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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Comic opera
2. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Gertrude Lawrence
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Popular dance
Crazy for You
3. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Yul Brenner
Of thee i sing
Public enemy no. 13
4. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Voice type
Agnes de mille
None all men
5. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
The shows they came from
Romantic music
My Fair Lady
South pacific
6. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Popular dance
West side story
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Entertainments
7. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Pageant wagons and mansions
Agnes de Mille
Director
Marilyn Miller
8. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
24
Evangeline
Carmen jones
Candide
9. 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 ___________.
The shows they came from
Mama rose
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
10. What was a 'claquer?'
Libretto
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Enzio pinza
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
11. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
American politics
Annie get your gun
Agnes de mille
My Fair Lady
12. where did performers go
Took to the streets and traveled -
The king and I
Agnes de mille
Can-can
13. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Yul Brenner
New comedy
George gershwin
Parodied
14. G: How many women were in a Greek Chorus?
None all men
Kiss me - kate
Adonis
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
15. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Evangeline
Gypsy
John Hollingshead
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
16. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Tragedy
Popular dance
Producer
Agnes de mille
17. Thespis ________ greek mythology
Eliza Doolittle
Burlesqued
Carousel
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
18. Who was the choreographer for carousel
Agnes de mille
The Threepenny opera
New comedy
None all men
19. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Director
Oh Kay
Masks and costumes
Comic opera
20. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Gene kelly
Ballet and modern dance
Official beginning of western theatre
21. What comic duo was the show centered around
Bert williams and george walker
Cole Porter
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Leonard bernstein
22. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Timbuktu
Producer
Mary martin
23. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
The merry widow
Political satire
Professional perfomers
Jule Styne
24. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Carol Channing
The marx brothers
Bernstein and Sondheim
25. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Pants role or trousers role
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
26. Pal Joey was written by...
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Rodgers and Hart
St. Augustine
27. Who is the star of Sally
Oh Kay
The student prince
Jerome robbins
Marilyn Miller
28. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Popular dance
The new moon
False it was stylized
Damn yankees
29. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
3 to 5
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
South pacific
Julie Andrews
30. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Cole Porter
Agnes de Mille
The Threepenny opera
31. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Mary rodgers
St. Augustine
Before common era
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
32. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Jerome robbins
Leonard Bernstein
Deus ex machina
Cleverly concoted
33. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Gestures and poses
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Pal Joey
Irving Berlin
34. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
The king and i
Permissiveness and crazes
Annie get your gun
35. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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36. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Rose marie
Once upon a mattress
Popular entertainments
The shows they came from
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
West side story
South pacific
Julie Andrews
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
38. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette
Orchestration
Adonis
The romantic musicals
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
39. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
Annie get your gun
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
Harrigan and hart
Irene
40. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
My Fair Lady
New comedy
State
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
41. What actor/dancer was introduced in the show and is most famous for his portrayal of teh Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger
Producer
Director
Jerome Robbins
42. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Irving Berlin
Cole porter
Guys and Dolls
43. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Harry tierney
The shows they came from
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
44. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show
The music man
Producer
Crazy for you
The king and i
45. Who is the composer of the King and I
Meredith wilson
Kismet
Ethel merman
Richard rodgers
46. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
Lowering
Patriotic
Oscar hammerstein II
47. Who wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones
On your toes and babes in arms
Libretto
On the town
Oscar hammerstein
48. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
St. Augustine
Director
Eliza Doolittle
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
49. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
The cotton blossom
The king and I
Angel
My Fair Lady
50. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Set designer
New comedy
Producer
Mercenary mary