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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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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
Mary rodgers
Leonard bernstein
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Rex Harrison
2. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Burlesqued
South pacific
Slapsticks
Bob Fosse
3. What is Bali H'ai from
St. Augustine
Jule Styne
Ballet and modern dance
South pacific
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Borrowed tunes
Bernstein and Sondheim
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
5. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
Rex Harrison
Producer
Mary Martin
6. What are the three types of greek plays
Playwright
Choreographer
The book uncle toms cabin
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
7. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
Oklahoma
Romantic music
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
8. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Thespis
Tragedies
Masks and costumes
George and Ira Gershwin
9. What was a 'claquer?'
False it was stylized
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Swing
Rodgers and hammerstein
10. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
South pacific
East Side Story
John Gay
Cole porter
11. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
South pacific
Director
The merry widow
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
12. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Oil lamps
Producer
Rodgers and hammerstein
My Fair Lady
13. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
BC
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
14. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Set designer
Oil lamps
Librettist
Betty comden and adolph green
15. Who made in dahomey unique
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
No
The merry widow
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
16. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Choreographer
The metropolitan opera
Patriotic
Once upon a mattress
17. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Parodied
Angel
Ray bolger
Agnes de Mille
18. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Oh Kay
Gene kelly
Flutes - lyres
Good news
19. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Producer
Middle ages
Commedia dell-arte
20. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Singin in the rain
Bert williams and george walker
Can-can
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
21. 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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22. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Oscar hammerstein II
Stand by
Rodgers and Hart
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
23. What was the continental
Popular dance
Evangeline
Public enemy no. 13
George gershwin
24. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
George m. cohan
Producer
Carol Channing
Producer
25. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Anti-hero
Greeks
Costume designer
26. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Bernstein and Sondheim
Michael Kidd
Fly loft
The mikado
27. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Slapsticks
No no nanette
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Victor herbert
28. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Swing
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Plato
The savoy operas
29. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
The romantic musicals
Orchestration
George gershwin
Mulligan guards routines
30. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
The marx brothers
South pacific
Can-can
Gypsy
31. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
East Side Story
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Jule Styne
He was the producer
32. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Leonard bernstein
My Fair Lady
Gestures and poses
Composer
33. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Irene
George m. cohan
Popular entertainments
Producer
34. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Nine
Lerner and Loewe
Ethel merman
35. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Can-can
Director
No no nanette
Nine
36. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
If i loved you
Before common era
Nine
Costume designer
37. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Director
Oh Kay
American dance music
The mikado
38. ____________ presents men better than they are...
24
Deus ex machina
Tragedy
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
39. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Jerome robbins
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Mimes
40. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
War
Richard rodgers
New comedy
West side story
41. What was the original name of West Side Story
East Side Story
Intense training
Stephen sondheim
Court nobility
42. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Producer
My fair lady
Rose marie
Oklahoma
43. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Swing
Carousel
Producer
The new moon
44. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Director
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
John Hollingshead
Comic opera
45. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Swing
Voice type
Victor herbert
The puritans took control of the governmetn
46. Pal Joey was written by...
Gypsy
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hart
Moved indoors
47. Annie Oakley is from What show
Timbuktu
Annie get your gun
Witty dialogue
Rodgers and Hart
48. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Stand by
Mama rose
Radio city music hall
49. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
The music man
Masks and costumes
Slapsticks
50. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
Cole porter
Took to the streets and traveled -
Georges balanchine