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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. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Satyr plays
Irving Berlin
Kiss me - kate
The merry widow
2. What was a 'claquer?'
Gypsy
No
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
A contrived ending
3. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Professional perfomers
Guys and Dolls
The pajama game
Nine
4. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Music director
Swing
Nine
Disappears
5. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Brigadoon
Damn yankees
Choreographer
Julie Andrews
6. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
On your toes
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
7. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Meredith wilson
Threepenny opera
Lowering
Once upon a mattress
8. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
My fair lady
The Threepenny opera
9. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
Once upon a mattress
Playwright
Playwright
10. Who stages the dances?
Candide
Commedia dell-arte
St. Augustine
Choreographer
11. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Burlesqued
The savoy operas
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Anything goes
12. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Same person
The music man
Horace
Burlesqued
13. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Director
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
No no nanette
14. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Irene
Jule Styne
Bert williams and george walker
No no nanette
15. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Victor herbert
Betty comden and adolph green
James michener
I got rhythm
16. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Crazy for you
Timbuktu
George gershwin
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
17. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
George m. cohan
On your toes and babes in arms
Timbuktu
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
18. What was a 'claquer?'
Pageant wagons and mansions
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Good news
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
19. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Intense training
Carousel
The merry widow
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
20. G: Male actors played...
Composer
Female roles
Of thee i sing
Meredith wilson
21. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
24
George and ira gershwin
Playwright
No no nanette
22. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Changing masks and costumes
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Damn yankees
He died in 1937
23. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Irving Berlin
Producer
The king and i
Female roles
24. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
On your toes and babes in arms
Same person
The king and I
Yul Brenner
25. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Timbuktu
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Music man
Female roles
26. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
Annie get your gun
Jerome Robbins
Gene kelly
27. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
West side story
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
28. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Stephen sondheim
False it was stylized
Same person
Pal Joey
29. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Crazy for you
My fair lady
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Julie Andrews
30. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Ancient baghdad
Marilyn Miller
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Satyr plays
31. 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?
Witty dialogue
Guys and dolls
The Threepenny opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
32. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Spectacle
Of thee i sing
Stephen sondheim
33. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
The music man
South pacific
Betty comden and adolph green
Disappears
34. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Moved indoors
Anti-hero
Cole porter
The metropolitan opera
35. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The cotton blossom
Mimes
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
36. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Voice type
3 to 5
King Louis XIV
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
37. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Gwen verdon
Annie get your gun
Gwen verdon
38. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Entertainments
Playwright
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Georges balanchine
39. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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40. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Borrowed tunes
The Sound of Music
Director
41. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Flutes - lyres
Cleverly concoted
Threepenny opera
I got rhythm
42. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Oil lamps
Popular entertainments
Kiss me - Kate
Entertainments
43. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
No no nanette
The king and I
Lyricist
Mary martin
44. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Permissiveness and crazes
Oklahoma
Timbuktu
45. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Georges balanchine
The desert song
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
46. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Mary Martin
Leonard bernstein
47. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
The metropolitan opera
Brigadoon
The merry widow
The mikado
48. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
None all men
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
George gershwin
His 'confessions'
49. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
BC
American politics
Gypsy
Frank Loesser
50. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Greeks
Witty dialogue
Rodgers and hammerstein
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green