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Musical Theatre

Subjects : performing-arts, music
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt






2. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?






3. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name






4. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya






5. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?






6. Who picks the actors?






7. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game






8. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens






9. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period






10. who are the producers for Annie get your gun






11. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady






12. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)






13. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan






14. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes






15. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show






16. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'






17. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment






18. What was another international hit of the late 1890s






19. What happens to the singing chorus in new comedy?






20. which show from vienna was originally called 'die lustige witwe' and was produced at the dalys theatre in london






21. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what






22. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move






23. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse






24. What show is the song bewitched from






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






26. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?






27. Thespis ________ greek mythology






28. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.






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






30. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'






31. Thespis ________ greek mythology






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






33. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show






34. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience






35. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show






36. Who wrote the music for show boat






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






38. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show






39. __________ presents men worse than they are...






40. What was the first international american hit (1874)?






41. Who writes the words to the songs?






42. Who is the start of Girl Crazy






43. What was the continental






44. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?






45. for the most part we know specific songs form 1930s musicals that made it into the popular repertoire but we no longer associate them with ___________.






46. What show is -i got rhythm






47. tony - maria - anita - bernardo are from What show






48. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show






49. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?






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