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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. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Jerome robbins
George gershwin
Bob Fosse
South pacific
2. 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 ___________.
Thespis
Popular entertainments
The shows they came from
BC- before christ
3. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
Professional perfomers
Robin hood
My Fair Lady
4. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Set designer
Stephen Sondheim
Mercenary mary
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
5. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
The music man
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Masks and costumes
The Threepenny Opera
6. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
BC- before christ
Romantic music
Ethel merman
7. 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
George m. cohan
Intense training
Leonard bernstein
8. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
American politics
Producer
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Kismet
9. Who is the composer of the King and I
Annie get your gun
Rodgers and Hart
American politics
Richard rodgers
10. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
City dionysia
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Bob Fosse
11. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Cole Porter
Athens
West side story
12. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Slapsticks
Leonard bernstein
Gwen verdon
Oscar hammerstein
13. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
The merry widow
He was the producer
The pajama game
Mimes
14. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
I got rhythm
Tragedy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
South pacific
15. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Mercenary mary
The metropolitan opera
16. 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
Once upon a mattress
Kiss me - kate
Playwright
The music man
17. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Ethel merman
Harrigan and hart
Babes in arms
Rodgers and hammerstein
18. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Costume designer
Orchestration
19. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Damn yankees
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
The shows they came from
20. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Lowering
Deus ex machina
Costume designer
Fly loft
21. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
Girl crazy
Gwen verdon
Anti-hero
22. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Once upon a mattress
A trip to chinatown
A stevedore
23. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Girl crazy
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Public enemy no. 13
Producer
24. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Someone to watch over me
Set designer
Political satire
Took to the streets and traveled -
25. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
South pacific
Girl crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
Annie get your gun
26. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Comedies
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Rex Harrison
Comic opera had music and dialogue
27. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Commedia dell-arte
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Sally
Timbuktu
28. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Georges balanchine
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Girl crazy
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
29. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Horace
West side story
The book
Someone to watch over me
30. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Richard d'oyly carte
Tragedies
Bernstein and Sondheim
Conductor
31. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
Guys and Dolls
Victor herbert
Carmen jones
32. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
American dance music
New comedy
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
33. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Rose marie
Anything goes
34. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Director
Gertrude Lawrence
City dionysia
Orchestration
35. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The book
The music man
The Sound of Music
Annie get your gun
36. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The romantic musicals
Of thee i sing
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
37. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Ray bolger
The book uncle toms cabin
Moved indoors
Tragedy
38. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
The Threepenny Opera
James michener
Oklahoma
Oscar hammerstein II
39. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
The shows they came from
Ethel merman
He was the producer
Lerner and Loewe
40. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Flutes - lyres
Damn yankees
Of thee i sing
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
41. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
No
John Gay
Female roles
Female roles
42. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
New comedy
Gypsy
Comedies
Betty comden and adolph green
43. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
St. Augustine
Jule Styne
Ballet and modern dance
Female roles
44. What was the original name of West Side Story
Playwright
New comedy
Tragedy
East Side Story
45. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Victor herbert
City dionysia
Romantic
I got rhythm
46. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Jerome Robbins
Bert williams and george walker
Librettist
Agnes de mille
47. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
BC- before christ
Anything goes
Billy bigelow
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
48. Bloody Mary is from What show
Gwen verdon
Tragedies
South pacific
Annie get your gun
49. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Mercenary mary
Oscar hammerstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
50. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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