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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Set designer
George gershwin
Enzio pinza
Oil lamps
2. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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3. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Composer
Fly loft
The doctor of alcantara
4. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Kismet
The book
Playwright
George and ira gershwin
5. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Meredith wilson
West side story
Leonard Bernstein
Comic opera had music and dialogue
6. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Rose marie
Damn yankees
War
The king and i
7. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
3 to 5
Jerome kern
Michael Kidd
Slapsticks
8. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Jerome robbins
The student prince
Director
Mimes
9. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Can-can
Gertrude Lawrence
Gypsy
Comedies
10. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Oh Kay
South pacific
Producer
Jerome kern
11. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Mary Martin
No no nanette
Playwright
Leonard bernstein
12. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Producer
Evangeline
Mama rose
13. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Music director
Someone to watch over me
Borrowed tunes
Aristotle
14. Who hires the creative team for a production?
War
Robin hood
Victor herbert
Producer
15. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Yul Brenner
Jerome robbins
Changing masks and costumes
Betty comden and adolph green
16. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
South pacific
The king and i
Ray bolger
Can-can
17. G: What does BCE mean?
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
American politics
Before common era
New comedy
18. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Betty comden and adolph green
Brigadoon
Jule Styne
19. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
Cole porter
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Rodgers and hammerstein
20. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
None all men
Carmen jones
Disappears
Richard rodgers
21. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Entertainments
Horace
American dance music
Julie Andrews
22. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Agnes de mille
New comedy
Restoration
Ray Bolger
23. Who made in dahomey unique
Kiss me - kate
George gershwin
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Agnes de mille
24. G: How many lead actors were there?
3 to 5
Irving Berlin
George and Ira Gershwin
The music man
25. Who stages the dances?
Bernstein and Sondheim
Choreographer
Tearly Roman empire
Middle ages
26. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Gypsy
The king and i
The mikado
Guys and dolls
27. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Julie Andrews
Orchestration
False it was stylized
Stand by
28. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Gene kelly
Music man
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
29. Who writes the words to the songs?
Pageant wagons and mansions
Lyricist
Meredith wilson
George gershwin
30. Who is the composer for on the town
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Leonard bernstein
No no nanette
The student prince
31. G: What does BCE mean?
Mary martin
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Before common era
John Hollingshead
32. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Agnes de mille
Frank Loesser
The savoy operas
Comedies
33. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Stephen sondheim
Masks and costumes
Kiss me - kate
The pajama game
34. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Playwright
Stephen Sondheim
Crazy for You
A stevedore
35. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Rex Harrison
Ancient baghdad
Lyricist
South pacific
36. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Rex Harrison
Deus ex machina
Agnes de mille
Meredith wilson
37. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Rodgers and Hart
The savoy operas
My fair lady
King Louis XIV
38. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Restoration
Timbuktu
On the town
Anti-hero
39. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
The serenade and the fortune teller
Threepenny opera
Horace
40. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
The music man
The merry widow
Singin in the rain
My fair lady
41. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Victor herbert
Music man
Kurt Weill
The king and i
42. What was the original name of West Side Story
Conductor
The king and i
East Side Story
Brigadoon
43. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
New comedy
Catholic church
44. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Crazy for you
Athens
Bernstein and Sondheim
Borrowed tunes
45. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Comedy
The king and I
Rex Harrison
Librettist
46. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Nine
Mercenary mary
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Masks and costumes
47. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On the town
Adonis
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Tragedies
48. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
West side story
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Stephen Sondheim
Aristotle
49. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
If i loved you
The Sound of Music
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Harry tierney
50. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
BC
Victor herbert
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Frank Loesser