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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. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Gertrude lawrence
Lyricist
Spectacle
2. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Angel
Commedia dell-arte
Lerner and Loewe
Bernstein and Sondheim
3. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Agnes de mille
The serenade and the fortune teller
The Sound of Music
4. Annie Oakley is from What show
Annie get your gun
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Girl crazy
Mama rose
5. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Bob Fosse
Music director
Professional perfomers
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
6. Who is the composer for on the town
Commedia dell-arte
Ray bolger
Jerome kern
Leonard bernstein
7. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Cole porter
Frank Loesser
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
I got rhythm
8. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Brigadoon
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
9. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Leonard bernstein
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Of thee i sing
10. What was the original name of West Side Story
Julie Andrews
East Side Story
Cole Porter
Rodgers and hammerstein
11. 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
Ray Bolger
Director
The romantic musicals
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
12. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Jule Styne
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
West side story
13. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Costume designer
American politics
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Romantic music
14. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
The king and i
Mama rose
Changing masks and costumes
Gestures and poses
15. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
3 to 5
Masks and costumes
Gertrude Lawrence
My fair lady
16. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Professional perfomers
Brigadoon
Witty dialogue
17. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Agnes de mille
Permissiveness and crazes
Oklahoma
Threepenny opera
18. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Rodgers and hammerstein
He died in 1937
Meredith wilson
Set designer
19. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Guys and dolls
Crazy for you
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
South pacific
20. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Irving Berlin
Orchestration
Gestures and poses
Agnes de Mille
21. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
The student prince
Stand by
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Mary Martin
22. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Mimes
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
BC
Kiss me - kate
23. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
Before common era
Pageant wagons and mansions
Singin in the rain
24. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Catholic church
Burlesqued
Director
Ancient baghdad
25. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Spectacle
Mercenary mary
If i loved you
Georges balanchine
26. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Ethel merman
He died in 1937
Pageant wagons and mansions
27. What show is 'broadway melody' from
I got rhythm
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Marilyn Miller
Singin in the rain
28. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Agnes de mille
Ethel merman
On your toes
Romantic music
29. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Once upon a mattress
Lerner and Loewe
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
30. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Mercenary mary
Producer
South pacific
Lerner and Loewe
31. Who is the composer for music man
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Julie Andrews
Meredith wilson
Richard rodgers
32. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
The king and i
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
33. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Bob Fosse
Ethel merman
Candide
Kurt Weill
34. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Greeks
Mary Martin
35. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
Popular dance
Music director
Cole Porter
36. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Of thee i sing
Ballet and modern dance
War
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
37. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Guys and Dolls
Nine
Once upon a mattress
Leonard bernstein
38. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Harry tierney
Anything goes
Political satire
Oh Kay
39. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
None all men
Crazy for You
HMS pinafore
40. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Cleverly concoted
Nine
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
41. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Female roles
Jerome robbins
The marx brothers
The new moon
42. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Commedia dell-arte
American dance music
Costume designer
Billy bigelow
43. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
False- it was considred a romantic musical
George gershwin
Sally
The puritans took control of the governmetn
44. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Damn yankees
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
The Threepenny opera
Crazy for You
45. What show is -i got rhythm
Girl crazy
Brigadoon
Nine
Victor herbert
46. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Kiss me - Kate
Satyr plays
Annie get your gun
Producer
47. What was the continental
Popular dance
Girl crazy
The savoy operas
Fly loft
48. G: How many lead actors were there?
The merry widow
Moliere
3 to 5
Agnes de mille
49. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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50. Lotte Lenya is from What show
George m. cohan
Disappears
The music man
The Threepenny Opera