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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The Threepenny Opera
Marilyn Miller
Plato
2. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Georges balanchine
Nine
George and Ira Gershwin
Oscar hammerstein
3. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Once upon a mattress
South pacific
Moved indoors
HMS pinafore
4. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
I got rhythm
Athens
Girl crazy
5. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
Jule Styne
War
Oklahoma
6. What was the 1927 musical about college life
BC
Rose marie
Agnes de mille
Good news
7. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Guys and dolls
Julie Andrews
Candide
Once upon a mattress
8. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Stephen sondheim
Horace
Ray bolger
Middle ages
9. What show is -the continental
Cole porter
Entertainments
Mercenary mary
BC
10. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
The desert song
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Lowering
No
11. What was the continental
Billy bigelow
Popular dance
The Sound of Music
Mary rodgers
12. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
American politics
Voice type
My fair lady
Victor herbert
13. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Cole porter
Gertrude Lawrence
Satyr plays
No no nanette
14. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Threepenny opera
Kurt Weill
Producer
15. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
Popular dance
Political satire
Timbuktu
16. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Plato
The merry widow
Stand by
His 'confessions'
17. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Cole Porter
Music director
Jerome Robbins
18. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Rex Harrison
Mary rodgers
Victor herbert
False- it was considred a romantic musical
19. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
The king and i
Mercenary mary
On your toes and babes in arms
Jerome Robbins
20. What was the setting for Kismet
Cole porter
Ancient baghdad
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Kiss me - Kate
21. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
American dance music
Anti-hero
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
22. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Catholic church
I got rhythm
His 'confessions'
Comic opera
23. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Rodgers and Hart
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Adonis
24. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The serenade and the fortune teller
Gypsy
Gestures and poses
Tragedies
25. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Of thee i sing
City dionysia
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
The cotton blossom
26. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
The book
Deus ex machina
Gypsy
Orchestration
27. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Jerome kern
Professional perfomers
George gershwin
28. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Popular entertainments
Restoration
Mercenary mary
No no nanette
29. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Witty dialogue
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Before common era
30. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Librettist
Director
Lowering
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
31. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
A contrived ending
The king and i
32. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Producer
Horace
Mimes
Candide
33. Mama rose is from What show
Lerner and Loewe
Librettist
Gypsy
Ethel merman
34. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Ancient baghdad
The pajama game
Betty comden and adolph green
George gershwin
35. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Once upon a mattress
Ethel merman
Mary martin
Yul Brenner
36. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
The Sound of Music
Mercenary mary
Entertainments
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
37. Who is the star of Sally
Marilyn Miller
Oklahoma
Gene kelly
Mercenary mary
38. Who is the composer of Candide
Commedia dell-arte
Frank Loesser
Leonard bernstein
On your toes
39. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The student prince
His 'confessions'
40. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Kiss me - kate
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Robin hood
Singin in the rain
41. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Cole porter
American politics
Patriotic
Girl crazy
42. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Patriotic
Someone to watch over me
Guys and Dolls
Political satire
43. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
St. Augustine
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Once upon a mattress
Rex Harrison
44. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Comedy
The music man
Borrowed tunes
South pacific
45. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Guys and Dolls
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The Sound of Music
Moliere
46. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
Lerner and Loewe
Someone to watch over me
Kurt Weill
47. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Middle ages
None all men
South pacific
Kismet
48. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Slapsticks
Betty comden and adolph green
Irene
His 'confessions'
49. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Comedies
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Gwen verdon
Choreographer
50. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Gene kelly
Tragedies
Director
The mikado