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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 character are in anything goes
Victor herbert
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Crazy for You
2. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Gene kelly
Witty dialogue
Tragedies
Ballet and modern dance
3. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Victor herbert
Stephen sondheim
Entertainments
4. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
The serenade and the fortune teller
Ray bolger
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Greeks
5. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Comedies
Stephen sondheim
Choreographer
6. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Court nobility
Witty dialogue
South pacific
Enzio pinza
7. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Carousel
Oil lamps
Music director
Cole Porter
8. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Good news
Lerner and Loewe
Angel
George and Ira Gershwin
9. What was the continental
Popular dance
Sally
Someone to watch over me
American dance music
10. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
Marilyn Miller
Meredith wilson
Plato
11. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Can-can
Tragedy
Permissiveness and crazes
Bernstein and Sondheim
12. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
The pajama game
South pacific
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Victor herbert
13. Who made in dahomey unique
Parodied
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Carol Channing
Popular entertainments
14. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
Bert williams and george walker
Political satire
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
15. Mama rose is from What show
Gypsy
A contrived ending
Someone to watch over me
King Louis XIV
16. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Rebirth
Oklahoma
The king and i
Annie get your gun
17. 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
Intense training
Julie Andrews
Popular entertainments
18. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
He died in 1937
The metropolitan opera
Girl crazy
My Fair Lady
19. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Spectacle
Popular dance
Of thee i sing
Carousel
20. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Brigadoon
Permissiveness and crazes
The new moon
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
21. Who is the composer for wonderful town
The Sound of Music
Ray bolger
Leonard bernstein
Entertainments
22. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Timbuktu
King Louis XIV
Flutes - lyres
Gertrude Lawrence
23. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Librettist
East Side Story
Jerome robbins
Female roles
24. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
John Gay
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
War
Agnes de mille
25. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
New comedy
Agnes de mille
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
26. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Deus ex machina
Spectacle
Sally
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
27. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Public enemy no. 13
Gypsy
Producer
Gene kelly
28. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Timbuktu
Producer
The serenade and the fortune teller
Angel
29. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
John Gay
Agnes de mille
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Kiss me - kate
30. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
The savoy operas
Kismet
Can-can
Ballet and modern dance
31. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Can-can
Playwright
Guys and dolls
Kiss me - Kate
32. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Gertrude Lawrence
Julie Andrews
Thespis
The Threepenny Opera
33. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
The music man
Crazy for You
Mulligan guards routines
Julie Andrews
34. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
South pacific
Anything goes
James michener
Commedia dell-arte
35. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Middle ages
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Babes in arms
The metropolitan opera
36. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
Witty dialogue
Agnes de mille
The doctor of alcantara
37. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Agnes de mille
Mary rodgers
Yul Brenner
The book uncle toms cabin
38. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Carmen jones
Ethel merman
Anything goes
Playwright
39. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de Mille
Mimes
Eliza Doolittle
Gwen verdon
40. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Gestures and poses
The book
Witty dialogue
My fair lady
41. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Mary martin
His 'confessions'
Rex Harrison
Jerome kern
42. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Leonard bernstein
Victor herbert
Sally
Comic opera had music and dialogue
43. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Patriotic
Candide
The music man
Gertrude lawrence
44. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
Music man
Meredith wilson
Jerome kern
45. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Rex Harrison
Director
New comedy
South pacific
46. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Meredith wilson
City dionysia
Librettist
47. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
Ancient baghdad
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
BC- before christ
48. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Oklahoma
Oscar hammerstein II
The marx brothers
49. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Girl crazy
Harrigan and hart
Ballet and modern dance
Producer
50. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Harrigan and hart
Parodied
Moved indoors
Patriotic