Test

Question 1

_______ _____ where when Black or white troupes played banjos and tambourines, sang, and danced and told jokes in blackface make-up

Answer 1

Minstrel Shows

Question 2

T/F: There is a debate over the first created musical

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Most consider “_____ ______ _____” (Which opened in NY (year?)) to be the first.

Answer 3

The Black Crook

Question 4

A play, or stage play, is a form of literature written by a playwright, almost always consisting of….

Answer 4

scripted dialogue between fictional characters

Question 5

The earliest recorded theatrical event dates back to _____ BC with the passion plays of Ancient ______

Answer 5

2000, Egypt

Question 6

This story of the god _____ was performed annually at festivals throughout the civilization, marking the known beginning of a long relationship between _____ and ______

Answer 6

Osiris, Religion and Theater

Question 7

In Western culture, the play originated in Ancient ____ and was popular through Roman times

Answer 7

Greece

Question 8

T/F: Shakespeare popularized theaters and plays in the late 16th century

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The 5 genres

Answer 9

Comedy
Farce
Satirical
Tragedy
Drama

Question 10

Comedies are plays which are designed to be ________

Answer 10

Humorous

Question 11

______ were one of the two original plays types of Ancient Greece, along with ______

Answer 11

Comedy, Tragedies

Question 12

Name three comedies

Answer 12

The Sunshine Boys (Simon)
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
The Birds ( Aristophanes)

Question 13

A generally nonsensical genre of play/ comedy. Are often overacted and often involve slapstick humor, using unlikely and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity.

Answer 13

Farce

Question 14

Three Farces

Answer 14

The Importance of being Earnest (Wilde)
The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)
The Ritz (McNally)

Question 15

A play meant to be funny with the purpose of constructive social criticism using wit as a weapon. All to the end of shaming individuals and society itself into improvement

Answer 15

Satirical

Question 16

Two examples of a Satirical play

Answer 16

Fahrenheit 451

SouthPark

Question 17

These plays often invlove death and are designed to cause the reader or viewer to feel sadness.

Answer 17

Tragedy

Question 18

Name three tragedies

Answer 18

Macbeth
Hamlet
Gem of the Ocean (Wilson)

Question 19

Plays of serious nature, dealing with a serious subject.

Answer 19

Drama

Question 20

Name 5 dramas

Answer 20

Street Car Named Desire
The Emperor Jones
The Iceman Cometh
Fences
The Taking of Miss Janie

Question 21

A dramatic work in which most or all of the test is sung to orchestral accompaniment.

Answer 21

Opera

Question 22

T/F: Opera consists of three modes of singing

Answer 22

False, two

Question 23

Recitative Singing

Answer 23

plot driven passages

Question 24

Aria Singing

Answer 24

songs where characters express their emotions

Question 25

A serious or tragic opera for which the entire test is set to music

Answer 25

Grand Opera

Question 26

A short amusing opera containing spoken dialogue, many times with a happy ending

Answer 26

Light/Comedic/Operetta

Question 27

Vaudeville was popular in the US and Canada from the early ____s to the early _____

Answer 27

1880, 1930

Question 28

A typical _____ performance is made up of a series of separate, unrealted acts grouped together on a common bill

