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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. Laurie's dream ballet
Harry tierney
Oklahoma
Court nobility
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
2. Mama rose is from What show
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Ballet and modern dance
Gypsy
The puritans took control of the governmetn
3. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Thespis
BC- before christ
Director
4. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
Girl crazy
The Threepenny Opera
Ethel merman
5. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Producer
Composer
South pacific
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
6. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Singin in the rain
Michael Kidd
The new moon
7. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
If i loved you
George and Ira Gershwin
Gwen verdon
8. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
Oklahoma
Kismet
The king and i
9. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gertrude lawrence
Changing masks and costumes
Oklahoma
10. Where they fly things on stage
Tragedies
Ancient baghdad
Fly loft
Commedia dell-arte
11. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Satyr plays
Middle ages
Kiss me - kate
Oklahoma
12. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Crazy for you
Plato
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
George gershwin
13. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Ancient baghdad
The Sound of Music
Tragedies
Nine
14. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Official beginning of western theatre
Leonard bernstein
Mary martin
15. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
A trip to chinatown
Candide
Crazy for you
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
16. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
The puritans took control of the governmetn
George gershwin
Rebirth
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
17. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
New comedy
Mama rose
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Lyricist
18. 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
George gershwin
Kiss me - kate
Once upon a mattress
Jule Styne
19. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
Billy bigelow
The shows they came from
George m. cohan
20. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Nine
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Set designer
Commedia dell-arte
21. 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?
Political satire
Oscar hammerstein II
Adonis
Crazy for you
22. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Ray Bolger
Comedies
The king and i
Anti-hero
23. Bloody Mary is from What show
Before common era
Borrowed tunes
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
South pacific
24. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
Oscar hammerstein
Mimes
Ethel merman
Oklahoma
25. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The Threepenny Opera
New comedy
The pajama game
The book uncle toms cabin
26. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Restoration
East Side Story
Sally
Commedia dell-arte
27. What show is -i got rhythm
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Ethel merman
Director
Girl crazy
28. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Masks and costumes
He was the producer
James michener
24
29. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Angel
Patriotic
Good news
Babes in arms
30. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
Patriotic
Deus ex machina
Good news
31. What was a 'claquer?'
I got rhythm
State
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Conductor
32. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Richard d'oyly carte
On your toes
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Gwen verdon
33. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
No no nanette
Disappears
Ethel merman
Pageant wagons and mansions
34. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
South pacific
John Hollingshead
Mary Martin
Candide
35. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Kismet
Oscar hammerstein II
Satyr plays
36. What does 'renaissance' mean
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Rebirth
Jule Styne
Same person
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
New comedy
Betty comden and adolph green
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
George and Ira Gershwin
38. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
24
Costume designer
The Sound of Music
He was the producer
39. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Bob Fosse
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Took to the streets and traveled -
The belle of new york
40. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Once upon a mattress
Crazy for you
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Changing masks and costumes
41. Who picks the actors?
The Threepenny opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Mercenary mary
Director
42. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Witty dialogue
War
Nine
New comedy
43. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
The student prince
Guys and Dolls
Timbuktu
On your toes and babes in arms
44. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Babes in arms
If i loved you
South pacific
Satyr plays
45. What was Oh Kays most famous song
West side story
Leonard bernstein
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Someone to watch over me
46. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Can-can
The music man
Adonis
American politics
47. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Enzio pinza
Gwen verdon
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
48. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Nine
Permissiveness and crazes
State
3 to 5
49. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Kiss me - Kate
Betty comden and adolph green
The book
50. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Ethel merman
The Threepenny opera
Director
Swing