Early Influences

Question 1

Which country created musical theater?

Answer 1

America

Question 2

What year was the Beggars Opera performed in?

Answer 2

1728

Question 3

What year was Flora performed in?

Answer 3

1735

Question 4

What are examples of the English ballad opera?

Answer 4

The Beggars Opera; Flora

Question 5

True or False:

There were no historical scenery or costumes in English ballad operas.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

In English ballad operas, did they write their own music or use pre-existing songs?

Answer 6

They use pre-existing songs

Question 7

Did English ballad operas contain spoken words and dialogue?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

About when were musical parodies done?

Answer 8

Late 18th, early 19th-century

Question 9

What are musical parodies?

Answer 9

Satire of a famous story or performer

Question 10

What is another term used for musical parodies?

Answer 10

Burlesque

Question 11

Who wrote the Beggars Opera?

Answer 11

John Gay and Christopher Popusch

Question 12

Which minority were minstrel shows the first major contribution of in theater in America?

Answer 12

Blacks

Question 13

What were minstrel shows the product of?

Answer 13

Black slave culture mingled with white colonials

Question 14

What are some examples of things Dan Emmet composed?

Answer 14

Old Dan Tucker; Blue-Tail Fly

Question 15

When did Dan Emmet bring Virginia minstrels to a New York touring show?

Answer 15

1843

Question 16

What are minstrel shows?

Answer 16

Three-part shows performed in “Blackface”

Question 17

What is olio?

Answer 17

Snappy banter, jokes, solo musical (banjo, fiddle, tambourine, singing, bone castanets)

Question 18

What is a cakewalk?

Answer 18

A dance performed in the minstrel show

Question 19

What did Stephen Foster compose?

Answer 19

My old Kentucky home

Question 20

Who did the Ed Christy minstrels show feature?

Answer 20

Stephen Foster

Question 21

What did Olio grow into?

Answer 21

Vaudeville show

Question 22

What did Fantasia turn into?

Answer 22

Broadway Revue

Question 23

What did satire become used for in later musicals?

Answer 23

Themes

Question 24

When was the Black Crook?

Answer 24

1866

Question 25

What did the Black Crook use?

Answer 25

Theatrical fact and sensual pleasures to become a theater extravaganza

Question 26

What show showed producers and investors that frivolity could substitute for dramatic and musical substance?

Answer 26

The Black Crook

Question 27

What was the first performance to use an original musical score?

Answer 27

Evangeline

Question 28

When was Evangeline?

Answer 28

1874

Question 29

True or False:

The Black Crook was the first musical comedy

Answer 29

False. It was Evangeline

Question 30

What did the Brook use the common locale or event for?

Answer 30

To interweave stories like a sitcom

Question 31

When was the Brook?

Answer 31

1879

Question 32

True or False:

The Brook had the first desire for meaningful story

Answer 32

True

Question 33

When were Mulligan shows?

Answer 33

1880s

Question 34

What were Mulligan shows?

Answer 34

A burlesque on the common people of New York; tales of the ordinary became important

Question 35

Did the Black Crook or Evangeline have the first American acting troop using women?

Answer 35

The Black Crook

Question 36

When was the final year of the Black Crook?

Answer 36

1893

Question 37

What was the time span for the operetta?

Answer 37

1890s to the 1920s

Question 38

Who are Gilbert and Sullivan?

Answer 38

Satirical operetta writers who were especially popular

Question 39

What is musical theater?

Answer 39

A genre of drama in which singing and dancing play an essential part