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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. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Orchestration
Rodgers and Hart
The Threepenny Opera
The king and I
2. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Leonard bernstein
4th and 5th centuries bce
Threepenny opera
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
3. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Mary martin
George and ira gershwin
Frank Loesser
Romantic
4. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Intense training
Kiss me - kate
Victor herbert
The music man
5. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Burlesqued
Librettist
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
I got rhythm
6. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Borrowed tunes
Parodied
Oklahoma
Gypsy
7. Who wrote the music for show boat
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
BC- before christ
Fly loft
Jerome kern
8. What was the setting for Kismet
He was the producer
Moliere
Ancient baghdad
Swing
9. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Composer
Yul Brenner
4th and 5th centuries bce
Pants role or trousers role
10. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Fly loft
The music man
Babes in arms
The music man
11. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Victor herbert
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Popular entertainments
Can-can
12. What is another name for the book and lyrics
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
The merry widow
James michener
Libretto
13. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Kurt Weill
Composer
Brigadoon
The merry widow
14. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Evangeline
The music man
15. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mimes
Harrigan and hart
New comedy
Ethel merman
16. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Playwright
Meredith wilson
Costume designer
17. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
Gene kelly
Jule Styne
Meredith wilson
18. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Producer
Director
The book uncle toms cabin
Comic opera had music and dialogue
19. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Kiss me - kate
No no nanette
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The merry widow
20. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Fly loft
Agnes de mille
St. Augustine
Voice type
21. Who composed the music for Irene
Moved indoors
Plato
Harry tierney
Oscar hammerstein II
22. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Bert williams and george walker
Brigadoon
Mercenary mary
Athens
23. What is Bali H'ai from
South pacific
Witty dialogue
American politics
A contrived ending
24. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Betty comden and adolph green
24
Romantic
25. G: Male actors played...
George m. cohan
The metropolitan opera
Producer
Female roles
26. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Once upon a mattress
Commedia dell-arte
Jule Styne
Annie get your gun
27. What characters are in show boat
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28. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
George and Ira Gershwin
Jule Styne
Rodgers and hammerstein
Damn yankees
29. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
St. Augustine
I got rhythm
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
30. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Sally
Moved indoors
Rodgers and hammerstein
Anti-hero
31. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Leonard bernstein
Patriotic
If i loved you
The king and i
32. Who stages the dances?
Rose marie
Deus ex machina
Choreographer
Kiss me - Kate
33. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Timbuktu
Damn yankees
Stand by
34. Who is the composer of the music man
Annie get your gun
Composer
Meredith wilson
My fair lady
35. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Betty comden and adolph green
Oklahoma
Kismet
Pal Joey
36. where did performers go
Bert williams and george walker
Oklahoma
Took to the streets and traveled -
Stephen sondheim
37. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Tragedy
The Sound of Music
St. Augustine
38. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
My Fair Lady
Jerome kern
Irving Berlin
West side story
39. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Oscar hammerstein II
Agnes de mille
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
40. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Pants role or trousers role
Court nobility
Flutes - lyres
Meredith wilson
41. Who made in dahomey unique
Patriotic
Mulligan guards routines
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
42. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Comedies
The merry widow
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
No no nanette
43. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Orchestration
Mary martin
The book
Rex Harrison
44. What character are in anything goes
Marilyn Miller
Ballet and modern dance
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
45. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Composer
The belle of new york
A contrived ending
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
46. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Julie Andrews
Slapsticks
Radio city music hall
Rodgers and hammerstein
47. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
Public enemy no. 13
Yul Brenner
James michener
48. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Changing masks and costumes
Moved indoors
Eliza Doolittle
49. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Kurt Weill
Jule Styne
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
No no nanette
50. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Slapsticks
No no nanette
Gertrude lawrence