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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Where they fly things on stage
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Carmen jones
Professional perfomers
Fly loft
2. 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
Bert williams and george walker
No no nanette
Kiss me - kate
The book uncle toms cabin
3. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Adonis
Court nobility
Music man
Frank Loesser
4. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
3 to 5
American dance music
John Hollingshead
East Side Story
5. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Carmen jones
Comedy
Guys and Dolls
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
6. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
George gershwin
Gertrude Lawrence
A trip to chinatown
BC
7. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
New comedy
Restoration
The music man
8. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Libretto
Leonard bernstein
Harry tierney
Harrigan and hart
9. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Irene
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
10. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Moved indoors
New comedy
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Intense training
11. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Radio city music hall
Deus ex machina
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Plato
12. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
The merry widow
Burlesqued
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
13. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Anything goes
Political satire
Greeks
He died in 1937
14. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
24
Set designer
Playwright
15. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Jerome Robbins
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
16. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
City dionysia
Gene kelly
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Pants role or trousers role
17. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Borrowed tunes
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Leonard bernstein
South pacific
18. Laurie is from What show
Once upon a mattress
Oklahoma
Kiss me - kate
Gene kelly
19. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Kiss me - kate
Disappears
My fair lady
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
20. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Mercenary mary
Ancient baghdad
Cole porter
No no nanette
21. Laurie's dream ballet
Pal Joey
Gypsy
Oklahoma
A stevedore
22. Who wrote the music for show boat
Harry tierney
Choreographer
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Jerome kern
23. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
The book uncle toms cabin
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Aristotle
No no nanette
24. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
Flutes - lyres
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Irene
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
25. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Popular dance
Romantic
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Swing
26. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
The merry widow
The metropolitan opera
If i loved you
27. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Leonard Bernstein
The merry widow
Restoration
Mary martin
28. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Irving Berlin
War
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
The romantic musicals
29. Annie Oakley is from What show
None all men
Annie get your gun
My fair lady
Lyricist
30. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Georges balanchine
Gertrude lawrence
Candide
Jule Styne
31. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
South pacific
If i loved you
Parodied
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
32. 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
The romantic musicals
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
New comedy
City dionysia
33. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Victor herbert
Producer
My Fair Lady
Composer
34. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Timbuktu
Oklahoma
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The metropolitan opera
35. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
The king and I
Threepenny opera
Plato
Gypsy
36. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Harry tierney
Lyricist
Moved indoors
37. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Rodgers and hammerstein
Oscar hammerstein
If i loved you
Gertrude lawrence
38. What characters are in show boat
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39. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
4th and 5th centuries bce
George m. cohan
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
40. In what work does the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
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41. Which musical was based on william shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
Of thee i sing
The cotton blossom
Court nobility
Kiss me - Kate
42. Who was the star actor in pal joey and singin in the rain
Gertrude Lawrence
Gene kelly
Timbuktu
Entertainments
43. Rudolf Friml wrote a musical set in exotic Canada and featured 'Indian Love Call' and 'Totem Tom-Tom' What was the name of the musical
Kiss me - kate
The student prince
Rose marie
Ethel merman
44. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mercenary mary
A trip to chinatown
Angel
45. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Robin hood
Ray Bolger
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
46. Annie Oakley is from What show
None all men
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Annie get your gun
Official beginning of western theatre
47. Commedia performers used...
Slapsticks
Tearly Roman empire
Satyr plays
Cole porter
48. Which is about a prince going to school in heidelberg - germany
Aristotle
Parodied
The student prince
State
49. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Can-can
Brigadoon
Victor herbert
Playwright
50. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Yul Brenner
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
The merry widow