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Musical Theatre
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1. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Official beginning of western theatre
On your toes
Slapsticks
Tearly Roman empire
2. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Victor herbert
Ballet and modern dance
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Mulligan guards routines
3. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The Threepenny Opera
Oklahoma
Permissiveness and crazes
4. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Rodgers and hammerstein
Meredith wilson
Gene kelly
5. 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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6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Gertrude Lawrence
Gypsy
Bert williams and george walker
7. What was the 1927 musical about college life
My fair lady
George and Ira Gershwin
Oh Kay
Good news
8. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
New comedy
Ancient baghdad
Billy bigelow
Of thee i sing
9. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The music man
A trip to chinatown
Once upon a mattress
10. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
A stevedore
Music man
Cole Porter
Producer
11. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Oklahoma
Annie get your gun
Commedia dell-arte
Lerner and Loewe
12. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Timbuktu
South pacific
Intense training
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
13. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Brigadoon
Commedia dell-arte
The music man
Patriotic
14. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Billy bigelow
Gypsy
Crazy for You
Agnes de mille
15. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Victor herbert
Greeks
Timbuktu
Intense training
16. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
Timbuktu
The music man
Voice type
17. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
South pacific
The savoy operas
Evangeline
18. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Meredith wilson
Conductor
The king and i
19. G: What is BCE same as
Agnes de mille
Once upon a mattress
Guys and Dolls
BC- before christ
20. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Popular entertainments
Jule Styne
Athens
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
21. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Ethel merman
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Cole Porter
Jule Styne
22. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Playwright
East Side Story
Playwright
23. 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
Restoration
Carmen jones
Rose marie
Popular entertainments
24. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
The mikado
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
On your toes
Ray bolger
25. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Lerner and Loewe
Robin hood
Satyr plays
No no nanette
26. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
South pacific
False it was stylized
Leonard bernstein
Damn yankees
27. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Parodied
Plato
Pants role or trousers role
The king and i
28. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
West side story
Aristotle
Producer
The king and i
29. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Stand by
Composer
Oscar hammerstein
Mercenary mary
30. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
No no nanette
Producer
Irving Berlin
Popular entertainments and comic opera
31. G: how did they play female roles
3 to 5
Political satire
South pacific
Changing masks and costumes
32. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Richard d'oyly carte
Candide
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Thespis
33. Annie Oakley is from What show
West side story
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
He died in 1937
Annie get your gun
34. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Guys and Dolls
Thespis
Mulligan guards routines
Someone to watch over me
35. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
George and Ira Gershwin
Ballet and modern dance
The music man
Gertrude Lawrence
36. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Oscar hammerstein II
Eliza Doolittle
He was the producer
Jule Styne
37. What was the original name of West Side Story
East Side Story
Kurt Weill
Comedy
Swing
38. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Billy bigelow
39. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Romantic music
Disappears
Irene
Libretto
40. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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41. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Leonard Bernstein
Nine
Radio city music hall
Ray bolger
42. Who made in dahomey unique
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Cole Porter
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Comedies
43. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Ethel merman
Pal Joey
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
44. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
The pajama game
King Louis XIV
Middle ages
Oklahoma
45. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Damn yankees
A trip to chinatown
Rebirth
A trip to chinatown
46. Who is the star of sweet charity
Before common era
Gwen verdon
Of thee i sing
His 'confessions'
47. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The serenade and the fortune teller
Rodgers and hammerstein
South pacific
St. Augustine
48. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Librettist
Voice type
A contrived ending
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
49. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.
Popular entertainments and comic opera
The shows they came from
Carol Channing
Producer
50. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
South pacific
Satyr plays
The music man
Mulligan guards routines
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