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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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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. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
Mercenary mary
Bert williams and george walker
His 'confessions'
2. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Oklahoma
The savoy operas
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Guys and dolls
3. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Agnes de Mille
Timbuktu
Female roles
Restoration
4. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Producer
Oscar hammerstein
5. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Girl crazy
The Threepenny opera
Spectacle
Rodgers and hammerstein
6. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Commedia dell-arte
Rebirth
HMS pinafore
The king and I
7. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
8. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George m. cohan
Anti-hero
Mimes
Ethel merman
9. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Meredith wilson
Of thee i sing
Patriotic
George m. cohan
10. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Greeks
Leonard bernstein
None all men
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
11. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Kiss me - kate
Voice type
Carmen jones
Conductor
12. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Stephen sondheim
Commedia dell-arte
Aristotle
Commedia dell-arte
13. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Of thee i sing
Cole Porter
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
King Louis XIV
14. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Tearly Roman empire
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Guys and Dolls
Libretto
15. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Gene kelly
Producer
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
16. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Swing
Carol Channing
The Threepenny Opera
Meredith wilson
17. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Brigadoon
Threepenny opera
The student prince
Composer
18. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
New comedy
The merry widow
John Hollingshead
19. Bloody Mary is from What show
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Changing masks and costumes
South pacific
Ethel merman
20. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Annie get your gun
Stephen sondheim
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Cole porter
21. Who stages the dances?
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Ray Bolger
Choreographer
Romantic
22. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
4th and 5th centuries bce
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Meredith wilson
George and Ira Gershwin
23. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Ray bolger
HMS pinafore
Director
24. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Richard rodgers
Orchestration
Sally
George m. cohan
25. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Tragedy
Conductor
Oscar hammerstein II
No no nanette
26. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Librettist
Yul Brenner
The Threepenny opera
Playwright
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Ballet and modern dance
Plato
28. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Rose marie
Tragedy
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
West side story
29. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Court nobility
My Fair Lady
Irene
Yul Brenner
30. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Mama rose
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Deus ex machina
George gershwin
31. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Same person
Nine
Pal Joey
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
32. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Director
Mercenary mary
Damn yankees
33. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
Jule Styne
Mary rodgers
The Threepenny opera
34. Commedia performers used...
Annie get your gun
Took to the streets and traveled -
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Slapsticks
35. Laurie's dream ballet
Producer
Oklahoma
The Threepenny opera
Disappears
36. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Cole porter
Before common era
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Gertrude Lawrence
37. What comic duo was the show centered around
Bert williams and george walker
Gypsy
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
38. Laurie is from What show
Producer
Annie get your gun
Oklahoma
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
39. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Cole porter
Director
South pacific
Meredith wilson
40. What was the setting for Kismet
Stephen Sondheim
Rex Harrison
Ancient baghdad
Popular entertainments
41. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Angel
Producer
Meredith wilson
Spectacle
42. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
On your toes
American politics
George gershwin
Of thee i sing
43. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Rodgers and hammerstein
James michener
Once upon a mattress
Producer
44. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
George and ira gershwin
Romantic music
Kiss me - Kate
Meredith wilson
45. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
The music man
St. Augustine
Rodgers and hammerstein
Director
46. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Comic opera
Cole Porter
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Someone to watch over me
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Evangeline
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
48. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
James michener
George and ira gershwin
Agnes de Mille
Frank Loesser
49. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Gertrude Lawrence
BC- before christ
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Agnes de mille
50. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
King Louis XIV
Jule Styne
Gwen verdon