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1
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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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9
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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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12
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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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14
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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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16
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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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18
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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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20
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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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21
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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

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Grand Opera

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26
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A short amusing opera containing spoken dialogue, many times with a happy ending

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Light/Comedic/Operetta

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27
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Vaudeville was popular in the US and Canada from the early ____s to the early _____

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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

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Vaudeville

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29
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A Vaudeville performer

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Vaudevillian

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30
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Name the 5 sources of where Vaudeville developed

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Concert Saloon
Minstrelsy
Freak Shows
Dime Museums
American Burlesque
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31
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A form of theater combining music,songs, spoken dialouge, and dance

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The Musical

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32
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What is the most complex of the theater presentations

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Music Theater

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33
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When was Music Theater called Musicals?``

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The early 20th century

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34
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Three musical genres

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Dramatic
Comedic
Revue

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35
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A musical of serious subject matter. Name 5

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Dramatic

  1. Le Mis
  2. West Side Story
  3. Phantom of the Opera
  4. Aida
  5. Sweeny Todd
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36
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A musical of light hearted subject matter. Name 5

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Comedic

  1. Hairspray
  2. Grease
  3. Guys and Dolls
  4. Avenue Q
  5. Shrek
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37
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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

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Revue

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38
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A revue is often the work of a singular _____, or _________, or a ____ of ____ ____

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Composer, choreographer, collection of hit music

39
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Using the art of ____ this ancient technique tells stories, evokes feelings of joy and sadness, love and hate.

40
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Through the movement of the dancers who are defined by ________, ________, _____, _________, _______

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Lighting, costumes, production design, music, sound

41
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Some of the greatest dramatic literature as well as social causes have inspired the timeless works of… (5)

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  1. Agnes Demille
  2. Martha Graham
  3. Katherine Dunham
  4. Jeromne Robbins
  5. Alvin Ailey
42
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Name 7 Musical Production Team Members

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  1. Director
  2. Costume Designer
  3. Producer
  4. Conductor
  5. Set Designer
  6. Choreographer
  7. Lighting Designer
43
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West Side Story Director/ Choreographer

A

Jerome Robbins

44
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WSS Book/ Author

A

Arthur Laurents

45
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WSS Music/ Composer

A

Leonard Bernstein

46
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WSS Lyricist

A

Stephen Sondheim

47
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WSS Lighting Desiner

A

David Martin Jaques

48
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WSS Costume Designer

A

Irene Sharaff

49
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WSS Scenic Designer

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Oliver Smith

50
Q

An American in Paris won which Tony Award?

A

Best Revival 2015

51
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What was the original American In Paris?

A

A Jazz influenced symphonic poem.

52
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Who are the creators of the King and I

A

Rogers and Hammerstein

53
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Who composed the Lion King

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Elton John

54
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How many plays were in the Pittsburgh Cycle

55
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What is a Labretto

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The story of the musical, ballet, or play

56
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Name 3 operas and their composers

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Aida by Verdi
Don Giovanni by Mozart
Carmen by Bizet

57
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The King and I Choreography and Director

A

Jerome Robbins

Barlett Sher

58
Q

Motown the Musical Author

A

Berry Gordy

59
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The ______ _____ were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931

A

Scottsboro Boys

60
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Who was widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatic

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William Shakespeare

61
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Shakespeare’s surviving works consist of ___ plays, ____ sonnets, and __ long narrative poems.

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38, 154, 2

62
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Shakespeare produced most of his known work between ____ and ____

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1589, 1613

63
Q

What is Tennessee Williams’ real name?

A

Thomas Lanier Williams

64
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Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for….. in 1948 and for ….. in 1955

A

A Streetcar named desire, Cat on a hot tin roof

65
Q

The Rose Tattoo received which Tony Award?

66
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Who wrote the Pittsburgh Cycle

A

August Wilson

67
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Who is referred to as the American Shakespeare?

A

August Wilson

68
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An American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

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Eugene O’Neill

69
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Eugene O’Neill’s plays are among the first to introduce into American drama the techniques of _____

70
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Beyond the Horizon won what prize, what year and opened on Broadway in what year

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Nobel prize for Literature (1936), 1920

71
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Eugene O’Neill’s best known plays (5)

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Anna Christine
Desire Under the Elms
Strange Interlude
Mourning Becomes Electra
Ah, Wildnerness!
72
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After a ten-year pause, O’Neill’s now- renowned play __ _____ ___ was produced in 1946

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The Iceman Cometh

73
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_ ____ ____ ___ Failed and did not gain recognition as being among O’Neill’s best works until later

A

A Moon for the Misbegotten

74
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A multi-Emmy and Grammy award winning and Academy Award nominated American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

A

Leonard Bernstein

75
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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”

76
Q

Bernstein stage works (6)

A 
Fancy Free
On The Town
Peter Pan
West Side Story
Mass
A Quiet Place
77
Q

Duke Ellington full name

A

Edward Kennedy Ellington

78
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Known as one ofthe most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music

A

Duke Ellington

79
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What did Ellington call his music other than jazz?

A

American Music

80
Q

What is the novel that the King and I is based on?

A

Anna and the King of Siam

81
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When and where did the King and I premiere?

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March 29th, 1951 at the St.James Theater

82
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The King and I ran for nearly _ years

83
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T/F: The King is presented more sympathetically in the musical more than in the novel or the 1946 film.

84
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What does the musical of the King and I omit?

A

the torture and burning at the stake of Lady Tuptim and her partner

85
Q

Who was known as the Matriarch and Queen mother of Black Dance.

A

Katherine Dunham

86
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What was Katherine Dunham renowned as in Europe and Latin America?

A

La Grande Katherine

87
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The only permanent, self-subsidized American black dance troupe back in the day

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Katherine Dunham Dance Company

88
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Katherine Dunham choreographed more than how many individual dances?

89
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Dunham was an innovator in African-American modern dance as well as a leader in the field of what?

A

Dance Anthropology

90
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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

91
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In Hollywood, Why did Ms.Dunham refuse to sign a lucrative studio contract?

A

Because the producer said she would have to replace the darker-skinned company members

92
Q

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?

A

She made sure the incident went public and then there was a law passed in 1951 forbidding racial discrimination in public places

93
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What was Southland about?

A

Lynching of blacks in the racist America South

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