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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Bloody Mary is from What show
A contrived ending
The Sound of Music
South pacific
Georges balanchine
2. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Marilyn Miller
A stevedore
Horace
George and Ira Gershwin
3. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The king and i
Greeks
George gershwin
The student prince
4. Who picks the actors?
Rodgers and Hart
Director
The new moon
The serenade and the fortune teller
5. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Professional perfomers
The Threepenny Opera
6. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Singin in the rain
Someone to watch over me
Frank Loesser
Victor herbert
7. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
John Hollingshead
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Brigadoon
Cole Porter
8. G: Greek actors had...
George and ira gershwin
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Intense training
Gwen verdon
9. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
False it was stylized
Victor herbert
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
10. What characters are in show boat
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11. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
South pacific
Gypsy
I got rhythm
Kiss me - kate
12. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Candide
Anything goes
Cole Porter
Threepenny opera
13. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
South pacific
Agnes de mille
The student prince
George m. cohan
14. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Jerome robbins
Parodied
Georges balanchine
Commedia dell-arte
15. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
The music man
West side story
Orchestration
Michael Kidd
16. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Mary rodgers
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
George m. cohan
Mary Martin
17. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Good news
Cole Porter
Kiss me - kate
Satyr plays
18. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Of thee i sing
Oscar hammerstein
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Leonard bernstein
19. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Aristotle
Girl crazy
Angel
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
20. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
Rose marie
Romantic music
Lyricist
21. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Bob Fosse
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Radio city music hall
Comic opera had music and dialogue
22. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
A trip to chinatown
A contrived ending
Playwright
Oil lamps
23. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?
None all men
Flutes - lyres
BC
Damn yankees
24. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Director
George and ira gershwin
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Guys and Dolls
25. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Librettist
Mercenary mary
Gwen verdon
Candide
26. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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27. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Tearly Roman empire
Gypsy
Director
A stevedore
28. What is a 'pasticcio' score
South pacific
Borrowed tunes
Carmen jones
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
29. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
American dance music
Ethel merman
Plato
Composer
30. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Flutes - lyres
Cleverly concoted
South pacific
The metropolitan opera
31. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
The music man
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Restoration
Playwright
32. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
American politics
George m. cohan
Producer
Political satire
33. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
St. Augustine
Crazy for You
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Moliere
34. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
If i loved you
Jerome kern
Playwright
False it was stylized
35. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
If i loved you
Can-can
West side story
Pageant wagons and mansions
36. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
If i loved you
Producer
South pacific
Oil lamps
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Richard d'oyly carte
Ballet and modern dance
38. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Bert williams and george walker
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Kismet
New comedy
39. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Catholic church
Julie Andrews
Victor herbert
40. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
The serenade and the fortune teller
The romantic musicals
Crazy for You
Candide
41. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Director
42. G: What does BCE mean?
Of thee i sing
Sally
Before common era
Female roles
43. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Libretto
Leonard bernstein
44. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The shows they came from
My fair lady
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
45. Commedia performers used...
The serenade and the fortune teller
Slapsticks
The Threepenny Opera
Once upon a mattress
46. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Julie Andrews
He was the producer
The cotton blossom
George gershwin
47. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Stephen Sondheim
Adonis
Victor herbert
48. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Meredith wilson
Flutes - lyres
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Cole Porter
49. Who composed the music for Irene
Choreographer
Annie get your gun
Oh Kay
Harry tierney
50. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Leonard bernstein
Brigadoon
Composer
Producer