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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Kurt Weill
No no nanette
On the town
Burlesqued
2. What was a 'claquer?'
Producer
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Moliere
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
3. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Harrigan and hart
The book uncle toms cabin
City dionysia
4. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Good news
On your toes and babes in arms
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
The merry widow
5. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
Marilyn Miller
I got rhythm
Michael Kidd
Julie Andrews
6. What show is i want to be happy
Moliere
War
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
No no nanette
7. Who is the composer for on the town
Leonard bernstein
Cleverly concoted
On your toes
He died in 1937
8. Commedia performers used...
Kismet
Court nobility
Slapsticks
Lowering
9. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
Mary Martin
Cleverly concoted
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Mulligan guards routines
10. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Romantic
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Nine
11. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Richard rodgers
Comedy
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
George gershwin
12. Who hires the creative team for a production?
Guys and Dolls
Producer
Gertrude Lawrence
South pacific
13. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The music man
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Radio city music hall
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
14. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Eliza Doolittle
Bernstein and Sondheim
Enzio pinza
15. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
James michener
Victor herbert
The music man
The Threepenny opera
16. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
City dionysia
Harrigan and hart
No no nanette
Before common era
17. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Patriotic
Marilyn Miller
Babes in arms
The king and I
18. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Rodgers and hammerstein
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Orchestration
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
19. Who is the composer of Candide
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Leonard bernstein
Eliza Doolittle
Voice type
20. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Producer
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Carousel
Stand by
21. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Someone to watch over me
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Greeks
Oscar hammerstein II
22. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Crazy for you
Bert williams and george walker
New comedy
23. Who composed the music for Irene
Borrowed tunes
Ethel merman
Harry tierney
On your toes
24. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
My fair lady
Kurt Weill
Evangeline
The metropolitan opera
25. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
Comedy
Composer
Ethel merman
My fair lady
26. What was a 'claquer?'
Same person
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Choreographer
Mimes
27. G: Who was responsible for the masks and costumes
Disappears
Richard d'oyly carte
Producer
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
28. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
The desert song
The king and i
Catholic church
Radio city music hall
29. 'The Garden of Eden' Ballet sequence is form What show
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Can-can
The marx brothers
30. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
South pacific
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Agnes de mille
No no nanette
31. Who wrote 'smoke gets in your eyes'
Jerome kern
Oil lamps
City dionysia
Stephen sondheim
32. Who is the composer of the King and I
Borrowed tunes
Intense training
Richard rodgers
Enzio pinza
33. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Leonard bernstein
Oscar hammerstein II
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
34. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Athens
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Oscar hammerstein II
35. What was the first international sucess of gilbert and sullivan
HMS pinafore
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Ethel merman
Changing masks and costumes
36. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Of thee i sing
Librettist
Mulligan guards routines
The savoy operas
37. Which character sings 'soliloquey' in carousel
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Billy bigelow
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
George m. cohan
38. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes
Richard d'oyly carte
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Commedia dell-arte
Cole porter
39. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Oklahoma
Agnes de Mille
The new moon
East Side Story
40. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Anything goes
Frank Loesser
Oklahoma
South pacific
41. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
The king and i
Kismet
Parodied
New comedy
42. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Jule Styne
Adonis
On your toes and babes in arms
John Hollingshead
43. G: What is BCE same as
Robin hood
Can-can
Producer
BC- before christ
44. What was the first international american hit (1874)?
State
Evangeline
George m. cohan
Sally
45. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Paint Your Wagon
The cotton blossom
Lerner and Loewe
BC
Anything goes
46. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Tragedy
Librettist
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Stand by
47. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
Masks and costumes
Can-can
No no nanette
48. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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49. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Ethel merman
Cleverly concoted
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
50. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Producer
Jule Styne
Evangeline
Girl crazy