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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. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
The Threepenny opera
Disappears
Producer
2. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
Brigadoon
Carol Channing
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
3. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Ray Bolger
Gypsy
The pajama game
4. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
New comedy
Rebirth
Oklahoma
Ballet and modern dance
5. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
The desert song
Took to the streets and traveled -
Robin hood
Leonard bernstein
6. Who picks the actors?
Eliza Doolittle
Leonard bernstein
Director
South pacific
7. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Deus ex machina
Singin in the rain
Babes in arms
Public enemy no. 13
8. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Ethel merman
Romantic
BC- before christ
9. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Oscar hammerstein II
Can-can
Composer
Rodgers and hammerstein
10. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Librettist
No
Irene
Playwright
11. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Comedy
Costume designer
Radio city music hall
Rodgers and Hart
12. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Carousel
Moliere
Bob Fosse
Timbuktu
13. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Richard rodgers
Same person
Agnes de mille
14. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Rodgers and hammerstein
West side story
Kurt Weill
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
15. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Mercenary mary
Oscar hammerstein
Good news
Girl crazy
16. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Commedia dell-arte
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Mercenary mary
Gwen verdon
17. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Adonis
Georges balanchine
Evangeline
18. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Stephen Sondheim
The serenade and the fortune teller
Kismet
Slapsticks
19. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
The book
Oscar hammerstein II
Permissiveness and crazes
John Gay
20. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
False it was stylized
Timbuktu
The new moon
Popular dance
21. Who is the composer for music man
Meredith wilson
Timbuktu
Gestures and poses
Lerner and Loewe
22. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
He died in 1937
South pacific
23. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
HMS pinafore
The desert song
Stephen Sondheim
Spectacle
24. What show is -the continental
Jerome robbins
American politics
The Threepenny opera
Mercenary mary
25. Laurie's dream ballet
The doctor of alcantara
Oklahoma
Georges balanchine
The music man
26. 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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27. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Romantic music
Deus ex machina
Julie Andrews
Producer
28. What was the continental
Harrigan and hart
Popular dance
John Hollingshead
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
29. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Brigadoon
Athens
Cole porter
Swing
30. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Mimes
Voice type
On your toes and babes in arms
Cole porter
31. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
The marx brothers
The serenade and the fortune teller
Restoration
32. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Horace
Kiss me - kate
No no nanette
Middle ages
33. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Bernstein and Sondheim
The cotton blossom
City dionysia
City dionysia
34. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
The Sound of Music
Gertrude Lawrence
Pants role or trousers role
35. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Damn yankees
Kismet
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
36. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Moved indoors
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Commedia dell-arte
The savoy operas
37. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
HMS pinafore
Tragedies
Catholic church
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
38. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Ray bolger
No no nanette
Angel
Gypsy
39. What show is -the continental
The book
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Gertrude Lawrence
Mercenary mary
40. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Romantic
Director
Pants role or trousers role
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
41. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Rex Harrison
Stephen Sondheim
Angel
None all men
42. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Rose marie
Libretto
American politics
Ballet and modern dance
43. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Jule Styne
Frank Loesser
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Radio city music hall
44. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
A contrived ending
Pants role or trousers role
Once upon a mattress
Gypsy
45. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Enzio pinza
The Threepenny opera
Intense training
Ballet and modern dance
46. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
John Hollingshead
I got rhythm
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Official beginning of western theatre
47. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Crazy for you
The serenade and the fortune teller
Annie get your gun
48. ____________ presents men better than they are...
South pacific
Tragedy
Lowering
None all men
49. G: How many lead actors were there?
Leonard bernstein
Cole porter
No
3 to 5
50. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Lerner and Loewe
Rex Harrison
Playwright
Romantic