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1
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What is a Broadway musical?

A

A musical that has been performed in a Broadway-designated commercial theatre in New York City.

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t or f

Musicals are highly collaborative art forms that bring together a large number of people to fill a variety of roles.

A

t

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What is the composer’s main role in a musical?

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Writing the music

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4
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Which repetitive textual device does this excerpt demonstrate?

“Suddenly I’m flying company charters

Suddenly everything’s high

Suddenly there’s nothing in between me and the sky…”

A

anaphora

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Who was responsible for coming up with the idea to write a musical based on Gander’s response to the September 11th terrorist attacks?

A

michael rubinoff

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Come From Away calls for a percussion instrument that Newfoundlanders make out of household items like a mop, old boot, and bottle caps. Identify the name of the instrument:

A

ugly stick

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7
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All of the following are book shows EXCEPT:

Comic opera

Musical comedy

Operetta

Revue

Musical

A

revue

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8
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Jerome Kern started his career working as a:

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Songplugger on Tin Pan Alley

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9
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After the overture of Oklahoma!, the audience sees an older woman onstage churning butter. What happens next?

A

An offstage voice starts singing a cappella

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10
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t or f Oklahoma! was the first musical play on Broadway.

A

f

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Why is Oklahoma! known as an “integrated” musical?

A

Because the choreography helps develop the plot.

Because the music propels the story forward.

Because the musical numbers use underscoring to ooze between speech and song.

Because the songs relate directly to the characters who sing them

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12
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t or f “It Takes Two” is a duet sung by the Baker and his Wife in Into the Woods.

A

t

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In the 1980s, a new type of musical emerged that proved to be extremely popular across audiences of all ages and around the world. These new shows usually had a lot of music and special effects. The productions were expensive so the shows needed to run for long periods of time. What term came to be used to describe this type of musical?

A

megamusical

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14
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When composer James Lapine wrote the music for Into the Woods, he used unification devices like repeated musical themes to connect the score.

A

false

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15
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Why does West Side Story have such a short book?

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Because so much of the action is danced and happens in movement

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t or f

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Some ambitious composers like Leonard Bernstein borrowed elements from opera to elevate their musicals.

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17
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t or f From opening night, West Side Story was a huge hit, and the film adaptation, that was released a couple years later, did little to popularize the show.

A

f

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18
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Identify the song type that best describes the “Prologue” from West Side Story:

A

establishing number

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19
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Despite its strengths, Love Life has yet to return to Broadway. Why did it fall into obscurity?

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Alan Jay Lerner was embarrassed that his own love life and failed marriages had become exactly what he had satirized in the show

A musician union’s action kept the pit orchestra from making an original cast recording

Alan Jay Lerner later plagiarized one of his own lyrics without permission from Kurt Weill’s widow, Lotte Lenya

The script and score have yet to be published (though plans to do so are finally in the works)

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20
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What was Harold Prince’s role in Cabaret?

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Producer-director

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21
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What is a comment song? A musical number that…

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Makes a point instead of simply focusing on plot, character, or emotion

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22
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t or f Like most musicals, Come From Away has two acts.

A

false

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23
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t or f Oklahoma! was the longest-running Broadway musical of the 1940s.

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true

24
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t or f

A

An orchestrator is like a general manager who works behind the scenes and assists the producer with casting, theatre bookings, and box office sales.

25
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t or f Oklahoma! has been revived several times on Broadway, and the most recent revival made substantial changes to the lyrics.

A

f

26
Q

t or f “People Will Say We’re In Love” is a romantic duet for Magnolia and Ravenal.

A

f

27
Q

“Lost my heart, but what of it?
My mistake, I agree.
He’s a laugh, but I love it
Because the laugh’s on me.”

What is the rhyme scheme of this lyric?

A

abab

28
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Overall what effect does the relentlessly fast pace of Come From Away have on the audience?

A

Generates tension

29
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Which performer of musical comedies was known as a Broadway belter who was good at enunciation, projection, and holding long notes?

A

Ethel Merman

30
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According to Agnes De Mille, American soldiers seeing Oklahoma! for the first time wept. Why did they react this way?

A

Because the themes addressed in the show represented what they were fighting for in the war

31
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t or f Love Life tells the story of a marriage set against the backdrop of American history, starting in the late 1700s and continuing to the present, the 1940s.

A

t

32
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t or f West Side Story, based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is an early example of a concept musical.

A

false

33
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t or f “Tonight” is one of the musical numbers that reprises in West Side Story.

A

t

34
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t or f When Sondheim and Laurents came to write West Side Story, these Broadway veterans had already enjoyed several successful productions in the New York commercial theatre.

A

f

35
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t or f An 11 o’clock spot number becomes an 11 o’clock spot complex when there is more than one 11 o’clock spot number.

A

f

36
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Bertolt Brecht was a playwright who found ways to break the “fourth wall” during his plays so that audiences could distance themselves from the plot and become objective and observant. What is one of the English translations of his term for this technique?

A

Alienation effect

37
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Vaudeville is an early form of musical theatre. Which of the following statements describes it best?

A

Family-friendly entertainment much like a variety show with such performers as animals, children, acrobats, magicians, athletes, etc.

38
Q

How did the creators of Love Life prepare audiences for its atypical premise and structure?

A

By adding a subtitle to the show

By including an explanation in the playbill

By having a newspaper publish information about the show and highlight its links to vaudeville

39
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When West Side Story was “East Side Story,” what was its story about?

A

Jews and Catholics

40
Q

Who gets “cold feet” on the morning of their wedding

A

amy

41
Q

What “frames” Company?

A

bday party

42
Q

“Tonight” starts with Maria singing:

“Only you, you’re the only thing I’ll see forever.
In my eyes, in my words and in everything I do,
Nothing else but you
Ever!”

Which section of the song form is this?

A

verse

43
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t or f Oklahoma! was the first musical to have an original Broadway cast recording.

A

f

44
Q

t or f Florenz Ziegfeld produced Show Boat, and his name was featured prominently on the original playbill.

A

t

45
Q

t or f West Side Story was Stephen Sondheim’s big breakthrough musical as composer-lyricist.

A

f

46
Q

t or f Company uses such metadramatic devices as comment songs and songs interrupted by dialogue (without underscoring).

A

t

47
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t or f Into the Woods features recurring musical themes that help unify the score.

A

t

47
Q

All of the following are producers EXCEPT:

Cheryl Crawford

Florenz Ziegfeld

George Abbott

George Gershwin

Harold Prince

A

George Gershwin

48
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Which pairs have never worked together on a show?

Sondheim – Rodgers

Sondheim – Prince

Sondheim – Hammerstein

Sondheim – Laurents

Sondheim – Furth

A

sondhime and OH2

49
Q

What is different about the orchestrations for the recent revival of Oklahoma!?

A

The music is played by a bluegrass band, including steel guitar and banjo.

50
Q

Which song is an example of pastiche?

A

“Getting Married Today”

51
Q

What happens at the end of West Side Story?

A

Maria delivers a powerful monologue over Tony’s dead body

52
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Like Company, Dear Evan Hansen has two 11 o’clock spot numbers. Evan sings the first. Who sings the second?

A

Heidi, Evan’s mother

53
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What is Dear Evan Hansen about?

A

A teenager with severe anxiety

54
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Identify the song type of anyone hv map

A

Establishing number

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