SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Musical Theatre
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
performing-arts
,
music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Producer
Carmen jones
New comedy
Crazy for You
2. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Cole porter
Gypsy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
South pacific
3. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Singin in the rain
Gertrude Lawrence
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Librettist
4. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
He was the producer
The Sound of Music
The savoy operas
Anti-hero
5. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Lerner and Loewe
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Flutes - lyres
6. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Moved indoors
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Thespis
7. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Conductor
Set designer
HMS pinafore
Carousel
8. Who composed the music for Irene
Lyricist
The shows they came from
Harry tierney
Lerner and Loewe
9. 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
Jerome kern
Ray Bolger
Mercenary mary
Nine
10. Laurie's dream ballet
The king and I
Oklahoma
Before common era
John Gay
11. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Producer
Conductor
Playwright
Producer
12. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Gypsy
Ballet and modern dance
Ethel merman
Ray bolger
13. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Horace
Director
Victor herbert
14. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
The Threepenny opera
Oh Kay
The king and I
Of thee i sing
15. What is a 'pasticcio' score
My fair lady
Borrowed tunes
The Sound of Music
No no nanette
16. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
George gershwin
South pacific
He died in 1937
Borrowed tunes
17. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Yul Brenner
The desert song
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Athens
18. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
BC- before christ
The Threepenny opera
Lerner and Loewe
Gestures and poses
19. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Thespis
The Sound of Music
Pants role or trousers role
Julie Andrews
20. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
Mercenary mary
Director
Victor herbert
21. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Gertrude Lawrence
Set designer
Rebirth
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
22. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Billy bigelow
Spectacle
Ray bolger
Bert williams and george walker
23. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
BC
Damn yankees
Angel
Commedia dell-arte
24. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Gertrude Lawrence
Director
Of thee i sing
Intense training
25. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Crazy for you
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Comedy
Orchestration
26. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Agnes de mille
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Gene kelly
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
27. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
South pacific
Ethel merman
Gypsy
28. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
Producer
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
29. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Agnes de mille
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
None all men
Harrigan and hart
30. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Producer
Mary Martin
Professional perfomers
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
31. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Michael Kidd
Guys and Dolls
Threepenny opera
Carol Channing
32. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Oh Kay
Disappears
Tragedies
Julie Andrews
33. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
34. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Bernstein and Sondheim
The Threepenny Opera
St. Augustine
Singin in the rain
35. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
American politics
Witty dialogue
Romantic
The king and i
36. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Lyricist
The music man
No no nanette
Bert williams and george walker
37. Who is the composer of Candide
Pal Joey
Gwen verdon
Athens
Leonard bernstein
38. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Pageant wagons and mansions
Music man
West side story
4th and 5th centuries bce
39. What show is- tea for two
If i loved you
St. Augustine
No no nanette
Irene
40. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Crazy for You
Anything goes
Commedia dell-arte
41. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Leonard Bernstein
Stand by
Jule Styne
42. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Once upon a mattress
False it was stylized
Nine
Kiss me - kate
43. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Carousel
Enzio pinza
44. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Plato
The shows they came from
Julie Andrews
45. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
George and Ira Gershwin
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Rose marie
The desert song
46. Who writes the words to the songs?
Guys and dolls
Lyricist
Meredith wilson
Entertainments
47. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Lerner and Loewe
Rex Harrison
Agnes de mille
Middle ages
48. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Intense training
Stephen Sondheim
Popular entertainments
Stand by
49. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
James michener
Playwright
Ethel merman
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
50. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Kiss me - kate
Librettist
Leonard bernstein
Set designer