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Musical Theatre
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Subjects
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. G: Greek actors had...
A trip to chinatown
Intense training
Comedies
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
2. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
Brigadoon
Irving Berlin
Voice type
3. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
No no nanette
Crazy for you
Ray Bolger
4. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Comedy
Satyr plays
Witty dialogue
Ray bolger
5. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
Permissiveness and crazes
Oklahoma
Masks and costumes
6. What show is -i got rhythm
Anti-hero
Girl crazy
American dance music
Rodgers and hammerstein
7. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The savoy operas
A stevedore
Gypsy
8. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
A trip to chinatown
War
The book
Sally
9. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
10. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Angel
Commedia dell-arte
Evangeline
If i loved you
11. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
The shows they came from
Oscar hammerstein
The book
No
12. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
James michener
Restoration
False- it was considred a romantic musical
No
13. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
George gershwin
Irving Berlin
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
No
14. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
The book uncle toms cabin
Moliere
Tragedies
Of thee i sing
15. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
George m. cohan
Entertainments
The savoy operas
Kiss me - Kate
16. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Anything goes
Richard rodgers
George m. cohan
Carousel
17. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Aristotle
Gertrude Lawrence
Kiss me - kate
Guys and dolls
18. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Gwen verdon
East Side Story
The music man
19. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Librettist
Director
The shows they came from
Intense training
20. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Victor herbert
Pants role or trousers role
Jerome Robbins
21. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Yul Brenner
Disappears
The Threepenny Opera
22. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Gypsy
Victor herbert
Julie Andrews
My fair lady
23. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Professional perfomers
The Sound of Music
Gertrude Lawrence
Conductor
24. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Producer
On your toes
Commedia dell-arte
Pageant wagons and mansions
25. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Radio city music hall
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Irene
26. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Mama rose
Jule Styne
Jerome Robbins
Once upon a mattress
27. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Professional perfomers
Irene
Comic opera
28. Annie Oakley is from What show
Annie get your gun
Bob Fosse
On your toes
The desert song
29. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Oklahoma
Carol Channing
Ancient baghdad
The Threepenny Opera
30. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
George gershwin
City dionysia
Brigadoon
31. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Pants role or trousers role
Billy bigelow
If i loved you
32. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Cole porter
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The Sound of Music
Brigadoon
33. G: What is BCE same as
Tragedies
BC- before christ
Timbuktu
The book
34. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Stand by
The king and i
Carmen jones
South pacific
35. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
No no nanette
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Masks and costumes
Entertainments
36. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
James michener
Same person
Orchestration
Masks and costumes
37. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Gwen verdon
Gypsy
Gertrude Lawrence
38. Pal Joey was written by...
Mulligan guards routines
Swing
Lerner and Loewe
Rodgers and Hart
39. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
John Gay
Of thee i sing
Thespis
None all men
40. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Timbuktu
Jerome Robbins
Brigadoon
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
41. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
American politics
Singin in the rain
Mary martin
Gertrude lawrence
42. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Crazy for You
Richard rodgers
I got rhythm
43. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Set designer
Ethel merman
Candide
44. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
HMS pinafore
Swing
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Ethel merman
45. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
The desert song
Cleverly concoted
State
Ethel merman
46. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Mercenary mary
Ethel merman
Jule Styne
He died in 1937
47. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
Carol Channing
Marilyn Miller
Oscar hammerstein II
48. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
4th and 5th centuries bce
Producer
Public enemy no. 13
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
49. What show is -i got rhythm
Rodgers and Hart
Rose marie
John Hollingshead
Girl crazy
50. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Agnes de mille
Tragedy
My fair lady
Oscar hammerstein