Theater Final questions with complete
solution
What is the name of the written dialogue or script of the musical? - ANS ✔✔Libretto
What is the term used to describe the perfectly integrated musical? A musical in which music,
action and words are used equally to tell the story. - ANS ✔✔Golden Triangle
What is the term used to describe a lyricist who uses words to draw attention to himself/herself
and to show off his/her skill with word-play and ryhme structure? - ANS ✔✔Self-expressive
Lyricist
What is the name of the type of song in which a character undergoes a significant change during
the course of the song? - ANS ✔✔Active Song
This is the name of a theory in musical theatre that posits "when dialogue can no longer express
the emotion, the body sings and when song is not enough, the body dances" - ANS ✔✔Bubble
Formula
This term is a "repeated passage in music" - ANS ✔✔Leitmotif
This type of song shows that characters imagining or considering falling in love, but they are not
actually confessing their love just yet - ANS ✔✔Quasi-Love Song
This song is written by a composer, but hasn't been sold into a broadway show yet, so it may
have been put away for a period of time: - ANS ✔✔Trunk Song
,This song features a long list of items and it is sung very quickly: - ANS ✔✔Patter Song
This type of musical revival includes significant changes to the plot, concept and songs of the
musical: - ANS ✔✔Revisionist
Who do we consider the Father of the American Musical "Theatre"? - ANS ✔✔Jerome Kern
"Slaughter on 10th avenue" was: - ANS ✔✔A ballet/dance in On Your Toes
This rodger and Hammerstein musical was the second musical to win the pulitzer Prize for
drama in 1951 and featured the song "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught": - ANS ✔✔South
Pacific
This self-destructive lyricist often showed his dark view of the world and of love while using
witty, complex rhyme schemes. - ANS ✔✔Lorenz "larry" Hart
Who do we consider the Father of the "American" Musical Theatre? - ANS ✔✔Geogre M. Cohan
This choreographer of Oklahoma!, used the "dream Ballet" to reveal character to the audience
by depicting Laurey's sexual anxieties and conflicting desires. - ANS ✔✔Agnes De Mille
This composer was the subject of anti-semitic criticism and accused of not writing his signature
Jazz composition "Rhapsody in Blue" - ANS ✔✔George Gershwin
This artist was very different from his/her contemporaries in that he/she was from the Midwest,
born into wealth and was not Jewish. He/she also lived the "high life" and referred to it in
his/her work - ANS ✔✔Cole Porter
This performer had the nick-name "sweet-mama string Bean" - ANS ✔✔Ethel Waters
, This Irving Berlin revue was based on headline of daily newspapers and contained a poignant
song ("Suppertime") sung by Ethel Waters. - ANS ✔✔As thousand Cheer
What american antecedent was popular form of live entertainment that appealed to immigrants
who did not need to speak English to enjoy the "turns"? - ANS ✔✔Vaudeville
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. was able to get around the censors and present scantily clad women on stage
by recreating famous art works in what he called: - ANS ✔✔Tableau Vivant
What is the name of the European Antecedent in which popular melodies were used with
rewritten, satirical lyrics? - ANS ✔✔Ballad Opera
The name of the 1866 production which combined a weak melodrama and a troupe of french
ballet dancers: - ANS ✔✔The Black Crook
Who is the "Father of Vaudeville" and credited with moving Vaudeville out of the Bowery and
making it family friendly - ANS ✔✔Tony Pastor
This form literally translates to "little opera" - ANS ✔✔Operetta
This form is widely considered the origin of Western theater, including musical theater: - ANS
✔✔Greek Tragedy
The song "Ah, sweet Mystery of Life" comes from the musical Naughty Marietta, composed by
Victor Herbert, who is considered the - ANS ✔✔father of american operetta
When vaudeville acts traveled across the country to perform in different theaters, this was
known as: - ANS ✔✔The "circuit"
solution
What is the name of the written dialogue or script of the musical? - ANS ✔✔Libretto
What is the term used to describe the perfectly integrated musical? A musical in which music,
action and words are used equally to tell the story. - ANS ✔✔Golden Triangle
What is the term used to describe a lyricist who uses words to draw attention to himself/herself
and to show off his/her skill with word-play and ryhme structure? - ANS ✔✔Self-expressive
Lyricist
What is the name of the type of song in which a character undergoes a significant change during
the course of the song? - ANS ✔✔Active Song
This is the name of a theory in musical theatre that posits "when dialogue can no longer express
the emotion, the body sings and when song is not enough, the body dances" - ANS ✔✔Bubble
Formula
This term is a "repeated passage in music" - ANS ✔✔Leitmotif
This type of song shows that characters imagining or considering falling in love, but they are not
actually confessing their love just yet - ANS ✔✔Quasi-Love Song
This song is written by a composer, but hasn't been sold into a broadway show yet, so it may
have been put away for a period of time: - ANS ✔✔Trunk Song
,This song features a long list of items and it is sung very quickly: - ANS ✔✔Patter Song
This type of musical revival includes significant changes to the plot, concept and songs of the
musical: - ANS ✔✔Revisionist
Who do we consider the Father of the American Musical "Theatre"? - ANS ✔✔Jerome Kern
"Slaughter on 10th avenue" was: - ANS ✔✔A ballet/dance in On Your Toes
This rodger and Hammerstein musical was the second musical to win the pulitzer Prize for
drama in 1951 and featured the song "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught": - ANS ✔✔South
Pacific
This self-destructive lyricist often showed his dark view of the world and of love while using
witty, complex rhyme schemes. - ANS ✔✔Lorenz "larry" Hart
Who do we consider the Father of the "American" Musical Theatre? - ANS ✔✔Geogre M. Cohan
This choreographer of Oklahoma!, used the "dream Ballet" to reveal character to the audience
by depicting Laurey's sexual anxieties and conflicting desires. - ANS ✔✔Agnes De Mille
This composer was the subject of anti-semitic criticism and accused of not writing his signature
Jazz composition "Rhapsody in Blue" - ANS ✔✔George Gershwin
This artist was very different from his/her contemporaries in that he/she was from the Midwest,
born into wealth and was not Jewish. He/she also lived the "high life" and referred to it in
his/her work - ANS ✔✔Cole Porter
This performer had the nick-name "sweet-mama string Bean" - ANS ✔✔Ethel Waters
, This Irving Berlin revue was based on headline of daily newspapers and contained a poignant
song ("Suppertime") sung by Ethel Waters. - ANS ✔✔As thousand Cheer
What american antecedent was popular form of live entertainment that appealed to immigrants
who did not need to speak English to enjoy the "turns"? - ANS ✔✔Vaudeville
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. was able to get around the censors and present scantily clad women on stage
by recreating famous art works in what he called: - ANS ✔✔Tableau Vivant
What is the name of the European Antecedent in which popular melodies were used with
rewritten, satirical lyrics? - ANS ✔✔Ballad Opera
The name of the 1866 production which combined a weak melodrama and a troupe of french
ballet dancers: - ANS ✔✔The Black Crook
Who is the "Father of Vaudeville" and credited with moving Vaudeville out of the Bowery and
making it family friendly - ANS ✔✔Tony Pastor
This form literally translates to "little opera" - ANS ✔✔Operetta
This form is widely considered the origin of Western theater, including musical theater: - ANS
✔✔Greek Tragedy
The song "Ah, sweet Mystery of Life" comes from the musical Naughty Marietta, composed by
Victor Herbert, who is considered the - ANS ✔✔father of american operetta
When vaudeville acts traveled across the country to perform in different theaters, this was
known as: - ANS ✔✔The "circuit"
