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Question 1

This city was NOT visited by tours of European theatre, in the early days of theatre in America.

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Atlanta

Question 2

On Your Toes was a musical which focused on what aspect?

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Movement and Space

Question 3

Which was NOT part of early circus entertainment?

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Magic Acts

Question 4

This Rodgers & Hammerstein musical required Acting Singers and included a more serious approach to relationships & death

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Carousel

Question 5

Which show was NOT written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green?

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Cabaret

Question 6

1850's NYC Variety Houses - had rough clientele, waitresses "entertained" clientele privately, lead to Vaudeville

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Concert Saloon

Question 7

This person adds harmonies, fills out supporting music, adds entr'acte and entrance music.

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Orchestrator

Question 8

This is NOT one of the Shubert Brothers:

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Harold

Question 9

He was known as the Father of Vaudeville.

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Tony Pastor

Question 10

Which of these had erotic content?

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Burlesque

Question 11

German-born composer of musicals who wrote The Threepenny Opera, Street Scene and Lady in the Dark

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Kurt Weill

Question 12

This is a type of Variety show, similar to Vaudeville, but with a theme.

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Revue

Question 13

This form of theatre contained "stock characters" in the 17th Century.

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Commedia dell'arte

Question 14

Most important Black composer of late 1800's:

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James Bland

Question 15

A Tin Pan Alley writer who began as a street singer, no formal training, wrote over 200 songs (Alexander's Ragtime Band)

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Irving Berlin

Question 16

The writers of Show Boat:

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Kern & Hammerstein

Question 17

Russian-born actor who became famous for movies like The Jazz Singer - sometimes performed in blackface :(

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Al Jolson

Question 18

Aspect of early musical theatre in which performers created a scene onstage but did not move.

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Tableau

Question 19

This American composer wrote "O Susanna," "Camptown Races," and "My Old Kentucky Home"

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Stephen Foster

Question 20

In the new form of "literate musicals" this musical featured the psychological character growth of its lead.

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Annie Get Your Gun

Question 21

Which musical is considered the last of the Golden Age?

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Fiddler on the Roof

Question 22

These American groups banned theatre because they thought it was lascivious.

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Quakers & Puritans

Question 23

A famous dance number from Guys and Dolls.

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Crapshooters Ballet

Question 24

Which is NOT a Frank Loesser musical?

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Godspell

Question 25

Wealthy composer, crippled by a horse riding accident, wrote a LOT of love songs (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)

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Cole Porter

Question 26

This writing team fashioned 32-Bar format for musical songs (Bewitched, Bothered...; Johnny One Note; Funny Valentine)

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Rodgers & Hart

Question 27

This Lerner & Loewe musical was based on Pygmalion

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My Fair Lady

Question 28

Famous belter 1930s-50s, starring in Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy

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Ethel Merman

Question 29

The most well-known writing team of Operettas.

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GIlbert and Sullivan

Question 30

His performers "glorified the American girl."

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Ziegfeld

Question 31

Name of a well-known character in Minstrel Shows

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Jim Crow

Question 32

Long Acre Square is now known as:

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Times Square

Question 33

This is considered the FIRST American musical theatre show (melodrama and ballet)

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Black Crook

Question 34

Which is a master musician who wrote music for and choreographed a specific dance (early Europe)

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Dance Master

Question 35

World War I affected American views on these people, unfavorably.

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Germans

Question 36

How many actors typically appeared in Vaudeville shows?

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10-12

Question 37

Leonard Bernstein's show which is also considered an operetta.

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Candide

Question 38

Who sings "If I Were a Rich Man?"

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Tevye

Question 39

Which of these was NOT a factor in popularizing musical songs?

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This is the answer

Question 40

Touring Companies which presented a rotating rep of material were considered in this system

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Stock Company

Question 41

This dance is also known as "The Walkaround"

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Cake Walk

Question 42

He was one of the first American-born to make a name as a Dance Master in America (he also brought dance to circuses).

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John Durang

Question 43

This theatre produced works by lesser known writers utilizing actors who were not stars, built in 1913. Script important

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The Princess Theatre

Question 44

Another well-known writer of operetta.

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Offenbach

Question 45

Which of these is NOT a Social Dance from the 18th Century.

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The Frugue

Question 46

This Lerner & Loewe musical was an original idea set in a magical land.

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Brigadoon

Question 47

This musical was based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs.

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Oklahoma!

Question 48

Aspects of Minstrel shows also appeared in European theatre as:

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Moors in Renaissance Theatre

Question 49

This musical is based on a Shakespeare Play.

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Kiss Me, Kate

Question 50

The success of Camelot was compared to which President's journey?

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John F. Kennedy

Question 51

Libretto translates as:

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Little Book of Words

Question 52

This Bock & Harnick musical is set in a Budapest perfume shop ("Ice Cream," "Will He Like Me")

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She Loves Me

Question 53

Her choreography for Oklahoma was important in aiding the telling of the story.

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Agnes deMille

Question 54

First full-length all-black musical to play legit Broadway (Williams & Walker).

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In Dahomey

Question 55

The writers of Porgy and Bess

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George and Ira Gershwin

Question 56

They were a famous Vaudeville team in the early days (one a Baritone the other a Falsetto).

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Harrigan and Hart

Question 57

This play was being presented in two NYC theatres. Audience reaction brought about the Astor Place Riot.

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MacBeth

Question 58

Which is NOT a type of dance popular in the 1920s?

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Tutting

Question 59

There are two types of these shows (Spectacle and Intimate/"Little")

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Revues

Question 60

Singer, Dancer, Actor and Songwriter of over 500 songs - many of them patriotic (hint: statue in Times Square)

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George M. Cohan

Question 61

Tin Pan Alley is known for housing:

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Song Writers

Question 62

Two separate songs expressing different points of view, but sung together is called:

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Double Song

Question 63

Which of these is the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta?

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HMS Pinafore

Question 64

Producer/Director/Writer/Show Doctor connected to over 100 Broadway shows!

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George Abbott

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