Producers, Directors, Choreographers, Composers, and Lyricists

Question 1

George Balanchine

Answer 1

1904 - 1983
Father of American Ballet

• • Ziegfeld Follies (1936)
• • On Your Toes (1936)
• • Babes in Arms (1937)
• • Boys from Syracuse (1938)

Question 2

Agnes De Mille

Answer 2

1905 - 1993:
Master of the Dream Ballets:

• • Oklahoma (1943)
• • Carousel (1947)
• Brigadoon (1947)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
• Paint Your Wagon (1951)

Worked her dancers very hard, but they loved her.
Great Choreographer, terrible director

Question 3

Jack Cole

Answer 3

HS: Athletic Jazz
Father of Modern Jazz (NOT Fosse)

• • Ziegfeld Follies of (1943)
• • Something for the Boys (Porter) (1943)
• Kismet (Forrest & Wright) (1953)
• • Forum (Sondheim) (1962)
• • Man of La Mancha (Darion & Leigh) (1965)

Question 4

Jerome Robbins

Answer 4

• • On the Town (1944)
• • Call Me Madam (1950)
• • King and I (1951)
• • Pajama Game (1954) (also Codirect)
• Peter Pan (1954) (also Dir)
• Bells are Ringing (1956) (alo Dir)
• • West Side Story (1957) (also Dir)
• • Gypsy (1959) (also Dir)
• • Fiddler on the Roof (1964) (also Dir)

SUPER Hated on Broadway

Ratted out his friends to HUAC cause they were going to out him as gay.

Question 5

Richard D’Oyly Carte

Answer 5

The producer for Gilbert and Sullivan

Question 6

W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Answer 6

1830s - 1900s
Music and Words equally important
plays staged by Doyly O’carte Opera Company

• • The Mikado (1885)
• • HMS Pinafore (1878)
• • Pirates of Penzance (1879)

Question 7

Jerome Kern

Answer 7

1885 - 1945
– Showboat (w/ Hammerstein)

started out as a rehearsal pianist on Tin Pan Alley

Question 8

Sigmund Romberg

Answer 8

1887 - 1951
HS: Worked with Hammerstein on some early works

• • The Desert Song (1926)
• • The New Moon (1928)

Question 9

Geroge and Ira Gershwin

Answer 9

Gerorge 1898 - 1937

• • Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
• • An American in Paris (1928)
• • Porgy and Bess (1934)

Question 10

Irving Berlin

Answer 10

1888-1989

• • Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
• • Call Me Madam (1950)
• • White Christmas
• • Easter Parade (film)

Question 11

Lorenz Hart

Answer 11

worked with Richard Rodgers before Hammerstein

• • On Your Toes (1936)
• • Babes in Arms (1936)
• • The Boys from Syracuse (1938)
• • Pal Joey (1940)

Question 12

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hamerstein II

Answer 12

Rogers 1902 - 1979 (composer)
Hammerstein 1895 - 1960 (Lyrics)

HS: Mature plots, integrate singing and dancing with character

• • Oklahoma (1943)
• • Carousel (1945)
• • State Fair (1945)
• • South Pacific (1949)
• • The King and I (1951)
• • Cinderella (1957)
• • Flower Drum Song (1958)
• • Sound of Music (1959)

Question 13

Alan J Lerner and Frederick Loewe

Answer 13

Lerner (1918 - 1986) librettist
Loewe (1901 - 1988) composer

(Common Theme: Marriage)

• • Brigadoon (1947)
• • My Fair Lady (1956)
• • Camelot (1960)

Question 14

Frank Loesser

Answer 14

1910 - 1969
Tin Pan Alley, then hollywood

HS: Clever, witty lyrics and fast musical style (fugue for tinhorns)

• • Guys and Dolls (1950)
• 0 The Most Happy Fella (1956)
• • H2$ (1961)

Question 15

Meredith Willson

Answer 15

1902 - 1984:

– MUSIC MAN (1957)

less important:

• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960)
• Here’s Love (1963)

Question 16

George Abbott

Answer 16

1887 - 1995
also a show doctor

• • Pal Joey (1940)
• • On the Town (1944)
• Call Me Madam (1950)
• • Wonderful Town (1953)
• • Pajama Game [co with Jerome Robbins] (1954)
• • Damn Yankees (1955)
• Forum (1962)

Question 17

Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

Answer 17

Adler (Lyricist) 1921- 2012
Ross (Composer) 1926 - 1955

known for two smash hits:

• • Pajama Game (1954)
• • Damn Yankees (1955)

Question 18

Jerry Herman

Answer 18

1931 -

• • Dolly (1964)
• • Mame (1966)
• Dear World (1969)
• Mack and Mabel (1974)
• • La Cage (1983)

