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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What show is- tea for two
Crazy for You
Leonard bernstein
Stand by
No no nanette
2. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Permissiveness and crazes
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Director
3. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Kiss me - kate
John Gay
Irving Berlin
Moved indoors
4. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Leonard bernstein
His 'confessions'
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Before common era
5. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Once upon a mattress
Horace
War
Richard d'oyly carte
6. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Commedia dell-arte
St. Augustine
Billy bigelow
American dance music
7. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
George gershwin
Ethel merman
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
The music man
8. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Rodgers and Hart
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Lerner and Loewe
Richard d'oyly carte
9. What was Oh Kays most famous song
The Threepenny Opera
Victor herbert
Mary martin
Someone to watch over me
10. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
East Side Story
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Composer
Ethel merman
11. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Deus ex machina
Damn yankees
Agnes de Mille
12. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Tragedy
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Mercenary mary
13. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
False it was stylized
Frank Loesser
Popular dance
Pageant wagons and mansions
14. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Oscar hammerstein
Mimes
Victor herbert
15. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
He was the producer
Kismet
George and ira gershwin
16. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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17. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Gertrude Lawrence
Mulligan guards routines
A contrived ending
18. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Eliza Doolittle
Voice type
Witty dialogue
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
19. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Agnes de mille
New comedy
Carol Channing
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
20. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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21. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Pal Joey
Candide
Thespis
Marilyn Miller
22. Who made in dahomey unique
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Babes in arms
Witty dialogue
No
23. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Set designer
No no nanette
George and Ira Gershwin
Oklahoma
24. What was the continental
The merry widow
Damn yankees
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Popular dance
25. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Brigadoon
George m. cohan
26. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
American dance music
Cole Porter
Timbuktu
Ethel merman
27. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Parodied
Guys and Dolls
The mikado
Agnes de mille
28. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
John Gay
Jule Styne
Oklahoma
Ethel merman
29. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
I got rhythm
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The doctor of alcantara
The metropolitan opera
30. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Producer
Carol Channing
The new moon
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
31. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
George m. cohan
City dionysia
American dance music
Jule Styne
32. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Romantic
George m. cohan
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Harry tierney
33. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The Sound of Music
The student prince
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Tragedy
34. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Stand by
The book
Of thee i sing
The belle of new york
35. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Catholic church
Someone to watch over me
Thespis
Julie Andrews
36. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Once upon a mattress
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Carousel
No
37. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Agnes de mille
Mary Martin
Georges balanchine
The Threepenny Opera
38. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
My Fair Lady
Evangeline
Gypsy
Agnes de mille
39. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Agnes de mille
Popular dance
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Oscar hammerstein
40. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The romantic musicals
Someone to watch over me
Bob Fosse
41. What was the original name of West Side Story
Rebirth
East Side Story
Victor herbert
Oil lamps
42. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Angel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The puritans took control of the governmetn
43. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Oscar hammerstein II
Cole Porter
False- it was considred a romantic musical
South pacific
44. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Crazy for You
South pacific
If i loved you
45. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Librettist
Bernstein and Sondheim
Entertainments
Patriotic
46. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Adonis
Good news
Girl crazy
47. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Carol Channing
The savoy operas
Timbuktu
Parodied
48. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
BC
Gypsy
Victor herbert
49. What was the setting for Kismet
Once upon a mattress
American politics
Ancient baghdad
George and ira gershwin
50. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Romantic
American politics