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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Anything goes
New comedy
Gene kelly
Tragedies
2. 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
Meredith wilson
Oklahoma
Betty comden and adolph green
Rose marie
3. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Rex Harrison
Bernstein and Sondheim
John Hollingshead
Carmen jones
4. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Evangeline
Good news
Same person
5. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Lowering
King Louis XIV
Bert williams and george walker
Comic opera
6. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Babes in arms
Oscar hammerstein
The cotton blossom
False- it was considred a romantic musical
7. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Lerner and Loewe
Rex Harrison
Patriotic
Kiss me - kate
8. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
The Threepenny Opera
State
Librettist
9. What was a 'claquer?'
24
A trip to chinatown
Director
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
10. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Parodied
Fly loft
Disappears
11. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
A stevedore
Someone to watch over me
The doctor of alcantara
Entertainments
12. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Gestures and poses
City dionysia
Director
The book uncle toms cabin
13. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
Jerome kern
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Comedies
14. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Jerome robbins
The book
Ethel merman
Tragedy
15. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
South pacific
Spectacle
Threepenny opera
False it was stylized
16. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
King Louis XIV
Pageant wagons and mansions
Gertrude Lawrence
The Sound of Music
17. where did performers go
Threepenny opera
Before common era
Took to the streets and traveled -
City dionysia
18. Who writes the words to the songs?
St. Augustine
Lyricist
Someone to watch over me
New comedy
19. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
Lerner and Loewe
Victor herbert
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
20. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Director
Professional perfomers
Middle ages
Composer
21. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Conductor
Radio city music hall
Plato
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
22. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Before common era
Victor herbert
Gene kelly
23. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George m. cohan
Plato
Producer
Middle ages
24. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
American politics
Crazy for You
The book uncle toms cabin
I got rhythm
25. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Oklahoma
State
He died in 1937
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Mulligan guards routines
Orchestration
Rodgers and hammerstein
27. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Director
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Rex Harrison
Public enemy no. 13
28. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
3 to 5
George gershwin
Harry tierney
29. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
If i loved you
Orchestration
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
30. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Ethel merman
James michener
31. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Pageant wagons and mansions
Timbuktu
George m. cohan
32. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
South pacific
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The doctor of alcantara
33. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
King Louis XIV
Oklahoma
New comedy
34. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Masks and costumes
Gestures and poses
Producer
Rebirth
35. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Agnes de Mille
Victor herbert
Producer
Gwen verdon
36. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Borrowed tunes
Someone to watch over me
Popular entertainments
A trip to chinatown
37. Who composed the music for Irene
Harry tierney
On the town
Cleverly concoted
South pacific
38. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Annie get your gun
Damn yankees
Girl crazy
Marilyn Miller
39. 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
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Tearly Roman empire
Kiss me - kate
40. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Horace
Disappears
Oscar hammerstein
Timbuktu
41. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Mimes
Permissiveness and crazes
Entertainments
42. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Music director
Ethel merman
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Borrowed tunes
43. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
The metropolitan opera
The Sound of Music
Oklahoma
44. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Oh Kay
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Nine
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
45. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Can-can
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Thespis
Oscar hammerstein
46. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
His 'confessions'
James michener
Kiss me - kate
Robin hood
47. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
BC
The pajama game
HMS pinafore
The king and I
48. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Once upon a mattress
Leonard Bernstein
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
49. Annie Oakley is from What show
Permissiveness and crazes
Marilyn Miller
Victor herbert
Annie get your gun
50. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Yul Brenner
Oh Kay
BC
Eliza Doolittle