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Musical Theatre
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1. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Singin in the rain
Leonard bernstein
Jule Styne
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
2. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Brigadoon
The belle of new york
The Sound of Music
King Louis XIV
3. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Good news
Intense training
The cotton blossom
Ancient baghdad
4. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Cleverly concoted
State
City dionysia
Gene kelly
5. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Music director
Can-can
Good news
The book uncle toms cabin
6. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Intense training
Brigadoon
The pajama game
Carousel
7. Who wrote the music for show boat
Girl crazy
Once upon a mattress
Jerome kern
South pacific
8. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Playwright
Ballet and modern dance
The doctor of alcantara
The music man
9. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Michael Kidd
Girl crazy
Playwright
South pacific
10. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
The king and i
Can-can
Jerome kern
Adonis
11. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Satyr plays
None all men
Cole porter
George gershwin
12. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Spectacle
Jule Styne
Gestures and poses
George gershwin
13. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The student prince
The romantic musicals
The doctor of alcantara
Irene
14. 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
4th and 5th centuries bce
Harrigan and hart
Rose marie
Fly loft
15. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Masks and costumes
Brigadoon
Borrowed tunes
Annie get your gun
16. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Crazy for you
Someone to watch over me
Cole porter
Gwen verdon
17. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Official beginning of western theatre
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
HMS pinafore
Julie Andrews
18. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
American politics
Irene
Stephen sondheim
The Sound of Music
19. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Rex Harrison
Comedies
Gypsy
Rebirth
20. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Gertrude lawrence
Adonis
Gene kelly
Julie Andrews
21. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Rose marie
South pacific
Pants role or trousers role
Ray Bolger
22. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
BC- before christ
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Mimes
Of thee i sing
23. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
South pacific
Stephen sondheim
Tearly Roman empire
George gershwin
24. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Sally
Rodgers and hammerstein
The Sound of Music
25. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
4th and 5th centuries bce
Mercenary mary
Victor herbert
Anti-hero
26. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
Comic opera
Set designer
A stevedore
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
27. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Gene kelly
If i loved you
Babes in arms
Voice type
28. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Leonard bernstein
Mimes
Enzio pinza
BC
29. Who is the composer of the King and I
Flutes - lyres
Richard rodgers
Leonard bernstein
Masks and costumes
30. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Pants role or trousers role
My fair lady
Stephen sondheim
Evangeline
31. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Rex Harrison
Ethel merman
The music man
Stand by
32. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
The merry widow
HMS pinafore
The doctor of alcantara
33. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Richard rodgers
Oklahoma
Same person
34. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Thespis
Composer
Intense training
No no nanette
35. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Rebirth
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
George gershwin
36. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Producer
The merry widow
Lerner and Loewe
37. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Commedia dell-arte
James michener
The student prince
38. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Stephen Sondheim
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Restoration
Producer
39. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Libretto
James michener
Annie get your gun
The mikado
40. Laurie's dream ballet
Oklahoma
Marilyn Miller
Thespis
Composer
41. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Playwright
My Fair Lady
On the town
42. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
The serenade and the fortune teller
Playwright
Voice type
43. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Tragedy
The Sound of Music
Plato
No
44. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
The cotton blossom
Public enemy no. 13
Oklahoma
Pageant wagons and mansions
45. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
King Louis XIV
Yul Brenner
Gertrude Lawrence
Masks and costumes
46. What character are in anything goes
3 to 5
Moved indoors
Marilyn Miller
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
47. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Music man
Producer
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Satyr plays
48. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
Leonard Bernstein
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Singin in the rain
49. G: What does BCE mean?
Someone to watch over me
Agnes de mille
Choreographer
Before common era
50. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Marilyn Miller
The mikado
Girl crazy
Romantic
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