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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. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Burlesqued
Ballet and modern dance
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Popular entertainments and comic opera
2. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Oklahoma
Patriotic
Ray bolger
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
3. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Babes in arms
George gershwin
Libretto
4. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Jule Styne
Michael Kidd
Masks and costumes
The Sound of Music
5. Laurie's dream ballet
The music man
Masks and costumes
Carousel
Oklahoma
6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Director
Rodgers and hammerstein
Costume designer
Evangeline
7. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Oklahoma
Bernstein and Sondheim
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Cole Porter
8. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Crazy for you
Burlesqued
The book
24
9. Lotte Lenya is from What show
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Oklahoma
The Threepenny Opera
Ray Bolger
10. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Guys and dolls
The Sound of Music
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
11. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Girl crazy
Borrowed tunes
The doctor of alcantara
False it was stylized
12. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
24
Leonard bernstein
Before common era
Jule Styne
13. What characters are in show boat
14. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
No
Meredith wilson
Once upon a mattress
15. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Lerner and Loewe
Singin in the rain
Brigadoon
Oklahoma
16. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Leonard bernstein
Oil lamps
Guys and Dolls
Public enemy no. 13
17. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Stephen sondheim
The king and i
Brigadoon
Producer
18. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
On the town
Once upon a mattress
George gershwin
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
19. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Commedia dell-arte
He died in 1937
Public enemy no. 13
20. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
George gershwin
Popular dance
Irene
Permissiveness and crazes
21. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Set designer
Commedia dell-arte
Disappears
Athens
22. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Annie get your gun
Director
King Louis XIV
Director
23. Who is the composer for music man
Meredith wilson
Gene kelly
My Fair Lady
Agnes de mille
24. 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
State
The romantic musicals
Crazy for you
Robin hood
25. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
Professional perfomers
Victor herbert
Adonis
26. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Ray bolger
The marx brothers
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
BC- before christ
27. Who is the composer for music man
Agnes de mille
South pacific
Meredith wilson
Richard rodgers
28. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Horace
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Before common era
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
29. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
The mikado
Music director
John Gay
State
30. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Mary martin
Tragedies
Harry tierney
Intense training
31. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
The belle of new york
Athens
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Cole porter
32. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
Playwright
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Mercenary mary
33. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Victor herbert
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
John Hollingshead
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
34. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Thespis
Ray bolger
George and ira gershwin
Romantic music
35. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
36. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Rodgers and Hart
Victor herbert
Masks and costumes
37. Commedia performers used...
Borrowed tunes
Moliere
Slapsticks
Annie get your gun
38. G: how did they play female roles
West side story
American dance music
On the town
Changing masks and costumes
39. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Mimes
Catholic church
The book uncle toms cabin
My fair lady
40. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Richard rodgers
Comic opera
Georges balanchine
41. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
The Sound of Music
American politics
Irving Berlin
Can-can
42. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Cole Porter
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Enzio pinza
The merry widow
43. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Romantic music
Stephen sondheim
The book
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
44. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Anything goes
Mary rodgers
Jerome kern
45. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Agnes de mille
Producer
New comedy
The new moon
46. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Comedies
Costume designer
The Sound of Music
Victor herbert
47. Who was the choreographer for carousel
The merry widow
Yul Brenner
Agnes de mille
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
48. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
The king and i
West side story
Director
Harrigan and hart
49. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Richard d'oyly carte
George gershwin
Producer
On your toes and babes in arms
50. 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?
Leonard bernstein
Rodgers and Hart
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Crazy for you