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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
The metropolitan opera
West side story
Producer
2. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Victor herbert
Jule Styne
Public enemy no. 13
3. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
New comedy
The king and I
Producer
A trip to chinatown
4. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
Robin hood
Lyricist
Ray Bolger
5. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Victor herbert
Popular entertainments and comic opera
No no nanette
Damn yankees
6. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Comic opera had music and dialogue
West side story
The student prince
Brigadoon
7. Who picks the actors?
Director
My fair lady
Kismet
Victor herbert
8. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Music director
The new moon
Ethel merman
On the town
9. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
George gershwin
Court nobility
Mercenary mary
Bert williams and george walker
10. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger
Stephen sondheim
Meredith wilson
Athens
11. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Brigadoon
Masks and costumes
Gene kelly
Oil lamps
12. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
The metropolitan opera
Cole porter
Gertrude Lawrence
The merry widow
13. 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
Tearly Roman empire
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Romantic music
Kiss me - kate
14. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Jerome robbins
Enzio pinza
Burlesqued
My fair lady
15. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Betty comden and adolph green
Borrowed tunes
His 'confessions'
Agnes de mille
16. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Lerner and Loewe
West side story
Kiss me - Kate
Threepenny opera
17. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Romantic music
He died in 1937
Oklahoma
Ancient baghdad
18. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
Gypsy
The marx brothers
Director
19. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On the town
Stand by
East Side Story
The desert song
20. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Leonard Bernstein
Cole porter
Carmen jones
Rodgers and hammerstein
21. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
George m. cohan
Orchestration
Tragedy
Plato
22. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
George gershwin
Guys and Dolls
Parodied
23. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Yul Brenner
Horace
Brigadoon
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
24. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Stand by
Agnes de mille
Female roles
Fly loft
25. Who is the composer of the music man
Jerome kern
Meredith wilson
Tragedy
George gershwin
26. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
The shows they came from
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Tragedy
Satyr plays
27. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Anti-hero
Deus ex machina
Frank Loesser
Set designer
28. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
On your toes and babes in arms
Choreographer
Gypsy
George gershwin
29. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Sally
Orchestration
Stephen Sondheim
The music man
30. G: how did they play female roles
St. Augustine
Changing masks and costumes
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
31. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Music man
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Of thee i sing
South pacific
32. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Damn yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Rodgers and hammerstein
Richard d'oyly carte
33. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Gypsy
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Popular entertainments
Mercenary mary
34. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
South pacific
None all men
Bernstein and Sondheim
Oklahoma
35. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Commedia dell-arte
Athens
Comic opera
The serenade and the fortune teller
36. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
Of thee i sing
South pacific
Oscar hammerstein
37. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Witty dialogue
Someone to watch over me
Ethel merman
King Louis XIV
38. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Plato
Professional perfomers
Damn yankees
39. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Masks and costumes
Satyr plays
Kiss me - kate
Producer
40. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Guys and Dolls
Mimes
Leonard bernstein
The Sound of Music
41. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
Libretto
Michael Kidd
Professional perfomers
42. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Commedia dell-arte
Music director
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
43. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Of thee i sing
Rodgers and Hart
The new moon
A trip to chinatown
44. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Richard d'oyly carte
He was the producer
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Damn yankees
45. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The king and i
He was the producer
The new moon
Entertainments
46. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Bob Fosse
Angel
Mary rodgers
Entertainments
47. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
My fair lady
George and Ira Gershwin
Same person
A contrived ending
48. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Jerome kern
Ray bolger
The Sound of Music
New comedy
49. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Gwen verdon
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
50. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Set designer
Gwen verdon
Athens
Damn yankees