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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Public enemy no. 13
The romantic musicals
Ethel merman
Costume designer
2. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
A trip to chinatown
Cole Porter
Deus ex machina
Crazy for You
3. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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4. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Carol Channing
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Ballet and modern dance
5. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Oil lamps
Music director
Gestures and poses
6. Who picks the actors?
He was the producer
Director
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Burlesqued
7. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
John Gay
Adonis
Anti-hero
Mary rodgers
8. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Mary Martin
Annie get your gun
4th and 5th centuries bce
9. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Ancient baghdad
The mikado
Horace
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
10. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Oscar hammerstein
Radio city music hall
Someone to watch over me
On your toes and babes in arms
11. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Brigadoon
On the town
Oscar hammerstein II
Pants role or trousers role
12. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
War
13. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
The pajama game
Once upon a mattress
Comic opera
Producer
14. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
George m. cohan
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Oscar hammerstein
Enzio pinza
15. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Music man
Official beginning of western theatre
Music director
Comic opera had music and dialogue
16. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
American politics
Ancient baghdad
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
The belle of new york
17. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
The king and i
Robin hood
Ballet and modern dance
No no nanette
18. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Gypsy
City dionysia
George and ira gershwin
Lowering
19. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Popular entertainments and comic opera
The student prince
Thespis
City dionysia
20. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Comedy
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The merry widow
Pants role or trousers role
21. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
He was the producer
Babes in arms
Can-can
Angel
22. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Damn yankees
South pacific
Ethel merman
Nine
23. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Gertrude Lawrence
Greeks
Librettist
Agnes de mille
24. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Librettist
Jule Styne
John Hollingshead
Gwen verdon
25. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Crazy for you
Once upon a mattress
Bob Fosse
A stevedore
26. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Lerner and Loewe
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Damn yankees
George and Ira Gershwin
27. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Girl crazy
Orchestration
Mercenary mary
Ballet and modern dance
28. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Nine
Gypsy
Catholic church
Yul Brenner
29. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
George gershwin
Comedies
Aristotle
Witty dialogue
30. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Costume designer
Popular dance
Gypsy
King Louis XIV
31. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Frank Loesser
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Stephen Sondheim
Girl crazy
32. G: What does BCE mean?
Marilyn Miller
Leonard bernstein
Before common era
Kiss me - kate
33. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gestures and poses
Comedy
Jule Styne
Gwen verdon
34. G: Male actors played...
Evangeline
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Mercenary mary
Female roles
35. Thespis ________ greek mythology
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
24
Brigadoon
Burlesqued
36. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Stand by
Music director
False it was stylized
The marx brothers
37. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
George m. cohan
Mama rose
Angel
Oklahoma
38. Who is the star of Sally
Romantic music
Libretto
Satyr plays
Marilyn Miller
39. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Guys and Dolls
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Orchestration
Music director
40. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Once upon a mattress
Patriotic
Rex Harrison
He died in 1937
41. Who composed the music for Irene
Leonard bernstein
Aristotle
The shows they came from
Harry tierney
42. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Lerner and Loewe
The metropolitan opera
Voice type
American politics
43. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Producer
Ethel merman
Orchestration
Crazy for You
44. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Playwright
Deus ex machina
The mikado
Anti-hero
45. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Masks and costumes
Agnes de Mille
Mary Martin
Producer
46. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
A stevedore
Lerner and Loewe
Victor herbert
47. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Mercenary mary
Julie Andrews
Gene kelly
The doctor of alcantara
48. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Damn yankees
George m. cohan
The music man
Radio city music hall
49. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
James michener
On your toes and babes in arms
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
50. What show is- tea for two
Parodied
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
No no nanette
Cole Porter