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Musical Theatre

Subjects : performing-arts, music
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1. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady






2. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII






3. What is Bali H'ai from






4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story






5. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name






6. What are the three types of greek plays






7. 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






8. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters






9. What was a 'claquer?'






10. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment






11. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?






12. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show






13. G: so does western theatre officially begin in the 6th century BC or AD?






14. What is a person who writes a libretto called...






15. Who made in dahomey unique






16. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show






17. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period






18. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?






19. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress






20. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s






21. 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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22. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call






23. What was the continental






24. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents






25. What was a 'claquer?'






26. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls






27. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s






28. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move






29. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette






30. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show






31. What claim to fame does babes in arms have






32. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show






33. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?






34. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written






35. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors






36. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?






37. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas






38. ____________ presents men better than they are...






39. Roman theatre: Women performed in...






40. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?






41. What was the original name of West Side Story






42. Who hires the creative team for a production?






43. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period






44. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey






45. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?






46. Pal Joey was written by...






47. Annie Oakley is from What show






48. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?






49. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I






50. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya