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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 is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Voice type
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Oscar hammerstein
Set designer
2. Who writes the words to the songs?
Gertrude Lawrence
Mary rodgers
Lyricist
Director
3. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Music director
Mama rose
Professional perfomers
Libretto
4. Who stages the dances?
4th and 5th centuries bce
Oklahoma
Cole porter
Choreographer
5. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london
The merry widow
Libretto
Bob Fosse
BC- before christ
6. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Popular entertainments
Singin in the rain
Director
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
7. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Lerner and Loewe
Deus ex machina
Parodied
8. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
The Threepenny Opera
Female roles
Mama rose
My fair lady
9. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Kurt Weill
Jerome kern
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Mary Martin
10. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Kiss me - kate
Bob Fosse
Director
Can-can
11. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Music director
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Patriotic
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
12. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Rex Harrison
Swing
Director
13. Pal Joey was written by...
Rodgers and Hart
No no nanette
Michael Kidd
South pacific
14. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
Intense training
He died in 1937
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Mary rodgers
15. 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'
Brigadoon
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
The Sound of Music
Of thee i sing
16. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
BC
Flutes - lyres
Director
The desert song
17. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Lerner and Loewe
Set designer
Nine
Guys and dolls
18. Who is the composer of the King and I
Richard rodgers
Playwright
Mama rose
Patriotic
19. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Of thee i sing
Radio city music hall
Damn yankees
Stand by
20. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Kiss me - kate
Popular entertainments
The king and i
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
21. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Horace
Spectacle
Oklahoma
Ethel merman
22. G: What does BCE mean?
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Before common era
Of thee i sing
The Sound of Music
23. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
A trip to chinatown
Jerome robbins
The Threepenny Opera
Witty dialogue
24. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
Carousel
Lerner and Loewe
Mercenary mary
25. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Official beginning of western theatre
Carol Channing
West side story
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
26. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Stand by
He died in 1937
King Louis XIV
Gene kelly
27. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Moved indoors
State
My Fair Lady
Mary rodgers
28. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
Meredith wilson
Pageant wagons and mansions
Nine
29. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Bob Fosse
Aristotle
Patriotic
The marx brothers
30. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
South pacific
Director
Romantic music
Betty comden and adolph green
31. What show is i want to be happy
Comedy
Singin in the rain
No no nanette
3 to 5
32. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Julie Andrews
The cotton blossom
Angel
Music man
33. What is a 'pasticcio' score
Crazy for you
Someone to watch over me
Borrowed tunes
Annie get your gun
34. 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
Court nobility
Leonard Bernstein
Stephen Sondheim
Kiss me - kate
35. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Jerome robbins
George gershwin
Music man
Stephen Sondheim
36. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Mercenary mary
John Hollingshead
Mary martin
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
37. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Irving Berlin
Producer
Middle ages
Of thee i sing
38. Who is the star of sweet charity
Carol Channing
A trip to chinatown
Gwen verdon
Orchestration
39. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
A contrived ending
Agnes de mille
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
The shows they came from
40. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Robin hood
Oscar hammerstein
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
41. G: What is BCE same as
South pacific
BC- before christ
The puritans took control of the governmetn
The Threepenny opera
42. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
On the town
Betty comden and adolph green
Director
43. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Kurt Weill
No no nanette
Oscar hammerstein
Commedia dell-arte
44. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Comedy
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
45. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Damn yankees
Producer
John Hollingshead
Babes in arms
46. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Of thee i sing
Gypsy
No no nanette
Director
47. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
American politics
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Cole porter
Patriotic
48. 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
The king and i
The king and I
Producer
Oklahoma
49. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Meredith wilson
Marilyn Miller
Mary martin
Kismet
50. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Oklahoma
Tragedy
Librettist
Same person