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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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1. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Court nobility
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
No no nanette
False it was stylized
2. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The doctor of alcantara
Frank Loesser
Mercenary mary
3. G: Male actors played...
Female roles
Nine
Ethel merman
The Threepenny Opera
4. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
The mikado
My fair lady
Libretto
5. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Patriotic
Marilyn Miller
A trip to chinatown
24
6. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Slapsticks
Kiss me - Kate
Sally
Comedies
7. Mama rose is from What show
Commedia dell-arte
Gypsy
Oklahoma
Richard d'oyly carte
8. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Jule Styne
George and Ira Gershwin
The music man
Michael Kidd
9. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Composer
Popular dance
Kiss me - kate
10. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Betty comden and adolph green
The mikado
He was the producer
South pacific
11. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Tragedy
Of thee i sing
Marilyn Miller
12. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Entertainments
The cotton blossom
Singin in the rain
Threepenny opera
13. Who is the composer of Candide
West side story
Leonard bernstein
Public enemy no. 13
No no nanette
14. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Music director
City dionysia
Athens
Radio city music hall
15. G: Greek actors had...
Anything goes
Gertrude lawrence
Producer
Intense training
16. 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
Betty comden and adolph green
Pal Joey
Oklahoma
South pacific
17. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Billy bigelow
No
Catholic church
Carousel
18. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
St. Augustine
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
I got rhythm
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
19. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Burlesqued
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Evangeline
20. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Of thee i sing
No
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
21. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Betty comden and adolph green
He was the producer
Catholic church
22. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Popular entertainments
Producer
Gypsy
On your toes
23. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
I got rhythm
Gertrude lawrence
Satyr plays
East Side Story
24. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Cole porter
James michener
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
25. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Director
Burlesqued
Julie Andrews
Brigadoon
26. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
No no nanette
A trip to chinatown
Producer
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
27. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Bob Fosse
Lyricist
Ethel merman
Frank Loesser
28. Who is the composer for wonderful town
King Louis XIV
The romantic musicals
Cleverly concoted
Leonard bernstein
29. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Eliza Doolittle
Georges balanchine
Entertainments
30. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Jerome kern
Radio city music hall
John Gay
Victor herbert
31. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Jule Styne
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Oklahoma
Same person
32. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Disappears
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
33. 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?
Robin hood
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Julie Andrews
Crazy for you
34. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
No no nanette
Catholic church
Tragedies
Lerner and Loewe
35. What does 'renaissance' mean
The belle of new york
Rebirth
None all men
Damn yankees
36. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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37. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Oklahoma
Masks and costumes
Disappears
State
38. What was the continental
Popular dance
Gypsy
Eliza Doolittle
Anything goes
39. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Yul Brenner
Stephen sondheim
No no nanette
Patriotic
40. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Can-can
Yul Brenner
Librettist
Good news
41. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Professional perfomers
Someone to watch over me
42. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Gypsy
43. Billy Bigelow is form What show
The cotton blossom
Court nobility
Oscar hammerstein II
Carousel
44. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
South pacific
George gershwin
Director
False it was stylized
45. What show is 'broadway melody' from
George and ira gershwin
Fly loft
Singin in the rain
The king and i
46. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
Georges balanchine
City dionysia
The marx brothers
47. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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48. Who wrote the music for show boat
Jerome kern
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Orchestration
Mulligan guards routines
49. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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50. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Jerome robbins
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
The belle of new york
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