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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Official beginning of western theatre
George and Ira Gershwin
Oscar hammerstein
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
2. 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
Harrigan and hart
The romantic musicals
Agnes de Mille
Enzio pinza
3. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Harry tierney
Ethel merman
The king and i
Crazy for you
4. What team wrote the Sound of music
Took to the streets and traveled -
Julie Andrews
Evangeline
Rodgers and hammerstein
5. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
The savoy operas
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Gypsy
Mama rose
6. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Music man
None all men
Bernstein and Sondheim
Michael Kidd
7. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
HMS pinafore
Mimes
Political satire
The music man
8. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Kiss me - kate
Bernstein and Sondheim
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Angel
9. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Popular dance
Carousel
Once upon a mattress
Ethel merman
10. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
If i loved you
Director
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The marx brothers
11. Who composed the music for Irene
The savoy operas
No
Harry tierney
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
12. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Changing masks and costumes
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Rodgers and hammerstein
Angel
13. What show is -i got rhythm
Harrigan and hart
Commedia dell-arte
Girl crazy
Of thee i sing
14. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
The metropolitan opera
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Restoration
Eliza Doolittle
15. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
No no nanette
Harrigan and hart
Court nobility
Music man
16. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Kismet
Aristotle
Eliza Doolittle
The music man
17. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Gestures and poses
Jerome robbins
On your toes
Crazy for You
18. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Deus ex machina
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Anti-hero
19. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Gypsy
Disappears
Set designer
State
20. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Meredith wilson
Burlesqued
Comedy
South pacific
21. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Frank Loesser
Professional perfomers
22. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
The Sound of Music
The Threepenny opera
Damn yankees
Crazy for you
23. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Georges balanchine
Ethel merman
Ballet and modern dance
Threepenny opera
24. What was the continental
Popular dance
Jerome kern
Agnes de mille
Frank Loesser
25. 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
Cole porter
Ancient baghdad
Radio city music hall
26. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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27. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gwen verdon
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Gypsy
Candide
28. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Harry tierney
BC- before christ
Richard d'oyly carte
Singin in the rain
29. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
King Louis XIV
State
The doctor of alcantara
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
30. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Entertainments
South pacific
Same person
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
31. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Lerner and Loewe
Romantic music
Timbuktu
Rodgers and Hart
32. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
None all men
Official beginning of western theatre
South pacific
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
33. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Thespis
Set designer
On your toes
Brigadoon
34. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
George and ira gershwin
Mercenary mary
35. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
The pajama game
He was the producer
Kurt Weill
George gershwin
36. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
New comedy
Fly loft
Harrigan and hart
Leonard Bernstein
37. Who is the composer for music man
Mary martin
The savoy operas
Meredith wilson
Agnes de Mille
38. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Set designer
John Gay
Greeks
The savoy operas
39. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
On your toes
Orchestration
American politics
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
40. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Cole porter
The cotton blossom
Producer
Gertrude Lawrence
41. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Lowering
Athens
West side story
42. 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 king and I
Frank Loesser
The merry widow
Enzio pinza
43. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Carousel
Bernstein and Sondheim
The puritans took control of the governmetn
44. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
Flutes - lyres
Radio city music hall
Kurt Weill
45. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Ethel merman
Adonis
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
46. Who is the composer for on the town
BC
Leonard bernstein
Popular entertainments
Producer
47. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Rodgers and hammerstein
Director
Ancient baghdad
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
48. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Nine
Athens
The shows they came from
Oscar hammerstein
49. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Cole Porter
George m. cohan
Witty dialogue
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
50. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
3 to 5
No no nanette
BC
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money