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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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1. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Agnes de mille
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Playwright
Voice type
2. 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
Mercenary mary
Frank Loesser
Kiss me - kate
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
3. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Official beginning of western theatre
Music man
Oklahoma
Athens
4. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
War
A stevedore
Professional perfomers
South pacific
5. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Horace
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
South pacific
Meredith wilson
6. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The new moon
Permissiveness and crazes
New comedy
7. What was Oh Kays most famous song
City dionysia
Took to the streets and traveled -
HMS pinafore
Someone to watch over me
8. Who stages the dances?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Kurt Weill
Choreographer
The shows they came from
9. Who made in dahomey unique
Borrowed tunes
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
None all men
Carmen jones
10. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
Gene kelly
HMS pinafore
Orchestration
Producer
11. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Guys and dolls
Damn yankees
Timbuktu
Popular entertainments
12. What show is -love is sweeping the country
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Frank Loesser
Ancient baghdad
Of thee i sing
13. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
State
Kurt Weill
Guys and Dolls
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
14. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Composer
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Harry tierney
The book
15. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Threepenny opera
Julie Andrews
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
16. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Permissiveness and crazes
Candide
Producer
17. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
South pacific
The student prince
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Rex Harrison
18. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Anti-hero
Frank Loesser
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
South pacific
19. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Once upon a mattress
Oscar hammerstein II
Threepenny opera
American politics
20. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
John Gay
Comedy
No no nanette
Timbuktu
21. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
George gershwin
If i loved you
Agnes de mille
Anything goes
22. Who composed the music for Irene
Oklahoma
Lerner and Loewe
Meredith wilson
Harry tierney
23. What are the three types of greek plays
Ethel merman
The merry widow
Music man
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
24. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Timbuktu
Jerome kern
Public enemy no. 13
25. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Slapsticks
Mama rose
Nine
Meredith wilson
26. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Babes in arms
Court nobility
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
A trip to chinatown
27. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Aristotle
Producer
HMS pinafore
Commedia dell-arte
28. What was the 1927 musical about college life
George gershwin
West side story
Good news
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
29. Who wrote the lyrics for Gypsy
Stephen Sondheim
Choreographer
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Producer
30. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Rose marie
Kurt Weill
BC
Evangeline
31. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Can-can
Gertrude lawrence
Gypsy
32. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Ethel merman
Music director
If i loved you
Anything goes
33. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Producer
Ethel merman
Flutes - lyres
Leonard bernstein
34. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Good news
South pacific
Masks and costumes
35. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Can-can
Mulligan guards routines
Lyricist
Good news
36. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Oscar hammerstein
Meredith wilson
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
37. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Someone to watch over me
The cotton blossom
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
38. What show is- tea for two
No no nanette
4th and 5th centuries bce
Guys and Dolls
Jule Styne
39. Who stages the dances?
Ancient baghdad
Choreographer
The romantic musicals
The cotton blossom
40. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Cleverly concoted
Flutes - lyres
Restoration
Took to the streets and traveled -
41. Oh What a beautiful mornin - people will say we're in love - the surrey with the fringe on top - I cain't say no - kansas city - all er nuthin' are from What show
Meredith wilson
George and ira gershwin
Oklahoma
George and Ira Gershwin
42. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
The shows they came from
Ethel merman
Political satire
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
43. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Bert williams and george walker
The mikado
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Lerner and Loewe
44. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Timbuktu
The marx brothers
Librettist
Commedia dell-arte
45. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Jerome Robbins
Comic opera
Gene kelly
46. What show is the song bewitched from
The king and I
Greeks
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Pal Joey
47. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Kiss me - kate
George gershwin
Of thee i sing
Tearly Roman empire
48. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Spectacle
Oscar hammerstein
The doctor of alcantara
Frank Loesser
49. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Enzio pinza
Oklahoma
Nine
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
50. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
Can-can
Georges balanchine
Deus ex machina