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Musical Theatre
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1. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Oil lamps
George gershwin
Parodied
Yul Brenner
2. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Kiss me - kate
Athens
Intense training
Lowering
3. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Once upon a mattress
Borrowed tunes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Librettist
4. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
4th and 5th centuries bce
Jerome Robbins
Carol Channing
Producer
5. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Ethel merman
The music man
Satyr plays
Gene kelly
6. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
The metropolitan opera
Comedies
Romantic music
Director
7. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Threepenny opera
Restoration
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
I got rhythm
8. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Producer
Changing masks and costumes
Pageant wagons and mansions
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
9. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Agnes de Mille
Stephen sondheim
Gertrude lawrence
Jerome kern
10. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
The belle of new york
Betty comden and adolph green
Voice type
Ballet and modern dance
11. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Slapsticks
Brigadoon
Gertrude Lawrence
Plato
12. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Julie Andrews
Jerome kern
Crazy for you
He died in 1937
13. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Oklahoma
The marx brothers
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
14. Laurie's dream ballet
Georges balanchine
Oklahoma
Gwen verdon
The merry widow
15. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Ray Bolger
Tearly Roman empire
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
16. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
HMS pinafore
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Comedies
17. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Pageant wagons and mansions
Oh Kay
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The Threepenny opera
18. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Director
Oscar hammerstein
Mary martin
My fair lady
19. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
West side story
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Comedies
Jerome kern
20. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Female roles
American dance music
The pajama game
Yul Brenner
21. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Cleverly concoted
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Oklahoma
22. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
George m. cohan
Commedia dell-arte
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Brigadoon
23. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Director
The merry widow
James michener
24. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Carousel
Voice type
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
25. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
Brigadoon
Comic opera
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
26. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
The puritans took control of the governmetn
On your toes and babes in arms
Jerome kern
27. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Ethel merman
Candide
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
28. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Of thee i sing
Annie get your gun
South pacific
No no nanette
29. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Before common era
Gypsy
Borrowed tunes
Middle ages
30. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
Mulligan guards routines
Ethel merman
The marx brothers
31. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Julie Andrews
Someone to watch over me
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Jule Styne
32. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
A stevedore
State
The Sound of Music
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
33. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Stephen sondheim
Leonard bernstein
Gestures and poses
Guys and dolls
34. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Greeks
If i loved you
Patriotic
Ethel merman
35. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Ethel merman
Comedies
Oklahoma
On your toes and babes in arms
36. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
The music man
Julie Andrews
Carol Channing
37. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Mercenary mary
Librettist
The book uncle toms cabin
Orchestration
38. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
War
BC
Gertrude lawrence
39. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
Mary martin
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
On your toes and babes in arms
40. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Catholic church
Permissiveness and crazes
False it was stylized
Aristotle
41. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Kismet
The student prince
Oscar hammerstein II
42. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Disappears
Ancient baghdad
43. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Ancient baghdad
Director
Kiss me - kate
44. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Burlesqued
Guys and Dolls
Public enemy no. 13
Tearly Roman empire
45. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Oklahoma
American dance music
46. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
On your toes
Can-can
Betty comden and adolph green
Jule Styne
47. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Of thee i sing
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Plato
Music man
48. What comic duo was the show centered around
Agnes de mille
Bert williams and george walker
Agnes de mille
Rex Harrison
49. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
The Threepenny opera
Ballet and modern dance
Agnes de mille
Producer
50. Greek: 534 BCE
Ethel merman
Official beginning of western theatre
Deus ex machina
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
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