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

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Minstrel Shows

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

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True

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

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The Black Crook

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

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scripted dialogue between fictional characters

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

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2000, Egypt

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

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Osiris, Religion and Theater

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

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Greece

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

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True

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The 5 genres

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Comedy
Farce
Satirical
Tragedy
Drama
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Comedies are plays which are designed to be ________

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Humorous

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

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Comedy, Tragedies

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Name three comedies

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

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

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Farce

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Three Farces

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

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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

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Satirical

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Two examples of a Satirical play

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Fahrenheit 451

SouthPark

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

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Tragedy

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Name three tragedies

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Macbeth
Hamlet
Gem of the Ocean (Wilson)

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Plays of serious nature, dealing with a serious subject.

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Drama

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Name 5 dramas

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Street Car Named Desire
The Emperor Jones
The Iceman Cometh
Fences
The Taking of Miss Janie
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A dramatic work in which most or all of the test is sung to orchestral accompaniment.

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Opera

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T/F: Opera consists of three modes of singing

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False, two

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Recitative Singing

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plot driven passages

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Aria Singing

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songs where characters express their emotions

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A serious or tragic opera for which the entire test is set to music
Grand Opera
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A short amusing opera containing spoken dialogue, many times with a happy ending
Light/Comedic/Operetta
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Vaudeville was popular in the US and Canada from the early ____s to the early _____
1880, 1930
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A typical _____ performance is made up of a series of separate, unrealted acts grouped together on a common bill
Vaudeville
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A Vaudeville performer
Vaudevillian
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Name the 5 sources of where Vaudeville developed
``` Concert Saloon Minstrelsy Freak Shows Dime Museums American Burlesque ```
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A form of theater combining music,songs, spoken dialouge, and dance
The Musical
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What is the most complex of the theater presentations
Music Theater
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When was Music Theater called Musicals?``
The early 20th century
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Three musical genres
Dramatic Comedic Revue
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A musical of serious subject matter. Name 5
Dramatic 1. Le Mis 2. West Side Story 3. Phantom of the Opera 4. Aida 5. Sweeny Todd
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A musical of light hearted subject matter. Name 5
Comedic 1. Hairspray 2. Grease 3. Guys and Dolls 4. Avenue Q 5. Shrek
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A type pf multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches but has no clear story line, no book
Revue
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A revue is often the work of a singular _____, or _________, or a ____ of ____ ____
Composer, choreographer, collection of hit music
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Using the art of ____ this ancient technique tells stories, evokes feelings of joy and sadness, love and hate.
Dance
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Through the movement of the dancers who are defined by ________, ________, _____, _________, _______
Lighting, costumes, production design, music, sound
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Some of the greatest dramatic literature as well as social causes have inspired the timeless works of... (5)
1. Agnes Demille 2. Martha Graham 3. Katherine Dunham 4. Jeromne Robbins 5. Alvin Ailey
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Name 7 Musical Production Team Members
1. Director 2. Costume Designer 3. Producer 4. Conductor 5. Set Designer 6. Choreographer 7. Lighting Designer
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West Side Story Director/ Choreographer
Jerome Robbins
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WSS Book/ Author
Arthur Laurents
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WSS Music/ Composer
Leonard Bernstein
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WSS Lyricist
Stephen Sondheim
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WSS Lighting Desiner
David Martin Jaques
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WSS Costume Designer
Irene Sharaff
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WSS Scenic Designer
Oliver Smith
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An American in Paris won which Tony Award?
Best Revival 2015
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What was the original American In Paris?
A Jazz influenced symphonic poem.
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Who are the creators of the King and I
Rogers and Hammerstein
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Who composed the Lion King
Elton John
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How many plays were in the Pittsburgh Cycle
10
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What is a Labretto
The story of the musical, ballet, or play
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Name 3 operas and their composers
Aida by Verdi Don Giovanni by Mozart Carmen by Bizet
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The King and I Choreography and Director
Jerome Robbins | Barlett Sher
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Motown the Musical Author
Berry Gordy
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The ______ _____ were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931
Scottsboro Boys
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Who was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatic
William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's surviving works consist of ___ plays, ____ sonnets, and __ long narrative poems.
38, 154, 2
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Shakespeare produced most of his known work between ____ and ____
1589, 1613
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What is Tennessee Williams' real name?
Thomas Lanier Williams
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Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for..... in 1948 and for ..... in 1955
A Streetcar named desire, Cat on a hot tin roof
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The Rose Tattoo received which Tony Award?
Best Play
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Who wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle
August Wilson
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Who is referred to as the American Shakespeare?
August Wilson
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An American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.
Eugene O'Neill
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Eugene O'Neill's plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of _____
Realism
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Beyond the Horizon won what prize, what year and opened on Broadway in what year
Nobel prize for Literature (1936), 1920
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Eugene O'Neill's best known plays (5)
``` Anna Christine Desire Under the Elms Strange Interlude Mourning Becomes Electra Ah, Wildnerness! ```
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After a ten-year pause, O'Neill's now- renowned play __ _____ ___ was produced in 1946
The Iceman Cometh
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_ ____ ____ ___ Failed and did not gain recognition as being among O'Neill's best works until later
A Moon for the Misbegotten
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A multi-Emmy and Grammy award winning and Academy Award nominated American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, and pianist.
Leonard Bernstein
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T/F: According to the New York Times, Bernstein was "one of the most prodigally talented and successful musicians in American history"
True
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Bernstein stage works (6)
``` Fancy Free On The Town Peter Pan West Side Story Mass A Quiet Place ```
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Duke Ellington full name
Edward Kennedy Ellington
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Known as one ofthe most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music
Duke Ellington
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What did Ellington call his music other than jazz?
American Music
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What is the novel that the King and I is based on?
Anna and the King of Siam
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When and where did the King and I premiere?
March 29th, 1951 at the St.James Theater
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The King and I ran for nearly _ years
3
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T/F: The King is presented more sympathetically in the musical more than in the novel or the 1946 film.
True
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What does the musical of the King and I omit?
the torture and burning at the stake of Lady Tuptim and her partner
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Who was known as the Matriarch and Queen mother of Black Dance.
Katherine Dunham
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What was Katherine Dunham renowned as in Europe and Latin America?
La Grande Katherine
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The only permanent, self-subsidized American black dance troupe back in the day
Katherine Dunham Dance Company
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Katherine Dunham choreographed more than how many individual dances?
90
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Dunham was an innovator in African-American modern dance as well as a leader in the field of what?
Dance Anthropology
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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
True
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In Hollywood, Why did Ms.Dunham refuse to sign a lucrative studio contract?
Because the producer said she would have to replace the darker-skinned company members
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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?
She made sure the incident went public and then there was a law passed in 1951 forbidding racial discrimination in public places
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What was Southland about?
Lynching of blacks in the racist America South

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