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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. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Of thee i sing
Mimes
Masks and costumes
2. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
New comedy
Witty dialogue
Public enemy no. 13
Playwright
3. Who stages the dances?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Of thee i sing
Choreographer
Producer
4. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Producer
Restoration
4th and 5th centuries bce
City dionysia
5. Who is the composer of Candide
BC
Romantic
Radio city music hall
Leonard bernstein
6. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
King Louis XIV
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
7. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
Comic opera
Kismet
Professional perfomers
On the town
8. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Can-can
Brigadoon
Oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
9. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Carousel
Guys and Dolls
Comic opera had music and dialogue
10. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
War
If i loved you
Sally
A trip to chinatown
11. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Gypsy
Annie get your gun
Producer
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
12. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Tragedies
Popular entertainments
Bernstein and Sondheim
13. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Athens
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Popular dance
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
14. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Fly loft
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
My fair lady
Of thee i sing
15. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Conductor
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Plato
Music man
16. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
South pacific
George and Ira Gershwin
American politics
Gene kelly
17. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Mimes
The Threepenny opera
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Mercenary mary
18. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
John Hollingshead
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Romantic music
Once upon a mattress
19. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
Swing
Rodgers and hammerstein
Frank Loesser
20. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
Kiss me - kate
Crazy for You
The marx brothers
21. Annie Oakley is from What show
Victor herbert
Cole porter
Burlesqued
Annie get your gun
22. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
The king and I
West side story
None all men
Playwright
23. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Carousel
Permissiveness and crazes
Producer
Cole porter
24. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
West side story
Brigadoon
Stephen sondheim
The Threepenny opera
25. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Producer
Deus ex machina
Angel
Romantic
26. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Political satire
The Threepenny Opera
Producer
No
27. 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
Cole porter
Mulligan guards routines
Catholic church
28. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Irving Berlin
No
False- it was considred a romantic musical
The romantic musicals
29. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Evangeline
Mercenary mary
War
Timbuktu
30. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Lerner and Loewe
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Good news
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
31. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
South pacific
Disappears
Julie Andrews
24
32. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Crazy for you
The king and i
Leonard bernstein
33. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Athens
Bernstein and Sondheim
South pacific
The doctor of alcantara
34. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The king and i
Popular entertainments and comic opera
East Side Story
35. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
24
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Disappears
Intense training
36. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Jerome robbins
Nine
The desert song
37. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Agnes de Mille
Kurt Weill
Composer
Can-can
38. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Female roles
Robin hood
Cleverly concoted
Professional perfomers
39. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Aristotle
My Fair Lady
Swing
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
40. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
The book
Julie Andrews
Gertrude Lawrence
Ethel merman
41. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Set designer
The metropolitan opera
New comedy
42. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Once upon a mattress
Of thee i sing
Lerner and Loewe
The book
43. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Director
Voice type
I got rhythm
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
44. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Julie Andrews
Gypsy
Mary rodgers
Ethel merman
45. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
My fair lady
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
George gershwin
Mary Martin
46. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
47. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Michael Kidd
Stephen sondheim
Mimes
Female roles
48. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Victor herbert
Fly loft
The doctor of alcantara
Of thee i sing
49. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
My Fair Lady
Oscar hammerstein
Kiss me - Kate
A trip to chinatown
50. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Meredith wilson
Carol Channing
The serenade and the fortune teller