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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Gwen verdon
Timbuktu
Jerome Robbins
Romantic
2. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Of thee i sing
Professional perfomers
The Threepenny Opera
Rose marie
3. What does 'renaissance' mean
Rebirth
Same person
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The book uncle toms cabin
4. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Greeks
The belle of new york
Anything goes
George and ira gershwin
5. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Lyricist
George gershwin
John Gay
6. Commedia performers used...
The romantic musicals
Slapsticks
Commedia dell-arte
Candide
7. Who composed the music for Irene
The belle of new york
Harry tierney
Mulligan guards routines
Masks and costumes
8. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Bert williams and george walker
The marx brothers
The book uncle toms cabin
Timbuktu
9. G: how did they play female roles
Ray bolger
Gene kelly
Changing masks and costumes
Mimes
10. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Leonard bernstein
Stephen Sondheim
Oscar hammerstein II
11. Who made in dahomey unique
Producer
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Comic opera
Lerner and Loewe
12. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
Carousel
Meredith wilson
13. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
South pacific
My fair lady
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Jule Styne
14. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Burlesqued
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Pal Joey
Lowering
15. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Carol Channing
Cole Porter
Babes in arms
Oh Kay
16. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Moved indoors
Masks and costumes
Satyr plays
No
17. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Flutes - lyres
The Threepenny opera
Evangeline
Popular entertainments and comic opera
18. What show is i want to be happy
No no nanette
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Permissiveness and crazes
19. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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20. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Anything goes
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
George m. cohan
21. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Agnes de mille
Lerner and Loewe
Angel
George and Ira Gershwin
22. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Political satire
Witty dialogue
Middle ages
Moliere
23. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The mikado
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Director
24. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Guys and dolls
Thespis
James michener
Aristotle
25. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Billy bigelow
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Producer
Lerner and Loewe
26. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Rodgers and hammerstein
West side story
Satyr plays
27. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
West side story
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Richard rodgers
Comic opera had music and dialogue
28. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
HMS pinafore
Georges balanchine
Oscar hammerstein
29. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Kiss me - kate
Public enemy no. 13
Athens
On your toes
30. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Betty comden and adolph green
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Irving Berlin
Moliere
31. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
My fair lady
The music man
Mary martin
King Louis XIV
32. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
War
No no nanette
Nine
Plato
33. Laurie's dream ballet
Director
Oklahoma
Masks and costumes
Female roles
34. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Brigadoon
Kiss me - Kate
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Romantic
35. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Masks and costumes
South pacific
Julie Andrews
Rodgers and Hart
36. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Mary Martin
St. Augustine
Jerome Robbins
Once upon a mattress
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Agnes de mille
Rodgers and hammerstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
38. G: Greek actors had...
Intense training
Rodgers and hammerstein
Ancient baghdad
Can-can
39. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Flutes - lyres
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Singin in the rain
Popular entertainments
40. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Public enemy no. 13
The book
Oklahoma
Leonard Bernstein
41. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
His 'confessions'
Mary rodgers
42. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Masks and costumes
Mercenary mary
Producer
Gertrude Lawrence
43. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Deus ex machina
Jerome kern
Popular entertainments and comic opera
A contrived ending
44. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Of thee i sing
Plato
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Athens
45. 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
Orchestration
Jerome kern
On your toes and babes in arms
46. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Rodgers and hammerstein
Can-can
Stephen Sondheim
His 'confessions'
47. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
Victor herbert
Romantic
George and ira gershwin
48. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Romantic
The mikado
Kiss me - kate
Witty dialogue
49. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Kiss me - kate
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Borrowed tunes
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
50. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
East Side Story
Deus ex machina
Pants role or trousers role
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein