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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. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Popular entertainments
George m. cohan
The doctor of alcantara
Can-can
2. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Spectacle
Frank Loesser
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Gypsy
3. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Oklahoma
Victor herbert
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
4. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Stand by
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Oscar hammerstein II
5. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Rex Harrison
His 'confessions'
Once upon a mattress
Candide
6. F:who took over those roles
The marx brothers
Professional perfomers
Mary Martin
John Hollingshead
7. Bloody Mary is from What show
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Brigadoon
South pacific
Gertrude lawrence
8. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Ballet and modern dance
I got rhythm
Catholic church
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
9. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
The mikado
Timbuktu
Ballet and modern dance
Ballet and modern dance
10. Bloody Mary is from What show
The marx brothers
He was the producer
His 'confessions'
South pacific
11. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Angel
Ethel merman
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
A stevedore
12. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Public enemy no. 13
New comedy
Catholic church
Agnes de mille
13. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Victor herbert
The student prince
14. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Ethel merman
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Leonard bernstein
Anti-hero
15. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Music director
The Sound of Music
Eliza Doolittle
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
16. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Radio city music hall
Girl crazy
Tragedy
George and ira gershwin
17. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Angel
Court nobility
He was the producer
Mimes
18. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
BC- before christ
Kurt Weill
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
19. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
Mama rose
Rebirth
Richard rodgers
20. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Jerome kern
New comedy
American politics
Libretto
21. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Ray bolger
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Oklahoma
22. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Yul Brenner
My fair lady
HMS pinafore
23. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Director
Carousel
Pants role or trousers role
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
24. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Patriotic
Irving Berlin
The doctor of alcantara
Victor herbert
25. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Libretto
Director
Moved indoors
26. Where they fly things on stage
The serenade and the fortune teller
Fly loft
Of thee i sing
Athens
27. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
No no nanette
Mercenary mary
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Timbuktu
28. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Lyricist
The music man
Georges balanchine
Entertainments
29. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
The doctor of alcantara
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
King Louis XIV
30. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Disappears
Billy bigelow
Cleverly concoted
Political satire
31. What team wrote the Sound of music
My Fair Lady
Rodgers and hammerstein
Choreographer
Ethel merman
32. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Leonard bernstein
Mary martin
33. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Comedy
No
Commedia dell-arte
Jerome robbins
34. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Jerome robbins
Playwright
4th and 5th centuries bce
Comic opera
35. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Slapsticks
Carousel
Carousel
Crazy for You
36. What was the setting for Kismet
Sally
Oklahoma
Libretto
Ancient baghdad
37. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
Victor herbert
Irene
Tragedy
38. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Lowering
Composer
Yul Brenner
Radio city music hall
39. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Slapsticks
Cleverly concoted
American dance music
Nine
40. Who is the composer for on the town
Cole porter
Radio city music hall
Burlesqued
Leonard bernstein
41. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
24
Official beginning of western theatre
Gertrude Lawrence
Brigadoon
42. Who is the composer for music man
Agnes de mille
Carousel
Kurt Weill
Meredith wilson
43. Annie Oakley is from What show
Leonard bernstein
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The merry widow
Annie get your gun
44. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Mary Martin
Carousel
Producer
Comic opera
45. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Conductor
46. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
State
Oklahoma
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Billy bigelow
47. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Victor herbert
Oil lamps
Carmen jones
James michener
48. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Before common era
Librettist
Lyricist
The merry widow
49. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Producer
Costume designer
Julie Andrews
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
50. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Agnes de Mille
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Gertrude lawrence
Jule Styne