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Musical Theatre
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1. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
4th and 5th centuries bce
BC
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
2. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Librettist
Rebirth
Candide
Robin hood
3. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Witty dialogue
Pants role or trousers role
Director
4. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Athens
New comedy
Ethel merman
5. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Julie Andrews
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The Sound of Music
Professional perfomers
6. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
The marx brothers
Gypsy
7. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Singin in the rain
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Gypsy
Jule Styne
8. What is Bali H'ai from
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
He died in 1937
South pacific
Stephen sondheim
9. What was the continental
Popular dance
Someone to watch over me
Lyricist
Political satire
10. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
James michener
Betty comden and adolph green
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
11. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Radio city music hall
He died in 1937
Producer
12. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Richard d'oyly carte
Babes in arms
Librettist
Fly loft
13. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Ray bolger
Producer
Tragedies
Someone to watch over me
14. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Playwright
3 to 5
Agnes de mille
Greeks
15. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Director
Jerome Robbins
The metropolitan opera
Ethel merman
16. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
A contrived ending
The marx brothers
Victor herbert
Comic opera
17. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Oscar hammerstein II
South pacific
Yul Brenner
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
18. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Mercenary mary
Commedia dell-arte
American politics
19. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Crazy for You
Eliza Doolittle
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Cleverly concoted
20. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
George gershwin
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Costume designer
21. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Ethel merman
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
22. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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23. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
Mary Martin
American politics
Lowering
24. Who wrote the music for show boat
Jerome kern
Meredith wilson
The Threepenny opera
Oklahoma
25. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Gwen verdon
Jerome Robbins
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
26. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Political satire
Comedies
Gypsy
Flutes - lyres
27. Who composed the music for Irene
Harry tierney
On your toes and babes in arms
Annie get your gun
Romantic
28. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Tragedies
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Michael Kidd
29. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Commedia dell-arte
3 to 5
Leonard bernstein
Playwright
30. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
My fair lady
Producer
The doctor of alcantara
Mimes
31. Pal Joey was written by...
HMS pinafore
Rodgers and Hart
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Bernstein and Sondheim
32. 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'
George and ira gershwin
The Threepenny Opera
Brigadoon
Stephen sondheim
33. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Patriotic
Good news
Mercenary mary
Guys and dolls
34. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Kismet
Ethel merman
Oscar hammerstein II
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
35. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Jerome Robbins
Swing
The new moon
Leonard Bernstein
36. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Rebirth
Music director
Lerner and Loewe
Set designer
37. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Anything goes
Nine
Agnes de mille
38. What show is i want to be happy
South pacific
No no nanette
Of thee i sing
Commedia dell-arte
39. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
Costume designer
Kismet
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
40. What show is the song bewitched from
Music director
Cole Porter
Pal Joey
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
St. Augustine
Gypsy
George and Ira Gershwin
Harrigan and hart
42. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Music man
Popular dance
Cole porter
Commedia dell-arte
43. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Conductor
Damn yankees
Can-can
No no nanette
44. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Oh Kay
A contrived ending
Georges balanchine
George and ira gershwin
45. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
The merry widow
Gypsy
Bob Fosse
Timbuktu
46. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Composer
Bob Fosse
Adonis
Oh Kay
47. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Gertrude Lawrence
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The mikado
Same person
48. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Ray Bolger
Horace
Carol Channing
Gertrude Lawrence
49. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Official beginning of western theatre
James michener
Babes in arms
Damn yankees
50. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Singin in the rain
The book
Nine
The belle of new york
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