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Musical Theatre
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1. G: What does BCE mean?
Before common era
Popular entertainments
Ethel merman
Director
2. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
Gypsy
Angel
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Patriotic
3. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes
Kurt Weill
Oklahoma
Betty comden and adolph green
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
4. Who sang I got Rhythm in the original show
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
St. Augustine
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Ethel merman
5. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Horace
Oil lamps
Borrowed tunes
6. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Tragedy
Singin in the rain
7. Who is the composer of Can-Can
Cole Porter
South pacific
Meredith wilson
The music man
8. Who was the manager for the Gaiety theatre in london
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
John Hollingshead
Guys and dolls
9. What musical written by jerome kern starred marilyn miller (of Ziegfeld follies fame)?
Cleverly concoted
City dionysia
Aristotle
Sally
10. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'
3 to 5
The pajama game
Brigadoon
Mercenary mary
11. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
Restoration
Stand by
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mary Martin
12. What is a person who invests money in a production called?
I got rhythm
The desert song
Angel
Conductor
13. Who is responsible for designing the environment of a production - the place?
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Frank Loesser
Of thee i sing
Set designer
14. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Ethel merman
Leonard Bernstein
Gypsy
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
15. Girl Crazy was remade in 1992 into What show
Ethel merman
Lerner and Loewe
Pageant wagons and mansions
Crazy for You
16. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Kurt Weill
Moliere
The shows they came from
Composer
17. what playwright and composer did he bring together to write a christmas piece
The Sound of Music
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Choreographer
Brigadoon
18. What is Bali H'ai from
Fly loft
Ethel merman
South pacific
The savoy operas
19. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
South pacific
Mama rose
Took to the streets and traveled -
Gypsy
20. What does 'renaissance' mean
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Witty dialogue
Rebirth
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
21. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
George m. cohan
Director
Of thee i sing
A stevedore
22. What production featured an actress in the role of Alan-a-Dale singing 'oh - Promise me?'
Oklahoma
Masks and costumes
Robin hood
Court nobility
23. What show is the song bewitched from
Gypsy
Pal Joey
Jerome robbins
Threepenny opera
24. What operetta written by Franz Lewhar was originally porduced in Vienna in 1905 but became a smash hit in both London and New York?
The merry widow
Mulligan guards routines
A stevedore
My Fair Lady
25. Which musical is an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and is also a collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
The metropolitan opera
He was the producer
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
West side story
26. Who designs the clothing worn by the actors in a production?
Michael Kidd
Costume designer
Flutes - lyres
Tragedy
27. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
Kiss me - kate
Political satire
Rex Harrison
New comedy
28. What comic duo was the show centered around
Romantic
The cotton blossom
Bert williams and george walker
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
29. What show is- tea for two
The belle of new york
No no nanette
Ballet and modern dance
Lerner and Loewe
30. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Mimes
Victor herbert
Popular entertainments
31. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Jerome Robbins
Threepenny opera
Bernstein and Sondheim
32. The lyricist and the composer are not always the...
Same person
Girl crazy
Timbuktu
Ballet and modern dance
33. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
If i loved you
James michener
Girl crazy
Gwen verdon
34. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Popular entertainments
Lerner and Loewe
Middle ages
35. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
My fair lady
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
36. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
King Louis XIV
Stephen sondheim
Sally
Gwen verdon
37. 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
Kiss me - kate
The merry widow
George and Ira Gershwin
Agnes de Mille
38. What were the two main reasons that the american musicals of the 1920s became so popular
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
His 'confessions'
Patriotic
Bob Fosse
39. Pal Joey was written by...
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Rodgers and Hart
Bernstein and Sondheim
40. who condemned the roman theatre's arousal of passions and though theatre sought to destroy Roman manners and morality
Producer
Comic opera
Catholic church
St. Augustine
41. What does 'renaissance' mean
Can-can
Annie get your gun
Radio city music hall
Rebirth
42. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
The king and i
Carousel
Lyricist
43. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Producer
The king and i
West side story
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
44. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Producer
The new moon
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
John Gay
45. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Before common era
Director
Comedy
Ethel merman
46. Who wrote the lyrics for west side story and gypsy
Brigadoon
Stephen sondheim
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
47. Mainly though anything goes is about _______ and _____________
A trip to chinatown
Mary martin
Thespis
Permissiveness and crazes
48. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun
Irving Berlin
Robin hood
Moliere
Gertrude Lawrence
49. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Romantic music
Horace
The king and I
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50. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
The king and I
Mama rose
Once upon a mattress
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