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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 is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Cole porter
Gypsy
Libretto
South pacific
2. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Oh Kay
Carol Channing
War
South pacific
3. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Good news
Horace
Girl crazy
4. 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 ___________.
Before common era
John Gay
The shows they came from
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
5. What does 'renaissance' mean
American politics
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Music man
Rebirth
6. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
The king and i
Intense training
Ethel merman
Spectacle
7. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Flutes - lyres
Swing
Carmen jones
8. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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9. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Harry tierney
Singin in the rain
The metropolitan opera
The cotton blossom
10. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The savoy operas
A contrived ending
The merry widow
Producer
11. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Plato
New comedy
Ethel merman
Kiss me - Kate
12. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Thespis
The king and i
Librettist
Radio city music hall
13. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Comedies
Borrowed tunes
Moliere
Gertrude lawrence
14. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Commedia dell-arte
Producer
My fair lady
Court nobility
15. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Guys and Dolls
Professional perfomers
Producer
16. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Commedia dell-arte
The savoy operas
The Threepenny Opera
Slapsticks
17. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Oklahoma
Evangeline
Robin hood
Lerner and Loewe
18. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Patriotic
Bob Fosse
19. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Director
Director
Tragedy
Producer
20. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
The shows they came from
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Ancient baghdad
Romantic
21. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
I got rhythm
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jule Styne
Gertrude Lawrence
22. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Horace
Leonard Bernstein
The shows they came from
War
23. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
The Sound of Music
Oscar hammerstein II
Frank Loesser
King Louis XIV
24. What was the setting for Kismet
Greeks
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Ancient baghdad
Gestures and poses
25. What does 'renaissance' mean
Julie Andrews
Rebirth
Greeks
Pants role or trousers role
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The romantic musicals
Mary Martin
27. What show is- tea for two
Carmen jones
West side story
No no nanette
Enzio pinza
28. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Richard rodgers
A trip to chinatown
The music man
29. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Carmen jones
Intense training
Ethel merman
Political satire
30. Greek: 534 BCE
Official beginning of western theatre
Mary Martin
Enzio pinza
Meredith wilson
31. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Comic opera
Kurt Weill
Comic opera had music and dialogue
32. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Swing
Producer
Babes in arms
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
33. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Commedia dell-arte
Threepenny opera
Victor herbert
The savoy operas
34. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Anything goes
Tragedy
A stevedore
Stand by
35. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
The doctor of alcantara
Ray Bolger
Yul Brenner
Gene kelly
36. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gwen verdon
A contrived ending
Parodied
37. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Commedia dell-arte
Middle ages
Gertrude lawrence
No no nanette
38. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
The mikado
Entertainments
Gene kelly
Romantic
39. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Professional perfomers
Producer
Oil lamps
Playwright
40. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
George m. cohan
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The king and i
41. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Gertrude Lawrence
George gershwin
Spectacle
42. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Moved indoors
Producer
He was the producer
War
43. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
The king and i
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Romantic music
44. Who wrote the music for show boat
Costume designer
Jerome kern
Gypsy
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
45. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Oklahoma
Harry tierney
Once upon a mattress
Director
46. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Disappears
Mary martin
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Flutes - lyres
47. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
The Sound of Music
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Producer
48. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Burlesqued
Timbuktu
Gypsy
False- it was considred a romantic musical
49. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Ray bolger
Gypsy
Producer
Mimes
50. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Romantic music
Burlesqued
Stand by
I got rhythm