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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 wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Leonard bernstein
Mary rodgers
Pal Joey
Bernstein and Sondheim
2. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Middle ages
Playwright
Lerner and Loewe
3. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Female roles
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Kiss me - Kate
Comic opera had music and dialogue
4. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
The Sound of Music
Tearly Roman empire
Middle ages
Plato
5. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Adonis
St. Augustine
A stevedore
Ray bolger
6. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Music man
Gypsy
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Mama rose
7. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
West side story
Richard d'oyly carte
Billy bigelow
The metropolitan opera
8. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Director
Gertrude Lawrence
Sally
American dance music
9. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
Playwright
A stevedore
He was the producer
Oh Kay
10. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The king and I
The marx brothers
Robin hood
The doctor of alcantara
11. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
His 'confessions'
Julie Andrews
Of thee i sing
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
12. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
No no nanette
Catholic church
Commedia dell-arte
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
13. What was the 1927 musical about college life
Good news
Mary Martin
Meredith wilson
Crazy for you
14. What characters are in show boat
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15. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
Cole Porter
Carousel
The merry widow
Fly loft
16. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
King Louis XIV
The book
17. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gene kelly
Guys and dolls
Richard d'oyly carte
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
18. What show is -the continental
The music man
Mercenary mary
Agnes de mille
The desert song
19. where did performers go
Carol Channing
Took to the streets and traveled -
Masks and costumes
Ethel merman
20. What was the continental
Ray bolger
Popular dance
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Lowering
21. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
No
Official beginning of western theatre
Gypsy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
22. Greek: 534 BCE
The romantic musicals
Official beginning of western theatre
John Gay
John Hollingshead
23. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
War
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
The Threepenny opera
The cotton blossom
24. Laurie's dream ballet
Oklahoma
Threepenny opera
Entertainments
Angel
25. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
24
Changing masks and costumes
On the town
26. 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 ___________.
The shows they came from
Once upon a mattress
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Annie get your gun
27. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Enzio pinza
St. Augustine
Patriotic
28. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Bob Fosse
Director
HMS pinafore
Plato
29. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
New comedy
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Julie Andrews
30. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Rodgers and hammerstein
Patriotic
31. 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'
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Annie get your gun
Harrigan and hart
Oklahoma
32. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Of thee i sing
Music man
33. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
BC- before christ
Gestures and poses
The book
East Side Story
34. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Cole porter
American dance music
On your toes
Oklahoma
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
New comedy
Jule Styne
Stephen Sondheim
George and Ira Gershwin
36. Mama rose is from What show
Greeks
Jerome kern
Julie Andrews
Gypsy
37. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Ray Bolger
Victor herbert
Oil lamps
Agnes de Mille
38. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Permissiveness and crazes
Slapsticks
Playwright
The merry widow
39. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
Kismet
Burlesqued
George and ira gershwin
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
40. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gwen verdon
Girl crazy
Gene kelly
Brigadoon
41. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
The Threepenny opera
The king and I
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
42. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
Popular dance
Moved indoors
Oh Kay
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
43. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Jule Styne
Guys and dolls
On your toes
The romantic musicals
44. What was the continental
Director
George and Ira Gershwin
Ancient baghdad
Popular dance
45. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
Bert williams and george walker
The pajama game
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
46. Who wrote the music for show boat
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Mary martin
Official beginning of western theatre
Jerome kern
47. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Of thee i sing
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Libretto
Tearly Roman empire
48. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Of thee i sing
He died in 1937
The book uncle toms cabin
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
49. What show are 'I Got Rhythm -' 'Someone to Watch Over Me -' 'They Can't Take That Away from Me -' and 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' from?
Crazy for you
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Fly loft
Composer
50. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Evangeline
Mama rose
Someone to watch over me
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein