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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Who wrote Oh - Kay?
Babes in arms
The pajama game
Threepenny opera
George gershwin
2. Who wrote the music for show boat
Commedia dell-arte
South pacific
New comedy
Jerome kern
3. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
John Hollingshead
Music man
Oklahoma
Cole porter
4. What was the original name of West Side Story
Betty comden and adolph green
4th and 5th centuries bce
East Side Story
Voice type
5. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
State
Bert williams and george walker
The pajama game
6. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
Moliere
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Voice type
Ethel merman
7. What is a 'pasticcio' score
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Pal Joey
Leonard Bernstein
Borrowed tunes
8. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Cole porter
The Sound of Music
The music man
War
9. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Political satire
Athens
Official beginning of western theatre
Lyricist
10. G: how did they play female roles
Same person
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
3 to 5
Changing masks and costumes
11. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
South pacific
Comedy
Gypsy
Ray Bolger
12. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Agnes de Mille
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
No
Conductor
13. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
Romantic music
False it was stylized
Comedy
Ethel merman
14. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Guys and Dolls
Girl crazy
Ethel merman
Plato
15. Where they fly things on stage
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Oscar hammerstein II
Fly loft
I got rhythm
16. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Witty dialogue
George m. cohan
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The belle of new york
17. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
Crazy for You
Permissiveness and crazes
Parodied
Evangeline
18. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
Athens
Romantic music
The savoy operas
Stephen Sondheim
19. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Stephen Sondheim
Comedies
The desert song
Leonard bernstein
20. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Lyricist
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Commedia dell-arte
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
21. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
Mimes
Intense training
American dance music
Jule Styne
22. Who is frequently responsible for the 'vision' or 'concept' of a production?
Leonard bernstein
Billy bigelow
Director
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
23. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Horace
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Fly loft
24. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Kiss me - kate
Producer
Mary Martin
Costume designer
25. What was the 1927 musical about college life
BC
Good news
Composer
South pacific
26. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The king and i
The puritans took control of the governmetn
West side story
The Threepenny opera
27. What is the narative dance sequence 'little house of Uncle Thomas' form the King adn I based on
The book uncle toms cabin
Music man
Romantic
Threepenny opera
28. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Mama rose
Cole Porter
The shows they came from
Satyr plays
29. What musical by harry tierney established the beginnings of 'the cinderella era' in 1919
The king and i
Oscar hammerstein
Irene
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
30. 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 ___________.
Choreographer
Oklahoma
The shows they came from
Stephen Sondheim
31. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
The doctor of alcantara
Oklahoma
Guys and dolls
Victor herbert
32. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat
The book
The doctor of alcantara
George m. cohan
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
33. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Thespis
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
James michener
Mercenary mary
34. Who works directly with the actors/singers/dancers to teach and interpret the music of a production?
Burlesqued
The king and I
Georges balanchine
Music director
35. What is the musical that was an all black version of Kismet and starred Eartha Kitt and Melba Moore
Librettist
Orchestration
Comedy
Timbuktu
36. Do you find socially oriented domestic stories in old or new comedy
Oil lamps
New comedy
Stephen sondheim
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
37. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
The king and i
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Conductor
Ethel merman
38. New York - New York - come up to my place - lonely town are from What show
On the town
Once upon a mattress
Frank Loesser
The Sound of Music
39. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Gertrude lawrence
Composer
Tearly Roman empire
New comedy
40. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Mulligan guards routines
The serenade and the fortune teller
HMS pinafore
Rebirth
41. Who writes the dialogue for the characters?
Anything goes
Playwright
Romantic music
Leonard bernstein
42. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Conductor
Victor herbert
Lerner and Loewe
The king and i
43. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Same person
St. Augustine
The music man
44. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Agnes de mille
Oscar hammerstein II
45. G: how did they play female roles
None all men
Borrowed tunes
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Changing masks and costumes
46. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Brigadoon
Julie Andrews
47. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Masks and costumes
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Brigadoon
Director
48. whose plays did the romans steal as the basis for their plays
The Threepenny opera
Restoration
Playwright
Greeks
49. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
East Side Story
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
The new moon
50. Where is teh life that late i led - I've come to wive it wealthily in padua - were thine that special face are from What show
Rebirth
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Rebirth
Kiss me - kate