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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. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Borrowed tunes
Kiss me - Kate
Comic opera
The merry widow
2. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Oklahoma
Ray bolger
Spectacle
The music man
3. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Irene
Bert williams and george walker
4. What does 'renaissance' mean
Tearly Roman empire
Rebirth
He was the producer
Angel
5. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Producer
Ballet and modern dance
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Gertrude Lawrence
6. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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7. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Ray Bolger
Official beginning of western theatre
Pants role or trousers role
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
8. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Pageant wagons and mansions
Kiss me - kate
The book
9. Who is the composer of the music man
James michener
Cole porter
The merry widow
Meredith wilson
10. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
Ethel merman
George m. cohan
Evangeline
11. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Gene kelly
Girl crazy
The music man
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
12. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
He died in 1937
On your toes
BC
13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Frank Loesser
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Marilyn Miller
14. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The book
The student prince
Guys and dolls
Oklahoma
15. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
The metropolitan opera
Director
Aristotle
Librettist
16. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Producer
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Carmen jones
Stephen sondheim
17. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
John Hollingshead
Borrowed tunes
18. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
Ethel merman
Eliza Doolittle
Bernstein and Sondheim
19. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
Mama rose
The book uncle toms cabin
Stephen sondheim
20. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Brigadoon
Crazy for You
Jule Styne
Moliere
21. Who writes the words to the songs?
Jule Styne
Lyricist
Timbuktu
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
22. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Once upon a mattress
Babes in arms
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The book
23. Who is the star of Sally
Marilyn Miller
Romantic
American politics
George gershwin
24. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Yul Brenner
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Disappears
Tragedies
25. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Voice type
Stephen sondheim
Playwright
George and Ira Gershwin
26. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
My fair lady
Singin in the rain
Angel
27. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Kurt Weill
The desert song
None all men
Oklahoma
28. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Victor herbert
The cotton blossom
Jerome robbins
Julie Andrews
29. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Gene kelly
Restoration
Once upon a mattress
My fair lady
30. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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31. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Victor herbert
The doctor of alcantara
Betty comden and adolph green
Irving Berlin
32. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Director
Gertrude Lawrence
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
33. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Robin hood
Can-can
Libretto
South pacific
34. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Cole porter
Babes in arms
Flutes - lyres
Ethel merman
35. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Oklahoma
Permissiveness and crazes
36. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Frank Loesser
False it was stylized
George gershwin
No
37. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Victor herbert
Producer
38. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Comedies
Mimes
Julie Andrews
39. G: What does BCE mean?
Kismet
The pajama game
The book uncle toms cabin
Before common era
40. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Leonard bernstein
Timbuktu
Kurt Weill
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
41. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Meredith wilson
South pacific
The Threepenny opera
The mikado
42. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Libretto
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Adonis
43. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Rose marie
On the town
Richard rodgers
The music man
44. What show is the song bewitched from
Music man
Timbuktu
Pal Joey
South pacific
45. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Rodgers and Hart
He died in 1937
Jerome Robbins
46. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
West side story
Professional perfomers
Choreographer
Greeks
47. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Rodgers and hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Georges balanchine
48. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Cleverly concoted
On the town
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Sally
49. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
State
The king and i
Bob Fosse
Brigadoon
50. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Tragedies
Victor herbert
City dionysia
Romantic