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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. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
The romantic musicals
I got rhythm
Commedia dell-arte
Damn yankees
2. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Aristotle
His 'confessions'
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
3. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
The merry widow
Jerome robbins
Popular entertainments
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
4. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Comic opera
South pacific
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Rose marie
5. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
False- it was considred a romantic musical
6. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Timbuktu
Anything goes
Plato
My fair lady
7. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
HMS pinafore
Oklahoma
Pants role or trousers role
8. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Gypsy
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
BC
Costume designer
9. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
No
Gestures and poses
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Popular entertainments and comic opera
10. What character are in anything goes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
American dance music
On your toes
Parodied
11. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
American politics
Can-can
Anti-hero
The merry widow
12. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Thespis
Commedia dell-arte
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Of thee i sing
13. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Political satire
Radio city music hall
Mercenary mary
Gypsy
14. Who is the composer of Can-Can
St. Augustine
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The pajama game
Cole Porter
15. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Georges balanchine
Gertrude Lawrence
Before common era
Mimes
16. What show is i want to be happy
False- it was considred a romantic musical
New comedy
No no nanette
Jerome Robbins
17. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
On the town
Mary Martin
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
18. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Damn yankees
No
Stephen Sondheim
Spectacle
19. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Mercenary mary
Richard d'oyly carte
George and Ira Gershwin
A stevedore
20. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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21. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Billy bigelow
Oscar hammerstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Public enemy no. 13
22. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
Choreographer
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Annie get your gun
23. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Cole porter
Romantic
Candide
Radio city music hall
24. What show is i want to be happy
Orchestration
Flutes - lyres
A stevedore
No no nanette
25. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Popular entertainments
South pacific
Playwright
Threepenny opera
26. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Ancient baghdad
Meredith wilson
The merry widow
Babes in arms
27. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Romantic
Gypsy
The king and i
28. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Playwright
George and ira gershwin
Burlesqued
29. 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
Flutes - lyres
Thespis
Conductor
The romantic musicals
30. where did performers go
Meredith wilson
Moliere
Took to the streets and traveled -
Ballet and modern dance
31. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
Sally
Rebirth
A trip to chinatown
32. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
The king and I
Professional perfomers
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Mulligan guards routines
33. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Borrowed tunes
Brigadoon
Rodgers and hammerstein
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
34. G: What does BCE mean?
Before common era
John Hollingshead
Oh Kay
No no nanette
35. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
West side story
The merry widow
Playwright
36. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
George gershwin
George m. cohan
Oklahoma
37. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Director
Rodgers and hammerstein
38. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Victor herbert
The book uncle toms cabin
Playwright
George m. cohan
39. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
American politics
His 'confessions'
Harry tierney
The metropolitan opera
40. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
The belle of new york
The savoy operas
City dionysia
41. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Betty comden and adolph green
42. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Swing
Mary Martin
Bert williams and george walker
Rodgers and hammerstein
43. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Same person
Comedy
City dionysia
Swing
44. 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?
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Guys and dolls
No
I got rhythm
45. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
On your toes
If i loved you
Girl crazy
46. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
A stevedore
Victor herbert
The doctor of alcantara
Jerome kern
47. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
No no nanette
His 'confessions'
Gertrude Lawrence
Moved indoors
48. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Kurt Weill
George gershwin
Mary rodgers
George m. cohan
49. Laurie's dream ballet
Producer
Mulligan guards routines
Producer
Oklahoma
50. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Pants role or trousers role
South pacific
Anti-hero
The serenade and the fortune teller