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Broadway: The American Musical (Episodes 1-2)
Broadway: The American Musical (Episodes 1-2)
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Review of history of musical theatre from 1919-1929 #theatre #broadway #musical #history
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Who was the journalist from the Daily Mirror who coined "The Big Apple"?
Walter White
Walter Winchel
Irving Berlin
George White
2
a collection of NY song publishers who sold their music on the street for 10 cents a piece.
Tin Pan Alley
Long Acre Square
42nd Street
Easy Street
3
Which theatre belonged to Florenz Ziegfield?
New Amsterdam
Nederlander
Circle on the Square
Signature
4
What type of music was influential during the Prohibition Era?
Pop
Jazz
Rock & Roll
Operetta
5
During this early run of Broadway, what was the record for # of shows opening on one night?
4
7
11
20
6
Which of these was not a factor in the end of the great expansion of Broadway
Talent Moving to New York
Talking Pictures
Producers going bankrupt
Stock Market Crash of Oct 1929
7
Showboat is the first type of musical to do what?
highlight celebrities
Use interracial casting
Include dancing and singing
Tell a story with a full plot (book musical)
8
Name of the movie that opened on Oct 6, 1927 that ushered in the era of talking pictures
The Artist
The Great Dictator
The Jazz Singer
The Entertainer
9
First Broadway composer to use ragtime music to create songs.
George Gershwin
Oscar Hammerstein
Irving Berlin
George M Cohan
10
God of wine, fertility, madness, and theatre.
Athena
Zues
Dionysius
Apollo
11
What were actors doing during the Red Summer of 1919
Dancing in socialist musical comedies
Hospitalized for heat exhaustion
Working for civil rights against discrimination
Striking for labor rights
12
The first impresario of the theatre who created the Follies with scantily clad women
Jolson
White
Ziegfeld
Williams
13
Ira Gershwin was known as "the Jeweler." Why?
He was a costume designer that used lots of jewelry
He was a lyricist who set words to music perfectly
He was a lighting designer that used a lot of jewel tones
He was a composer who created beautiful notes, like jewelry
14
Plays that dramatized biblical stories
Mystery
Miracle
Morality
Fable
15
Which actress was known for performing in "Cinderella story" musical comedies
Audrey Hepburn
Ingrid Bergman
Fanny Brice
Marilynn Miller
16
Greek Philosopher whose theatre criticism, Poetics, describes what makes a successful play.
Socrates
Ovid
Plato
Aristotle
17
20th cent performance that featured specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance
Minstrel Show
Vaudeville
Operetta
Pantomime
18
Why was the prohibition important to musical theatre?
It was not
Made selling drinks easier for concessions
Brought in a more moral clientele
Necessitated new language for songs/dialogue (passwords)
19
Which composing group wrote musical comedies that ran the longest during this time period?
DeSilva, Brown, & Henderson
George and Ira Gershwin
Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern
Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart
20
What was the name of the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar?
The Broadway Melody
42nd Street
Shuffle Along
Showboat
21
Irish immigrant whose patriotic tunes made him famous. Statue of him Time Square
Bert Williams
Florenz Zegfield
George M Cohan
George Gershwin
22
Jewish immigrant famous for comedy and singing in Follies. Made the song “My Man” famous
Fanny Brice
Marilynn Miller
George M Cohan
Bert Williams
23
Song is which element of drama (Aristotle's Poetics) in order of importance?
3
5
6
1
24
Ziegfield::Follies as George White::________
Women
Burlesques
Scandals
Revues
25
Which era of theatre involved using wigs to differentiate character, cut the chorus, & bloody
Greek
Medieval
Roman
Enlightenment
