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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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1. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Oklahoma
Damn yankees
The merry widow
Lerner and Loewe
2. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
South pacific
Entertainments
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Sally
3. 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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4. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
He was the producer
The Threepenny opera
Satyr plays
On the town
5. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Gypsy
Bernstein and Sondheim
Someone to watch over me
Entertainments
6. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Victor herbert
The Sound of Music
Music director
7. What show is -love is sweeping the country
George and Ira Gershwin
Of thee i sing
Lerner and Loewe
The book uncle toms cabin
8. What was the original name of West Side Story
Orchestration
Kiss me - Kate
Carmen jones
East Side Story
9. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Gwen verdon
City dionysia
Cleverly concoted
Deus ex machina
10. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Lowering
Commedia dell-arte
Librettist
Aristotle
11. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
The merry widow
New comedy
West side story
Julie Andrews
12. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
None all men
Libretto
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Director
13. Who is the composer for on the town
Mary martin
Leonard bernstein
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Plato
14. What show is -the continental
HMS pinafore
Mercenary mary
Meredith wilson
Ethel merman
15. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Oklahoma
City dionysia
The book uncle toms cabin
Moliere
16. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Carol Channing
Spectacle
Popular entertainments
Brigadoon
17. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Ray Bolger
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Cole porter
Irene
18. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The new moon
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
BC- before christ
Director
19. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Gertrude lawrence
The romantic musicals
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Victor herbert
20. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
On your toes
Mercenary mary
Professional perfomers
21. What was the original name of West Side Story
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
A contrived ending
Jerome kern
East Side Story
22. G: Greek actors had...
Director
Irene
Intense training
Billy bigelow
23. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Threepenny opera
Music director
Comic opera
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
24. F:who took over those roles
Professional perfomers
Stand by
The king and i
Georges balanchine
25. Who is the star of sweet charity
Ancient baghdad
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Victor herbert
Gwen verdon
26. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Georges balanchine
Middle ages
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Rose marie
27. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Meredith wilson
Gertrude Lawrence
Evangeline
Agnes de mille
28. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Rex Harrison
Moliere
None all men
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
29. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
Adonis
Carol Channing
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
30. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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31. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Disappears
Anti-hero
Witty dialogue
Oil lamps
32. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Producer
The book uncle toms cabin
West side story
33. Who is the composer of the music man
Patriotic
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Meredith wilson
Mercenary mary
34. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Director
Billy bigelow
Michael Kidd
George and ira gershwin
35. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
My Fair Lady
The marx brothers
The king and i
Kurt Weill
36. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
The marx brothers
Ethel merman
Choreographer
Brigadoon
37. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Guys and Dolls
Gertrude lawrence
Kismet
John Hollingshead
38. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
The serenade and the fortune teller
Irving Berlin
Tragedy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
39. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Aristotle
Timbuktu
Once upon a mattress
Kismet
40. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Pageant wagons and mansions
Romantic
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Aristotle
41. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
Pageant wagons and mansions
King Louis XIV
Angel
42. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Conductor
Conductor
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jule Styne
43. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Robin hood
The mikado
James michener
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
44. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
City dionysia
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The book
My Fair Lady
45. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Timbuktu
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Gertrude Lawrence
Richard d'oyly carte
46. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
A stevedore
Irene
Producer
Slapsticks
47. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
South pacific
Gestures and poses
Popular entertainments
Brigadoon
48. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Set designer
Can-can
Tragedies
South pacific
49. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Director
Threepenny opera
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Victor herbert
50. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
His 'confessions'
James michener
Choreographer
Patriotic