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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What character are in anything goes
Stephen sondheim
Same person
Producer
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
2. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Pants role or trousers role
The king and i
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
False- it was considred a romantic musical
3. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
South pacific
The merry widow
Libretto
Crazy for You
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mama rose
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
5. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Kiss me - kate
Marilyn Miller
The Sound of Music
Moved indoors
6. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Meredith wilson
George m. cohan
My fair lady
Producer
7. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Professional perfomers
Someone to watch over me
Kurt Weill
Producer
8. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Kiss me - kate
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Of thee i sing
Comedies
9. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Harry tierney
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Michael Kidd
Annie get your gun
10. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Ethel merman
Mary rodgers
Middle ages
Same person
11. What was the continental
Producer
Female roles
Popular dance
No
12. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
No no nanette
Adonis
Cleverly concoted
13. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
On the town
Nine
Annie get your gun
The desert song
14. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Agnes de Mille
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Ancient baghdad
Irving Berlin
15. Who is the star of sweet charity
Julie Andrews
James michener
Gwen verdon
Oklahoma
16. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Bernstein and Sondheim
Pal Joey
George gershwin
Tragedy
17. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
On your toes and babes in arms
Deus ex machina
Catholic church
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
18. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Took to the streets and traveled -
Oklahoma
HMS pinafore
Popular entertainments and comic opera
19. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Producer
Harrigan and hart
Yul Brenner
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
20. What is Bali H'ai from
Gwen verdon
Angel
South pacific
The desert song
21. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Ethel merman
Producer
Stephen sondheim
Playwright
22. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Julie Andrews
South pacific
None all men
Entertainments
23. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Swing
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Gypsy
Jerome kern
24. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
Public enemy no. 13
Damn yankees
Bernstein and Sondheim
25. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Rodgers and hammerstein
Bernstein and Sondheim
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The king and I
26. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Can-can
4th and 5th centuries bce
Carousel
Mary martin
27. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Athens
Costume designer
He died in 1937
The metropolitan opera
28. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Richard d'oyly carte
Mimes
Producer
None all men
29. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Greeks
Director
Ethel merman
30. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
The cotton blossom
Moved indoors
Patriotic
Richard d'oyly carte
31. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
George and Ira Gershwin
South pacific
The king and I
Mercenary mary
32. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
No no nanette
Victor herbert
The music man
33. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Can-can
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Anti-hero
34. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Oklahoma
Rodgers and hammerstein
Tearly Roman empire
The king and i
35. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Evangeline
Gertrude Lawrence
Gwen verdon
New comedy
36. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
American dance music
Gertrude Lawrence
The metropolitan opera
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
37. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Director
Frank Loesser
The Sound of Music
Once upon a mattress
38. What was a 'claquer?'
The serenade and the fortune teller
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The Sound of Music
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
39. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Threepenny opera
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Meredith wilson
Costume designer
40. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Oklahoma
Gertrude Lawrence
Tragedy
The book
41. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Candide
The shows they came from
Meredith wilson
Leonard bernstein
42. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Director
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oscar hammerstein
Agnes de mille
43. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Mary Martin
The desert song
Oklahoma
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
44. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Robin hood
I got rhythm
I got rhythm
City dionysia
45. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
West side story
Rex Harrison
Carmen jones
Director
46. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
George gershwin
The book uncle toms cabin
Agnes de Mille
47. Laurie's dream ballet
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Oklahoma
The cotton blossom
Kismet
48. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
No
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
No
49. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Producer
Eliza Doolittle
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
50. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Gwen verdon
Oklahoma
The book uncle toms cabin
Mercenary mary