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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Mary Martin played a novice at the Nonnberg Abbey In What show
Public enemy no. 13
The Sound of Music
Radio city music hall
George m. cohan
2. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
South pacific
Oklahoma
3. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Took to the streets and traveled -
He died in 1937
Meredith wilson
Adonis
4. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Libretto
Mary Martin
John Hollingshead
5. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
Agnes de mille
Gene kelly
George and ira gershwin
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
6. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Mary Martin
Political satire
Eliza Doolittle
Agnes de mille
7. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Producer
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Cole porter
8. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Comic opera
Before common era
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Romantic music
9. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Guys and dolls
Stand by
10. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Jerome robbins
Julie Andrews
No no nanette
My Fair Lady
11. What are the three types of greek plays
The serenade and the fortune teller
I got rhythm
Voice type
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
12. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Gypsy
Costume designer
Brigadoon
Someone to watch over me
13. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Commedia dell-arte
Gypsy
Girl crazy
Julie Andrews
14. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
His 'confessions'
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Slapsticks
Marilyn Miller
15. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Professional perfomers
Angel
Enzio pinza
Rodgers and hammerstein
16. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
Gertrude Lawrence
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Threepenny opera
Libretto
17. What show is -the continental
Set designer
Mercenary mary
New comedy
The music man
18. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
A contrived ending
Producer
Jerome Robbins
Agnes de mille
19. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Conductor
He died in 1937
Burlesqued
Aristotle
20. What show is -i got rhythm
Girl crazy
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Gypsy
21. Who stages the dances?
Gestures and poses
Orchestration
None all men
Choreographer
22. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Anti-hero
Carol Channing
Leonard bernstein
Cole porter
23. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Oscar hammerstein
Music man
24. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
The romantic musicals
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Aristotle
25. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Commedia dell-arte
Oklahoma
Rex Harrison
Richard d'oyly carte
26. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
The mikado
Deus ex machina
South pacific
George gershwin
27. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
He was the producer
Same person
Bernstein and Sondheim
Once upon a mattress
28. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
4th and 5th centuries bce
My fair lady
Nine
City dionysia
29. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
South pacific
Masks and costumes
Gertrude Lawrence
Comedy
30. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
The king and I
Librettist
Victor herbert
West side story
31. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Producer
Oklahoma
Romantic
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
32. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
George and Ira Gershwin
Guys and dolls
Playwright
The Threepenny opera
33. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Before common era
Oklahoma
The belle of new york
Mary rodgers
34. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Mercenary mary
Jerome robbins
Meredith wilson
King Louis XIV
35. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
Entertainments
Pants role or trousers role
Bernstein and Sondheim
South pacific
36. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Frank Loesser
Same person
Lerner and Loewe
Permissiveness and crazes
37. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Mercenary mary
Can-can
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Jerome Robbins
38. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Of thee i sing
Producer
39. Laurie is from What show
Oklahoma
A stevedore
Of thee i sing
The book uncle toms cabin
40. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
My fair lady
Female roles
Gypsy
Orchestration
41. what are the trhee things that roman playwright Plautus introduced into his plays??
The shows they came from
Timbuktu
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
He was the producer
42. F:who took over those roles
Pageant wagons and mansions
Professional perfomers
His 'confessions'
Permissiveness and crazes
43. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Gypsy
Jerome kern
The doctor of alcantara
44. What show is i want to be happy
Cole porter
The new moon
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
No no nanette
45. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Agnes de Mille
George gershwin
Oklahoma
46. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Agnes de Mille
The doctor of alcantara
West side story
Anything goes
47. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Cleverly concoted
Victor herbert
The Sound of Music
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
48. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Julie Andrews
On your toes
The desert song
The shows they came from
49. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what
Public enemy no. 13
Mercenary mary
Once upon a mattress
Lowering
50. Bloody Mary is from What show
Threepenny opera
The savoy operas
South pacific
False- it was considred a romantic musical