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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
He died in 1937
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
St. Augustine
Permissiveness and crazes
2. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Pal Joey
Commedia dell-arte
Middle ages
3. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
George m. cohan
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Richard rodgers
Gertrude lawrence
4. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Leonard bernstein
Kismet
A stevedore
Playwright
5. Who writes the words to the songs?
Slapsticks
Pants role or trousers role
Producer
Lyricist
6. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Julie Andrews
Oscar hammerstein II
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Jerome robbins
7. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
Meredith wilson
Oscar hammerstein
Rodgers and Hart
Carousel
8. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Political satire
Gestures and poses
City dionysia
Rodgers and hammerstein
9. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Gypsy
The serenade and the fortune teller
The Threepenny Opera
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
10. 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?
Guys and dolls
Entertainments
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Radio city music hall
11. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Director
The music man
Ethel merman
The music man
12. Who is the composer of the King and I
Bob Fosse
Director
Kiss me - Kate
Richard rodgers
13. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Annie get your gun
Popular entertainments
Spectacle
Patriotic
14. What is 'someone to watch over me' from?
A trip to chinatown
Evangeline
Producer
Oh Kay
15. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
King Louis XIV
Agnes de Mille
Angel
Eliza Doolittle
16. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man
Public enemy no. 13
Ethel merman
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Pants role or trousers role
17. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
Rodgers and hammerstein
The marx brothers
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
18. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
A contrived ending
Victor herbert
New comedy
Catholic church
19. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Cole Porter
Stephen sondheim
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Agnes de mille
20. 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
Timbuktu
Girl crazy
Victor herbert
Rose marie
21. Gilbert and sullivan were known for ____________ and briliant burlesque humor
The pajama game
Witty dialogue
Richard d'oyly carte
Producer
22. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Nine
Gypsy
Radio city music hall
23. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
The metropolitan opera
Orchestration
Ray bolger
Borrowed tunes
24. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Same person
King Louis XIV
Kiss me - Kate
25. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Before common era
Producer
Agnes de mille
Middle ages
26. What was the original name of West Side Story
Ray bolger
East Side Story
South pacific
George gershwin
27. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Timbuktu
Julie Andrews
28. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Mary Martin
Leonard bernstein
Cole Porter
Gestures and poses
29. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
No
Once upon a mattress
He was the producer
Rodgers and hammerstein
30. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
Betty comden and adolph green
The book uncle toms cabin
Kiss me - kate
31. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Restoration
Anti-hero
South pacific
32. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Babes in arms
Carousel
Swing
Permissiveness and crazes
33. What show is -i got rhythm
Ethel merman
The savoy operas
Bernstein and Sondheim
Girl crazy
34. G: What does BCE mean?
Director
Before common era
Lerner and Loewe
Adonis
35. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The cotton blossom
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Romantic
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
36. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
False it was stylized
Permissiveness and crazes
The merry widow
Girl crazy
37. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
Masks and costumes
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Rodgers and hammerstein
38. Where they fly things on stage
Nine
John Gay
Rex Harrison
Fly loft
39. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Producer
On your toes
Permissiveness and crazes
Comedies
40. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
George and Ira Gershwin
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Leonard bernstein
A trip to chinatown
41. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Comic opera had music and dialogue
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Thespis
42. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Libretto
Harrigan and hart
Brigadoon
Gypsy
43. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?
The serenade and the fortune teller
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Once upon a mattress
Stephen Sondheim
44. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Commedia dell-arte
Agnes de mille
Agnes de Mille
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
45. What was the continental
Popular dance
Kiss me - kate
Brigadoon
Oklahoma
46. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom
Mama rose
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Stephen Sondheim
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
47. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Georges balanchine
Timbuktu
Playwright
Comedy
48. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Comedies
Brigadoon
Bert williams and george walker
Someone to watch over me
49. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
Costume designer
Slapsticks
State
On your toes and babes in arms
50. Who is the composer / lyricist team for Porgy and Bess
George and ira gershwin
Swing
Stephen sondheim
Richard rodgers