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Musical Theatre
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1. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Mercenary mary
Gertrude lawrence
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Librettist
2. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Permissiveness and crazes
Borrowed tunes
Oscar hammerstein II
On your toes and babes in arms
3. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Orchestration
Ethel merman
Set designer
Mercenary mary
4. Who picks the actors?
Producer
Slapsticks
Director
Popular dance
5. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Meredith wilson
Stephen sondheim
George m. cohan
The pajama game
6. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Agnes de mille
King Louis XIV
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Lyricist
7. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Commedia dell-arte
Playwright
Victor herbert
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
8. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Pal Joey
Deus ex machina
Playwright
Crazy for you
9. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Kurt Weill
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
3 to 5
Stephen sondheim
10. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Jerome kern
24
Masks and costumes
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
11. Who wrote the music for show boat
Jerome kern
Singin in the rain
Mercenary mary
False- it was considred a romantic musical
12. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
If i loved you
Rodgers and Hart
The music man
The romantic musicals
13. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Enzio pinza
Oklahoma
If i loved you
The desert song
14. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Tragedy
Burlesqued
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Ray bolger
15. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Someone to watch over me
Anti-hero
Rex Harrison
If i loved you
16. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
West side story
No no nanette
Borrowed tunes
Damn yankees
17. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
The book
Guys and Dolls
Plato
18. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Political satire
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Harrigan and hart
The romantic musicals
19. F:who took over those roles
24
Jerome kern
Bernstein and Sondheim
Professional perfomers
20. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Thespis
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Jule Styne
The mikado
21. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Lyricist
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Kiss me - Kate
New comedy
22. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Julie Andrews
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Voice type
Tearly Roman empire
23. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
BC- before christ
South pacific
Yul Brenner
Changing masks and costumes
24. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Swing
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Frank Loesser
Mary martin
25. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Anything goes
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
26. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Babes in arms
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
The belle of new york
27. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
George m. cohan
Oh Kay
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The marx brothers
28. Who is the composer of the music man
The cotton blossom
Popular entertainments
Producer
Meredith wilson
29. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
Gypsy
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Producer
30. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
My fair lady
Romantic music
American dance music
Mama rose
31. Who is the star of Sally
Marilyn Miller
King Louis XIV
My Fair Lady
Director
32. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Once upon a mattress
The belle of new york
South pacific
Georges balanchine
33. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Damn yankees
He died in 1937
Oil lamps
Gwen verdon
34. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Ballet and modern dance
Ethel merman
Producer
Bert williams and george walker
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Middle ages
George and Ira Gershwin
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Oklahoma
36. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
The king and i
Comedy
Mercenary mary
3 to 5
37. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
Agnes de Mille
Gertrude lawrence
The Sound of Music
38. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Horace
George gershwin
Cole porter
Sally
39. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The cotton blossom
State
40. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Set designer
St. Augustine
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Court nobility
41. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Voice type
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Damn yankees
Tearly Roman empire
42. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Ethel merman
False it was stylized
On your toes
Entertainments
43. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Billy bigelow
The desert song
Disappears
Set designer
44. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The music man
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Producer
Burlesqued
45. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
The merry widow
A trip to chinatown
HMS pinafore
Orchestration
46. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Agnes de mille
Director
Kiss me - kate
The king and I
47. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Cleverly concoted
War
Restoration
Jule Styne
48. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
Billy bigelow
Court nobility
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
49. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
The cotton blossom
Of thee i sing
Disappears
50. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
George and Ira Gershwin
Kurt Weill
Ethel merman
Pal Joey
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