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Musical Theatre

Subjects : performing-arts, music
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1. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes






2. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy






3. Alan-a-Dale is a ___________role because it features a woman dressed as a man






4. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress






5. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy






6. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular






7. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s






8. F:who took over those roles






9. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem






10. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night






11. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.






12. Laurie is from What show






13. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs






14. What show is -i got rhythm






15. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show






16. Commedia performers used...






17. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?






18. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II






19. Lotte Lenya is from What show






20. Who is the composer for on the town






21. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show






22. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun






23. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?






24. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?






25. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre

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26. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII






27. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature






28. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'






29. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat






30. Laurie is from What show






31. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy






32. Who is the dancing star of on your toes






33. What was the characters name in Gypsy that was an overbearing stage mom






34. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?






35. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people






36. What two pieces by victor herbert were not considered opera-bouffe?






37. Professional spotlight was developed in the...






38. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?






39. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?






40. What was one of the main distinctions between grand opera and comic opera






41. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show






42. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'






43. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'






44. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas






45. What was the setting for Kismet






46. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality






47. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece






48. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show






49. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'






50. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...