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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Director
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
2. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Female roles
The metropolitan opera
Evangeline
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
3. Bloody Mary is from What show
Damn yankees
South pacific
Romantic music
New comedy
4. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Stephen sondheim
Female roles
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Julie Andrews
5. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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6. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Evangeline
Damn yankees
Agnes de Mille
Eliza Doolittle
7. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
False it was stylized
Rex Harrison
Jerome kern
Kurt Weill
8. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Set designer
Sally
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Brigadoon
9. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Timbuktu
Kismet
Director
Gestures and poses
10. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Sally
Witty dialogue
Music man
Lerner and Loewe
11. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Mary rodgers
Playwright
Mercenary mary
State
12. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Oklahoma
Cole Porter
Singin in the rain
My fair lady
13. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Ray bolger
Popular entertainments
Crazy for You
Agnes de Mille
14. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
The puritans took control of the governmetn
George gershwin
Playwright
Kismet
15. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Comic opera
Ancient baghdad
The Threepenny opera
Enzio pinza
16. 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
My fair lady
Of thee i sing
Kiss me - kate
The new moon
17. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Ancient baghdad
Professional perfomers
Of thee i sing
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
18. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
New comedy
Comedy
Director
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
19. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The merry widow
The king and i
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
20. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Rex Harrison
Playwright
The cotton blossom
Gertrude lawrence
21. What character are in anything goes
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Jule Styne
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Leonard bernstein
22. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Voice type
The king and i
Damn yankees
Moliere
23. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
3 to 5
Commedia dell-arte
Harrigan and hart
24. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George m. cohan
Oscar hammerstein
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Stephen sondheim
25. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
West side story
Ethel merman
Rex Harrison
Lerner and Loewe
26. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Crazy for You
Composer
Oscar hammerstein
Ethel merman
27. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
24
Voice type
The merry widow
28. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Victor herbert
Jule Styne
South pacific
Producer
29. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Plato
BC
30. 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?
Guys and dolls
The king and i
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Irene
31. What show is i want to be happy
Irving Berlin
Cleverly concoted
Timbuktu
No no nanette
32. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Witty dialogue
State
33. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Agnes de Mille
Jerome robbins
Mercenary mary
34. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Rodgers and hammerstein
Carousel
George m. cohan
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
35. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
The king and i
Tragedy
Before common era
Mary Martin
36. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Witty dialogue
Plato
Crazy for You
Female roles
37. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Mary martin
Comedies
Timbuktu
Intense training
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
My fair lady
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The savoy operas
The desert song
39. Mama rose is from What show
Gertrude Lawrence
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Gypsy
Victor herbert
40. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Agnes de mille
Moved indoors
Victor herbert
Damn yankees
41. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Stephen sondheim
Julie Andrews
Oklahoma
42. Greek: 534 BCE
Julie Andrews
Official beginning of western theatre
Professional perfomers
No no nanette
43. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Producer
Timbuktu
John Hollingshead
City dionysia
44. G: What is BCE same as
Thespis
Before common era
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
BC- before christ
45. G: Male actors played...
Female roles
Flutes - lyres
Bob Fosse
Jule Styne
46. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Producer
The book uncle toms cabin
47. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Damn yankees
Cole Porter
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Gertrude Lawrence
48. where did performers go
Took to the streets and traveled -
George gershwin
Radio city music hall
Gertrude lawrence
49. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Meredith wilson
Mary martin
The serenade and the fortune teller
50. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
George m. cohan
Commedia dell-arte
Timbuktu
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'