Deck 11: The Musical

Question 1

What musical combined comedy and serious drama to create what we know today as the American musical?

A)Singin' in the Rain
B)Show Boat
C)The Sound of Music
D)Fiddler on the Roof
E)Man of La Mancha

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Mamma Mia! is considered a(n)...

A)Jukebox musical
B)Book musical
C)Dance musical
D)Operatic musical

Answer 2

A

Question 3

When a song is sung a second time in a musical it is called a(n)...

Answer 3

Reprise

Question 4

Who wrote such famous musicals as Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods?

Question 5

Which type of opera is sometimes called light opera?

A)Opera to go
B)Operetta
C)Musical comedy
D)Nimble opera
E)Sprightly opera

Question 6

Musicals that have less spoken dialogue than music,such as Les Misérables and Evita,are also known as...

A)Dance musicals
B)Book musicals
C)Singing musicals
D)Operatic musicals
E)Full musicals

Question 7

Who writes the book portion of a musical?

A)Lyricist
B)Librettist
C)Composer
D)Director

Question 8

At the beginning of a traditional musical,the __________ lets the audience know that the performance is about to begin.

A)Reprise
B)Showstopper
C)Ballad
D)Overture
E)Revue

Question 9

A musical has three parts: the music with orchestrated melodies; the lyrics or the sung words; and the spoken lines of dialogue.What other name describes the spoken lines?

A)Book
B)Dialogue
C)Oral element
D)Play
E)Plotline

Question 10

A play without music is sometimes called a(n)...

A)Operetta
B)Talker
C)Straight play
D)Absent act
E)Book play

Question 11

The song "Tonight" from West Side Story is an example of a...

A)Comedy number
B)Ballad
C)Torch song
D)Showstopper
E)Reprise

Question 12

The very first musical happened when a melodrama was combined with Parisian ballet dancers.What happened to make this possible?

Question 13

A(n)____ is a program of satirical sketches,singing,and dancing on a particular theme.

A)Burlesque
B)Extravaganza
C)Variety show
D)Vaudeville
E)Revue

Question 14

A big musical number that results in a torrent of applause is called...

A)Reprise
B)Applause ballad
C)Ovation number
D)Showstopper
E)Stealing an extra curtain

Question 15

Musicals that have particularly well-developed storylines,characters,and spoken dialogue are called...

A)Dance musicals
B)Book musicals
C)Singing musicals
D)Operatic musicals
E)Full musicals

Question 16

What term refers to the cinema of India?

Question 17

Which play,produced in 1866,is often called the first modern musical?

A)Applause
B)The Bandwagon
C)Bamboozled
D)The Black Crook
E)Of Thee I Sing

Question 18

What form of early American "entertainment" included comic scenes,dance interludes,and sentimental ballads,all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South?

A)Singing musicals
B)Minstrel shows
C)Dixie plays
D)Civil War melodies

Question 19

Which country produces more musicals today than any other?

A)India
B)Japan
C)Russian
D)United States
E)United Kingdom

Question 20

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The purpose of these shows-which included songs,skits,and racy dancing girls-was to satirize high society's operatic tradition.

Question 21

The earliest American musicals were what kind of musical?

Question 22

____________________ was the first "talkie" movie.

Question 23

Some musicals are regarded as "classics" in that they continue to stand the test of time.Identify three musicals that you would regard as "classic." What makes a musical a "classic" and what is it about each of these three musicals that places them into this category?

Question 24

Grease is an example of what type of musical theatre?

Question 25

Some musical do and can reflect the period in which they were first performed.Hair certainly did that for the 1960s,and Rent has done that for the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.How do each of these shows reflect or speak for the time periods in which they were first performed?

Question 26

While the number of musicals per season has declined,the genre of musical theatre continues to be popular with the theatre-going public.The same cannot be said for the film musical,which dropped out of favor in the mid-1960s.Recently,there has been a resurgence in the film musical with the popularity of such films as Moulin Rouge,Chicago,and Rent.What accounts for films' renewed interest in going public in this type of musical?

Question 27

The first operas were staged in what country?

Question 28

____________________ is the most expensive musical ever.