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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. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Jerome Robbins
Meredith wilson
Orchestration
2. Who was the choreographer for carousel
East Side Story
My fair lady
Agnes de mille
The Sound of Music
3. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Lowering
Producer
4. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
Can-can
Radio city music hall
Orchestration
5. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Stephen sondheim
Jule Styne
Moved indoors
Costume designer
6. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Producer
Cleverly concoted
He died in 1937
7. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
I got rhythm
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
The merry widow
8. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Producer
Cole porter
None all men
Victor herbert
9. Laurie is from What show
Oklahoma
Intense training
Gestures and poses
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
10. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Leonard bernstein
Meredith wilson
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
South pacific
11. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Leonard bernstein
Irving Berlin
Brigadoon
Aristotle
12. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
Frank Loesser
King Louis XIV
Once upon a mattress
New comedy
13. Who writes the words to the songs?
Angel
Lyricist
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Girl crazy
14. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
24
The student prince
BC
Annie get your gun
15. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
The pajama game
Rex Harrison
Witty dialogue
George gershwin
16. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Stephen sondheim
South pacific
No no nanette
Julie Andrews
17. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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18. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Singin in the rain
Producer
Mary Martin
19. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Costume designer
Oscar hammerstein
Moved indoors
20. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The serenade and the fortune teller
On the town
The doctor of alcantara
Official beginning of western theatre
21. Greek: 534 BCE
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Official beginning of western theatre
Ray Bolger
Irving Berlin
22. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Masks and costumes
Brigadoon
Burlesqued
23. Who picks the actors?
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Director
Tragedy
Leonard bernstein
24. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Cole Porter
Gypsy
Oscar hammerstein II
Ethel merman
25. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
My Fair Lady
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Gene kelly
False- it was considred a romantic musical
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Kurt Weill
Girl crazy
27. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Romantic
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Adonis
28. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Set designer
Agnes de mille
Annie get your gun
Pal Joey
29. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Court nobility
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Moved indoors
No no nanette
30. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Ethel merman
The new moon
Guys and Dolls
31. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Horace
Took to the streets and traveled -
Disappears
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
32. 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
Intense training
Brigadoon
The savoy operas
33. Who composed the music for Irene
Harry tierney
Julie Andrews
Female roles
Costume designer
34. Who wrote the music for show boat
Oklahoma
Director
Jerome kern
Brigadoon
35. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Gypsy
Ethel merman
Good news
Rodgers and hammerstein
36. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
The Sound of Music
Director
Playwright
Meredith wilson
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
The king and i
If i loved you
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Once upon a mattress
38. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Burlesqued
Restoration
Fly loft
Candide
39. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Kiss me - kate
Victor herbert
The music man
Mercenary mary
40. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Robin hood
None all men
The mikado
The savoy operas
41. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Carmen jones
Permissiveness and crazes
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Gertrude Lawrence
42. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Brigadoon
Producer
Before common era
Voice type
43. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Timbuktu
South pacific
The metropolitan opera
George gershwin
44. G: How many lead actors were there?
Agnes de mille
3 to 5
Intense training
Kiss me - kate
45. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Jule Styne
George and ira gershwin
Cleverly concoted
Threepenny opera
46. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Oklahoma
The Threepenny opera
False it was stylized
Jerome kern
47. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
Jerome robbins
Yul Brenner
Flutes - lyres
Entertainments
48. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
John Hollingshead
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Disappears
49. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Richard rodgers
On your toes and babes in arms
Michael Kidd
Victor herbert
50. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Mercenary mary
Patriotic
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein