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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
A stevedore
Comedy
Director
2. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Once upon a mattress
Disappears
Of thee i sing
Ray bolger
3. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
False it was stylized
His 'confessions'
Agnes de mille
On the town
4. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Radio city music hall
Richard rodgers
Rebirth
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
5. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
The king and i
George m. cohan
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Gwen verdon
6. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
John Hollingshead
A trip to chinatown
Director
Moved indoors
7. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
Mary martin
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Billy bigelow
8. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Billy bigelow
Agnes de Mille
Director
Jerome kern
9. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
George m. cohan
Lowering
Mercenary mary
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
10. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Kiss me - kate
Playwright
Flutes - lyres
Oscar hammerstein II
11. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Oh Kay
Parodied
Cole Porter
The Sound of Music
12. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Ray bolger
Ethel merman
The Sound of Music
Permissiveness and crazes
13. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
West side story
Restoration
Kiss me - kate
Meredith wilson
14. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Music director
Borrowed tunes
Permissiveness and crazes
My fair lady
15. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Jule Styne
George m. cohan
Tragedy
Carousel
16. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Producer
Lerner and Loewe
Romantic music
Orchestration
17. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Evangeline
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
My fair lady
Irving Berlin
18. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
The king and I
Rebirth
Oklahoma
Damn yankees
19. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The new moon
20. What show is 'broadway melody' from
The serenade and the fortune teller
Singin in the rain
Agnes de mille
Leonard Bernstein
21. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
Ethel merman
Oil lamps
The romantic musicals
22. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Kismet
Anti-hero
Victor herbert
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
23. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Music man
The book uncle toms cabin
Singin in the rain
Irene
24. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Guys and Dolls
25. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Mercenary mary
Crazy for You
Producer
Entertainments
26. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Slapsticks
American dance music
Parodied
27. What show is the song bewitched from
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Pal Joey
The book
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
28. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
John Gay
Bernstein and Sondheim
Singin in the rain
29. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
The Sound of Music
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Irving Berlin
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
30. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
None all men
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Gestures and poses
Damn yankees
31. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Changing masks and costumes
Damn yankees
A stevedore
Parodied
32. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Kiss me - Kate
South pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Catholic church
33. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Candide
Gypsy
Guys and dolls
The doctor of alcantara
34. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Fly loft
Mama rose
Oklahoma
35. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
The music man
Angel
Lowering
Female roles
36. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Set designer
The king and I
Mercenary mary
Leonard bernstein
37. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Agnes de mille
West side story
Mama rose
Music man
38. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Damn yankees
Comic opera
Billy bigelow
Comedies
39. Laurie's dream ballet
Carol Channing
The cotton blossom
The merry widow
Oklahoma
40. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Good news
Ray Bolger
The serenade and the fortune teller
Composer
41. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
George m. cohan
Gypsy
Annie get your gun
Director
42. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Can-can
Guys and dolls
The merry widow
Anything goes
43. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Oh Kay
Tearly Roman empire
South pacific
Agnes de mille
44. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
He died in 1937
45. Greek: 534 BCE
Once upon a mattress
No no nanette
Official beginning of western theatre
American dance music
46. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Of thee i sing
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Public enemy no. 13
South pacific
47. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Jerome Robbins
George m. cohan
Commedia dell-arte
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
48. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Cleverly concoted
Victor herbert
The Threepenny Opera
Carol Channing
49. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
The romantic musicals
Gertrude Lawrence
Playwright
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
50. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
The student prince
Oh Kay
Gestures and poses
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney