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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Anything goes
Bob Fosse
Romantic
Choreographer
2. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
Cole porter
Disappears
Mary Martin
3. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
My Fair Lady
Ancient baghdad
The romantic musicals
Mercenary mary
4. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Horace
Rodgers and hammerstein
Cleverly concoted
Harrigan and hart
5. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Oscar hammerstein II
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Kiss me - Kate
Georges balanchine
6. Annie Oakley is from What show
Annie get your gun
Can-can
Of thee i sing
Moliere
7. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
Timbuktu
Oil lamps
Betty comden and adolph green
8. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
If i loved you
Ethel merman
The metropolitan opera
Rodgers and hammerstein
9. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
American politics
Producer
The desert song
10. Greek: 534 BCE
The cotton blossom
The cotton blossom
Official beginning of western theatre
The music man
11. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
My fair lady
Oklahoma
12. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Kiss me - kate
Mercenary mary
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Lowering
13. What is Bali H'ai from
South pacific
The mikado
Producer
Anti-hero
14. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Set designer
Richard d'oyly carte
Voice type
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
15. Who writes the words to the songs?
Lyricist
Timbuktu
My Fair Lady
Oh Kay
16. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Political satire
The metropolitan opera
My Fair Lady
The mikado
17. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
Kiss me - Kate
Restoration
Oh Kay
18. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Jerome Robbins
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Mulligan guards routines
HMS pinafore
19. Who is the composer of the King and I
Girl crazy
John Hollingshead
The book
Richard rodgers
20. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Gypsy
Nine
Marilyn Miller
Moliere
21. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Aristotle
Permissiveness and crazes
A stevedore
South pacific
22. What show is -i got rhythm
The king and i
Comic opera
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Girl crazy
23. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Leonard bernstein
None all men
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Court nobility
24. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Adonis
Producer
Spectacle
Changing masks and costumes
25. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Candide
Composer
Sally
Can-can
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
The puritans took control of the governmetn
War
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Pal Joey
27. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
A trip to chinatown
Guys and dolls
Jerome kern
A stevedore
28. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Ethel merman
American dance music
War
Gene kelly
29. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
George and ira gershwin
Rex Harrison
30. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
George and Ira Gershwin
Yul Brenner
Pageant wagons and mansions
The serenade and the fortune teller
31. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Set designer
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Babes in arms
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
32. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Middle ages
Deus ex machina
Producer
Of thee i sing
33. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Mary martin
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Aristotle
34. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Masks and costumes
Leonard bernstein
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
35. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Anti-hero
Jerome kern
City dionysia
Plato
36. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gwen verdon
Irving Berlin
James michener
Comedy
37. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
The belle of new york
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The desert song
38. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Pageant wagons and mansions
He was the producer
Leonard Bernstein
Rex Harrison
39. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Commedia dell-arte
The belle of new york
The book
Producer
40. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Swing
Flutes - lyres
Popular entertainments
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
41. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Once upon a mattress
American dance music
42. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
A trip to chinatown
Victor herbert
Oscar hammerstein
Gertrude lawrence
43. Bloody Mary is from What show
Pants role or trousers role
Political satire
South pacific
The savoy operas
44. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Leonard bernstein
Voice type
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Robin hood
45. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Political satire
Tragedies
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Good news
46. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Oklahoma
Jule Styne
Music director
George and Ira Gershwin
47. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Disappears
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Eliza Doolittle
Flutes - lyres
48. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Mulligan guards routines
False it was stylized
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
False- it was considred a romantic musical
49. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Jerome kern
Anything goes
Angel
James michener
50. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The Sound of Music
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Playwright
No no nanette
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