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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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1. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Leonard Bernstein
American dance music
Bob Fosse
Crazy for You
2. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
No no nanette
Cole Porter
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Tearly Roman empire
3. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Producer
The mikado
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Masks and costumes
4. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Flutes - lyres
Orchestration
John Gay
HMS pinafore
5. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
The book uncle toms cabin
South pacific
Comic opera
6. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
Meredith wilson
Michael Kidd
4th and 5th centuries bce
7. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Gypsy
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Of thee i sing
Carmen jones
8. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Guys and Dolls
John Hollingshead
9. Annie Oakley is from What show
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Director
Annie get your gun
10. G: Greek actors had...
The king and i
Jule Styne
Kurt Weill
Intense training
11. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
Stephen Sondheim
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
The savoy operas
Stephen sondheim
12. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
George and ira gershwin
Director
Can-can
On your toes
13. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
Orchestration
State
The book
None all men
14. Mama rose is from What show
My Fair Lady
Conductor
Gypsy
George and Ira Gershwin
15. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
Agnes de mille
Jerome Robbins
Leonard bernstein
16. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
John Hollingshead
Ballet and modern dance
Jerome kern
The music man
17. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Victor herbert
The desert song
Comedies
James michener
18. What characters are in show boat
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19. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
American dance music
Playwright
The pajama game
Jule Styne
20. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Rodgers and Hart
Robin hood
If i loved you
21. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Cole porter
Popular dance
Betty comden and adolph green
War
22. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
Meredith wilson
Rodgers and hammerstein
Rodgers and hammerstein
23. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Cleverly concoted
Producer
The music man
On your toes
24. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
Producer
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
New comedy
Enzio pinza
25. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Pants role or trousers role
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Of thee i sing
Good news
26. F:who took over those roles
Ethel merman
Professional perfomers
Oscar hammerstein II
Georges balanchine
27. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Robin hood
The shows they came from
The student prince
Lerner and Loewe
28. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Political satire
Jerome kern
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Cole porter
29. The musical based on the lives of the Trapp Family Singers
Frank Loesser
The Sound of Music
Took to the streets and traveled -
Public enemy no. 13
30. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Commedia dell-arte
The metropolitan opera
Set designer
Ethel merman
31. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Oklahoma
Billy bigelow
Orchestration
Director
32. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Commedia dell-arte
33. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
Greeks
Horace
Ray bolger
The mikado
34. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
He died in 1937
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
American dance music
Set designer
35. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Orchestration
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
South pacific
36. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
George gershwin
Deus ex machina
Eliza Doolittle
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
37. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Entertainments
Betty comden and adolph green
The marx brothers
38. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
American politics
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Gertrude Lawrence
John Hollingshead
39. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Gypsy
Nine
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Anything goes
40. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
Kiss me - Kate
Victor herbert
South pacific
The serenade and the fortune teller
41. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Deus ex machina
The new moon
Jule Styne
Lerner and Loewe
42. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
No
Rodgers and hammerstein
Court nobility
Rex Harrison
43. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Aristotle
Stand by
Mimes
44. What was the setting for Kismet
Ancient baghdad
The king and i
King Louis XIV
Rodgers and Hart
45. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Michael Kidd
Cole Porter
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
46. 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
Romantic
Rose marie
Yul Brenner
Kiss me - kate
47. Roman theatre: Women performed in...
Spectacle
Gypsy
Victor herbert
Mimes
48. What does 'renaissance' mean
Rebirth
Patriotic
4th and 5th centuries bce
Director
49. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Athens
Mary rodgers
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Director
50. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
The music man
A stevedore
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Jerome Robbins