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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. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Athens
Can-can
Moved indoors
Composer
2. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Satyr plays
Gertrude Lawrence
3. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Marilyn Miller
Harrigan and hart
American politics
Popular dance
4. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
The student prince
Julie Andrews
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Singin in the rain
5. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Orchestration
Gertrude Lawrence
The book
The desert song
6. Commedia performers used...
Girl crazy
Slapsticks
I got rhythm
Oklahoma
7. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Set designer
War
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Anything goes
8. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Anti-hero
St. Augustine
The pajama game
9. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Ancient baghdad
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Guys and Dolls
10. What was the continental
Someone to watch over me
Tragedies
Victor herbert
Popular dance
11. 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
George m. cohan
Patriotic
Carmen jones
12. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
BC
A trip to chinatown
The student prince
The book uncle toms cabin
13. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Cole porter
Composer
Gwen verdon
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
14. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Playwright
Carmen jones
The savoy operas
Comedies
15. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Catholic church
Tearly Roman empire
Slapsticks
False- it was considred a romantic musical
16. Annie Oakley is from What show
Annie get your gun
Guys and Dolls
A stevedore
Female roles
17. 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?
The music man
Can-can
Guys and dolls
John Gay
18. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
Commedia dell-arte
Rodgers and Hart
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
19. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
A trip to chinatown
Swing
Ethel merman
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
20. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
My Fair Lady
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
A stevedore
Burlesqued
21. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
I got rhythm
George and Ira Gershwin
Before common era
22. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Jerome Robbins
Enzio pinza
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Costume designer
23. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
The book uncle toms cabin
Oklahoma
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Popular entertainments
24. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Jule Styne
Anything goes
The book uncle toms cabin
None all men
25. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Carol Channing
Playwright
26. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Horace
John Gay
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Patriotic
27. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Can-can
On your toes and babes in arms
Meredith wilson
Moliere
28. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
Once upon a mattress
Georges balanchine
Horace
29. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
Once upon a mattress
Leonard bernstein
Athens
30. 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
Bert williams and george walker
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
31. G: Greek actors had...
Lowering
Brigadoon
Oil lamps
Intense training
32. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
The desert song
On your toes and babes in arms
Tragedy
South pacific
33. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Meredith wilson
Pageant wagons and mansions
Oklahoma
Satyr plays
34. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Jerome robbins
Timbuktu
Georges balanchine
Julie Andrews
35. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
The book
A stevedore
Horace
On the town
36. 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
Irving Berlin
The marx brothers
Kiss me - kate
37. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Ethel merman
Popular entertainments and comic opera
South pacific
Intense training
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
The pajama game
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Commedia dell-arte
Bernstein and Sondheim
39. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Gertrude lawrence
John Gay
Director
Once upon a mattress
40. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Billy bigelow
Athens
Borrowed tunes
The Sound of Music
41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Public enemy no. 13
24
Gestures and poses
42. Who is the composer of the music man
Of thee i sing
Carmen jones
Meredith wilson
Cole porter
43. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Mercenary mary
King Louis XIV
44. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Pal Joey
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The new moon
45. Who writes the words to the songs?
Ancient baghdad
Georges balanchine
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Lyricist
46. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Director
Director
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Commedia dell-arte
47. What was the setting for Kismet
Gypsy
Pageant wagons and mansions
Ancient baghdad
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
48. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Borrowed tunes
Kiss me - kate
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Carmen jones
49. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
American politics
Enzio pinza
Gypsy
Satyr plays
50. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Popular dance
James michener
Rex Harrison
Popular dance