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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. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Gypsy
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
A contrived ending
2. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
American politics
South pacific
Comic opera
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
3. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Patriotic
Commedia dell-arte
4. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Meredith wilson
Kurt Weill
Crazy for You
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
5. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Professional perfomers
Cole porter
George m. cohan
Billy bigelow
6. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Popular entertainments
Masks and costumes
Mary Martin
Pageant wagons and mansions
7. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome Robbins
John Hollingshead
Oklahoma
Jerome kern
8. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Female roles
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Cole porter
9. Annie Oakley is from What show
Victor herbert
Comic opera
Annie get your gun
The book uncle toms cabin
10. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Conductor
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
George and ira gershwin
Kiss me - Kate
11. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Candide
Nine
Horace
Orchestration
12. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
The Threepenny Opera
Mary rodgers
Mercenary mary
On the town
13. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
Gypsy
Producer
Political satire
14. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Satyr plays
Moved indoors
Conductor
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
15. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Playwright
Set designer
John Hollingshead
Tragedies
16. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Eliza Doolittle
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
American politics
The new moon
17. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Kiss me - Kate
Director
Producer
Carol Channing
18. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Kismet
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
19. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Director
HMS pinafore
Agnes de Mille
Meredith wilson
20. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Someone to watch over me
Lerner and Loewe
George and Ira Gershwin
Tragedy
21. Who writes the words to the songs?
Leonard Bernstein
Annie get your gun
Lyricist
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
22. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Producer
Mary Martin
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Gypsy
23. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
If i loved you
Julie Andrews
No no nanette
24. What characters are in show boat
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25. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
3 to 5
Mulligan guards routines
Ray bolger
Producer
26. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Good news
Costume designer
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Same person
27. What is Bali H'ai from
George and Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
South pacific
3 to 5
28. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Meredith wilson
4th and 5th centuries bce
Swing
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
29. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
War
The doctor of alcantara
Professional perfomers
Gertrude Lawrence
30. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
The mikado
St. Augustine
Catholic church
Librettist
31. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Gypsy
Court nobility
Mimes
A trip to chinatown
32. 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
The cotton blossom
Kiss me - kate
American dance music
George gershwin
33. What show is the song bewitched from
4th and 5th centuries bce
Music director
Pal Joey
Producer
34. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Slapsticks
Parodied
Librettist
James michener
35. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Masks and costumes
BC
South pacific
Patriotic
36. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Richard d'oyly carte
Tragedies
Threepenny opera
37. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
BC- before christ
East Side Story
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
38. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Costume designer
The student prince
Cole Porter
Brigadoon
39. Who picks the actors?
The king and I
Director
Candide
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
40. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Can-can
Stephen Sondheim
BC- before christ
John Hollingshead
41. What was the continental
Mary Martin
Jerome robbins
Moved indoors
Popular dance
42. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
The merry widow
No
Damn yankees
Jerome kern
43. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Spectacle
Producer
Stephen sondheim
False- it was considred a romantic musical
44. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Harrigan and hart
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Playwright
On the town
45. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Voice type
3 to 5
BC- before christ
Gene kelly
46. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Once upon a mattress
Annie get your gun
Comic opera
47. What show is i want to be happy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Threepenny opera
No no nanette
Mercenary mary
48. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
My fair lady
4th and 5th centuries bce
Mary rodgers
Cleverly concoted
49. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On your toes and babes in arms
On the town
Victor herbert
Director
50. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Someone to watch over me
Patriotic
War
American dance music