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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Satyr plays
Cleverly concoted
The Sound of Music
2. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Can-can
Oil lamps
Of thee i sing
Popular entertainments
3. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Billy bigelow
Crazy for You
Eliza Doolittle
4. Annie Oakley is from What show
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Annie get your gun
Ballet and modern dance
5. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Fly loft
Agnes de mille
Commedia dell-arte
The book
6. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
7. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
24
Swing
On your toes and babes in arms
My fair lady
8. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Victor herbert
South pacific
Of thee i sing
Orchestration
9. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Commedia dell-arte
The pajama game
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
The marx brothers
10. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
Ancient baghdad
Commedia dell-arte
The Threepenny opera
11. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Irene
Agnes de mille
The desert song
Julie Andrews
12. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Rebirth
Producer
Oh Kay
Agnes de mille
13. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Nine
Bob Fosse
John Gay
Harrigan and hart
14. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Carol Channing
Marilyn Miller
Mary rodgers
The serenade and the fortune teller
15. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Crazy for You
The cotton blossom
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Good news
16. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Aristotle
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
I got rhythm
Oklahoma
17. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
No no nanette
American politics
Annie get your gun
None all men
18. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Michael Kidd
New comedy
Leonard bernstein
False- it was considred a romantic musical
19. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Lowering
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Cole Porter
Director
20. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
None all men
The music man
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Lerner and Loewe
21. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Burlesqued
The romantic musicals
Damn yankees
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
22. 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'
Mary Martin
Radio city music hall
Oh Kay
Annie get your gun
23. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Meredith wilson
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Threepenny opera
24. Who is the composer for wonderful town
No no nanette
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Leonard bernstein
25. Greek: 534 BCE
Romantic
Slapsticks
Official beginning of western theatre
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
26. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Intense training
The mikado
Gertrude Lawrence
Witty dialogue
27. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Harry tierney
Robin hood
28. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The music man
Ethel merman
Mama rose
29. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Mary Martin
Crazy for you
The merry widow
The marx brothers
30. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Once upon a mattress
Julie Andrews
Anything goes
The Threepenny opera
31. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
My fair lady
Meredith wilson
32. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Lowering
Rodgers and hammerstein
The romantic musicals
33. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Lowering
Billy bigelow
New comedy
Set designer
34. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
Oklahoma
Brigadoon
Plato
35. 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?
Guys and dolls
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Ethel merman
The cotton blossom
36. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Greeks
Julie Andrews
Irene
George gershwin
37. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Irene
American politics
Gestures and poses
Mary martin
38. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Lowering
Producer
Sally
Producer
39. What comic duo was the show centered around
Tearly Roman empire
Rodgers and hammerstein
Bert williams and george walker
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
40. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
George and ira gershwin
Annie get your gun
Court nobility
41. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Spectacle
Bob Fosse
Permissiveness and crazes
He died in 1937
42. 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 ___________.
Leonard bernstein
The shows they came from
Carol Channing
Girl crazy
43. What character are in anything goes
The mikado
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Gene kelly
Someone to watch over me
44. Greek: 534 BCE
Rebirth
Meredith wilson
Official beginning of western theatre
Richard d'oyly carte
45. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
South pacific
Carmen jones
Romantic
46. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Jerome Robbins
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Julie Andrews
47. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Plato
Irving Berlin
Athens
A stevedore
48. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Burlesqued
Annie get your gun
Gene kelly
Annie get your gun
49. Who is the composer for on the town
Annie get your gun
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
50. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Costume designer
Jerome kern
Radio city music hall