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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Michael Kidd
Mary martin
South pacific
2. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
The Sound of Music
Threepenny opera
Kiss me - kate
Gene kelly
3. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Director
The mikado
Political satire
Bert williams and george walker
4. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Julie Andrews
Ballet and modern dance
Bob Fosse
Cleverly concoted
5. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Middle ages
The Sound of Music
Once upon a mattress
Bert williams and george walker
6. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Brigadoon
Lerner and Loewe
Lerner and Loewe
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
7. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
The merry widow
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
South pacific
8. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Gertrude Lawrence
Thespis
Betty comden and adolph green
Deus ex machina
9. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
My fair lady
Adonis
Pageant wagons and mansions
South pacific
10. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Oklahoma
Stand by
Frank Loesser
Irving Berlin
11. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger
Director
Composer
Rodgers and hammerstein
12. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Mary martin
Gwen verdon
American dance music
If i loved you
13. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
Gypsy
The serenade and the fortune teller
A contrived ending
None all men
14. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
The new moon
Irene
Producer
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
15. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Lowering
Pants role or trousers role
Commedia dell-arte
Frank Loesser
16. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Brigadoon
Set designer
Director
Threepenny opera
17. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
The student prince
Cole porter
George and ira gershwin
Producer
18. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Yul Brenner
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
19. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Comedies
None all men
Harry tierney
20. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
The music man
Kiss me - kate
Michael Kidd
Parodied
21. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Bert williams and george walker
New comedy
Greeks
King Louis XIV
22. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Enzio pinza
Tragedy
Candide
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
23. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Agnes de Mille
Voice type
The shows they came from
24. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Brigadoon
The Threepenny Opera
Betty comden and adolph green
25. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Moliere
Anything goes
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Set designer
26. What does 'renaissance' mean
Oil lamps
The king and i
Rebirth
Evangeline
27. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Music man
The Sound of Music
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
No no nanette
28. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Irene
Damn yankees
Mary Martin
Anti-hero
29. Who is the star of Sally
Producer
Court nobility
Marilyn Miller
Ray Bolger
30. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera
Public enemy no. 13
A stevedore
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Official beginning of western theatre
31. Who is the composer of Candide
Leonard bernstein
24
His 'confessions'
My fair lady
32. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
His 'confessions'
Masks and costumes
Victor herbert
33. F:who took over those roles
Pal Joey
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Professional perfomers
George m. cohan
34. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
Producer
Adonis
The shows they came from
35. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
36. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Same person
Permissiveness and crazes
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Ancient baghdad
Rodgers and hammerstein
Kismet
He died in 1937
38. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Lerner and Loewe
On your toes and babes in arms
South pacific
No no nanette
39. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Mulligan guards routines
Of thee i sing
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
40. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
Billy bigelow
Carmen jones
The music man
Nine
41. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Ethel merman
Agnes de mille
The Threepenny Opera
Horace
42. Where they fly things on stage
Fly loft
Richard d'oyly carte
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Annie get your gun
43. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Adonis
American politics
Radio city music hall
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
44. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
The book uncle toms cabin
My Fair Lady
Catholic church
Popular entertainments
45. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
The mikado
Annie get your gun
Playwright
Once upon a mattress
46. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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47. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
I got rhythm
Kismet
On your toes and babes in arms
4th and 5th centuries bce
48. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
Gestures and poses
Julie Andrews
Carol Channing
49. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
City dionysia
The student prince
Ray bolger
Court nobility
50. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
Mary rodgers
Cleverly concoted
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Professional perfomers