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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 show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Babes in arms
Middle ages
Oscar hammerstein II
Angel
2. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
St. Augustine
Comedies
South pacific
Lowering
3. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Agnes de mille
Victor herbert
Ethel merman
4. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
George gershwin
5. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Slapsticks
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Gestures and poses
The music man
6. What show is -i got rhythm
Pageant wagons and mansions
Evangeline
Girl crazy
No
7. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
On your toes and babes in arms
Threepenny opera
Kiss me - kate
8. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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9. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Rex Harrison
Intense training
10. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
American dance music
24
Babes in arms
Official beginning of western theatre
11. ____________ presents men better than they are...
The marx brothers
Guys and dolls
Tragedy
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
12. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
My fair lady
Robin hood
Director
Witty dialogue
13. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Oklahoma
Playwright
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Of thee i sing
14. Who is the composer of Candide
Annie get your gun
Candide
Of thee i sing
Leonard bernstein
15. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
My fair lady
Gypsy
Jerome robbins
16. What show is -the continental
On the town
Mercenary mary
None all men
Spectacle
17. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Tragedies
Ethel merman
On the town
John Gay
18. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Catholic church
Kiss me - Kate
Lerner and Loewe
Gestures and poses
19. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Swing
West side story
Timbuktu
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
20. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Of thee i sing
Babes in arms
Irving Berlin
Once upon a mattress
21. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Ethel merman
George and ira gershwin
Georges balanchine
George gershwin
22. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Playwright
My fair lady
Nine
A stevedore
23. G: What does BCE mean?
Anti-hero
Before common era
Stand by
Aristotle
24. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
My Fair Lady
Gene kelly
BC
The merry widow
25. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Orchestration
The book
Threepenny opera
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
26. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Mary martin
American dance music
Music director
Director
27. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Political satire
If i loved you
Orchestration
Comedies
28. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Damn yankees
Eliza Doolittle
The king and i
Jerome kern
29. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Producer
Burlesqued
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
American politics
30. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
George m. cohan
The shows they came from
Gertrude lawrence
Popular entertainments and comic opera
31. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Official beginning of western theatre
Satyr plays
Public enemy no. 13
32. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
Nine
Candide
Athens
33. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Pageant wagons and mansions
West side story
Ray Bolger
James michener
34. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Good news
Guys and dolls
George gershwin
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
35. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
24
Same person
Victor herbert
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
36. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
Agnes de Mille
Leonard Bernstein
Permissiveness and crazes
37. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
A trip to chinatown
South pacific
Damn yankees
Mary martin
38. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Popular entertainments
A trip to chinatown
Music man
Agnes de mille
39. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
On your toes
Meredith wilson
He was the producer
Damn yankees
40. What show is i want to be happy
Jerome kern
Libretto
No no nanette
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
41. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Ballet and modern dance
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Sally
42. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Victor herbert
Once upon a mattress
Victor herbert
The book uncle toms cabin
43. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
I got rhythm
Harrigan and hart
On your toes
44. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Timbuktu
Someone to watch over me
Oscar hammerstein II
The belle of new york
45. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Someone to watch over me
Oscar hammerstein
Music man
Took to the streets and traveled -
46. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Robin hood
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
My fair lady
Moliere
47. Who is the composer of the music man
The shows they came from
Agnes de Mille
Meredith wilson
Richard rodgers
48. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Comic opera
Romantic music
Adonis
Ballet and modern dance
49. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
On your toes
Middle ages
George and Ira Gershwin
Popular entertainments
50. What show is the song bewitched from
The Threepenny Opera
Harry tierney
Pal Joey
Producer