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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
No no nanette
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
The Threepenny Opera
2. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Official beginning of western theatre
Commedia dell-arte
Swing
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
3. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Anti-hero
Leonard bernstein
My fair lady
4. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
Pants role or trousers role
On the town
The metropolitan opera
Harry tierney
5. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Moliere
Richard d'oyly carte
Cole Porter
Angel
6. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
My fair lady
South pacific
Kiss me - kate
Producer
7. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
West side story
Gertrude lawrence
Jerome kern
8. 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'
Damn yankees
He died in 1937
Gertrude lawrence
Brigadoon
9. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
Someone to watch over me
Commedia dell-arte
Sally
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
10. In 1935 George Gershwin switched gears and wrote _______________ - which is considered a _________________________.
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Meredith wilson
Jerome kern
11. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
If i loved you
More elaborate plots - song and dance - assigned material directly to chorus
The romantic musicals
Plato
12. Who leads the orchestra in the pit?
Conductor
Aristotle
Irving Berlin
Gestures and poses
13. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?
Gypsy
Guys and Dolls
Comedies
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
14. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?
Aristotle
Leonard bernstein
Mercenary mary
Playwright
15. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Marilyn Miller
Ethel merman
Sally
16. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
Popular dance
Romantic music
George m. cohan
The desert song
17. Choreogrphaer and director for West Side Story
Cole Porter
Robin hood
Jerome kern
Jerome robbins
18. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
Anything goes
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Jule Styne
Spectacle
19. the dialogue of the play is referred to as what?
The book
Commedia dell-arte
Voice type
Once upon a mattress
20. The early Roman Empire was mostly concern with ________?
Billy bigelow
Rodgers and hammerstein
War
Anything goes
21. Was Porgy & Bess a commercial success in its first run?
Lerner and Loewe
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
East Side Story
22. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Julie Andrews
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Timbuktu
23. How many productions did richard rodgers and lorenz hart contribute to broadway in 1930s
Billy bigelow
Nine
Intense training
Costume designer
24. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Music director
4th and 5th centuries bce
James michener
25. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
The student prince
Producer
Kiss me - Kate
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
26. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
The book
I got rhythm
The king and i
Ethel merman
27. What comic duo was the show centered around
Changing masks and costumes
Once upon a mattress
Bert williams and george walker
Producer
28. Who is the overall head of the production and has 'the final say?'
The pajama game
West side story
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Producer
29. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
George gershwin
The cotton blossom
Jerome kern
Oklahoma
30. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
Director
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Stephen sondheim
Romantic
31. Maria in the Movie version of The SOund of Music
Harry tierney
Mary rodgers
Julie Andrews
Disappears
32. What was the longest-running of the gilbert and sullivan comic operas
The mikado
Greeks
Pageant wagons and mansions
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
33. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea
The king and I
Can-can
Once upon a mattress
Moliere
34. What was the name of the show boat in show boat
The cotton blossom
Sally
An ocean liner the ss morro castle burst into flames
Commedia dell-arte
35. G: The first dramatic festivals were sponsored by what city-state?
Bernstein and Sondheim
Athens
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Producer
36. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
Gypsy
Gwen verdon
Ethel merman
37. G: What is BCE same as
Carousel
Intense training
Before common era
BC- before christ
38. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
War
BC- before christ
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Greeks
39. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Fly loft
Agnes de mille
Masks and costumes
Candide
40. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
Bernstein and Sondheim
Mama rose
Jule Styne
Oil lamps
41. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Aristotle
The student prince
Cole porter
Meredith wilson
42. __________ presents men worse than they are...
Comedy
Aristotle
Anything goes
Patriotic
43. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess
Ira gershwin and dubose heyward
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Oil lamps
Timbuktu
44. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The marx brothers
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Librettist
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
45. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
John Gay
Brigadoon
46. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters
Entertainments
Cole Porter
Jerome kern
Cleverly concoted
47. I hate men - so in love - wunderbar - always true to you in my fashion are from What show?
Kiss me - kate
Pal Joey
Julie Andrews
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
48. Compsoer and lyricist for Kiss me - Kate
Ballet and modern dance
East Side Story
Cole porter
Patriotic
49. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Of thee i sing
Agnes de mille
Commedia dell-arte
50. What show is- tea for two
Tragedy
Adonis
No no nanette
Kiss me - kate