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Musical Theatre
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1. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
No no nanette
The Sound of Music
Director
James michener
2. What show is -the continental
Mercenary mary
Oklahoma
Commedia dell-arte
Comedy
3. Which musical by Meredith Wilson begins on the 4th of July 1912 in River City - Iowa
Ray bolger
Costume designer
Three plays by the same playwright followed by a 4th play that ridiculed the previous three
The music man
4. acotrs in commedia wore __________ and __________ that identified the characters
Before common era
Masks and costumes
Mercenary mary
Enzio pinza
5. What was 'slaughter on tenth avenue' from ON YOUR TOES choreographed by
Harry tierney
The contemporary dance piece Slaughter on Tenth Ave
Georges balanchine
Ancient baghdad
6. Who is the author of Tales of the South Pacific a source material for South Pacific
East Side Story
Comedy
James michener
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
7. Who is the composer for Wonderful Town
Mimes
Oscar hammerstein
Leonard Bernstein
Burlesqued
8. Lotte Lenya is from What show
Timbuktu
The Threepenny Opera
Orchestration
Bob Fosse
9. What was the biggest international success of an american musical comedy after no no nanette
Once upon a mattress
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
Mercenary mary
No - it only ran 124 performances and lost money
10. Eventually gilbet and sullivan used ___________ plots
Cleverly concoted
Parodied
West side story
Patriotic
11. Which musical deals with racially mixed marriages against the backdrop of WWII
South pacific
Between sections of the Greek Comedy Plays
Court nobility
Rodgers and hammerstein
12. Who is the composer/lyricist team for The King and I
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Music director
No
Comedies
13. A composer does not always write the __________ of the music.
New comedy
Orchestration
South pacific
East Side Story
14. Who wrote Little Johnny Jones
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Oil lamps
Pal Joey
George m. cohan
15. In which plays would you find the stories of the lives of 'noble' persons
George m. cohan
Tragedies
Mercenary mary
Deus ex machina
16. Sigmund romberg wrote three of the most popular romantic musicals of this period. What were they
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
Voice type
Plato
West side story
17. Maria in the stage version of The Sound of Music
Mary Martin
Voice type
The savoy operas
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
18. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
Comedy
Libretto
Mulligan guards routines
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
19. E: in 1642 what happeed that caused the theatres to clse
Kismet
He was the producer
The puritans took control of the governmetn
Nine
20. G: Actors were typecast by their _____?
Voice type
Reno sweeney - billy crocker - hope harcourt - moon-face mooney
Middle ages
Oil lamps
21. Which sigmund romberg romantic musical is considered the best of the genre
The desert song - the student prince - the new moon
South pacific
The desert song
Betty comden and adolph green
22. Billy Bigelow is form What show
South pacific
Tragedies
Flutes - lyres
Carousel
23. 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 ___________.
The shows they came from
Moved indoors
Oil lamps
Political satire
24. in which plays would you find the stories of ordinary people
Betty comden and adolph green
Plato
Comedies
The serenade and the fortune teller
25. What show is the song bewitched from
George m. cohan
Pal Joey
'The Newgate pastoral' 'the beggars opera'
Crazy for you
26. In the show - but will cover multiple roles
Swing
Set designer
John Gay
Gypsy
27. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Lerner and Loewe
John Gay
Spectacle
Lavish scenery and scantily clad ladies
28. What piece produced in boston was written by two immigrants but is considered the first 'american' piece to be produced?
The doctor of alcantara
Mary rodgers
Popular entertainments
The puritans took control of the governmetn
29. Who is the composer of Candide
Romantic music
Leonard bernstein
Flutes - lyres
Jerome kern
30. ________ wrote new lyrics for this English popular entertainment
Brigadoon
He was the producer
John Gay
South pacific
31. G: The chorus usually had _____ members
Mimes
South pacific
Georges balanchine
24
32. What show is -slaughter on 10th ave
On your toes
Betty comden and adolph green
Girl crazy in 1930 and of thee i sing in 1931
John Gay
33. who are the producers for Annie get your gun
The serenade and the fortune teller
Gypsy
Richard Rodgers and OScar Hammerstein
Betty comden and adolph green
34. King Mongkut and Anna are from What show
Disappears
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
The king and i
Victor herbert
35. What is someone who helps load and unload ships called...
Jule Styne
The puritans took control of the governmetn
James michener
A stevedore
36. What were harrigan and hart most famous for...
The black chorus and white chorus had equal time on stage and they sang together
Give my regards to broadway and the yankee doodle boy
Ethel merman
Mulligan guards routines
37. Robert Preston as a conman In What show
American politics
Jule Styne
The music man
Gypsy
38. Acting styles became more naturalistic as the productions _____________ ______________.
Moved indoors
Timbuktu
It was a genuine American opera-bouffe
Mary rodgers
39. What claim to fame does babes in arms have
Ray bolger
Changing masks and costumes
His 'confessions'
It has more rodgers and hart hits than any other of their musicals
40. Who played Nellie forbush in the original south pacific
Mary martin
Mulligan guards routines
Jerome kern
Producer
41. Who is the composer for on the town
Leonard bernstein
Mary martin
Pal Joey
Guys and dolls
42. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Carousel
Irving Berlin
Richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein
Threepenny opera
Moliere
43. Who is the composer/lyricist team for Girl Crazy
George and Ira Gershwin
Oklahoma
Stand by
Producer
44. F: who orginally performed in these pieces?
Agnes de Mille
Eliza Doolittle
Court nobility
Agnes de mille
45. Who is the composer for on the town
Gypsy
Oscar hammerstein
Leonard bernstein
Commedia dell-arte
46. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews are from What show
Professional perfomers
No no nanette
The shows they came from
My Fair Lady
47. What actress came up with the idea of adapting the diaries into the King and I
Gertrude Lawrence
Annie get your gun
Satyr plays
Female roles
48. What were the two most popular shows written by the team of rodgers and hart in the 1920s
The girl friend and a connecticut yankee
Oil lamps
City dionysia
Singin in the rain
49. What was the name of that piece written by william gilbert and arthur sullivan for the christmas piece
Thespis
Jerome robbins
Leonard bernstein
Richard d'oyly carte
50. which form of musical theatre in this period had music written specifically for the productions
William gilbert and arthur sullivan
Stand by
Comic opera
Borrowed tunes
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