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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Slapsticks
Pants role or trousers role
Timbuktu
George and Ira Gershwin
2. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Brigadoon
The new moon
Romantic
Aristotle
3. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Stand by
Jerome kern
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Flutes - lyres
4. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The music man
Kiss me - kate
George gershwin
5. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
John Hollingshead
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
6. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Slapsticks
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Comedy
Rebirth
7. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Cole porter
Professional perfomers
Timbuktu
8. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Comedies
Carol Channing
Public enemy no. 13
Leonard bernstein
9. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
False it was stylized
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Rodgers and hammerstein
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
10. Who made in dahomey unique
Jerome robbins
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
The merry widow
Swing
11. Who is the star of Sally
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Horace
The pajama game
Marilyn Miller
12. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Oscar hammerstein II
Bernstein and Sondheim
Kurt Weill
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
13. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Rebirth
Oscar hammerstein II
New comedy
Tragedy
14. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Timbuktu
Producer
The music man
The Threepenny Opera
15. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Carmen jones
16. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Kiss me - kate
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Popular entertainments and comic opera
The Threepenny opera
17. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Deus ex machina
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
18. Who is the star of sweet charity
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The merry widow
Gwen verdon
My fair lady
19. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
The Threepenny opera
The book
Annie get your gun
20. G: Male actors played...
Female roles
The desert song
Disappears
On your toes and babes in arms
21. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Mary martin
Gertrude Lawrence
George and Ira Gershwin
West side story
22. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Leonard Bernstein
Ethel merman
South pacific
Rose marie
23. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Nine
The Sound of Music
Anti-hero
Thespis
24. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
The music man
Of thee i sing
Annie get your gun
Cole Porter
25. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Bob Fosse
West side story
Gene kelly
Ray Bolger
26. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Ballet and modern dance
Mercenary mary
24
Angel
27. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The Sound of Music
BC
On your toes
He was the producer
28. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Angel
Aristotle
Music director
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
29. What characters are in show boat
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30. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Oklahoma
Moliere
Agnes de mille
Julie Andrews
31. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Catholic church
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Producer
Oklahoma
32. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
Pageant wagons and mansions
Took to the streets and traveled -
Billy bigelow
33. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Fly loft
The marx brothers
Bernstein and Sondheim
Nine
34. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Thespis
Commedia dell-arte
The music man
Pageant wagons and mansions
35. What is Bali H'ai from
South pacific
Radio city music hall
Mary rodgers
Set designer
36. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
If i loved you
Pal Joey
Marilyn Miller
The Threepenny opera
37. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
The cotton blossom
My fair lady
Annie get your gun
Jerome robbins
38. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Ethel merman
Libretto
Kurt Weill
Radio city music hall
39. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Patriotic
Marilyn Miller
Playwright
Popular dance
40. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Producer
Jule Styne
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
41. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The merry widow
South pacific
The Sound of Music
Spectacle
42. 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?
American dance music
Guys and dolls
Marilyn Miller
Rose marie
43. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Rodgers and hammerstein
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Popular dance
False it was stylized
44. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
The shows they came from
American politics
Victor herbert
Once upon a mattress
45. What show is -the continental
Comic opera
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Mercenary mary
Adonis
46. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Libretto
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
BC
Carousel
47. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
The book uncle toms cabin
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Jerome kern
On your toes and babes in arms
48. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Agnes de Mille
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
His 'confessions'
Rex Harrison
49. Mama rose is from What show
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Bernstein and Sondheim
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Gypsy
50. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The student prince
Voice type
Comic opera