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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Moliere
Ethel merman
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Pants role or trousers role
2. Who is the composer of the King and I
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Richard rodgers
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Stephen sondheim
3. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Before common era
Nine
4. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Brigadoon
Tragedies
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
5. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Can-can
Carousel
Patriotic
Borrowed tunes
6. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Slapsticks
Irving Berlin
Victor herbert
The king and i
7. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Restoration
None all men
The pajama game
The mikado
8. G: How many lead actors were there?
Plato
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Professional perfomers
3 to 5
9. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
American politics
Leonard bernstein
Victor herbert
10. Who is the composer for on the town
The merry widow
Leonard bernstein
The Threepenny Opera
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
11. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Conductor
On your toes and babes in arms
The king and I
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
12. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Annie get your gun
My fair lady
Gwen verdon
Rodgers and hammerstein
13. Who is the composer for music man
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
Meredith wilson
Gwen verdon
14. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Eliza Doolittle
Irene
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Timbuktu
15. What does 'renaissance' mean
The doctor of alcantara
Rebirth
George m. cohan
Mimes
16. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Composer
Kiss me - kate
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
False it was stylized
17. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Anti-hero
The Sound of Music
Burlesqued
False- it was considred a romantic musical
18. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Ethel merman
Orchestration
Flutes - lyres
The merry widow
19. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Aristotle
West side story
Frank Loesser
Angel
20. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Popular entertainments
Agnes de mille
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Disappears
21. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Betty comden and adolph green
Political satire
Lerner and Loewe
George gershwin
22. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
The belle of new york
Ethel merman
The pajama game
No
23. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
HMS pinafore
Mimes
24
24. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
Crazy for You
Romantic music
George m. cohan
25. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Witty dialogue
Stand by
Tragedies
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
26. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Gwen verdon
Greeks
South pacific
He was the producer
27. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
St. Augustine
The new moon
Ray Bolger
Comic opera had music and dialogue
28. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Gertrude Lawrence
Jule Styne
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
29. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
I got rhythm
Official beginning of western theatre
James michener
Director
30. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
False it was stylized
The merry widow
Moved indoors
South pacific
31. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Brigadoon
Greeks
He died in 1937
George gershwin
32. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Cole porter
Anti-hero
Music director
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
33. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
The king and I
Kismet
Good news
Director
34. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Playwright
Guys and dolls
Flutes - lyres
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
35. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Mercenary mary
Orchestration
Patriotic
South pacific
36. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
On the town
Can-can
The shows they came from
Yul Brenner
37. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Ethel merman
Changing masks and costumes
38. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Cole porter
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Jerome Robbins
Costume designer
39. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Restoration
Gypsy
The Threepenny Opera
Voice type
40. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
State
Masks and costumes
State
41. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Cole porter
Of thee i sing
Lerner and Loewe
Swing
42. Commedia performers used...
Stand by
Slapsticks
Yul Brenner
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
43. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
None all men
The student prince
Producer
Gypsy
44. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
The cotton blossom
Ballet and modern dance
Gene kelly
The pajama game
45. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Burlesqued
Oscar hammerstein II
The Sound of Music
Kurt Weill
46. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Director
Julie Andrews
Ethel merman
47. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Stand by
The savoy operas
Jerome kern
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
48. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Director
Yul Brenner
Swing
49. Who stages the dances?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Pal Joey
Choreographer
Professional perfomers
50. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
4th and 5th centuries bce
Public enemy no. 13
Permissiveness and crazes
Kiss me - Kate