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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
Lerner and Loewe
Comic opera
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
2. Who composed the music for Irene
Oil lamps
Harry tierney
No
My fair lady
3. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Bert williams and george walker
Romantic
None all men
Catholic church
4. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Librettist
Mercenary mary
Cole porter
West side story
5. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
A contrived ending
I got rhythm
Richard d'oyly carte
Official beginning of western theatre
6. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Yul Brenner
3 to 5
Robin hood
George and ira gershwin
7. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Kiss me - kate
The student prince
Playwright
Popular dance
8. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Mercenary mary
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
9. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
West side story
Lerner and Loewe
Comedy
American politics
10. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Parodied
Director
Ballet and modern dance
Costume designer
11. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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12. What is Bali H'ai from
Robin hood
Comedies
South pacific
Lerner and Loewe
13. Bloody Mary is from What show
South pacific
Gwen verdon
The mikado
The shows they came from
14. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
American dance music
Tearly Roman empire
Lowering
My Fair Lady
15. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Billy bigelow
Victor herbert
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Gestures and poses
16. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Producer
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Agnes de Mille
Irene
17. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Radio city music hall
West side story
Popular dance
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
18. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
No no nanette
Mary martin
South pacific
King Louis XIV
19. Who made in dahomey unique
Oscar hammerstein
BC- before christ
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
20. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Cleverly concoted
Producer
I got rhythm
Athens
21. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Catholic church
Agnes de Mille
George gershwin
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
22. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Jerome kern
Candide
BC
Harrigan and hart
23. Who is the composer of Candide
Annie get your gun
American politics
Of thee i sing
Leonard bernstein
24. Mama rose is from What show
Mama rose
Angel
Gypsy
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
25. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Betty comden and adolph green
Once upon a mattress
Oil lamps
Julie Andrews
26. Who is the star of Sally
Damn yankees
Marilyn Miller
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
False it was stylized
27. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Jerome Robbins
Gypsy
Playwright
BC- before christ
28. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The belle of new york
City dionysia
29. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
City dionysia
Damn yankees
Gypsy
Eliza Doolittle
30. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Oklahoma
Slapsticks
Bernstein and Sondheim
31. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
The savoy operas
Cole porter
Set designer
Brigadoon
32. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Of thee i sing
The Sound of Music
Satyr plays
Witty dialogue
33. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Jerome Robbins
War
Nine
34. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Swing
Disappears
False- it was considred a romantic musical
35. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Orchestration
Director
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Adonis
36. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
False it was stylized
West side story
Guys and Dolls
Yul Brenner
37. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
Oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Jerome robbins
38. __________ presents men worse than they are...
George and Ira Gershwin
Mulligan guards routines
Comedy
Gypsy
39. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The pajama game
Leonard bernstein
Librettist
40. Who wrote the music for show boat
The book
Jerome kern
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
New comedy
41. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Moliere
42. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
George m. cohan
Irving Berlin
43. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
West side story
Producer
Kiss me - Kate
The king and I
44. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Deus ex machina
Kurt Weill
Director
Julie Andrews
45. Thespis ________ greek mythology
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Burlesqued
False it was stylized
46. 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?
East Side Story
Producer
Guys and dolls
Lyricist
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Radio city music hall
4th and 5th centuries bce
George and Ira Gershwin
Julie Andrews
48. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
The romantic musicals
Ethel merman
Pageant wagons and mansions
Catholic church
49. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Commedia dell-arte
Oklahoma
Damn yankees
Richard rodgers
50. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Carousel
Composer
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Rebirth