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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. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Swing
Composer
Damn yankees
City dionysia
2. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Parodied
Brigadoon
Thespis
He died in 1937
3. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Richard d'oyly carte
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Disappears
Bob Fosse
4. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
George gershwin
Director
South pacific
Mulligan guards routines
5. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
Of thee i sing
3 to 5
None all men
6. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
He was the producer
The book
Deus ex machina
No no nanette
7. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
South pacific
Lowering
Professional perfomers
8. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Timbuktu
Greeks
Athens
4th and 5th centuries bce
9. Who stages the dances?
Official beginning of western theatre
The king and I
Oscar hammerstein
Choreographer
10. What is Bali H'ai from
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
False it was stylized
South pacific
Official beginning of western theatre
11. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
New comedy
Damn yankees
Flutes - lyres
Comic opera
12. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Babes in arms
Swing
Gypsy
13. Where they fly things on stage
The metropolitan opera
Masks and costumes
Fly loft
The book
14. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Sally
Producer
Mulligan guards routines
Gwen verdon
15. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
The king and i
Meredith wilson
Greeks
George and Ira Gershwin
16. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Rose marie
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
My fair lady
The cotton blossom
17. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Gypsy
Gertrude lawrence
Comic opera
18. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
City dionysia
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
The Sound of Music
19. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
Of thee i sing
Rodgers and hammerstein
Anti-hero
20. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Comedy
False it was stylized
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Sally
21. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Popular entertainments
Irving Berlin
Tragedies
The marx brothers
22. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Commedia dell-arte
On your toes and babes in arms
The music man
Babes in arms
23. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Witty dialogue
King Louis XIV
Guys and Dolls
On your toes and babes in arms
24. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Angel
Pants role or trousers role
Comedy
No
25. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Orchestration
Irving Berlin
Georges balanchine
Meredith wilson
26. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
A trip to chinatown
Irene
Ray Bolger
Leonard bernstein
27. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
George and Ira Gershwin
Gertrude Lawrence
East Side Story
Romantic music
28. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Carol Channing
The mikado
Oil lamps
War
29. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Conductor
Permissiveness and crazes
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Comedy
30. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Evangeline
Comic opera
Angel
Stephen Sondheim
31. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Yul Brenner
The new moon
Greeks
Popular dance
32. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Leonard bernstein
Michael Kidd
Irving Berlin
Orchestration
33. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Victor herbert
Moved indoors
Agnes de Mille
My fair lady
34. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Fly loft
Permissiveness and crazes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Commedia dell-arte
35. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Of thee i sing
Cleverly concoted
George gershwin
His 'confessions'
36. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Oklahoma
Director
Ray bolger
Tearly Roman empire
37. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
Before common era
Jerome kern
Brigadoon
38. What was the continental
Popular dance
Of thee i sing
Composer
Lowering
39. G: What is BCE same as
Composer
BC- before christ
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
40. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Official beginning of western theatre
The shows they came from
Mama rose
Julie Andrews
41. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Oscar hammerstein II
Carousel
Pageant wagons and mansions
Spectacle
42. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
The book uncle toms cabin
He died in 1937
Victor herbert
My Fair Lady
43. G: How many lead actors were there?
Disappears
3 to 5
Professional perfomers
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
44. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Carmen jones
Sally
Oh Kay
45. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Oh Kay
The serenade and the fortune teller
No
Mary Martin
46. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Borrowed tunes
Pal Joey
Georges balanchine
Kurt Weill
47. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Tearly Roman empire
Horace
Choreographer
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
48. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
I got rhythm
Jule Styne
49. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Athens
Witty dialogue
Oscar hammerstein II
King Louis XIV
50. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Popular entertainments
Leonard Bernstein
Catholic church