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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What two rodgers and hart shows from the 1930s are done the most today
Betty comden and adolph green
Rose marie
Can-can
On your toes and babes in arms
2. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
3 to 5
The student prince
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Gypsy
3. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Mercenary mary
Political satire
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
City dionysia
4. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
The metropolitan opera
Babes in arms
No no nanette
He was the producer
5. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
Pal Joey
Richard rodgers and lorenz hart
Julie Andrews
6. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...
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7. nellie forbush and Emile de Becque are form What show
The music man
Gertrude Lawrence
South pacific
Playwright
8. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
A stevedore
Plato
Marilyn Miller
War
9. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Mercenary mary
Irene
Cleverly concoted
10. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Leonard bernstein
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Athens
Producer
11. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Cleverly concoted
Middle ages
My Fair Lady
Damn yankees
12. F:who took over those roles
Producer
Professional perfomers
Producer
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
13. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
The king and I
Brigadoon
Mercenary mary
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
14. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Damn yankees
Mercenary mary
Aristotle
15. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
South pacific
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Gypsy
False it was stylized
16. What characters are in show boat
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17. Who is the composer of the King and I
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Stephen sondheim
Richard rodgers
18. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Adonis
Sally
Julie Andrews
My fair lady
19. Who wrote the book - lyrics and music for the Music Man
Girl crazy
4th and 5th centuries bce
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Meredith wilson
20. Nathan Detroit - Sky Masterson and Adelaide are from What show
Guys and Dolls
Oscar hammerstein
No no nanette
The puritans took control of the governmetn
21. Ertha Kitta and Melba Morre in this Black variation of KIsmet
Timbuktu
Tragedy
Mary rodgers
Thespis
22. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Brigadoon
Moliere
Angel
Kiss me - kate
23. On your Toes mixes two things together. What are they?
Carol Channing
BC
Ballet and modern dance
Georges balanchine
24. Lotte Lenya is from What show
New comedy
Professional perfomers
Mulligan guards routines
The Threepenny Opera
25. Who wrote the music for once upon a mattress
Mary rodgers
The puritans took control of the governmetn
West side story
Moliere
26. Laurie's dream ballet
Oklahoma
The cotton blossom
My fair lady
Lerner and Loewe
27. 1700s- What were the two distinct forms of 'musical theatre' in france in this period?
Popular entertainments and comic opera
American politics
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
28. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Patriotic
Jerome kern
Burlesqued
Director
29. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Timbuktu
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
American politics
30. Who plays reno sweeney in the original anything goes
Ethel merman
Plato
The new moon
The Sound of Music
31. What show is - 'the heather on the hill - come to me - bend to me - waitin for my dearie - ill go home with bonnie jean - its almost like being in love - there - but for you go i'
Timbuktu
Gypsy
Brigadoon
Producer
32. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Comedy
Stephen Sondheim
On the town
Witty dialogue
33. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
The savoy operas
Rex Harrison
State
The Threepenny opera
34. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
Kurt Weill
The pajama game
Jule Styne
Someone to watch over me
35. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
New comedy
Gertrude Lawrence
Gestures and poses
36. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
His 'confessions'
The metropolitan opera
Director
Intense training
37. Who played Anna in the King and I (stage version)
Harry tierney
Romantic music
Gertrude Lawrence
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38. Choreographer of Guys and Dolls
The shows they came from
Crazy for you
Michael Kidd
George and ira gershwin
39. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
Political satire
The cotton blossom
The Threepenny opera
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
40. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Richard d'oyly carte
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
41. Who is the dancing star of on your toes
Ray bolger
Meredith wilson
Director
Stephen Sondheim
42. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
Professional perfomers
South pacific
Once upon a mattress
Swing
43. 'Professor' Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian are from What show
Tearly Roman empire
The new moon
Commedia dell-arte
Music man
44. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
Evangeline
Lyricist
Harrigan and hart
45. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
Anything goes
The Threepenny opera
Meredith wilson
Ray bolger
46. What is the modern definition of Deus ex machina
A contrived ending
The merry widow
Crazy for You
Aristotle
47. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Lyricist
On the town
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
48. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it
Same person
Catholic church
Babes in arms
Masks and costumes
49. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
West side story
Leonard bernstein
The doctor of alcantara
Of thee i sing
50. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
Oklahoma
The merry widow
Oil lamps
Brigadoon