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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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1. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
War
Irving Berlin
Julie Andrews
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
2. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
Ray Bolger
Richard rodgers
Popular entertainments
3. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
24
Popular entertainments
Ethel merman
Political satire
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Deus ex machina
Betty comden and adolph green
Swing
5. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Damn yankees
Rodgers and hammerstein
Damn yankees
Eliza Doolittle
6. G: Male actors played...
Irene
The book
HMS pinafore
Female roles
7. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Librettist
King Louis XIV
4th and 5th centuries bce
Parodied
8. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Singin in the rain
Comedies
Librettist
The savoy operas
9. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
State
Rodgers and hammerstein
Anti-hero
Playwright
10. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Stand by
The Threepenny Opera
Moved indoors
Julie Andrews
11. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Moved indoors
The mikado
Jule Styne
12. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Oh Kay
BC- before christ
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
13. Who wrote the music for show boat
Oklahoma
Jerome kern
City dionysia
Costume designer
14. 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'
My Fair Lady
Annie get your gun
Rose marie
Comedy
15. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Cole porter
City dionysia
Gypsy
Leonard bernstein
16. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Evangeline
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Producer
City dionysia
17. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Cole porter
Adonis
Commedia dell-arte
Ray Bolger
18. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Can-can
Mulligan guards routines
Intense training
Frank Loesser
19. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gertrude lawrence
Orchestration
The Threepenny opera
20. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
A contrived ending
I got rhythm
Stand by
Betty comden and adolph green
21. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
False it was stylized
Jule Styne
Billy bigelow
22. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
The shows they came from
Ancient baghdad
Someone to watch over me
23. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Romantic music
Stephen sondheim
False- it was considred a romantic musical
American dance music
24. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
New comedy
Comedy
Producer
Agnes de Mille
25. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
Official beginning of western theatre
Producer
Moliere
26. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Court nobility
My fair lady
Carousel
Timbuktu
27. Who is the composer for on the town
Leonard bernstein
Oklahoma
City dionysia
Meredith wilson
28. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Rodgers and Hart
Ethel merman
Evangeline
Annie get your gun
29. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Moliere
Court nobility
Deus ex machina
Ray Bolger
30. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Damn yankees
The merry widow
The new moon
31. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Producer
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Music director
32. Greek: 534 BCE
Carmen jones
Official beginning of western theatre
Once upon a mattress
Leonard Bernstein
33. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
Commedia dell-arte
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The savoy operas
34. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Bob Fosse
Gertrude Lawrence
The savoy operas
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
35. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
Moliere
War
George and ira gershwin
36. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Timbuktu
Adonis
Horace
His 'confessions'
37. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
A contrived ending
Irene
Anything goes
The student prince
38. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Leonard bernstein
Girl crazy
The pajama game
Mercenary mary
39. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Middle ages
Comic opera
Evangeline
Irving Berlin
40. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Producer
Tearly Roman empire
Nine
The music man
41. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Same person
Ray bolger
Oklahoma
Jerome robbins
42. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
St. Augustine
Female roles
Romantic
43. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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44. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Anti-hero
Gertrude Lawrence
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Horace
45. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
City dionysia
None all men
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
46. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Director
Annie get your gun
Gertrude Lawrence
American dance music
47. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Commedia dell-arte
Good news
The king and i
Damn yankees
48. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Gwen verdon
Burlesqued
Restoration
Cleverly concoted
49. G: Greek actors had...
Music director
Intense training
East Side Story
Aristotle
50. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Entertainments
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Mary martin