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Musical Theatre
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1. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
No no nanette
Oscar hammerstein
The merry widow
Cole porter
2. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
If i loved you
The book uncle toms cabin
Moved indoors
Producer
3. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Playwright
Rodgers and hammerstein
Gypsy
Jerome Robbins
4. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
The desert song
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Producer
Harry tierney
5. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
George m. cohan
Orchestration
Of thee i sing
6. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Angel
The Threepenny opera
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Mary rodgers
7. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
George m. cohan
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
George m. cohan
8. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Tragedy
The king and i
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Commedia dell-arte
9. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Oklahoma
Commedia dell-arte
10. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Romantic
The belle of new york
Bert williams and george walker
George and ira gershwin
11. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Horace
Damn yankees
Oklahoma
Mulligan guards routines
12. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Radio city music hall
George and Ira Gershwin
Singin in the rain
Oh Kay
14. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Of thee i sing
Anti-hero
King Louis XIV
15. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
No no nanette
Anti-hero
Jerome kern
Irene
16. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Playwright
Cole porter
Meredith wilson
17. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Carol Channing
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Middle ages
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
18. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Satyr plays
Nine
Music man
3 to 5
19. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
Ray Bolger
Pants role or trousers role
Mercenary mary
20. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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21. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Cole porter
George and Ira Gershwin
22. Pal Joey was written by...
The Threepenny opera
Michael Kidd
Rodgers and Hart
Commedia dell-arte
23. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Gypsy
Mary Martin
The mikado
Kiss me - Kate
24. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Director
The doctor of alcantara
Julie Andrews
My fair lady
25. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Oklahoma
Ray bolger
Kiss me - Kate
26. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Stephen sondheim
Lyricist
Cole Porter
St. Augustine
27. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Leonard Bernstein
New comedy
Librettist
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
28. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Lyricist
James michener
Ethel merman
Anything goes
29. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Harrigan and hart
The merry widow
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Gene kelly
30. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Romantic music
Marilyn Miller
The metropolitan opera
West side story
31. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
The Sound of Music
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Popular dance
South pacific
32. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Agnes de mille
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Lerner and Loewe
33. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Thespis
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Yul Brenner
Changing masks and costumes
34. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Angel
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The student prince
Marilyn Miller
35. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Court nobility
The Sound of Music
Deus ex machina
24
36. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Bob Fosse
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Oklahoma
37. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Jule Styne
Brigadoon
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
38. What was the original name of West Side Story
Political satire
East Side Story
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
He died in 1937
39. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Gypsy
George and ira gershwin
Can-can
Director
40. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Anything goes
Spectacle
Tragedy
Romantic music
41. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Agnes de Mille
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Julie Andrews
42. What show is i want to be happy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
No no nanette
On the town
43. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
Anything goes
The merry widow
Commedia dell-arte
44. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
John Hollingshead
Intense training
No no nanette
Kurt Weill
45. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
BC- before christ
Annie get your gun
Horace
Comic opera
46. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
False- it was considred a romantic musical
HMS pinafore
No
Bob Fosse
47. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
Mercenary mary
South pacific
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
48. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Spectacle
Patriotic
Entertainments
Music man
49. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
No
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The shows they came from
Timbuktu
50. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
On your toes
Sally
Orchestration
Satyr plays
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