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Musical Theatre
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1. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
The savoy operas
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Entertainments
Ethel merman
2. 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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3. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Gypsy
Jerome robbins
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
West side story
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
On the town
George and Ira Gershwin
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Kiss me - kate
5. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Rodgers and hammerstein
Mimes
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Oscar hammerstein
6. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Horace
Richard d'oyly carte
Stand by
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
7. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Of thee i sing
Julie Andrews
He was the producer
Swing
8. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Once upon a mattress
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Rex Harrison
Ancient baghdad
9. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Meredith wilson
American politics
10. Who writes the words to the songs?
Carmen jones
Lyricist
Female roles
Mimes
11. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
A contrived ending
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
George gershwin
4th and 5th centuries bce
12. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Professional perfomers
Mercenary mary
Masks and costumes
Lerner and Loewe
13. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
If i loved you
Adonis
Tragedies
None all men
14. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
My Fair Lady
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Parodied
Harry tierney
15. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Carousel
A trip to chinatown
Aristotle
Georges balanchine
16. What characters are in show boat
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17. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
The Threepenny opera
The new moon
If i loved you
Gypsy
18. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
He died in 1937
Bob Fosse
Moved indoors
19. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Ray Bolger
Romantic
Jerome kern
Catholic church
20. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Marilyn Miller
Meredith wilson
My fair lady
21. G: How many lead actors were there?
Kiss me - Kate
3 to 5
Jerome kern
Once upon a mattress
22. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Lerner and Loewe
My fair lady
Timbuktu
Pageant wagons and mansions
23. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
The king and I
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Julie Andrews
Eliza Doolittle
24. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Gertrude lawrence
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Cleverly concoted
A trip to chinatown
25. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Middle ages
Popular entertainments and comic opera
The Threepenny Opera
26. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Mimes
Libretto
South pacific
Annie get your gun
27. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
The serenade and the fortune teller
Mary rodgers
His 'confessions'
28. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
False it was stylized
Oklahoma
Stephen Sondheim
Gertrude Lawrence
29. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Public enemy no. 13
On the town
Set designer
Victor herbert
30. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Gertrude Lawrence
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
31. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Playwright
Gestures and poses
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
32. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
West side story
Of thee i sing
Pageant wagons and mansions
Patriotic
33. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
The student prince
Gwen verdon
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Angel
34. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Crazy for you
Director
Gwen verdon
Oklahoma
35. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Crazy for You
Of thee i sing
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Julie Andrews
36. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Commedia dell-arte
Disappears
My Fair Lady
Masks and costumes
37. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Jule Styne
Conductor
Political satire
Bernstein and Sondheim
38. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
Guys and dolls
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Of thee i sing
39. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
The book
Witty dialogue
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The king and i
40. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Horace
Ethel merman
3 to 5
41. What characters are in show boat
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42. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Good news
Athens
Deus ex machina
43. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
Singin in the rain
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
His 'confessions'
44. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
My fair lady
Candide
King Louis XIV
South pacific
45. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Gwen verdon
Leonard Bernstein
The king and i
Harry tierney
46. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Catholic church
The cotton blossom
Betty comden and adolph green
Adonis
47. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Sally
Producer
The metropolitan opera
Ethel merman
48. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Stephen sondheim
I got rhythm
Anything goes
Masks and costumes
49. Where they fly things on stage
Agnes de mille
Fly loft
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Adonis
50. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Director
No
Of thee i sing
Bernstein and Sondheim
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