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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. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Commedia dell-arte
The book
Oscar hammerstein
Borrowed tunes
2. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Director
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Anything goes
South pacific
3. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Flutes - lyres
Jule Styne
Bob Fosse
The metropolitan opera
4. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
Anything goes
Thespis
Anti-hero
The book
5. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Enzio pinza
Mary Martin
The new moon
West side story
6. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
Richard d'oyly carte
Tragedies
Playwright
7. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Enzio pinza
Babes in arms
Frank Loesser
The shows they came from
8. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Deus ex machina
Tragedies
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Moved indoors
9. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Jerome robbins
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Masks and costumes
10. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Gertrude lawrence
Before common era
Rodgers and hammerstein
Swing
11. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Meredith wilson
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Borrowed tunes
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
12. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Fly loft
Timbuktu
Singin in the rain
Rodgers and hammerstein
13. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
State
Disappears
Oil lamps
14. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Crazy for you
Comic opera
Disappears
Director
15. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Plato
Romantic music
Lyricist
Victor herbert
16. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Voice type
A stevedore
Robin hood
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
17. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
The marx brothers
South pacific
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Bernstein and Sondheim
18. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Commedia dell-arte
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Once upon a mattress
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
19. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Gestures and poses
Someone to watch over me
The king and i
Parodied
20. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Greeks
Crazy for You
Of thee i sing
Before common era
21. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Greeks
Permissiveness and crazes
Guys and dolls
22. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Court nobility
The marx brothers
Richard rodgers
Music director
23. What show is -i got rhythm
Same person
Ethel merman
Tearly Roman empire
Girl crazy
24. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Threepenny opera
Can-can
Meredith wilson
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
25. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Deus ex machina
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
26. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
Of thee i sing
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Oklahoma
Mercenary mary
27. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Director
Conductor
Cleverly concoted
Bert williams and george walker
28. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Witty dialogue
False- it was considred a romantic musical
The savoy operas
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
29. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
HMS pinafore
Disappears
George gershwin
30. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Choreographer
Enzio pinza
Threepenny opera
Witty dialogue
31. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Oklahoma
A contrived ending
Betty comden and adolph green
The merry widow
32. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
East Side Story
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Mary Martin
Kismet
33. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Producer
Playwright
A contrived ending
34. Who is the composer for music man
Victor herbert
The Threepenny opera
My fair lady
Meredith wilson
35. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Crazy for you
Pants role or trousers role
Romantic
Babes in arms
36. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Agnes de mille
The belle of new york
Ballet and modern dance
37. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Gypsy
Ancient baghdad
New comedy
George gershwin
38. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Producer
Carousel
Jerome Robbins
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
39. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
New comedy
Michael Kidd
40. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Middle ages
Gestures and poses
Rodgers and Hart
41. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
No no nanette
Can-can
Cole porter
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
42. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Someone to watch over me
Of thee i sing
Aristotle
Michael Kidd
43. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
I got rhythm
Tragedy
The cotton blossom
Voice type
44. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
The belle of new york
Plato
BC
Leonard Bernstein
45. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Gertrude Lawrence
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Borrowed tunes
Ethel merman
46. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The king and i
Choreographer
Irving Berlin
Burlesqued
47. What show is -the continental
A contrived ending
He died in 1937
Took to the streets and traveled -
Mercenary mary
48. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Borrowed tunes
New comedy
The doctor of alcantara
49. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Stand by
The king and I
Lyricist
50. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
George and ira gershwin
Bernstein and Sondheim
Angel
South pacific