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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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 ___________.
George and Ira Gershwin
The shows they came from
Mama rose
Meredith wilson
2. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
Timbuktu
Cole porter
Ray Bolger
3. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
The music man
Agnes de mille
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Orchestration
4. G: Who was obliged have the chorus trained
Agnes de Mille
George and ira gershwin
Producer
State
5. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
No no nanette
John Gay
Michael Kidd
Brigadoon
6. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Robin hood
Mary martin
Thespis
Gypsy
7. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Director
Satyr plays
Guys and Dolls
4th and 5th centuries bce
8. Professional spotlight was developed in the...
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Agnes de mille
Middle ages
Comedy
9. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
A trip to chinatown
Anti-hero
Restoration
Costume designer
10. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Thespis
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
My fair lady
The romantic musicals
11. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Of thee i sing
Jerome kern
John Hollingshead
South pacific
12. Who stages the dances?
Choreographer
West side story
No no nanette
Romantic
13. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Ray Bolger
Threepenny opera
George m. cohan
Kiss me - Kate
14. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
John Hollingshead
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Gypsy
Brigadoon
15. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The new moon
Catholic church
None all men
Damn yankees
16. 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 ___________.
Robin hood
The shows they came from
Kiss me - kate
Carol Channing
17. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
The serenade and the fortune teller
Gypsy
The new moon
Crazy for you
18. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Richard rodgers
Music man
King Louis XIV
The student prince
19. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Ethel merman
Anything goes
Pants role or trousers role
New comedy
20. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The king and i
Gypsy
Cole porter
21. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Mimes
Timbuktu
The book
Crazy for you
22. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Burlesqued
Swing
Victor herbert
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
23. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?
Babes in arms
On the town
Disappears
Oklahoma
24. Who composed the music for Irene
HMS pinafore
Playwright
Harry tierney
South pacific
25. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Evangeline
Irene
Greeks
On your toes
26. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Gypsy
South pacific
Oklahoma
Cole Porter
27. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
None all men
Oklahoma
Popular entertainments
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
28. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Music man
Restoration
Producer
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
29. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Popular entertainments
The king and i
Moliere
Meredith wilson
30. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
John Hollingshead
Meredith wilson
Bernstein and Sondheim
Pageant wagons and mansions
31. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Brigadoon
Pants role or trousers role
Ray Bolger
The king and I
32. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
No no nanette
Political satire
33. 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
Kiss me - kate
Greeks
Playwright
He was the producer
34. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Mama rose
My fair lady
Someone to watch over me
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Rodgers and hammerstein
Gwen verdon
Restoration
Ethel merman
36. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Before common era
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Julie Andrews
The puritans took control of the governmetn
37. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Oscar hammerstein
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The book uncle toms cabin
Lerner and Loewe
38. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Moved indoors
A contrived ending
Masks and costumes
No
39. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
South pacific
Gypsy
Sally
Adonis
40. 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
Gertrude Lawrence
The serenade and the fortune teller
Music man
41. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Radio city music hall
Cole Porter
Gertrude lawrence
Victor herbert
42. What comic duo was the show centered around
My Fair Lady
Set designer
Bert williams and george walker
State
43. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Athens
Threepenny opera
Victor herbert
None all men
44. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Athens
Oil lamps
Bert williams and george walker
45. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Choreographer
Greeks
Conductor
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
46. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Eliza Doolittle
Gene kelly
47. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Producer
The book uncle toms cabin
The serenade and the fortune teller
Angel
48. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Carol Channing
Gwen verdon
Ray bolger
The Threepenny opera
49. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Catholic church
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
The student prince
Julie Andrews
50. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
South pacific
Frank Loesser
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Kismet