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Musical Theatre

Subjects : performing-arts, music
Instructions:
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1. What does 'renaissance' mean






2. Yul Brener and Gertrude Lawrence star In What show






3. Who is the composer/lyricist team for West Side Story






4. what cellist for the metropolitan opera wrote Babes in Toyland - The Red Mill - and Naughty Marietta?






5. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific






6. Who wrote the lyrics for porgy and bess






7. What was the first collaboration between richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein






8. What show is 'broadway melody' from






9. Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg were composers of __________ musicals.






10. Who was the choreographer for carousel






11. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre






12. Or whom were the best songs from anything goes originally written






13. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat






14. 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 ___________.






15. Who composed the music for Irene






16. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they






17. Rudolf frimls rose marie is considred a musical comedy true or false?






18. which form included fairytales - fantastical spectacles - and burlesques?






19. Who is the start of Girl Crazy






20. Who writes the storyline and the book of a musical?






21. what form started in italy and included stock characters and was lively and vlugar






22. Eventually gilbert and sullivan developed their own style and no longer simply __________ styles of the period






23. G: What is BCE same as






24. Why was Of thee I sing unusual for its time






25. Which musical was written by adler and ross and featured the numbers 'Fernando's Hideaway' and 'steam Heat'






26. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors






27. Who is the composer for Annie Get Your Gun






28. What was the most important reason that Jerome Kern's musicals of the 1930s weren't as successful as Show boat






29. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by






30. In the 1860s successful shows in NYC had two elements common. What were they?






31. Who is the composer and lyricist for anything goes






32. What was the most famous English-language popular entertainment...

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33. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?






34. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre

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35. In the 1920s what genre of musical theatre was just as popular as the musical comedies and used colorful times and places dashing and dramatic tales and a much wider musical palette






36. what technical advancement allowedd the plays to be performed indoors and at night






37. Mama rose is from What show






38. Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are from What show






39. What is the most significant and influential part of On Your Toes






40. In the show - but will cover multiple roles






41. G: Who paid the salaries of actors






42. What musical is an adaption of the fairytale The Princess and The Pea






43. Who wrote the music for Gypsy






44. Moon-face mooney tries to escape the long arm of the FBI in Anythign Goes. he is also known as what






45. What is another name for the book and lyrics






46. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon






47. Choreographer of the King and I and remembered his version of 'The Small House of Uncle Thomas'






48. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?






49. what form contained abusive and obsene festival verses and stock characters






50. what institution thought theatre was immoral and issued edicts forbidding it