Deck 18: Then and Now Version the Muscial

Question 1

Which type of Opera is sometimes called light opera?

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

Answer 1

B

Question 2

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

Answer 2

D

Question 3

A_____ is a program of satirical sketches, singing, and dancing on a particular theme.

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

Answer 3

E

Question 4

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 5

What term refers to the Hindi cinema?

Question 6

Which country produces more musicals today than any other?

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

Question 7

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 8

The movie Chicago was based on a Broadway musical choreographed by… _____.

A) Susan Stroman
B) Michael Bennett
C) Tommy Tune
D) Bob Fosse
E) Agnes de Mille

Question 9

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 10

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 11

When a song is sung a second time in a musical it is called a…

Question 12

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

Question 13

Who wrote such famous musicals as Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with
George?

Question 14

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 15

Who writes the book portion of a musical?

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

Question 16

Which composer is the creator of Cats, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?

A) Andrew Lloyd Webber
B) Richard Rodgers
C) Cole Porter
D) Jason Brown
E) Stephan Sondheim

Question 17

A play without music is sometimes called…

A) Operetta
B) A Talker
C) Straight play
D) An Absent Act
E) A book play

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

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

Question 20

_____ is the longest running musical in Broadway history.

Question 21

_____ is the longest running off Broadway musical in American history

Question 22

The Ziegfeld Follies is an example of what type of musical theatre?

Question 23

The first operas originated in what country?

Question 24

_____ was the first "talkie" movie.

Question 25

The earliest American musicals were what kind of musical?