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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. Who is the star of Sally
Music man
Marilyn Miller
Slapsticks
Meredith wilson
2. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Changing masks and costumes
Producer
Ethel merman
Gertrude Lawrence
3. The ballad of mack the knife and pirate jenny is from What show
John Hollingshead
Threepenny opera
Angel
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
4. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written
Ethel merman
Oklahoma
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
5. Who was the origninal Eliza Doolittle in My Fair lady
Choreographer
Julie Andrews
Stephen sondheim
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
6. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
The metropolitan opera
Carousel
The music man
Marilyn Miller
7. Mama rose is from What show
James michener
Romantic
Masks and costumes
Gypsy
8. Although it was their 3rd show together Which musical secured the fame of the musical-writing team of lerner and loewe
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Brigadoon
Tragedy
Court nobility
9. What show is the song bewitched from
Pal Joey
The mikado
The merry widow
Commedia dell-arte
10. His material always had one characteristic throughout all his writing. everything was very _______.
Patriotic
Slapsticks
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Professional perfomers
11. What author of Little Johnny Jone was the son of vaudevillian parents
George m. cohan
South pacific
Plato
Costume designer
12. What show are -i wish i were in love again - where or when - my funny valentine - johnny one note - the lady is a tramp
Costume designer
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Carmen jones
Babes in arms
13. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?
Victor herbert
Moliere
Rose marie
Betty comden and adolph green
14. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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15. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Rodgers and Hart
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Same person
The king and I
16. G: the acting style of greek tragedy was very naturalistic
False it was stylized
Gene kelly
Greeks
Agnes de mille
17. What were George M. Cohans most popular songs
Gertrude lawrence
The mikado
The Sound of Music
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
18. G: Greek actors had...
Intense training
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
Singin in the rain
Billy bigelow
19. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Carol Channing
Ethel merman
The book uncle toms cabin
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
20. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Cole porter
The belle of new york
The king and I
Kiss me - kate
21. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
A contrived ending
Bernstein and Sondheim
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Gypsy
22. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
Burlesqued
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
My fair lady
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
23. knows the role but not in show every night - wait for a phone call
New comedy
Stand by
On the town
Enzio pinza
24. Who is the composer of Guys and Dolls
Frank Loesser
Producer
Cole Porter
The Sound of Music
25. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The pajama game
I got rhythm
Betty comden and adolph green
26. Who wrote the music for Gypsy
Jule Styne
American politics
The book uncle toms cabin
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
27. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
False it was stylized
Kiss me - kate
Leonard bernstein
28. What was significant about a 1952 revival of Porgy and Bess?
City dionysia
Toured for four years under state department and played in 28 countries through Europe
Rodgers and hammerstein
Oscar hammerstein II
29. Who is the composer for Gentleman Perfer Blondes and Gypsy
The merry widow
Oklahoma
Jule Styne
Gypsy
30. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
Gypsy
Victor herbert
Thespis
31. Which musical is the story of Mama Rose and her daughter - a famous burlesque stripper
Rose marie
He was the producer
Set designer
Gypsy
32. What comic duo used immigrant stereotypes for their comedy and were extremely 'politically incorrect?'
Carol Channing
Harrigan and hart
Mulligan guards routines
If i loved you
33. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Mary rodgers
The new moon
False it was stylized
Someone to watch over me
34. What was Oh Kays most famous song
American dance music
Damn yankees
Someone to watch over me
Cole Porter
35. show boat broke gorund in terms of its use in the choruses. What was unique about htem
Carousel
Ethel merman
South pacific
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
36. Which musical is set in Bangkok and is based on the diaries of Englishwoman Anna Leonowens
Agnes de Mille
Flutes - lyres
The king and I
Stephen Sondheim
37. Which musical is based onThe Beggars Opera and featured the music of Kurt Weill - as well as his wife - Lotte Lenya
The Threepenny opera
Gene kelly
Plato
American politics
38. G: Who paid the salaries of actors
War
State
3 to 5
Annie get your gun
39. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Librettist
Libretto
Spectacle
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
40. in 1985 porgy and bess entered the repertory of what company
West side story
Director
The metropolitan opera
Playwright
41. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Can-can
The metropolitan opera
Kiss me - kate
Pageant wagons and mansions
42. What was another international hit of the late 1890s
Betty comden and adolph green
Julie Andrews
Fly loft
The belle of new york
43. What character are in anything goes
Director
Leonard bernstein
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Carousel
44. In Greek theatre ____________ was eliminated
A trip to chinatown
Oscar hammerstein II
Political satire
Mercenary mary
45. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show
BC
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Jerome kern
My fair lady
46. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
George m. cohan
Borrowed tunes
Gestures and poses
False it was stylized
47. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
Plato
South pacific
The pajama game
The music man
48. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
He died in 1937
Orchestration
James michener
49. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story
Bernstein and Sondheim
Director
24
Lerner and Loewe
50. what musical featured the number 'Love is Sweeping the COuntry?'
Popular entertainments
Of thee i sing
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Annie get your gun