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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 designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Lyricist
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Can-can
Costume designer
2. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Female roles
24
Same person
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
3. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
No no nanette
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Crazy for you
Carousel
4. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Carmen jones
Mary rodgers
James michener
Gertrude lawrence
5. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Choreographer
Victor herbert
Robin hood
6. Laurie's dream ballet
A stevedore
Official beginning of western theatre
Carousel
Oklahoma
7. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Gypsy
Of thee i sing
Lyricist
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
8. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
The Threepenny Opera
Marilyn Miller
The music man
Oklahoma
9. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Betty comden and adolph green
My Fair Lady
Of thee i sing
Popular entertainments
10. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
Candide
Slapsticks
Nine
11. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Julie Andrews
Stephen Sondheim
Entertainments
Flutes - lyres
12. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Lowering
Cleverly concoted
Director
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
13. What show is the song bewitched from
Professional perfomers
Pal Joey
Playwright
Libretto
14. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Victor herbert
New comedy
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
A trip to chinatown
15. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Mary Martin
Burlesqued
Ethel merman
South pacific
16. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Gertrude Lawrence
The king and I
The merry widow
Romantic
17. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Permissiveness and crazes
Director
Pal Joey
Can-can
18. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Rodgers and hammerstein
Music director
The mikado
Someone to watch over me
19. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Gwen verdon
Pants role or trousers role
Catholic church
The book
20. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Damn yankees
The Sound of Music
Comic opera
Carol Channing
21. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Middle ages
The Threepenny Opera
Irene
Crazy for You
22. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
South pacific
Stand by
No no nanette
Parodied
23. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Oscar hammerstein II
Disappears
No no nanette
Gertrude Lawrence
24. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
The savoy operas
Horace
James michener
Moved indoors
25. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
The marx brothers
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Gertrude Lawrence
Jerome robbins
26. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
South pacific
Anything goes
Librettist
27. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Professional perfomers
Ethel merman
Damn yankees
Mary rodgers
28. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Lerner and Loewe
Changing masks and costumes
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Carmen jones
29. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Crazy for you
The king and i
Richard rodgers
Fly loft
30. Pal Joey was written by...
Babes in arms
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Rodgers and Hart
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
31. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Fly loft
Borrowed tunes
Leonard bernstein
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
32. What comic duo was the show centered around
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Bert williams and george walker
Singin in the rain
Radio city music hall
33. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Anything goes
The doctor of alcantara
Director
Gestures and poses
34. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Oscar hammerstein II
Public enemy no. 13
Billy bigelow
35. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
His 'confessions'
American dance music
American politics
Rose marie
36. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Popular dance
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Adonis
37. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Irving Berlin
Michael Kidd
Brigadoon
38. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Billy bigelow
Oklahoma
False- it was considred a romantic musical
39. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Ray bolger
Someone to watch over me
The Threepenny Opera
Billy bigelow
40. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Damn yankees
Robin hood
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
41. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Once upon a mattress
Damn yankees
Rodgers and hammerstein
Conductor
42. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Changing masks and costumes
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Music director
His 'confessions'
43. 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
Gertrude Lawrence
Gestures and poses
Kiss me - kate
Ballet and modern dance
44. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Comic opera
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Oklahoma
Lerner and Loewe
45. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
Anti-hero
Female roles
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Oklahoma
46. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Irene
Someone to watch over me
Comic opera had music and dialogue
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
47. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Aristotle
Guys and dolls
American dance music
Tragedy
48. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Ethel merman
Pageant wagons and mansions
Leonard bernstein
Tearly Roman empire
49. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Betty comden and adolph green
Kiss me - kate
On your toes
Meredith wilson
50. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Librettist
Evangeline
Mary Martin
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays