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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Oklahoma
Comedy
Georges balanchine
Satyr plays
2. 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
The Threepenny opera
South pacific
Ray Bolger
Comic opera
3. Who is the composer for wonderful town
Leonard bernstein
Frank Loesser
Nine
On your toes
4. The '___________' period refers to royalty being 'restored' to the throne of england
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
James michener
Restoration
Annie get your gun
5. Does deus ex machina mean 'a turntable?'
The merry widow
No
Nine
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
6. G: in which centuries were these festivals held
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Producer
4th and 5th centuries bce
Good news
7. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Of thee i sing
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Richard d'oyly carte
Irving Berlin
8. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
The Threepenny opera
East Side Story
Damn yankees
9. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Rex Harrison
The desert song
Jerome kern
10. What show is- tea for two
Director
The Threepenny Opera
The Threepenny opera
No no nanette
11. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
Producer
Gene kelly
Cole porter
Carmen jones
12. Who wrote the music for porgy and bess
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Jerome kern
George gershwin
Candide
13. Who is the star of Sally
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Marilyn Miller
Libretto
Gene kelly
14. What comic duo was the show centered around
Gene kelly
Can-can
Bert williams and george walker
Oklahoma
15. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Producer
Gene kelly
On your toes
Guys and dolls
16. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Rodgers and Hart
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
None all men
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
17. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
24
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
No no nanette
Rodgers and Hart
18. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Producer
A contrived ending
East Side Story
Timbuktu
19. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
The marx brothers
Director
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
James michener
20. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Rodgers and hammerstein
Restoration
Brigadoon
Entertainments
21. What team wrote the Sound of music
4th and 5th centuries bce
John Hollingshead
Rodgers and hammerstein
Once upon a mattress
22. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Jerome kern
Mulligan guards routines
Ethel merman
Eliza Doolittle
23. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
Oscar hammerstein II
Once upon a mattress
Julie Andrews
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
24. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Jerome Robbins
My fair lady
Damn yankees
Ethel merman
25. Who is the composer of the music man
Meredith wilson
War
His 'confessions'
A trip to chinatown
26. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Oscar hammerstein
My fair lady
Music man
Pageant wagons and mansions
27. What does 'renaissance' mean
Rebirth
City dionysia
Permissiveness and crazes
Director
28. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Agnes de mille
New comedy
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
He was the producer
29. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
No
Agnes de Mille
Costume designer
Slapsticks
30. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On the town
Oscar hammerstein
Professional perfomers
He was the producer
31. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
George gershwin
The music man
Comic opera had music and dialogue
On the town
32. Who is the star of sweet charity
The mikado
Irving Berlin
The belle of new york
Gwen verdon
33. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Ethel merman
Cleverly concoted
Commedia dell-arte
Music man
34. Greek: 534 BCE
Oklahoma
Official beginning of western theatre
Agnes de mille
Mimes
35. 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 ___________.
Oklahoma
The shows they came from
Commedia dell-arte
South pacific
36. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
The Threepenny opera
Rebirth
Fly loft
37. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
South pacific
I got rhythm
Stephen Sondheim
Agnes de mille
38. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
The merry widow
The Threepenny Opera
The desert song
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
39. 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
Of thee i sing
Rose marie
The mikado
Richard rodgers
40. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
Music director
Enzio pinza
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
41. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Greeks
Gwen verdon
Kiss me - kate
Commedia dell-arte
42. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
He died in 1937
Producer
A stevedore
A contrived ending
43. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
My fair lady
Irene
The cotton blossom
Rex Harrison
44. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Agnes de Mille
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Can-can
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
45. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
The new moon
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Timbuktu
Anti-hero
46. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
The belle of new york
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Agnes de mille
Richard d'oyly carte
47. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The doctor of alcantara
Rodgers and hammerstein
Catholic church
48. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Spectacle
Playwright
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
49. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Mary martin
Leonard bernstein
Mary rodgers
Ballet and modern dance
50. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Leonard bernstein
Entertainments
South pacific