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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 is the composer for on the town
Lyricist
Ancient baghdad
Robin hood
Leonard bernstein
2. Who is the composer for music man
Ray bolger
Meredith wilson
None all men
Playwright
3. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Comic opera
Harrigan and hart
Good news
4. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
George m. cohan
None all men
Pageant wagons and mansions
5. Commedia performers used...
The king and I
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Slapsticks
Anti-hero
6. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
I got rhythm
Stand by
Public enemy no. 13
Mimes
7. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Nine
Permissiveness and crazes
Of thee i sing
Popular entertainments and comic opera
8. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
The shows they came from
Mulligan guards routines
Voice type
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
9. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
Yul Brenner
Spectacle
Damn yankees
10. 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
Mama rose
Kiss me - kate
Meredith wilson
New comedy
11. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Director
East Side Story
War
Annie get your gun
12. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Jule Styne
3 to 5
The book uncle toms cabin
The book
13. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
On your toes
Director
Annie get your gun
14. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Director
Jule Styne
Gertrude lawrence
Commedia dell-arte
15. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Rebirth
New comedy
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Parodied
16. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Horace
Oklahoma
24
Mimes
17. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Leonard Bernstein
Gypsy
Can-can
Cole porter
18. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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19. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Mary rodgers
Moved indoors
On your toes and babes in arms
Georges balanchine
20. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Bert williams and george walker
Disappears
Gypsy
South pacific
21. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Court nobility
Irene
Kurt Weill
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
22. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Damn yankees
Gestures and poses
Producer
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
23. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
Comic opera
Ray bolger
His 'confessions'
Disappears
24. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Meredith wilson
Athens
George m. cohan
25. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Mercenary mary
Michael Kidd
Ray Bolger
Political satire
26. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Georges balanchine
Spectacle
Richard rodgers
27. What was the continental
Popular dance
Gypsy
Pants role or trousers role
Music man
28. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
The merry widow
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Harry tierney
Producer
29. Where they fly things on stage
Public enemy no. 13
Fly loft
Ballet and modern dance
Moliere
30. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Same person
Comedies
The belle of new york
Victor herbert
31. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Julie Andrews
No
Producer
Agnes de mille
32. What was Oh Kays most famous song
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Someone to watch over me
Irene
Spectacle
33. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Composer
The Threepenny opera
Tearly Roman empire
Nine
34. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
The mikado
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
None all men
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
35. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
John Gay
Parodied
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Director
36. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Kurt Weill
Frank Loesser
37. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
A stevedore
Swing
Deus ex machina
Slapsticks
38. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
Costume designer
The savoy operas
Gypsy
39. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Mary Martin
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
City dionysia
False- it was considred a romantic musical
40. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Harry tierney
Ballet and modern dance
Romantic music
41. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Good news
Carmen jones
Harry tierney
42. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
24
Commedia dell-arte
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Leonard Bernstein
43. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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44. What show is -i got rhythm
South pacific
Girl crazy
Voice type
Composer
45. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Jerome kern
Candide
Once upon a mattress
Leonard bernstein
46. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Victor herbert
Brigadoon
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The student prince
47. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Sally
Pants role or trousers role
Greeks
Can-can
48. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Crazy for You
Kiss me - kate
Oklahoma
Bob Fosse
49. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
George gershwin
Mary Martin
Gypsy
South pacific
50. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Jerome Robbins
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Entertainments
Ethel merman