Midterm 3

Question 1

By the 1990s, musical theater artists had two different responses to new Broadway - what were they? (2)

Answer 1

look to the past (revivals, jukebox musicals)

look for new directions

Question 2

List the 4 approaches to revivals

Answer 2

replicate
improve and update
revise and re-envision
concert stagings

Question 3

T or F: Revivals became so popular that the Tony Awards created a new category.

Answer 3

T

Question 4

3 reasons - why revivals?

Answer 4

$$$$$

cultural capital (stars, recordings of cast)

directors like to show off

Question 5

Name the three non-profit organizations committed to producing new shows and transfer to Broadway

Answer 5

1. Joseph Papp Public Theater
2. Playwright’s Horizon
3. Lincoln Center Theatre

Question 6

Who was the American songwriting team who wrote Urinetowm

Answer 6

KOTIS-HOLLMANN

Question 7

What’s the setting & setting for Urinetown?

Answer 7

gotham-like city

sometime after the Stink Years

Question 8

T or F: Urinetown is made up of a lot of quotations,
allusions, homages, pastiches, parodies, and references to an array of well-known Broadway musicals, including….and….. (3)

Answer 8

WSS
Guys and Dolls
Les Miz

Question 9

T or F: Urinetown has many unconventional elements of a musical.

Answer 9

F

 Narration as a storytelling device 
 Prototypical characters 
 Love duets 
 Choreography as entertainment and spectacle 
 Rousing, inspirational numbers 
 Plot twists 
 Happy endings

Question 10

What are 2 unconventional elements of Urinetown?

Answer 10

title and absurdity

musical about musicals

Question 11

“Too Much Exposition”

Sung by who?

What does it mock?

Answer 11

k

Question 12

“Follow Your Heart

Sung by who?

Style of song?

Underscored?

Song Form?

References what?

Answer 12

k

Question 13

Sung by Bobby and Company

Rousing 11 o’clock spot number

References Nicely-Nicely’s lively confession and
mock-religious tone in “Sit Down You’re Rockin’
the Boat” (Guys and Dolls)

Answer 13

“Run, Freedom, Run”

Question 14

Billing for Hamilton? Similar to what 3 shows?

What is the general synopsis/premise of Hamilton?

T or F: it is about race

Answer 14

An American Musical

Showboat
Porgy and Bess
Street Scene

T

Question 15

T or F: Hamilton has yet to win a Pulitzer Prize

Answer 15

F - already won

Question 16

American composer,
lyricist, and actor

Wesleyan University,
B.A. (2002) where he
founded Freestyle LoveSupreme, a rap improv group

 Supply teacher
 MacArthur Fellow

Answer 16

Miranda

Question 17

What other two shows did Miranda work on?

Answer 17

In the Heights

Bring it On: The Musical (FLOP)

Question 18

Who wrote the source for Hamilton and consulted Hamilton for 6 years?

Answer 18

Chernow

Question 19

Keyboardist for Lion King

Cuban-American

Worked with Miranda in this two other musicals

Worked on Sesame Street

Orchestrator for Miranda

Answer 19

Alex Lacamoire

Question 20

Which theater did Hamilton debut at before hitting Broadway? Then at Broadway?

Answer 20

Joseph Papp Public Theater

Richard Rogers’ Theater

Question 21

“Alexander Hamilton”

Sung by?

What two types of “numbers” is it?

Answer 21

company

opening and establishing #

Question 22

T or F: Hamilton is sparse with music, with a lot of dialogue

Answer 22

F - through-sung

Question 23

T or F: Hamilton has a very diverse cast

Answer 23

k

Question 24

Name 4 musical styles of Hamilton

Answer 24

Jazz
Blues
Hip hop
ballads, love songs

Question 25

What's the difference between rap and hip hop?

Answer 25

Rap refers to syncopated vocal performance, whereas hip hop refers to a broader movement of music, dance, poetry, fashion, graffiti that began in the South Bronx in the late 1970s

Question 26

"Aaron Burr, Sir" Sung by? How does it act like a refrain/motive?

Answer 26

k

Question 27

"My Shot" Sung by? References?

Answer 27

k

Question 28

"My Shot" Sung by? Setting? What type of song? What musical feature does it have? (common in African-American music)

Answer 28

k drinking song - call/response eve of American revolution

Question 29

"The Schuyler Sisters" Sung by? What musical feature does it have?

Answer 29

Eliza, Angelica, Peggy, Burr, and Company contrapunctal

Question 30

"You'll Be Back" Sun by? Type of song? What instrument does it feature? What's the metadramatic effect?

Answer 30

k

Question 31

T or F: Hammerstein mentored Miranda on WSS

Answer 31

F - Sondheim

Question 32

Significance of Hamilton (5)

Answer 32

hip-hop musical diverse Broadway cast historical gateway to American hx and larger cultural concerns new generation