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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Oscar hammerstein II
South pacific
Mary martin
Tragedies
2. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Ballet and modern dance
He died in 1937
Jule Styne
Oh Kay
3. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
George m. cohan
The marx brothers
Gwen verdon
No no nanette
4. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
The shows they came from
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
If i loved you
Thespis
5. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
Witty dialogue
False it was stylized
Brigadoon
The puritans took control of the governmetn
6. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Slapsticks
Lowering
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
7. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
Mercenary mary
BC
George m. cohan
Court nobility
8. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Tragedy
New comedy
Agnes de mille
Director
9. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
New comedy
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Slapsticks
10. Billy Bigelow is form What show
Carousel
Tragedy
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Composer
11. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Librettist
Stephen Sondheim
On your toes and babes in arms
The merry widow
12. Who is the star of sweet charity
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
He died in 1937
The merry widow
Gwen verdon
13. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Irene
New comedy
Gertrude Lawrence
14. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
John Gay
Can-can
Cleverly concoted
The savoy operas
15. Who is the composer for on the town
Mercenary mary
Moved indoors
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Leonard bernstein
16. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Meredith wilson
4th and 5th centuries bce
He died in 1937
Lerner and Loewe
17. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
The belle of new york
Rodgers and hammerstein
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
18. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
George m. cohan
The doctor of alcantara
Witty dialogue
Athens
19. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Playwright
Fly loft
Lyricist
George and ira gershwin
20. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
The serenade and the fortune teller
Babes in arms
On your toes
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
21. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
South pacific
A trip to chinatown
BC
Gwen verdon
22. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Enzio pinza
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Annie get your gun
23. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
West side story
Kurt Weill
Oklahoma
The savoy operas
24. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Crazy for You
Middle ages
Slapsticks
George and ira gershwin
25. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The book uncle toms cabin
Horace
Swing
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Bernstein and Sondheim
Director
Moved indoors
27. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Changing masks and costumes
Lyricist
On your toes and babes in arms
28. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Intense training
My fair lady
Slapsticks
29. G: how did they play female roles
Adonis
Producer
Changing masks and costumes
Pants role or trousers role
30. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
The mikado
Leonard bernstein
Leonard bernstein
31. Who is the composer of the King and I
Gypsy
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Richard rodgers
If i loved you
32. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
He died in 1937
Richard d'oyly carte
Deus ex machina
Georges balanchine
33. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Timbuktu
The king and I
Oh Kay
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
34. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Catholic church
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The cotton blossom
South pacific
35. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
On your toes and babes in arms
Richard d'oyly carte
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
36. G: Male actors played...
Female roles
Mary martin
HMS pinafore
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
37. F:who comissioned lavish 'comedy ballets?'
Julie Andrews
The Sound of Music
The mikado
King Louis XIV
38. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
Cole Porter
Ray Bolger
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Evangeline
39. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
A trip to chinatown
Permissiveness and crazes
Leonard bernstein
40. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
The metropolitan opera
Mary rodgers
New comedy
West side story
41. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Lerner and Loewe
The desert song
The king and i
42. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Harrigan and hart
24
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Ray bolger
43. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Ray bolger
Cleverly concoted
Moliere
The puritans took control of the governmetn
44. Who writes the words to the songs?
Lyricist
New comedy
HMS pinafore
Intense training
45. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Evangeline
Professional perfomers
South pacific
Georges balanchine
46. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Cole porter
Crazy for You
The belle of new york
Ethel merman
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Once upon a mattress
Librettist
Mulligan guards routines
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
48. What team wrote the Sound of music
The desert song
Bernstein and Sondheim
Rodgers and hammerstein
No no nanette
49. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Agnes de mille
Brigadoon
Moved indoors
50. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Deus ex machina
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon