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Musical Theatre
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1. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
BC
Mulligan guards routines
Timbuktu
Political satire
2. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Bernstein and Sondheim
Same person
Anti-hero
3. Laurie's dream ballet
Leonard Bernstein
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Lerner and Loewe
Oklahoma
4. What is another name for the book and lyrics
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Libretto
John Gay
George gershwin
5. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Oklahoma
West side story
John Hollingshead
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
6. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Leonard bernstein
No no nanette
Oscar hammerstein
7. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Pal Joey
Betty comden and adolph green
Kurt Weill
Mama rose
8. What was a 'claquer?'
BC
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Timbuktu
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
9. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Gertrude Lawrence
Mercenary mary
Kismet
Lyricist
10. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Pants role or trousers role
I got rhythm
Anti-hero
Costume designer
11. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
South pacific
Romantic music
Julie Andrews
12. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
The Sound of Music
Satyr plays
The Threepenny opera
Rebirth
13. where did performers go
False it was stylized
Political satire
I got rhythm
Took to the streets and traveled -
14. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Kiss me - kate
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Oil lamps
No no nanette
15. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Betty comden and adolph green
Nine
Mercenary mary
Mulligan guards routines
16. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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17. Lotte Lenya is from What show
The Threepenny Opera
Mulligan guards routines
Romantic
West side story
18. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Popular entertainments and comic opera
West side story
The shows they came from
Tearly Roman empire
19. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Ethel merman
Gene kelly
Mercenary mary
South pacific
20. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Anti-hero
Comedy
Mary martin
21. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Pal Joey
Pageant wagons and mansions
The music man
Horace
22. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Tearly Roman empire
Damn yankees
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
23. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Court nobility
The Threepenny Opera
Tragedies
Radio city music hall
24. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
John Gay
Betty comden and adolph green
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Jule Styne
25. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Music man
Guys and dolls
Producer
Bob Fosse
26. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Horace
George and Ira Gershwin
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Deus ex machina
27. What instruments accompanied the dancing
The shows they came from
Restoration
Flutes - lyres
Popular dance
28. Where they fly things on stage
Before common era
Fly loft
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
St. Augustine
29. G: How many lead actors were there?
Kiss me - Kate
Official beginning of western theatre
3 to 5
Once upon a mattress
30. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Good news
Comedy
My fair lady
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
31. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
Jerome Robbins
Same person
The merry widow
Oklahoma
32. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Once upon a mattress
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Gypsy
Brigadoon
33. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Harrigan and hart
Ballet and modern dance
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Bernstein and Sondheim
34. Who wrote the music for show boat
Orchestration
George and Ira Gershwin
Jerome kern
Took to the streets and traveled -
35. 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
Playwright
Popular dance
The romantic musicals
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
36. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Director
The student prince
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
37. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Director
The desert song
Julie Andrews
Annie get your gun
38. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
American politics
Ray Bolger
My fair lady
Julie Andrews
39. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
On the town
Billy bigelow
Athens
Plato
40. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
The desert song
Lowering
Director
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
41. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Can-can
Betty comden and adolph green
City dionysia
42. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Cleverly concoted
Parodied
Public enemy no. 13
43. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Leonard bernstein
Music director
Someone to watch over me
Pants role or trousers role
44. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Oklahoma
Court nobility
Rebirth
Commedia dell-arte
45. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Playwright
HMS pinafore
Thespis
Babes in arms
46. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
South pacific
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Producer
Athens
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Adonis
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
BC- before christ
John Hollingshead
48. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
4th and 5th centuries bce
Gertrude lawrence
I got rhythm
Stephen Sondheim
49. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
Yul Brenner
Rose marie
Georges balanchine
50. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
The book
Took to the streets and traveled -
Agnes de mille
George m. cohan
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