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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
The king and i
West side story
Music man
Choreographer
2. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Gypsy
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Pants role or trousers role
Catholic church
3. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
South pacific
Gypsy
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The doctor of alcantara
4. What comic duo was the show centered around
The Threepenny Opera
Bert williams and george walker
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Patriotic
5. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
The belle of new york
Intense training
Once upon a mattress
6. G: How many lead actors were there?
Librettist
Aristotle
3 to 5
My fair lady
7. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Satyr plays
The serenade and the fortune teller
Political satire
Oh Kay
8. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
John Gay
The merry widow
Middle ages
Lyricist
9. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Masks and costumes
Public enemy no. 13
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
St. Augustine
10. Greek: 534 BCE
Kiss me - kate
HMS pinafore
Official beginning of western theatre
Leonard bernstein
11. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Took to the streets and traveled -
Someone to watch over me
Same person
My fair lady
12. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Billy bigelow
Parodied
Irving Berlin
Betty comden and adolph green
13. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
King Louis XIV
Took to the streets and traveled -
Producer
The king and i
14. What is Bali H'ai from
Mama rose
South pacific
Entertainments
Choreographer
15. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
BC
HMS pinafore
Mimes
Producer
16. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Before common era
Entertainments
Kurt Weill
Entertainments
17. Who composed the music for Irene
Thespis
Popular dance
Rodgers and hammerstein
Harry tierney
18. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Carol Channing
Sally
Oil lamps
Victor herbert
19. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Tragedies
Rex Harrison
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
20. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Victor herbert
Disappears
Enzio pinza
Libretto
21. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
If i loved you
Richard rodgers
Composer
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
22. Who is the composer for music man
Kurt Weill
Ray bolger
Crazy for You
Meredith wilson
23. Who writes the words to the songs?
Oklahoma
BC- before christ
Gertrude lawrence
Lyricist
24. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Gertrude lawrence
On your toes and babes in arms
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Kiss me - kate
25. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Slapsticks
A trip to chinatown
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Jule Styne
26. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Aristotle
Bert williams and george walker
Can-can
The king and I
27. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
False it was stylized
Oil lamps
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Greeks
28. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
South pacific
Fly loft
Professional perfomers
The mikado
29. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Julie Andrews
John Hollingshead
Gwen verdon
A trip to chinatown
30. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Leonard bernstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Political satire
31. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
George and Ira Gershwin
He died in 1937
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Gypsy
32. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Timbuktu
Carousel
BC- before christ
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
33. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Babes in arms
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Annie get your gun
St. Augustine
34. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Jerome kern
Agnes de mille
Stand by
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Professional perfomers
Brigadoon
Oklahoma
George and Ira Gershwin
36. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
New comedy
The romantic musicals
Richard d'oyly carte
37. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
George gershwin
He died in 1937
The Sound of Music
Romantic
38. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
No no nanette
The romantic musicals
George m. cohan
Mulligan guards routines
39. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
The book
Commedia dell-arte
Orchestration
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
40. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Michael Kidd
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
John Hollingshead
41. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Leonard bernstein
Director
Swing
No no nanette
42. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Yul Brenner
King Louis XIV
James michener
43. Who made in dahomey unique
A stevedore
The music man
Timbuktu
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
44. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Girl crazy
On your toes and babes in arms
The pajama game
Leonard bernstein
45. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Greeks
The Sound of Music
Victor herbert
The savoy operas
46. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Witty dialogue
The new moon
Adonis
Damn yankees
47. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Cleverly concoted
Oscar hammerstein II
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
48. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Cole porter
Damn yankees
Carousel
49. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Kismet
The belle of new york
South pacific
Enzio pinza
50. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
The belle of new york
George gershwin
The savoy operas
No