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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
BC- before christ
Mulligan guards routines
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
2. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Aristotle
War
Georges balanchine
Tearly Roman empire
3. Why was the plot of Anything Goes changed before opening
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Aristotle
The music man
Irene
4. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Before common era
John Hollingshead
Bert williams and george walker
Lerner and Loewe
5. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Rodgers and hammerstein
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Popular entertainments
Gwen verdon
6. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
On your toes and babes in arms
Cole porter
Rose marie
7. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Agnes de Mille
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Orchestration
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
8. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Threepenny opera
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
American politics
My fair lady
9. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
The student prince
Mimes
New comedy
Tearly Roman empire
10. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.
Romantic
Aristotle
Composer
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
11. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar
Romantic
Commedia dell-arte
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Gypsy
12. What show is -i got rhythm
Candide
New comedy
Girl crazy
Leonard bernstein
13. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Producer
The belle of new york
On your toes
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
14. What show was the music by goerges bizet with lyrics by oscar hammerstein II
On your toes and babes in arms
Carmen jones
BC- before christ
South pacific
15. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
Jerome robbins
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
HMS pinafore
Pants role or trousers role
16. Who picks the actors?
Director
False it was stylized
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Parodied
17. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
24
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Same person
18. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
Guys and dolls
War
Kurt Weill
Public enemy no. 13
19. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Gertrude Lawrence
Horace
Director
20. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
The merry widow
Burlesqued
Ray Bolger
Court nobility
21. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Jule Styne
Composer
Julie Andrews
Orchestration
22. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
American politics
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Composer
Timbuktu
23. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
King Louis XIV
Witty dialogue
Timbuktu
False- it was considred a romantic musical
24. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Rose marie
John Gay
Ballet and modern dance
25. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Jule Styne
Fly loft
Threepenny opera
26. 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
Irene
Gestures and poses
Rose marie
The romantic musicals
27. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
Pants role or trousers role
The desert song
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
28. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Kismet
The cotton blossom
On your toes and babes in arms
Billy bigelow
29. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Court nobility
Gypsy
He was the producer
The king and I
30. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Jerome kern
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Producer
31. What is the term for 'god from the machine' or 'god in a machine?'
Changing masks and costumes
Kiss me - Kate
The metropolitan opera
Deus ex machina
32. Lotte Lenya is from What show
On your toes and babes in arms
The Threepenny Opera
Agnes de mille
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
33. Which Bernstein musical is an adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire of the same name
Candide
On the town
Agnes de mille
No no nanette
34. Who played the Original Professor Henry Higgins in MY Fair Lady
Bernstein and Sondheim
Rex Harrison
Cleverly concoted
New comedy
35. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
My Fair Lady
Costume designer
Anti-hero
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
36. G: Male actors played...
Tragedy
Masks and costumes
Anything goes
Female roles
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Babes in Arms
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Julie Andrews
Victor herbert
38. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Comic opera
Librettist
Tearly Roman empire
Jule Styne
39. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
Anti-hero
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Guys and dolls
Greeks
40. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?
Middle ages
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
South pacific
False- it was considred a romantic musical
41. Annie Oakley is from What show
My fair lady
The student prince
Annie get your gun
Kismet
42. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
Damn yankees
Set designer
Rodgers and Hart
Once upon a mattress
43. The Cocoaunuts and Animal Crackers were written as star vehicles for ....
The marx brothers
Damn yankees
The king and i
Slapsticks
44. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Gertrude Lawrence
George m. cohan
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Aristotle
45. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
Librettist
The music man
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
46. Who is the composer of the King and I
Jerome Robbins
The savoy operas
Frank Loesser
Richard rodgers
47. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Ethel merman
Annie get your gun
Damn yankees
3 to 5
48. What team wrote the Sound of music
Rodgers and hammerstein
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The desert song
Parodied
49. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Radio city music hall
Witty dialogue
War
The king and i
50. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
No no nanette
Meredith wilson