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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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1. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
The music man
George m. cohan
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Ancient baghdad
2. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Composer
Stand by
Betty comden and adolph green
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
3. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Candide
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Can-can
Leonard bernstein
4. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
Playwright
Professional perfomers
St. Augustine
5. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Fly loft
Georges balanchine
War
The king and i
6. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Meredith wilson
Moliere
On your toes
Cleverly concoted
7. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Voice type
If i loved you
Good news
Victor herbert
8. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Tragedies
Official beginning of western theatre
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
My fair lady
9. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Harry tierney
False it was stylized
Crazy for You
The doctor of alcantara
10. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Rodgers and hammerstein
George and ira gershwin
Rodgers and Hart
Evangeline
11. G: how did they play female roles
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Damn yankees
The merry widow
Changing masks and costumes
12. What does 'renaissance' mean
Same person
Nine
Rebirth
Plato
13. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Mama rose
Burlesqued
Richard rodgers
City dionysia
14. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Commedia dell-arte
Deus ex machina
Aristotle
Threepenny opera
15. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Catholic church
Stephen Sondheim
Bernstein and Sondheim
Betty comden and adolph green
16. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Professional perfomers
South pacific
Mercenary mary
Ethel merman
17. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Burlesqued
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Agnes de mille
Georges balanchine
18. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Singin in the rain
The music man
Stephen sondheim
Adonis
19. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The metropolitan opera
Rodgers and hammerstein
20. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Athens
The book
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
George m. cohan
21. What was a 'claquer?'
Oscar hammerstein II
New comedy
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
The puritans took control of the governmetn
22. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Bob Fosse
War
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
23. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Popular entertainments
Leonard Bernstein
Angel
South pacific
24. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Gertrude lawrence
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Satyr plays
George and ira gershwin
25. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Aristotle
Eliza Doolittle
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Jerome robbins
26. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
City dionysia
The king and i
Nine
Set designer
27. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The book uncle toms cabin
Moved indoors
Ancient baghdad
28. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
Swing
Slapsticks
False it was stylized
29. Lotte Lenya is from What show
John Hollingshead
Yul Brenner
The Threepenny Opera
Oklahoma
30. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Carmen jones
Lerner and Loewe
Romantic music
Jerome robbins
31. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
My fair lady
BC
George gershwin
Satyr plays
32. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
South pacific
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
South pacific
The new moon
33. Who is the composer for music man
Anti-hero
Parodied
Angel
Meredith wilson
34. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Disappears
Producer
Gertrude Lawrence
Jule Styne
35. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Irving Berlin
The book uncle toms cabin
Guys and Dolls
George and ira gershwin
36. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
A trip to chinatown
Sally
Mary rodgers
37. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Mary rodgers
Nine
Conductor
Court nobility
38. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
John Gay
Victor herbert
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ballet and modern dance
39. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
The shows they came from
The belle of new york
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
40. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Orchestration
Lerner and Loewe
The mikado
Comic opera had music and dialogue
41. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
New comedy
Jerome kern
Meredith wilson
42. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Disappears
Rodgers and Hart
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Julie Andrews
43. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
I got rhythm
George m. cohan
Gertrude Lawrence
Gwen verdon
44. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Aristotle
Angel
The Threepenny Opera
The pajama game
45. G: What does BCE mean?
Richard d'oyly carte
Candide
Mama rose
Before common era
46. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Anything goes
Radio city music hall
Permissiveness and crazes
Evangeline
47. What is a 'pasticcio' score
State
Meredith wilson
Ethel merman
Borrowed tunes
48. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Enzio pinza
Moliere
Lowering
Bernstein and Sondheim
49. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
A stevedore
4th and 5th centuries bce
Cleverly concoted
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
50. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
South pacific
Jule Styne
Evangeline
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three