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Musical Theatre
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1. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Sally
Kismet
West side story
Victor herbert
2. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
The belle of new york
St. Augustine
Ethel merman
The shows they came from
3. What show is -i got rhythm
John Gay
Girl crazy
Commedia dell-arte
Meredith wilson
4. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Bob Fosse
Horace
Kiss me - Kate
5. What show is -i got rhythm
He was the producer
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Girl crazy
6. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
Lowering
George and Ira Gershwin
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Tragedies
7. 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
The desert song
The music man
The romantic musicals
South pacific
8. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
The king and i
Leonard Bernstein
Rodgers and hammerstein
Gene kelly
9. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Gwen verdon
Oh Kay
Enzio pinza
Sally
10. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Popular entertainments
Ethel merman
Sally
Mama rose
11. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Lerner and Loewe
State
Jule Styne
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
12. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The new moon
Took to the streets and traveled -
The Threepenny opera
Comic opera
13. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Cole porter
Harrigan and hart
14. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Gestures and poses
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Public enemy no. 13
15. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
John Gay
Ethel merman
Stephen sondheim
The music man
16. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
George and ira gershwin
The desert song
The pajama game
Threepenny opera
17. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Comic opera
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Stephen Sondheim
American dance music
18. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Director
Oklahoma
Oil lamps
Gypsy
19. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Candide
Stephen sondheim
Once upon a mattress
Flutes - lyres
20. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Gwen verdon
The merry widow
Rodgers and hammerstein
Director
21. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Tragedy
Guys and Dolls
Ancient baghdad
22. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
No
The marx brothers
Bernstein and Sondheim
Jerome robbins
23. The music of compsoer Alexander borodin was adapted into this musical
Same person
Middle ages
Kismet
Georges balanchine
24. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
South pacific
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
King Louis XIV
Professional perfomers
25. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Gestures and poses
The belle of new york
Mary rodgers
26. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Patriotic
Comic opera
George m. cohan
Producer
27. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Librettist
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Slapsticks
28. What show is -the continental
Oklahoma
Director
Mercenary mary
Cole Porter
29. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Producer
Popular entertainments
Disappears
James michener
30. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Oklahoma
No no nanette
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
31. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Harrigan and hart
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
John Gay
32. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Gwen verdon
West side story
Producer
Timbuktu
33. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
He died in 1937
If i loved you
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Plato
34. What are the three types of greek plays
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Mary Martin
The pajama game
Harry tierney
35. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Professional perfomers
Ancient baghdad
Gertrude lawrence
36. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Thespis
Music director
Gertrude Lawrence
37. Annie Oakley is from What show
Patriotic
Pal Joey
Annie get your gun
New comedy
38. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Can-can
South pacific
Adonis
Rex Harrison
39. What show is i want to be happy
Oklahoma
Intense training
I got rhythm
No no nanette
40. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Parodied
Candide
Jule Styne
41. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Julie Andrews
Playwright
Cleverly concoted
The king and I
42. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Burlesqued
He was the producer
George and Ira Gershwin
West side story
43. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Comedies
George gershwin
Kiss me - kate
Comic opera had music and dialogue
44. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Lerner and Loewe
Deus ex machina
The savoy operas
Kiss me - Kate
45. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Radio city music hall
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Female roles
St. Augustine
46. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Meredith wilson
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Rodgers and hammerstein
Playwright
47. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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48. 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
HMS pinafore
Mary martin
Mary martin
Rose marie
49. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Adonis
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The belle of new york
50. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Conductor
Gypsy
Carol Channing
Official beginning of western theatre
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