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Musical Theatre
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Mary Martin
Tragedies
Mimes
Ethel merman
2. Who was introduced in Gentlemen Perfer Blondes and would go on to star in Hello Dolly
Carol Channing
Leonard bernstein
No
Singin in the rain
3. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
South pacific
Director
Agnes de mille
Carmen jones
4. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Romantic
Popular entertainments and comic opera
Sally
Anything goes
5. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
War
Agnes de Mille
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Damn yankees
6. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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7. Who stages the dances?
Oklahoma
Choreographer
Georges balanchine
Middle ages
8. Who was the choreographer for Brigadoon
Jerome kern
Choreographer
Lowering
Agnes de mille
9. Who was the originalEmile de becque in South Pacific
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Enzio pinza
Jerome kern
Gypsy
10. Who stages the dances?
John Hollingshead
Horace
Eliza Doolittle
Choreographer
11. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
St. Augustine
Anti-hero
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
Ethel merman
12. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
The Threepenny opera
My Fair Lady
George m. cohan
Once upon a mattress
13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
South pacific
Entertainments
Gertrude lawrence
14. What does 'renaissance' mean
Radio city music hall
Candide
Rebirth
Julie Andrews
15. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
The shows they came from
Music man
Plato
John Gay
16. Where they fly things on stage
Fly loft
Carol Channing
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Oklahoma
17. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The doctor of alcantara
Spectacle
The book uncle toms cabin
John Gay
18. In ___________- actors specialized in one type of character
Changing masks and costumes
Commedia dell-arte
The Threepenny Opera
Commedia dell-arte
19. 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
Ray bolger
Candide
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
20. Oh Kay was written as a star vehicle for __________
Director
Gertrude lawrence
King Louis XIV
Voice type
21. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
Michael Kidd
Gestures and poses
Meredith wilson
The puritans took control of the governmetn
22. What play featured henry dixey as 'a pedestal dancer' and was about a statue come to life?
Adonis
The doctor of alcantara
Carousel
Eliza Doolittle
23. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Gypsy
Music director
Fly loft
Gertrude Lawrence
24. Imported pieces frequently adapted the comedy for local taste by _______ the level of the comedy
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Lowering
4th and 5th centuries bce
Same person
25. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
Ancient baghdad
The king and I
The book uncle toms cabin
Cole Porter
26. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
4th and 5th centuries bce
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Playwright
Mary Martin
27. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
Comedy
Can-can
Cole porter
28. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Can-can
Rodgers and hammerstein
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
29. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
If i loved you
He was the producer
Costume designer
Jerome kern
30. What show is- tea for two
A contrived ending
No no nanette
Rodgers and hammerstein
Angel
31. Rudolf Friml's Rose marie was successful because of its ___________ __________.
Meredith wilson
Frank Loesser
Romantic music
Candide
32. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Enzio pinza
Gypsy
Comedy
Same person
33. Who is the composer of Candide
Director
Leonard bernstein
Pants role or trousers role
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
34. Actors used standard ________ recognizable by audience
Gestures and poses
American dance music
South pacific
No no nanette
35. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
The music man
The shows they came from
Oklahoma
Playwright
36. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
St. Augustine
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Ancient baghdad
I got rhythm
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Official beginning of western theatre
The savoy operas
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Horace
38. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Someone to watch over me
Meredith wilson
Victor herbert
The mikado
39. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Kurt Weill
Ethel merman
Gertrude Lawrence
Mary Martin
40. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Crazy for You
Restoration
Bert williams and george walker
The new moon
41. What was the quintessential musical of teh 1920s
Changing masks and costumes
On the town
Gypsy
No no nanette
42. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
New comedy
The belle of new york
Bert williams and george walker
Annie get your gun
43. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Of thee i sing
Once upon a mattress
Julie Andrews
Ethel merman
44. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Producer
Popular entertainments
Meredith wilson
Enzio pinza
45. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Oscar hammerstein II
False- it was considred a romantic musical
Candide
Leonard Bernstein
46. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Borrowed tunes
Mary Martin
Rodgers and Hart
47. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
His 'confessions'
Mary Martin
Slapsticks
His 'confessions'
48. G: Male actors played...
The new moon
Female roles
Music director
Spectacle
49. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Official beginning of western theatre
American dance music
Richard rodgers
50. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Brigadoon
His 'confessions'
Permissiveness and crazes
Singin in the rain