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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Yul Brenner
Anything goes
Orchestration
Georges balanchine
2. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Romantic
Court nobility
3. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Mimes
Witty dialogue
Candide
Director
4. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Slapsticks
The Threepenny opera
Guys and Dolls
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
5. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Conductor
Satyr plays
My fair lady
6. Who picks the actors?
Mary Martin
Director
Agnes de mille
Crazy for you
7. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Mercenary mary
Composer
Orchestration
8. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Leonard bernstein
The serenade and the fortune teller
Producer
The king and I
9. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The new moon
South pacific
Once upon a mattress
4th and 5th centuries bce
10. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Yul Brenner
Gypsy
The Threepenny opera
11. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Kiss me - kate
Oscar hammerstein
Rex Harrison
East Side Story
12. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
James michener
Gestures and poses
Costume designer
Gertrude Lawrence
13. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
The Sound of Music
HMS pinafore
The king and I
14. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Flutes - lyres
Satyr plays
Ethel merman
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
15. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Ethel merman
Rex Harrison
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Gertrude Lawrence
16. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
East Side Story
West side story
No no nanette
17. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
John Gay
South pacific
Georges balanchine
Jerome kern
18. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Oscar hammerstein II
The belle of new york
False- it was considred a romantic musical
George and Ira Gershwin
19. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Fly loft
Disappears
Changing masks and costumes
Comic opera had music and dialogue
20. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
Orchestration
Music man
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
21. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Kiss me - Kate
The belle of new york
Public enemy no. 13
The merry widow
22. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Conductor
Tearly Roman empire
The pajama game
The savoy operas
23. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Jerome kern
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Stephen Sondheim
24. What show is the song bewitched from
Cleverly concoted
Popular entertainments
Choreographer
Pal Joey
25. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Producer
Before common era
Victor herbert
26. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Brigadoon
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Agnes de mille
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
27. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Agnes de Mille
Burlesqued
Crazy for You
Orchestration
28. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Mercenary mary
Orchestration
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Evangeline
29. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Crazy for You
Female roles
Changing masks and costumes
30. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
American politics
Harrigan and hart
The savoy operas
Gestures and poses
31. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Burlesqued
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Pants role or trousers role
Official beginning of western theatre
32. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The serenade and the fortune teller
Permissiveness and crazes
The marx brothers
Moved indoors
33. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Librettist
Can-can
The Threepenny opera
Voice type
34. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Damn yankees
Gestures and poses
Angel
Victor herbert
35. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Gypsy
The music man
The Threepenny opera
36. Who wrote the music for show boat
Gestures and poses
Jerome kern
Commedia dell-arte
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
37. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Jerome kern
The merry widow
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
38. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Meredith wilson
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
State
Once upon a mattress
39. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Leonard bernstein
King Louis XIV
Comedy
Kiss me - Kate
40. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Evangeline
Producer
Jerome kern
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
41. Who writes the words to the songs?
South pacific
Lyricist
Gypsy
George m. cohan
42. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Ethel merman
Babes in arms
Official beginning of western theatre
43. What was the continental
Popular dance
Yul Brenner
Burlesqued
South pacific
44. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Rex Harrison
Of thee i sing
Mary rodgers
Playwright
45. 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 ___________.
No no nanette
The shows they came from
Harrigan and hart
Can-can
46. What show is -i got rhythm
Mary Martin
The belle of new york
Agnes de mille
Girl crazy
47. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
Conductor
West side story
East Side Story
Stand by
48. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Bert williams and george walker
Candide
A contrived ending
Guys and Dolls
49. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Carmen jones
Gwen verdon
Someone to watch over me
Cole porter
50. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
King Louis XIV
Victor herbert
Tearly Roman empire
Commedia dell-arte