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Musical Theatre
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What was the biggest contribution of the Romans to theatre
Spectacle
George gershwin
Kiss me - kate
Rebirth
2. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
George gershwin
The student prince
Meredith wilson
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
3. Who is the Composer/Lyricist team for Pal Joey
On your toes and babes in arms
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Composer
A trip to chinatown
4. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Victor herbert
Popular entertainments
Agnes de Mille
Comedy
5. What show is -Blow - gabriel blow - anything goes - youre the top - i get a kick out of you - be like the bluebirt
The pajama game
Anything goes
I got rhythm
Ray bolger
6. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Girl crazy
Libretto
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Mercenary mary
7. G: What were the theatre festivals of Athens called?
Greeks
Ray bolger
Rodgers and Hart
City dionysia
8. What characters are in show boat
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9. Who is the composer for music man
Agnes de mille
Meredith wilson
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Damn yankees
10. What show is 'doIn what comes natur'lly - you can't get a man with a gun - there's no business like show business - anything you can do'
Annie get your gun
Bernstein and Sondheim
The merry widow
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
11. Carol Burnett as a princess? In What show
Once upon a mattress
Rebirth
The cotton blossom
He was the producer
12. What show is -love is sweeping the country
Producer
Rebirth
Of thee i sing
Crazy for you
13. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Popular dance
The music man
Enzio pinza
14. What actress/dancer got better reviews in Can-Can than it's French star LIlo?
Meredith wilson
Gwen verdon
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
Spectacle
15. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
Cole porter
Borrowed tunes
Jule Styne
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
16. Who finances the production either by their own money or through investors?
Producer
Meredith wilson
He died in 1937
Adonis
17. Who was the most successful composer of American comic opera (american opera-bouffe)?
Victor herbert
Producer
Eliza Doolittle
Threepenny opera
18. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Timbuktu
Gertrude Lawrence
He died in 1937
19. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Show Boat
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
Slapsticks
The desert song
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
20. Who wrote the lyrics and the book for On the Town
Betty comden and adolph green
Kiss me - kate
None all men
American dance music
21. Which musical features the Devil and Lola making a deal with Joe Hardy - - turning him into a home-run-hitting hero
Damn yankees
Entertainments
Gestures and poses
Rose marie
22. What does 'renaissance' mean
Leonard bernstein
The Sound of Music
Rebirth
Victor herbert
23. What was the structure of each entry in the city Dionysia
Mercenary mary
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
Producer
Director
24. who raised comedy to the stature of tragedy
Kurt Weill
A stevedore
Brigadoon
Moliere
25. What are the three types of greek plays
Composer
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
Ethel merman
Meredith wilson
26. Whatever Lola wants - heart are from What show
Damn yankees
Someone to watch over me
The Sound of Music
Slapsticks
27. Laurie's dream ballet
Victor herbert
King Louis XIV
Lerner and Loewe
Oklahoma
28. What comic duo was the show centered around
Damn yankees
BC- before christ
The merry widow
Bert williams and george walker
29. Who is the composer of the King and I
The Threepenny Opera
Richard rodgers
Spectacle
The puritans took control of the governmetn
30. G: Greek actors had...
Intense training
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The pajama game
31. Who is the composer of Candide
War
Ancient baghdad
Leonard bernstein
The student prince
32. What team wrote the Sound of music
Ray bolger
Rodgers and hammerstein
Harrigan and hart
Producer
33. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Damn Yankees
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Official beginning of western theatre
New comedy
34. George Gershwin had two successes in teh 1930s What were they?
Angel
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
The music man
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
35. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
My fair lady
The Sound of Music
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Georges balanchine
36. What character sings 'wouldn't it be lovely' and 'I could have danced all night' in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
Ballet and modern dance
Rose marie
George gershwin
37. What is the 'conditional love song' found early in Carousel that is sung by julie and billy bigelow
If i loved you
The king and i
Candide
The shows they came from
38. Who is the choreographer for oklahoma
Agnes de mille
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
George and Ira Gershwin
Rodgers and hammerstein
39. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Cole porter
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
The desert song
40. what did the gilbert and sullivan works become known as after this move
The savoy operas
James michener
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Gypsy
41. Who was the producer that moved gilbert and sullivan works to the savoy theatre
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42. Which plays were burlesque treatments of mythology
Satyr plays
Romantic
South pacific
Oscar hammerstein II
43. Ethel Merman as an overbearing stage mother In What show
No no nanette
East Side Story
Gypsy
Deus ex machina
44. Lilo and Gwen Verdon come from What show
Can-can
4th and 5th centuries bce
Professional perfomers
Agnes de mille
45. Who wrote the script and lyrics for show boat?
Lyricist
Singin in the rain
Oscar hammerstein II
Evangeline
46. in 1983 a huge production of porgy and bess played what 6000 seat theatre in NYC?
American dance music
Radio city music hall
The Threepenny opera
George and ira gershwin
47. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Written mostly by black writers and songwriters for black actors and singers
St. Augustine
Carousel
Rodgers and hammerstein
48. who developed the roman rules for drama in 'ars Poetica' - 'the art of Poetry'
Evangeline
Horace
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
49. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Comedies
George m. cohan
Parodied
My fair lady
50. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
Oklahoma
James michener
Timbuktu
Gene kelly
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