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Musical Theatre
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1. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Bert williams and george walker
BC- before christ
State
Ethel merman
2. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
No no nanette
Pal Joey
West side story
Of thee i sing
3. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
No
Borrowed tunes
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
George gershwin
4. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Moved indoors
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Playwright
Damn yankees
5. Who is the Composer/lyricist team for My Fair Lady
Mary Martin
Flutes - lyres
Good news
Lerner and Loewe
6. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Lowering
Mary martin
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
South pacific
7. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
Bernstein and Sondheim
Professional perfomers
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
8. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Burlesqued
New comedy
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Tragedy
9. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Jerome kern
Richard rodgers
Rex Harrison
10. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Kismet
Kiss me - kate
Gertrude Lawrence
11. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Ethel merman
The shows they came from
Carol Channing
St. Augustine
12. Annie Oakley is from What show
Mimes
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Annie get your gun
Gertrude lawrence
13. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Oil lamps
Slapsticks
Ballet and modern dance
The Sound of Music
14. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Ray Bolger
Brigadoon
Annie get your gun
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
15. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
None all men
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Music man
Producer
16. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Lowering
Carol Channing
Tearly Roman empire
Comedy
17. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Producer
Carmen jones
Betty comden and adolph green
Kiss me - kate
18. Who is the composer of Candide
Rodgers and hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
Sally
Billy bigelow
19. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Producer
Moliere
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Jule Styne
20. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
The Sound of Music
Leonard Bernstein
The merry widow
Marilyn Miller
21. Who was the foremost composer in the field of comic opera
Victor herbert
Oklahoma
Lerner and Loewe
Borrowed tunes
22. Who stages the dances?
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Kismet
Choreographer
Mama rose
23. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
George and ira gershwin
Catholic church
Kiss me - kate
24. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
George gershwin
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Of thee i sing
Yul Brenner
25. What was a 'claquer?'
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Annie get your gun
Swing
Mimes
26. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Fly loft
A trip to chinatown
Timbuktu
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
27. 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 ___________.
Kismet
Greeks
Disappears
The shows they came from
28. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
George and Ira Gershwin
Candide
HMS pinafore
Masks and costumes
29. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Meredith wilson
Cole porter
Gertrude lawrence
The savoy operas
30. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Can-can
Timbuktu
Irving Berlin
The serenade and the fortune teller
31. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Mercenary mary
The Sound of Music
My fair lady
Ethel merman
32. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Jerome Robbins
Comedies
Rodgers and hammerstein
Kiss me - Kate
33. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Billy bigelow
4th and 5th centuries bce
Swing
The student prince
34. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
A stevedore
Timbuktu
The doctor of alcantara
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35. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
Damn yankees
Tragedies
Ray Bolger
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
36. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Gertrude lawrence
Leonard bernstein
Orchestration
My fair lady
37. 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'
Frank Loesser
Brigadoon
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
New comedy
38. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
The mikado
The doctor of alcantara
Guys and Dolls
Candide
39. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Sally
Costume designer
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
He died in 1937
40. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Oscar hammerstein II
Of thee i sing
Anti-hero
Comedies
41. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
On your toes and babes in arms
Mary martin
Jerome kern
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
42. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Richard rodgers
The metropolitan opera
Mama rose
Greeks
43. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Orchestration
Nine
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Kismet
44. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Radio city music hall
Agnes de mille
The merry widow
Same person
45. 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'
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Annie get your gun
46. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Tragedy
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Oklahoma
False it was stylized
47. Laurie is from What show
Kiss me - kate
South pacific
Oklahoma
Can-can
48. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Aristotle
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Carousel
Lerner and Loewe
49. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Irving Berlin
Set designer
The pajama game
50. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Jule Styne
Rex Harrison
Flutes - lyres
Angel
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