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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. F:who took over those roles
Richard rodgers
The Threepenny opera
Comedy
Professional perfomers
2. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Georges balanchine
Gene kelly
South pacific
Tearly Roman empire
3. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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4. What team wrote the Sound of music
Once upon a mattress
George m. cohan
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Rodgers and hammerstein
5. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Cleverly concoted
Pants role or trousers role
Parodied
A stevedore
6. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Kismet
Kiss me - kate
Plato
Greeks
7. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Swing
BC- before christ
Oklahoma
8. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
Agnes de Mille
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
9. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
4th and 5th centuries bce
Director
Julie Andrews
Producer
10. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
He was the producer
Irene
Agnes de mille
Ethel merman
11. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Romantic music
Gwen verdon
John Gay
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
12. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Choreographer
Annie get your gun
The Sound of Music
Oklahoma
13. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Composer
Satyr plays
Jerome kern
John Hollingshead
14. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Can-can
Gertrude Lawrence
Mary rodgers
I got rhythm
15. What show is i want to be happy
No no nanette
Rose marie
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The book uncle toms cabin
16. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Gypsy
A contrived ending
Director
The king and I
17. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Voice type
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
James michener
The puritans took control of the governmetn
18. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Oil lamps
If i loved you
Oklahoma
Damn yankees
19. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
John Hollingshead
Harrigan and hart
Ethel merman
Cole porter
20. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Producer
Brigadoon
No
Nine
21. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
The book
Gene kelly
Ballet and modern dance
Babes in arms
22. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Irving Berlin
Witty dialogue
The Threepenny Opera
Rebirth
23. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
None all men
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The book
Agnes de mille
24. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Jerome robbins
George gershwin
George and Ira Gershwin
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
25. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Patriotic
Aristotle
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
26. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Commedia dell-arte
Girl crazy
The Threepenny opera
27. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Swing
A contrived ending
Yul Brenner
28. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Girl crazy
No no nanette
Harrigan and hart
HMS pinafore
29. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
The savoy operas
Official beginning of western theatre
Gwen verdon
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
30. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Once upon a mattress
Cole porter
Babes in arms
31. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
On your toes
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Rodgers and hammerstein
My Fair Lady
32. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Harry tierney
Rodgers and hammerstein
Billy bigelow
King Louis XIV
33. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Jule Styne
George and ira gershwin
34. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Political satire
Can-can
35. Laurie's dream ballet
Oklahoma
Disappears
HMS pinafore
Candide
36. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Yul Brenner
John Hollingshead
Producer
Jule Styne
37. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Ancient baghdad
Ray bolger
Director
Masks and costumes
38. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
Restoration
Gypsy
A stevedore
39. Who is the composer for music man
The merry widow
Professional perfomers
Meredith wilson
Timbuktu
40. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
George m. cohan
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Comedy
Public enemy no. 13
41. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
Timbuktu
Guys and dolls
Girl crazy
42. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Evangeline
Witty dialogue
Stand by
The serenade and the fortune teller
43. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Jerome kern
Intense training
Witty dialogue
44. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Annie get your gun
4th and 5th centuries bce
Entertainments
Rose marie
45. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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46. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Oklahoma
The belle of new york
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Aristotle
47. __________ presents men worse than they are...
The king and i
Victor herbert
Comedy
Julie Andrews
48. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Frank Loesser
The merry widow
Candide
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
49. Who wrote the music for show boat
He died in 1937
Mama rose
Of thee i sing
Jerome kern
50. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Mary rodgers
Set designer
Director
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein