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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 was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Agnes de mille
Oil lamps
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Rebirth
2. Pal joey introduced the ________ into the types of musical theatre characters
If i loved you
Candide
The music man
Anti-hero
3. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Kurt Weill
East Side Story
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Rex Harrison
4. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Ray bolger
South pacific
Professional perfomers
5. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Satyr plays
Agnes de mille
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
The Threepenny opera
6. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
The king and I
Crazy for you
Mercenary mary
7. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
A trip to chinatown
The marx brothers
Ray Bolger
My Fair Lady
8. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Rodgers and hammerstein
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Producer
9. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Mercenary mary
4th and 5th centuries bce
St. Augustine
Annie get your gun
10. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Oh Kay
The book
Good news
The metropolitan opera
11. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
No no nanette
Conductor
Intense training
Anything goes
12. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Popular entertainments
Patriotic
Ancient baghdad
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
13. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Cole porter
Someone to watch over me
Carmen jones
James michener
14. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Lerner and Loewe
Jule Styne
South pacific
15. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
The belle of new york
Producer
George m. cohan
Jerome robbins
16. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The Sound of Music
Pal Joey
If i loved you
17. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Composer
HMS pinafore
Singin in the rain
Greeks
18. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Richard d'oyly carte
Moved indoors
Damn yankees
Lowering
19. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
The music man
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Patriotic
East Side Story
20. What was a 'claquer?'
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
New comedy
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
21. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Music man
Jerome kern
Brigadoon
Director
22. 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
Producer
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Producer
23. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
I got rhythm
South pacific
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Aristotle
24. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Court nobility
Comic opera had music and dialogue
The Sound of Music
25. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
The Threepenny Opera
War
Mama rose
The music man
26. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Can-can
Mercenary mary
Yul Brenner
Threepenny opera
27. What are the three types of greek plays
Mulligan guards routines
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Good news
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
28. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Damn yankees
The puritans took control of the governmetn
The book
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
29. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Rodgers and Hart
Crazy for you
Rebirth
Ethel merman
30. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Cole porter
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
The merry widow
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
31. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
The cotton blossom
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oh Kay
On your toes
32. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Angel
Disappears
Julie Andrews
Jule Styne
33. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
The cotton blossom
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Popular entertainments
Mary Martin
34. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
Damn yankees
The romantic musicals
Damn yankees
35. G: How many lead actors were there?
Carousel
Entertainments
3 to 5
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
36. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The king and I
Anti-hero
37. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Adonis
Plato
38. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
Once upon a mattress
Meredith wilson
Rodgers and hammerstein
Orchestration
39. Who wrote the music for show boat
Thespis
Jerome kern
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
George gershwin
40. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Moved indoors
Rodgers and hammerstein
Singin in the rain
A stevedore
41. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
New comedy
Tragedies
Oil lamps
The serenade and the fortune teller
42. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Director
Anything goes
Spectacle
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
43. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Oklahoma
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Gypsy
Female roles
44. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Popular entertainments
Victor herbert
Agnes de Mille
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
45. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
St. Augustine
Eliza Doolittle
Oscar hammerstein
George gershwin
46. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Popular dance
He was the producer
Victor herbert
47. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Robin hood
Set designer
George gershwin
48. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
Took to the streets and traveled -
Ray bolger
Entertainments
Lerner and Loewe
49. G: Male actors played...
Producer
Athens
On your toes
Female roles
50. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The student prince
Playwright
Parodied