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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 played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Leonard Bernstein
Rex Harrison
Angel
Slapsticks
2. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Mulligan guards routines
Richard rodgers
Anything goes
Mercenary mary
3. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
No
Threepenny opera
Leonard bernstein
The shows they came from
4. __________ presents men worse than they are...
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
24
Costume designer
Comedy
5. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Of thee i sing
State
Once upon a mattress
The book uncle toms cabin
6. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Court nobility
Of thee i sing
Mary Martin
Jerome robbins
7. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
Nine
Official beginning of western theatre
I got rhythm
8. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Anti-hero
Yul Brenner
9. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Betty comden and adolph green
Good news
The book uncle toms cabin
Lowering
10. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Tragedy
Disappears
The book
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
11. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Professional perfomers
Spectacle
Ethel merman
Bernstein and Sondheim
12. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Gypsy
Producer
The book
Rose marie
13. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Music director
The student prince
Restoration
West side story
14. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
George m. cohan
A contrived ending
The merry widow
15. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Once upon a mattress
Female roles
The book
16. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
South pacific
Patriotic
Parodied
If i loved you
17. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Moliere
Radio city music hall
He was the producer
Tearly Roman empire
18. Who is the composer for music man
The pajama game
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Leonard bernstein
Meredith wilson
19. G: Male actors played...
Producer
City dionysia
Female roles
George gershwin
20. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Producer
Agnes de Mille
South pacific
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
21. Who is the composer for wonderful town
George m. cohan
Entertainments
Leonard bernstein
Music director
22. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Producer
Comedies
Producer
Once upon a mattress
23. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Cole Porter
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
24. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
George gershwin
Stephen sondheim
Popular entertainments
New comedy
25. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Composer
Commedia dell-arte
Athens
Middle ages
26. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Gwen verdon
Oil lamps
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
27. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
James michener
Deus ex machina
Lerner and Loewe
Oklahoma
28. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Catholic church
Ethel merman
3 to 5
A stevedore
29. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Ethel merman
He was the producer
Gertrude lawrence
30. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
James michener
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
None all men
Stephen Sondheim
31. Where they fly things on stage
Disappears
Fly loft
Female roles
Ballet and modern dance
32. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Witty dialogue
The marx brothers
Director
Greeks
33. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Marilyn Miller
On the town
My fair lady
False it was stylized
34. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Public enemy no. 13
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Agnes de mille
Ethel merman
35. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Playwright
Mercenary mary
The serenade and the fortune teller
Mary Martin
36. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
The marx brothers
Ethel merman
New comedy
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
37. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Cleverly concoted
Julie Andrews
The king and i
South pacific
38. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Agnes de mille
BC
Restoration
BC- before christ
39. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Gwen verdon
Voice type
Carousel
Playwright
40. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Oil lamps
Jerome Robbins
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Evangeline
41. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Leonard bernstein
Cole porter
Of thee i sing
42. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Playwright
Voice type
Patriotic
Candide
43. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Moliere
Catholic church
Tearly Roman empire
Choreographer
44. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Music man
Aristotle
Commedia dell-arte
45. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The pajama game
Director
Timbuktu
Bernstein and Sondheim
46. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
Political satire
Lerner and Loewe
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
47. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Anti-hero
Comedies
Aristotle
Tragedies
48. What was a 'claquer?'
None all men
On your toes
Moved indoors
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
49. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Borrowed tunes
Restoration
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Good news
50. Greek: 534 BCE
King Louis XIV
Official beginning of western theatre
The king and i
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931