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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 form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Music man
Guys and dolls
Commedia dell-arte
Ray Bolger
2. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Angel
3 to 5
Cole Porter
Disappears
3. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Cole porter
False it was stylized
Orchestration
Popular entertainments
4. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
No no nanette
He died in 1937
Playwright
5. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
George m. cohan
Comic opera had music and dialogue
HMS pinafore
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
6. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
George and Ira Gershwin
Oklahoma
Flutes - lyres
7. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Cole Porter
The doctor of alcantara
Lerner and Loewe
Kurt Weill
8. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Rex Harrison
Good news
The desert song
Mulligan guards routines
9. Who wrote the music for show boat
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Jerome kern
Nine
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
10. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Lerner and Loewe
Once upon a mattress
Romantic music
American politics
11. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Borrowed tunes
The Sound of Music
Gertrude lawrence
12. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Of thee i sing
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Bob Fosse
13. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
George and ira gershwin
Oscar hammerstein II
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
A stevedore
14. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Rodgers and hammerstein
South pacific
Harry tierney
The Sound of Music
15. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Singin in the rain
Julie Andrews
Official beginning of western theatre
Brigadoon
16. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Leonard bernstein
Gypsy
Robin hood
Oscar hammerstein
17. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Romantic
The king and I
Oklahoma
Mulligan guards routines
18. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
The music man
Michael Kidd
Cleverly concoted
False it was stylized
19. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Gene kelly
Kiss me - Kate
Gertrude Lawrence
Mary Martin
20. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Sally
Once upon a mattress
Athens
Crazy for You
21. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Permissiveness and crazes
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
The cotton blossom
Sally
22. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
Richard d'oyly carte
Rodgers and hammerstein
Kiss me - kate
23. Who picks the actors?
Guys and Dolls
Witty dialogue
Mimes
Director
24. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Mary martin
Mary Martin
Greeks
The merry widow
25. What show is- tea for two
Billy bigelow
No no nanette
Pants role or trousers role
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
26. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
The student prince
Entertainments
Patriotic
The metropolitan opera
27. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Libretto
Kiss me - Kate
Comedy
28. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Ancient baghdad
George gershwin
Voice type
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
29. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
The cotton blossom
Damn yankees
Burlesqued
30. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
George gershwin
Pants role or trousers role
Comedy
The king and I
31. Who writes the words to the songs?
Crazy for you
State
Lyricist
Romantic
32. Commedia performers used...
Witty dialogue
Slapsticks
Good news
Leonard Bernstein
33. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
The music man
On your toes
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
My Fair Lady
34. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Slapsticks
Director
35. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Harrigan and hart
Ethel merman
Choreographer
Tragedy
36. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Timbuktu
American dance music
Rodgers and Hart
Permissiveness and crazes
37. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Jerome kern
Greeks
Rebirth
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
38. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Annie get your gun
South pacific
East Side Story
New comedy
39. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Aristotle
Pal Joey
Billy bigelow
40. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
Same person
Annie get your gun
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
41. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
Permissiveness and crazes
Oh Kay
Changing masks and costumes
42. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
Nine
Threepenny opera
Of thee i sing
43. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
No
Agnes de Mille
St. Augustine
His 'confessions'
44. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Oscar hammerstein II
24
Leonard bernstein
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
45. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Producer
Ethel merman
James michener
Swing
46. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Leonard bernstein
Yul Brenner
Costume designer
American dance music
47. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Pants role or trousers role
Jerome kern
Mulligan guards routines
The belle of new york
48. What was the continental
Mary Martin
Comedy
Popular dance
Agnes de Mille
49. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
George and ira gershwin
Kiss me - kate
The pajama game
New comedy
50. where did performers go
Took to the streets and traveled -
Mimes
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Frank Loesser