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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Official beginning of western theatre
Popular entertainments
Conductor
Gypsy
2. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Damn yankees
Political satire
Jerome robbins
Oklahoma
3. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Stand by
Richard d'oyly carte
My fair lady
Producer
4. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Marilyn Miller
Comic opera
South pacific
The doctor of alcantara
5. Who composed the music for Irene
If i loved you
Public enemy no. 13
Harry tierney
Slapsticks
6. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Babes in arms
Playwright
Anti-hero
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
7. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Carousel
Cole Porter
Victor herbert
Anything goes
8. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Female roles
Mimes
9. Who is the composer of the music man
Composer
Rodgers and Hart
Meredith wilson
Gypsy
10. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Mama rose
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Pageant wagons and mansions
11. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Jerome Robbins
West side story
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Athens
12. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
I got rhythm
Harry tierney
Plato
Parodied
13. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
John Gay
Moved indoors
Marilyn Miller
14. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Producer
Music man
The marx brothers
Oklahoma
15. What show is the song bewitched from
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Damn yankees
Pal Joey
Leonard bernstein
16. What is another name for the book and lyrics
New comedy
The mikado
John Gay
Libretto
17. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Crazy for you
Deus ex machina
Gertrude Lawrence
Lerner and Loewe
18. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Kismet
Lerner and Loewe
The mikado
A contrived ending
19. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
South pacific
Athens
The shows they came from
Leonard Bernstein
20. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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21. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Slapsticks
The savoy operas
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
False it was stylized
22. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Lerner and Loewe
Satyr plays
Rebirth
23. Who composed the music for Irene
Harry tierney
Kiss me - kate
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
24. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jerome robbins
25. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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26. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
George and ira gershwin
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Producer
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
27. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews
Director
Greeks
28. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
James michener
Deus ex machina
New comedy
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
29. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Before common era
Conductor
Victor herbert
30. What was the original name of West Side Story
Gertrude Lawrence
East Side Story
Producer
The savoy operas
31. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
Pal Joey
The Threepenny Opera
Stephen sondheim
32. Pal Joey was written by...
Political satire
Producer
Greeks
Rodgers and Hart
33. where did performers go
Damn yankees
Witty dialogue
Took to the streets and traveled -
Voice type
34. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Crazy for You
Composer
South pacific
Middle ages
35. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Oklahoma
Masks and costumes
Lerner and Loewe
John Gay
36. What was the setting for Kismet
George m. cohan
BC- before christ
Betty comden and adolph green
Ancient baghdad
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Nine
Agnes de Mille
Bernstein and Sondheim
Timbuktu
38. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
No no nanette
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
39. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
His 'confessions'
Anti-hero
The Threepenny opera
40. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Producer
Bernstein and Sondheim
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Gwen verdon
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Athens
Agnes de mille
42. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Jerome robbins
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
George m. cohan
43. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Brigadoon
Court nobility
Commedia dell-arte
Mercenary mary
44. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Slapsticks
The pajama game
South pacific
New comedy
45. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Producer
Irving Berlin
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Moliere
46. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
American politics
Damn yankees
Jerome kern
The merry widow
47. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
Leonard bernstein
Pal Joey
The merry widow
48. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Deus ex machina
Nine
Choreographer
He was the producer
49. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Once upon a mattress
Gypsy
Rodgers and hammerstein
South pacific
50. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The new moon
Costume designer
Oklahoma
Pants role or trousers role
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