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Musical Theatre
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What was a 'claquer?'
No no nanette
I got rhythm
Harry tierney
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
2. What is a person who writes a libretto called...
Brigadoon
The cotton blossom
Gypsy
Librettist
3. Sweet Charity's Director/choreographer
Bob Fosse
Damn yankees
The cotton blossom
No
4. What was Oh Kays most famous song
Of thee i sing
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
George and Ira Gershwin
Someone to watch over me
5. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Lerner and Loewe
South pacific
Guys and Dolls
6. which had more complicated plots - old or new comedy?
New comedy
George m. cohan
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
Mercenary mary
7. Choreogrpher for Paint Your Wagon
Mary Martin
Director
Agnes de Mille
Librettist
8. Who is the composer for on the town
Kiss me - kate
Popular entertainments
Ethel merman
Leonard bernstein
9. Who is the composer of Candide
James michener
South pacific
Gestures and poses
Leonard bernstein
10. What is the biggest single reason that that the shows of the 1920s were more popular
American dance music
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
A trip to chinatown
Horace
11. What was the subject of Of Thee I Sing
Jerome kern and oscar hammerstein II
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
American politics
Playwright
12. F:who took over those roles
Mercenary mary
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Producer
Professional perfomers
13. What instruments accompanied the dancing
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Richard rodgers and lorenzhart
Flutes - lyres
14. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for Wonderful Town
George and Ira Gershwin
Billy bigelow
Mulligan guards routines
Music: Bernstein and Book and lyrics: Adolph Green
15. Which musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pigmalion
The king and I
John Hollingshead
My fair lady
Irving Berlin
16. What is another name for the book and lyrics
Libretto
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Comic opera had music and dialogue
17. Who is the daughter of a famous composer Who wrote the music for Once Upon a Mattress
Agnes de mille
The doctor of alcantara
Mary Rodgers - daughter of Richard Rodgers
South pacific
18. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Singin in the rain
Swing
Victor herbert
Parodied
19. What happened to George Gershwin two years after Porgy and Bess opened?
He died in 1937
Magnolia hawks - cap'n andy - gaylord ravenal
Tragedy
Costume designer
20. Who stated in his 'republic' that poets(playwrights) tell corrupting lies about men and the gods?
Plato
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Greeks
American dance music
21. What is Bali H'ai from
Once upon a mattress
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Radio city music hall
South pacific
22. Who wrote the music for show boat
Someone hired to applaud and cheer
Jerome kern
The book uncle toms cabin
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
23. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
He was the producer
Voice type
James michener
Damn yankees
24. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Nine
Can-can
Swing
25. In Greek Comedy - when did the various acts (similiar to vaudeville- songs - dances - chorus girls - animal acts - magicians - jugglers etc) perform
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
If i loved you
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
The mikado
26. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Babes in arms
Good news
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
27. Annie Oakley is from What show
The doctor of alcantara
Deus ex machina
The savoy operas
Annie get your gun
28. What were the two physical structures used at the churches to stage biblical stories
Pageant wagons and mansions
Gypsy
False it was stylized
The shows they came from
29. Which romberg romantic musical contains more popularly known and loved songs than any other romantic musical of the period
Evangeline
George and ira gershwin
Director
The new moon
30. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Moved indoors
Georges balanchine
Robin hood
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
31. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Cleverly concoted
The king and I
Composer
32. Who writes the melodies - harmonies - and accompaniment?
Producer
Same person
Composer
Kismet
33. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Jule Styne
The Threepenny Opera
Ancient baghdad
Mary Martin
34. Who refuted his position in his 'Poetics'
Ethel merman
Aristotle
Gestures and poses
Public enemy no. 13
35. Who is The Threepenny Opera composer
George m. cohan
Kurt Weill
Frank Loesser
Kiss me - kate
36. 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'
The preposterous libretti that accompanied them
Guys and dolls
Annie get your gun
Leonard bernstein
37. Who is the composer/lyricist teams for The Pajama Game
4th and 5th centuries bce
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Pants role or trousers role
St. Augustine
38. What was the biggest hit from girl crazy
I got rhythm
Nine
Guys and Dolls
Annie get your gun
39. Who is the composer of Candide
Kiss me - Kate
Mercenary mary
Comedies
Leonard bernstein
40. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Court nobility
Candide
Billy bigelow
St. Augustine
41. What show is 'broadway melody' from
Singin in the rain
Mercenary mary
The shows they came from
The merry widow
42. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Georges balanchine
Kurt Weill
Middle ages
Anything goes
43. what did florence ziegfeld have to do with the original production
He was the producer
Porgy and Bess Folk opera
The merry widow
Comic opera had music and dialogue
44. In the ____________ there was little theatre and little literature
Rodgers and hammerstein
Conductor
Stephen sondheim
Tearly Roman empire
45. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair - younger than springtime - wonderful guy - cockeyed optimist - this nearly was mine
Mary Martin
South pacific
Romantic music
Popular entertainments
46. What are the three types of greek plays
South pacific
Improved libretti and uniquely american music
City dionysia
Tragedies - comedies - and satyr plays
47. Who is the start of Girl Crazy
Ethel merman
Of thee i sing
Voice type
Irene
48. Who is the composer/lyricist team for South Pacific
Playwright
Ballet and modern dance
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Mulligan guards routines
49. Who is responsible for coordinating the designs and the actors
The belle of new york
Director
Playwright
Tearly Roman empire
50. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
Stand by
BC
On your toes
Of thee i sing