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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
Agnes de mille
The cotton blossom
Victor herbert
2. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Damn yankees
George m. cohan
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mimes
3. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Meredith wilson
Director
Ethel merman
Stephen Sondheim
4. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
The Sound of Music
Harrigan and hart
Agnes de mille
5. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Producer
Same person
HMS pinafore
Lowering
6. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The Sound of Music
Marilyn Miller
Commedia dell-arte
7. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger
BC- before christ
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
BC
8. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Rebirth
Babes in arms
The music man
My Fair Lady
9. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Gwen verdon
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Rose marie
10. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
South pacific
The music man
The Sound of Music
Gypsy
11. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The pajama game
Agnes de mille
Angel
12. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Bert williams and george walker
Radio city music hall
George and ira gershwin
Restoration
13. What is Bali H'ai from
The doctor of alcantara
Tearly Roman empire
South pacific
Leonard bernstein
14. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
The desert song
Kiss me - kate
Stephen sondheim
15. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Orchestration
Patriotic
Bert williams and george walker
Moliere
16. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
South pacific
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Threepenny opera
Playwright
17. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Kurt Weill
The romantic musicals
A contrived ending
Meredith wilson
18. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Pageant wagons and mansions
Athens
Can-can
The merry widow
19. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Producer
Public enemy no. 13
Bob Fosse
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
20. where did performers go
My fair lady
Ancient baghdad
Took to the streets and traveled -
3 to 5
21. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Gypsy
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Jerome Robbins
Can-can
22. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Stand by
Oscar hammerstein
Set designer
Mimes
23. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
The Threepenny opera
Choreographer
Victor herbert
Ethel merman
24. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Mimes
State
George gershwin
Music director
25. Laurie's dream ballet
Oklahoma
Swing
Jule Styne
Richard rodgers
26. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
The desert song
Masks and costumes
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Athens
27. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
George and ira gershwin
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The marx brothers
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
28. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
Guys and Dolls
Betty comden and adolph green
Ancient baghdad
29. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
The belle of new york
South pacific
Producer
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
30. F:who took over those roles
Rex Harrison
Professional perfomers
The king and i
Voice type
31. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Anything goes
The belle of new york
Aristotle
Yul Brenner
32. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Oil lamps
Marilyn Miller
33. Who is the composer of the music man
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Meredith wilson
Julie Andrews
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
34. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Disappears
The Threepenny Opera
My Fair Lady
Producer
35. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Libretto
Deus ex machina
Catholic church
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
36. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Comedies
Leonard bernstein
Gypsy
37. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Betty comden and adolph green
Marilyn Miller
He died in 1937
38. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Of thee i sing
Gypsy
Rodgers and hammerstein
Oscar hammerstein
39. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Before common era
On your toes and babes in arms
Rodgers and hammerstein
40. Laurie is from What show
No no nanette
The new moon
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Oklahoma
41. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
My fair lady
Librettist
Can-can
Leonard Bernstein
42. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Flutes - lyres
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
George and Ira Gershwin
Stand by
43. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Permissiveness and crazes
The mikado
Popular entertainments and comic opera
44. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Cleverly concoted
My Fair Lady
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Anything goes
45. What character are in anything goes
Court nobility
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Angel
City dionysia
46. Who stages the dances?
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Choreographer
Orchestration
South pacific
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Borrowed tunes
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
48. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Playwright
The desert song
Romantic
South pacific
49. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Director
Producer
Commedia dell-arte
Moved indoors
50. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jerome Robbins
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
John Hollingshead