Answer 28

Vaudeville

Question 29

A Vaudeville performer

Answer 29

Vaudevillian

Question 30

Name the 5 sources of where Vaudeville developed

Answer 30

``` Concert Saloon Minstrelsy Freak Shows Dime Museums American Burlesque ```

Question 31

A form of theater combining music,songs, spoken dialouge, and dance

Answer 31

The Musical

Question 32

What is the most complex of the theater presentations

Answer 32

Music Theater

Question 33

When was Music Theater called Musicals?``

Answer 33

The early 20th century

Question 34

Three musical genres

Answer 34

Dramatic Comedic Revue

Question 35

A musical of serious subject matter. Name 5

Answer 35

Dramatic 1. Le Mis 2. West Side Story 3. Phantom of the Opera 4. Aida 5. Sweeny Todd

Question 36

A musical of light hearted subject matter. Name 5

Answer 36

Comedic 1. Hairspray 2. Grease 3. Guys and Dolls 4. Avenue Q 5. Shrek

Question 37

A type pf multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches but has no clear story line, no book

Answer 37

Revue

Question 38

A revue is often the work of a singular _____, or _________, or a ____ of ____ ____

Answer 38

Composer, choreographer, collection of hit music

Question 39

Using the art of ____ this ancient technique tells stories, evokes feelings of joy and sadness, love and hate.

Answer 39

Dance

Question 40

Through the movement of the dancers who are defined by ________, ________, _____, _________, _______

Answer 40

Lighting, costumes, production design, music, sound

Question 41

Some of the greatest dramatic literature as well as social causes have inspired the timeless works of... (5)

Answer 41

1. Agnes Demille 2. Martha Graham 3. Katherine Dunham 4. Jeromne Robbins 5. Alvin Ailey

Question 42

Name 7 Musical Production Team Members

Answer 42

1. Director 2. Costume Designer 3. Producer 4. Conductor 5. Set Designer 6. Choreographer 7. Lighting Designer

Question 43

West Side Story Director/ Choreographer

Answer 43

Jerome Robbins

Question 44

WSS Book/ Author

Answer 44

Arthur Laurents

Question 45

WSS Music/ Composer

Answer 45

Leonard Bernstein

Question 46

WSS Lyricist

Answer 46

Stephen Sondheim

Question 47

WSS Lighting Desiner

Answer 47

David Martin Jaques

Question 48

WSS Costume Designer

Answer 48

Irene Sharaff

Question 49

WSS Scenic Designer

Answer 49

Oliver Smith

Question 50

An American in Paris won which Tony Award?

Answer 50

Best Revival 2015

Question 51

What was the original American In Paris?

Answer 51

A Jazz influenced symphonic poem.

Question 52

Who are the creators of the King and I

Answer 52

Rogers and Hammerstein

Question 53

Who composed the Lion King

Answer 53

Elton John

Question 54

How many plays were in the Pittsburgh Cycle

Answer 54

10

Question 55

What is a Labretto

Answer 55

The story of the musical, ballet, or play

Question 56

Name 3 operas and their composers

Answer 56

Aida by Verdi Don Giovanni by Mozart Carmen by Bizet

Question 57

The King and I Choreography and Director

Answer 57

Jerome Robbins | Barlett Sher

Question 58

Motown the Musical Author

Answer 58

Berry Gordy

Question 59

The ______ _____ were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931

Answer 59

Scottsboro Boys

Question 60

Who was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatic

Answer 60

William Shakespeare

Question 61

Shakespeare's surviving works consist of ___ plays, ____ sonnets, and __ long narrative poems.

Answer 61

38, 154, 2

Question 62

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between ____ and ____

Answer 62

1589, 1613

Question 63

What is Tennessee Williams' real name?

Answer 63

Thomas Lanier Williams

Question 64

Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for..... in 1948 and for ..... in 1955

Answer 64

A Streetcar named desire, Cat on a hot tin roof

Question 65

The Rose Tattoo received which Tony Award?

Answer 65

Best Play

Question 66

Who wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle

Answer 66

August Wilson

Question 67

Who is referred to as the American Shakespeare?

Answer 67

August Wilson

Question 68

An American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

Answer 68

Eugene O'Neill

Question 69

Eugene O'Neill's plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of _____

Answer 69

Realism

Question 70

Beyond the Horizon won what prize, what year and opened on Broadway in what year

Answer 70

Nobel prize for Literature (1936), 1920

Question 71

Eugene O'Neill's best known plays (5)

Answer 71

``` Anna Christine Desire Under the Elms Strange Interlude Mourning Becomes Electra Ah, Wildnerness! ```

Question 72

After a ten-year pause, O'Neill's now- renowned play __ _____ ___ was produced in 1946

Answer 72

The Iceman Cometh

Question 73

_ ____ ____ ___ Failed and did not gain recognition as being among O'Neill's best works until later

Answer 73

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Question 74

A multi-Emmy and Grammy award winning and Academy Award nominated American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

Answer 74

Leonard Bernstein

Question 75

T/F: According to the New York Times, Bernstein was "one of the most prodigally talented and successful musicians in American history"

Answer 75

True

Question 76

Bernstein stage works (6)

Answer 76

``` Fancy Free On The Town Peter Pan West Side Story Mass A Quiet Place ```

Question 77

Duke Ellington full name

Answer 77

Edward Kennedy Ellington

Question 78

Known as one ofthe most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music

Answer 78

Duke Ellington

Question 79

What did Ellington call his music other than jazz?

Answer 79

American Music

Question 80

What is the novel that the King and I is based on?

Answer 80

Anna and the King of Siam

Question 81

When and where did the King and I premiere?

Answer 81

March 29th, 1951 at the St.James Theater

Question 82

The King and I ran for nearly _ years

Answer 82

3

Question 83

T/F: The King is presented more sympathetically in the musical more than in the novel or the 1946 film.

Answer 83

True

Question 84

What does the musical of the King and I omit?

Answer 84

the torture and burning at the stake of Lady Tuptim and her partner

Question 85

Who was known as the Matriarch and Queen mother of Black Dance.

Answer 85

Katherine Dunham

Question 86

What was Katherine Dunham renowned as in Europe and Latin America?

Answer 86

La Grande Katherine

Question 87

The only permanent, self-subsidized American black dance troupe back in the day

Answer 87

Katherine Dunham Dance Company

Question 88

Katherine Dunham choreographed more than how many individual dances?

Answer 88

90

Question 89

Dunham was an innovator in African-American modern dance as well as a leader in the field of what?

Answer 89

Dance Anthropology

Question 90

T/F: In the segregated south, Ms. Dunham once refused to hold a show after finding out that the city's black residents were not allowed to but tickets

Answer 90

True

Question 91

In Hollywood, Why did Ms.Dunham refuse to sign a lucrative studio contract?

Answer 91

Because the producer said she would have to replace the darker-skinned company members

Question 92

While in Brazil, Ms.Dunham was refused a room at the finest hotel because of her race. What did she then go on to do and what was the cause of what she did?

Answer 92

She made sure the incident went public and then there was a law passed in 1951 forbidding racial discrimination in public places

Question 93

What was Southland about?

Answer 93

Lynching of blacks in the racist America South