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Musical Theatre
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1. What character are in anything goes
Good news
Gypsy
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Leonard bernstein
2. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
War
Librettist
Annie get your gun
Catholic church
3. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Patriotic
Girl crazy
Plato
South pacific
4. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Julie Andrews
Ancient baghdad
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
5. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Damn yankees
The king and I
The savoy operas
Annie get your gun
6. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Gertrude lawrence
Jerome Robbins
Damn yankees
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
7. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
No no nanette
Comic opera
On your toes and babes in arms
8. What production featured the hit songs 'reuben - reuben' 'the bowery' and 'after the ball'?
Can-can
Director
Catholic church
A trip to chinatown
9. Who wrote the music for show boat
Political satire
Lyricist
Gestures and poses
Jerome kern
10. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Pageant wagons and mansions
Oklahoma
Director
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
11. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
The shows they came from
Moliere
Gwen verdon
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
12. 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
The cotton blossom
Kiss me - kate
New comedy
13. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
St. Augustine
Moliere
Victor herbert
Producer
14. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
Burlesqued
Lowering
No
Libretto
15. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Flutes - lyres
Timbuktu
The king and i
Julie Andrews
16. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Gestures and poses
Producer
4th and 5th centuries bce
Satyr plays
17. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
Borrowed tunes
Professional perfomers
Radio city music hall
18. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Cole porter
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Anti-hero
Georges balanchine
19. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Oklahoma
Producer
Masks and costumes
20. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Rebirth
Oil lamps
My Fair Lady
21. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Brigadoon
Stephen sondheim
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
22. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
Ethel merman
Gypsy
Lowering
The doctor of alcantara
23. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
If i loved you
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Popular entertainments and comic opera
24. What is Bali H'ai from
He died in 1937
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Adonis
South pacific
25. ____________ presents men better than they are...
Ethel merman
Tragedy
The cotton blossom
Witty dialogue
26. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Oklahoma
Georges balanchine
Agnes de mille
27. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
The king and I
Guys and Dolls
Mary Martin
If i loved you
28. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
His 'confessions'
Julie Andrews
Damn yankees
Popular entertainments
29. What does 'renaissance' mean
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Damn yankees
On your toes
Rebirth
30. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Damn yankees
Once upon a mattress
Of thee i sing
Adonis
31. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Gertrude Lawrence
No no nanette
John Gay
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
32. Where they fly things on stage
The book uncle toms cabin
Fly loft
Of thee i sing
Mimes
33. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Rodgers and hammerstein
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
HMS pinafore
3 to 5
34. What characters are in show boat
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35. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Richard d'oyly carte
Ray Bolger
Rex Harrison
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
36. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Cole Porter
Gertrude lawrence
Jerome robbins
Crazy for you
37. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Gertrude Lawrence
The new moon
Ray bolger
Pants role or trousers role
38. Greek: 534 BCE
His 'confessions'
Official beginning of western theatre
Jerome kern
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
39. Who is the star of Sally
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
No no nanette
Bernstein and Sondheim
Marilyn Miller
40. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Comic opera had music and dialogue
BC- before christ
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
The desert song
41. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Oil lamps
St. Augustine
Meredith wilson
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
42. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Can-can
A stevedore
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Romantic
43. Laurie is from What show
The metropolitan opera
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Oklahoma
East Side Story
44. Who stages the play and gives the actors their blocking?
Director
BC
Threepenny opera
The Sound of Music
45. G: how did they play female roles
Changing masks and costumes
On your toes
Eliza Doolittle
Oil lamps
46. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Professional perfomers
Timbuktu
He died in 1937
47. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Leonard bernstein
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Singin in the rain
Librettist
48. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Oil lamps
Costume designer
Romantic
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
49. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Romantic music
Swing
50. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Gwen verdon
The Threepenny opera
New comedy
My fair lady
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