me - Kate
26. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
The student prince
Fly loft
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
27. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
No no nanette
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Ethel merman
Aristotle
28. 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
On your toes
Rose marie
Music man
Once upon a mattress
29. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The Sound of Music
The book uncle toms cabin
Carousel
Female roles
30. What was the continental
Moliere
Popular dance
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Someone to watch over me
31. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Meredith wilson
Guys and Dolls
My fair lady
Pageant wagons and mansions
32. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
I got rhythm
Choreographer
Annie get your gun
Sally
33. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Ray Bolger
He died in 1937
Good news
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
34. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
A stevedore
Bernstein and Sondheim
The Sound of Music
Angel
35. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
George and Ira Gershwin
Georges balanchine
Set designer
Gertrude lawrence
36. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
South pacific
West side story
Gene kelly
Kiss me - kate
37. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
The Threepenny opera
Costume designer
Jule Styne
Anything goes
38. 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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39. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Tearly Roman empire
Eliza Doolittle
Kiss me - kate
Guys and Dolls
40. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Costume designer
Ethel merman
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Comic opera had music and dialogue
41. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Richard rodgers
The metropolitan opera
Choreographer
42. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Gypsy
Director
BC- before christ
43. Who is the composer of the music man
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Meredith wilson
Choreographer
Gypsy
44. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma
Stephen Sondheim
Gypsy
45. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Nine
Producer
Jule Styne
Oklahoma
46. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Producer
St. Augustine
Same person
Director
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Once upon a mattress
George and ira gershwin
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Crazy for You
48. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Mary Martin
Of thee i sing
Betty comden and adolph green
49. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
George m. cohan
George and ira gershwin
Richard rodgers
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
50. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
4th and 5th centuries bce
Ray Bolger
Richard d'oyly carte
Carmen jones