Question 19

Gower Champion

Answer 19

1919 - 1980

• • Showboat (Performer!)
• • Hello, Dolly! (1964)
• I Do, I Do! (1966)
• Mack and Mabel (1974)
• 42nd Street (1980)

Famously died on opening night of 42nd Street

Question 20

Kurt Weill

Answer 20

1900 - 1950

• • Threepenny Opera (1933)
• • Street Scene (1947)
• Lady in the Dark (1941)
• Love Life (1948)

Question 21

Leonard Bernstein

Answer 21

1918 - 1990

• • On the Town (1944)
• • Wonderful Town (1953)
• • Candide (1956)
• • West Side Story (1957)

Question 22

Betty Comden and Adolph Green

Answer 22

Comden 1917 - 2006
Green 1915 -2002

Lyricists and playwrights

• • On the Town (1944)
• • Wonderful Town (1954)
• Peter Pan (1954)
• Bells Are Ringing (1956)
• Applause (1970)
• On the Twentieth Century (1978)
• The Will Rogers Follies (1991)

Question 23

Michael Kidd

Answer 23

1915 - 2007:
director/choreographer

• • Guys and Dolls (1950) [choreo only] TONY
• • Can-Can (1953) [choreo only] TONY

Question 24

Hal Prince

Answer 24

1928 -
producer:

– Pajama Game (1955)

[others after the midterm]

Question 25

Flo Ziegfeld

Answer 25

1867 - 1932 -- Ziegfeld Follies -- Produced Showboat

Question 26

David Merrick

Answer 26

1911 - 2000 HS: Slimeball, all publicity is good publicity - - Produced 42nd street - - Produced Gypsy Famously announced George Abbot had died after 42nd street opened. Show ran for years

Question 27

Bob Fosse

Answer 27

1927 - 1987 HS: More style and personality in your jazz - - Pajama Game (1954) - - Damn Yankees (1955) - Redhead (1959) [D/C] - - Sweet Charity (1966) [D/C] - - Pippin (1973) [D/C] - - Chicago (1976) [D/C/B] Also did films Married Gwen Verdon

Question 28

Michael Bennett

Answer 28

(1943 - 1987) - - Company (1970) [C] - - Follies (1971) [cD/C] - - A Chorus Line (1976) [D/C] - - Dreamgirls (1981) [D/C]

Question 29

Stephen Sondheim

Answer 29

- - West Side Story - - Gypsy - - Forum - - Company - - Follies - - A Little Night Music - Pacific Overtures - - Sweeney - - Sunday in the Park with George - - Into the Woods - Assassins

Question 30

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Answer 30

British. Showed America that the rest of the world can do musicals too. - - Evita - - Jesus Christ Superstar - - Cats - - Phantom

Question 31

Susan Stroman

Answer 31

Directed Producers | Directed Crazy For You

Question 32

Andy Blankenbueheler

Answer 32

Choreography - - Hamilton - - In the Heights Choreography: - - 9 to 5 - - Bring it On

Question 33

Moss Hart

Answer 33

- -Directed My Fair Lady | - - Directed Camelot

Question 34

Arthur Laurents

Answer 34

- -Directed La Cage | - -Book for Gypsy

Question 35

James Lapine

Answer 35

Director / Writer: - - Sunday in the Park - - Into the Woods

Question 36

Julie Traymor

Answer 36

Director: - - The Lion King - - Spider Man, Turn off the Dark

Question 37

Trevor Nunn

Answer 37

Director: - - A Little Night Music - - Les Miz - - Cats

Question 38

Thomas Kail

Answer 38

Director: - - Hamilton - - In the Heights

Question 39

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick

Answer 39

Composer: Bock Lyricist: Harnick - - She Loves Me - - Fiddler

Question 40

John Kander and Fred Ebb

Answer 40

Music: Kander Lyrics: Ebb - - Cabaret - - Chicago - - Kiss of the Spider Woman

Question 41

Stephen Schwartz

Answer 41

Composer: - - Pippin - Godspell - - Wicked - Children of Eden - Prince of Egypt

Question 42

Tim Rice

Answer 42

Lyricist - - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat - - JCS - - Evita - - Lion King

Question 43

Claude-Michele Schonberg and Boublil

Answer 43

MUSIC: Schonberg LYRICS: Boublil - - Les Miz - - Miss Saigon

Question 44

Jonathan Larsen

Answer 44

best known for RENT | also did Tick Tick Boom

Question 45

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Answer 45

- - Hamilton | - - In the Heights

Question 46

Duncan Sheik

Answer 46

Spring Awakening

Question 47

Livent

Answer 47

Production Company with lots of early successes but also lots of insolvency issues later on

Question 48

Disney

Answer 48

I know what Disney is

Question 49

Cameron MacIntosh

Answer 49

King of the Mega Musical: - - Les Miz - - Phantom - - Miss Saigon - - Cats