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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
The music man
My Fair Lady
Rebirth
2. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Agnes de mille
The new moon
Kiss me - kate
Lerner and Loewe
3. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Gwen verdon
The metropolitan opera
Richard rodgers
4. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Once upon a mattress
Music director
Borrowed tunes
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
5. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Lowering
Horace
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
6. What was Oh Kays most famous song
New comedy
Oklahoma
The mikado
Someone to watch over me
7. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Ballet and modern dance
South pacific
Jule Styne
The desert song
8. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Ray Bolger
Meredith wilson
Flutes - lyres
Ethel merman
9. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Pants role or trousers role
Composer
Ethel merman
Comedies
10. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Gertrude Lawrence
Plato
Julie Andrews
Lerner and Loewe
11. Who played King Mongkut in the King and I
The marx brothers
Harrigan and hart
The student prince
Yul Brenner
12. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Sally
Once upon a mattress
If i loved you
Moliere
13. Who is the composer of Candide
Agnes de mille
Leonard bernstein
Jule Styne
Timbuktu
14. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
The mikado
The king and i
South pacific
15. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
Lerner and Loewe
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
George gershwin
Carol Channing
16. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Thespis
Conductor
The shows they came from
Playwright
17. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Leonard Bernstein
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Bert williams and george walker
Carol Channing
18. What character are in anything goes
Robin hood
Meredith wilson
Jerome kern
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
19. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Crazy for you
Marilyn Miller
Catholic church
My fair lady
20. Who is the star of sweet charity
Victor herbert
Gwen verdon
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The Threepenny Opera
21. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Slapsticks
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Aristotle
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23. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Costume designer
The Sound of Music
Composer
The romantic musicals
24. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
No no nanette
3 to 5
Richard rodgers
Agnes de mille
25. Laurie is from What show
Oklahoma
The cotton blossom
Kiss me - kate
Cole porter
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 ___________.
My Fair Lady
Cole Porter
The shows they came from
King Louis XIV
27. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Marilyn Miller
Changing masks and costumes
The Threepenny Opera
Official beginning of western theatre
28. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
Thespis
Carmen jones
Oil lamps
Anything goes
29. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Romantic music
Tragedies
Took to the streets and traveled -
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
30. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Rodgers and hammerstein
Gertrude Lawrence
The king and I
31. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Lerner and Loewe
Georges balanchine
Permissiveness and crazes
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
32. Which musical deals with the oldest established permenant floating crap game in NY and hinges on a bet as whether Sky can get Sara to fall in love with him?
Jule Styne
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Guys and dolls
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
33. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Orchestration
Bernstein and Sondheim
Director
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
34. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show
West side story
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Oklahoma
The serenade and the fortune teller
35. G: Greek actors had...
Mary Martin
Can-can
Intense training
War
36. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
Good news
Catholic church
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
37. Who picks the actors?
Director
Athens
Michael Kidd
Gestures and poses
38. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
Agnes de Mille
Sally
He was the producer
39. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Crazy for you
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Music man
40. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Can-can
Composer
Stephen sondheim
Victor herbert
41. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Cole porter
Ray bolger
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Agnes de Mille
42. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Billy bigelow
Producer
My Fair Lady
The marx brothers
43. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Ethel merman
Stephen Sondheim
Agnes de mille
Mary rodgers
44. 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
Oklahoma
Thespis
New comedy
My fair lady
45. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
My fair lady
Threepenny opera
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Carol Channing
46. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
Permissiveness and crazes
HMS pinafore
Lyricist
47. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Popular dance
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Kiss me - Kate
He was the producer
48. 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?
Oklahoma
The music man
Jerome kern
Crazy for you
49. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Damn yankees
A stevedore
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The mikado
50. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
A trip to chinatown
I got rhythm
Rodgers and hammerstein
No no nanette
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