Musicals

Question 0

Many names including musical comedy

Answer 0

Book musical

Question 1

Show using popular songs; dialogue optional

Answer 1

Musical

Question 2

Roots in variety and vaudeville

Answer 2

Revues

Question 3

Composed his own songs in Greece

Answer 3

Sophocles

Question 4

Roman who included song and dance in plays

Answer 4

Plautus

Question 5

The first tap shoes in theatre

Answer 5

Sabilla

Question 6

Borrowed songs and rewrote lyrics

Answer 6

Ballad opera

Question 7

Original scores and romantic plot lines

Answer 7

Comic opera

Question 8

Early type of musical from 1860

Answer 8

The black crook

Question 9

Wrote witty operettas that redefined musicals

Answer 9

Gilbert and Sullivan

Question 10

Lasting hit written by Kern and Hammerstein

Answer 10

Showboat

Question 11

First fully integrated musical in history

Answer 11

Oklahoma

Question 12

Landmark rock musical that confused the genre

Answer 12

Hair

Question 13

Muse inspired rock musical of 70s/80s

Answer 13

Xanadu

Question 14

Dance, segregation, and aerosols

Answer 14

Hairspray

Question 15

List 5 mega musicals

Answer 15

1. Lion king
2. Footloose
3. Rent
4. Phantom
5. Titanic

Question 16

What is a fully integrated musical?

Answer 16

Where all the music perfectly blends into the story line and helps further the plot

Question 17

What is a concept musical?

Answer 17

A show that is built around an idea instead of a plot