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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Thespis
Gestures and poses
A stevedore
No
2. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Victor herbert
Popular entertainments
Female roles
American dance music
3. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
Comedy
Eliza Doolittle
Eliza Doolittle
4. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Ballet and modern dance
East Side Story
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Comedies
5. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Kurt Weill
Julie Andrews
Carousel
Ethel merman
6. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Jule Styne
The savoy operas
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Costume designer
7. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Candide
Victor herbert
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Mimes
8. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
The belle of new york
Cole porter
Enzio pinza
George gershwin
9. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
The student prince
Director
Oklahoma
Leonard Bernstein
10. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Timbuktu
George gershwin
Richard rodgers
Guys and Dolls
11. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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12. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
HMS pinafore
Music director
None all men
Ray bolger
13. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
He died in 1937
Julie Andrews
Producer
14. What team wrote the Sound of music
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Irving Berlin
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Rodgers and hammerstein
15. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Brigadoon
The student prince
Bob Fosse
The savoy operas
16. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
Michael Kidd
George m. cohan
Horace
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
17. 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
Cole Porter
Rose marie
Swing
John Gay
18. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
Agnes de mille
Changing masks and costumes
Once upon a mattress
19. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Rose marie
No
Gestures and poses
Rodgers and hammerstein
20. 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
Evangeline
The romantic musicals
Anything goes
Mary rodgers
21. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
4th and 5th centuries bce
Sally
Patriotic
Witty dialogue
22. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Crazy for You
Marilyn Miller
The metropolitan opera
Costume designer
23. What show is -the continental
Mercenary mary
Political satire
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
John Hollingshead
24. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
West side story
Producer
Professional perfomers
25. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
The music man
On your toes and babes in arms
The pajama game
Kurt Weill
26. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Good news
Jerome robbins
4th and 5th centuries bce
Court nobility
27. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Agnes de mille
Pal Joey
His 'confessions'
James michener
28. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
BC- before christ
Thespis
Damn yankees
4th and 5th centuries bce
29. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
No no nanette
Agnes de mille
Frank Loesser
Oh Kay
30. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Voice type
On your toes and babes in arms
Harrigan and hart
City dionysia
31. Commedia performers used...
Slapsticks
Kismet
Producer
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
32. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
George m. cohan
Official beginning of western theatre
Director
Timbuktu
33. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Lerner and Loewe
Leonard bernstein
The king and i
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
34. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Permissiveness and crazes
Singin in the rain
On your toes
Borrowed tunes
35. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Bernstein and Sondheim
South pacific
Robin hood
36. Who composed the music for Irene
Harry tierney
Agnes de Mille
3 to 5
Female roles
37. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Jule Styne
The Sound of Music
Cole Porter
Rodgers and Hart
38. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Thespis
Patriotic
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
39. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Tragedies
Crazy for you
40. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Nine
Mary Martin
Gypsy
Playwright
41. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Athens
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Court nobility
Gwen verdon
42. Who is the star of Sally
Marilyn Miller
Anti-hero
Meredith wilson
Ancient baghdad
43. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Satyr plays
Victor herbert
Sally
Brigadoon
44. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Parodied
Meredith wilson
West side story
Before common era
45. Who writes the words to the songs?
I got rhythm
Bert williams and george walker
State
Lyricist
46. 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
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Patriotic
Rodgers and Hart
47. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Oil lamps
Patriotic
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
48. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Stephen Sondheim
Leonard bernstein
Plato
49. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments
My fair lady
No no nanette
Victor herbert
50. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Mercenary mary
Permissiveness and crazes
South pacific
Entertainments