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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Restoration
Carol Channing
Lerner and Loewe
The Sound of Music
2. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
South pacific
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Disappears
He died in 1937
3. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
Court nobility
None all men
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
4. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
Political satire
Spectacle
Middle ages
5. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Julie Andrews
The mikado
Anti-hero
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
6. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Female roles
Good news
Crazy for You
Brigadoon
7. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Leonard bernstein
The Sound of Music
The Threepenny Opera
Jule Styne
8. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
West side story
Victor herbert
Rex Harrison
He was the producer
9. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
The king and i
Agnes de Mille
Pants role or trousers role
Cole Porter
10. Annie Oakley is from What show
South pacific
Director
Annie get your gun
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
11. Who is the star of Sally
The cotton blossom
Marilyn Miller
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The doctor of alcantara
12. What was the continental
Irene
The music man
Popular dance
A contrived ending
13. Who composed the music for Irene
Can-can
Harry tierney
The Sound of Music
Someone to watch over me
14. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
The Sound of Music
Mulligan guards routines
Romantic
On your toes and babes in arms
15. Where they fly things on stage
Kiss me - kate
Fly loft
Gypsy
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
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17. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Enzio pinza
George and ira gershwin
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Tearly Roman empire
18. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Good news
Same person
Entertainments
Flutes - lyres
19. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Spectacle
Librettist
My fair lady
Choreographer
20. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Oh Kay
King Louis XIV
The Threepenny Opera
Lerner and Loewe
21. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Comic opera
Betty comden and adolph green
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Witty dialogue
22. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
Director
Richard d'oyly carte
The merry widow
23. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
South pacific
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Gypsy
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
24. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Kurt Weill
Political satire
Yul Brenner
Gypsy
25. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
The king and I
Of thee i sing
Director
Comic opera
26. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Kurt Weill
Crazy for you
Oklahoma
Ethel merman
27. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Ballet and modern dance
The belle of new york
Can-can
He was the producer
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29. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Commedia dell-arte
Aristotle
Voice type
Georges balanchine
30. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Comedies
Timbuktu
Ancient baghdad
The Threepenny opera
31. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Gertrude Lawrence
Oil lamps
The marx brothers
Cole porter
32. 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
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
South pacific
33. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
John Gay
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Gene kelly
Gwen verdon
34. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
The serenade and the fortune teller
Stephen sondheim
On the town
The metropolitan opera
35. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Harry tierney
Jerome kern
George and Ira Gershwin
36. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
The cotton blossom
Romantic music
George and Ira Gershwin
Mary rodgers
37. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Timbuktu
South pacific
Radio city music hall
Director
38. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Lyricist
John Hollingshead
Julie Andrews
Mama rose
39. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Jerome Robbins
Harry tierney
The shows they came from
Can-can
40. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
The serenade and the fortune teller
Rodgers and hammerstein
A contrived ending
Angel
41. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Jule Styne
Set designer
The book
Crazy for you
42. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Leonard bernstein
The pajama game
Gwen verdon
Ray bolger
43. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Gertrude Lawrence
James michener
Oh Kay
Rex Harrison
44. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
No no nanette
Popular entertainments and comic opera
The cotton blossom
45. What team wrote the Sound of music
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Ray bolger
Rodgers and hammerstein
46. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
Comedy
Kiss me - Kate
Meredith wilson
47. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Deus ex machina
Swing
Conductor
Romantic music
48. What was the original name of West Side Story
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Athens
Fly loft
East Side Story
49. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
George and Ira Gershwin
Flutes - lyres
Victor herbert
Oscar hammerstein II
50. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Can-can
Billy bigelow
Gypsy
George and ira gershwin