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According to your instructor, these two musicals are among the few for which the composer, the lyricist and the librettist are all the same person.
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Who created the music for Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Cats?
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According to your instructor, a play without music is traditionally called?
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According to your instructor, this acclaimed director is also the theatre’s most fabled choreographer.
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According to your instructor, the choreography for this music video was inspired by a dance routine created by Bob Fosse for his wife Gwen Verdon to perform on the Ed Sullivan show in 1969.
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Like “Hairspray” and “Sweet Charity” this movie musical was adapted from a Broadway musical that was in turn adapted from a non-musical movie. It is a satirical comedy about the theatre. The writer and director of the original movie wrote the book, music and lyrics of the Broadway musical.
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According to your instructor, what is the central theme of War Horse?
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Well before he became one of the leads of the TV series Law and Order, and played the father in Dirty Dancing, this legendary Broadway leading man starred in the premiere productions of The Fantasticks; Promises, Promises; and Chicago.
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The Academy Award winning movie Chicago was based on a Broadway musical originally conceived, directed, choreographed and co-written by…
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The Broadway musical Chicago was originally created as a starring vehicle for her. It was conceived and directed by her husband. Her earlier starring roles include Can-Can, Damn Yankees and Sweet Charity.
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According to your instructor, musicals such as Les Misérables and Evita, which have very little spoken dialogue compared to music, are essentially:
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According to your textbook, which theatrical form is a collection of parodies, bawdy songs, dancing women and sometimes striptease?
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According to your instructor, these innovative and influential artists are the most acclaimed creative team in musical theatre.
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This landmark dance musical, developed through workshop sessions with Broadway gypsies, overshadowed the musical Chicago, which opened the same year, financially and critically.
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What is the longest running off-Broadway musical in American history, with over 17,000 performances?
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This musical combined comedy and serious drama to create the primary model for the American musical. The first successful Broadway show to unite songs and dances tying solidly into a cohesive plot, it also dealt with provocative social issues.
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A professor makes a bet that he can get a flower girl to pass for a duchess in this musical based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
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According to your instructor, this production, celebrating its 20th anniversary on Broadway last year, was instrumental in reanimating the popularity of musicals. It is a key example of the fusion of Western and Non-Western theatrical conventions.
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According to your textbook, which theatrical form is a collection of slapstick comedy routines, song and dance numbers, juggling, acrobatics and magic tricks?
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Who traditionally writes the melodies of the songs in a musical?
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This 21st century, Brechtian musical is set in a dystopia where the citizens must pay to use lavatory facilities due a severe water shortage.
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What is the longest running musical in Broadway history?
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According to your instructor, who is the protagonist of War Horse?
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Who traditionally writes the words that are sung in a musical?
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Who wrote the music, lyrics and book of Show Boat?
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Like “The Producers” and “Sweet Charity” this movie musical was adapted from a Broadway musical that was in turn adapted from a non-musical movie. It is a satirical comedy about overcoming social boundaries set in Baltimore. The writer and director of the original movie is one of Hollywood’s most subversive artists.
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A Chorus Line, which grew out of workshop sessions with Broadway gypsies, was directed and choreographed by
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This musical based on the plot by an acclaimed Puccini opera, engendered a considerable dispute over the casting of the lead, a role that many theatre artists contended should be played by an actor with an Asian heritage.
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What is the central dramatic question of War Horse?
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What was the first theatre production ever to be wholly illuminated by electric light?
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This acclaimed musical theatre artist wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy; and the music and lyrics for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park with George?
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Who traditionally writes the spoken dialogue of a musical?
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According to your instructor, which theatrical form is most closely associated with the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan?
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Musicals that have tightly structured stories, three-dimensional characters, and engaging dialogue are called __________.
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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 is traditionally used to describe the spoken lines of a musical?
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According to your instructor, this renowned musical theatre artist served as Stephen Sondheim’s mentor early in his career.
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This landmark musical was inspired by Tevye and his Daughters and other related stories by Sholem Aleichem. According to your instructor, the relationship between the father and his three oldest daughters echoes a central aspect of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.
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Who wrote Oklahoma?
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According to your instructor, how was the role of Joey performed in the stage version of War Horse?
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According to your instructor, these productions were the initial salvos of a musical renaissance on stage and screen that is still thriving today.
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The music and lyrics for Chicago were written by…
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According to your instructor, this production, which debuted in 2015, is the most innovative, critically acclaimed and financially successful Broadway musical in a generation.
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In this Broadway musical, an unauthorized takeoff that envisions Sesame Street characters as adults, most of the characters are portrayed by large puppets operated by observable actors as in Bunraku?
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According to your instructor, these two plays are the bookends of the “Golden Era of Musicals.”
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According to your textbook, which theatrical form is a collection of sardonic sketches, songs and dance focused on a specific motif?
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According to your instructor this artist is a major figure in contemporary American theatre. As an actor he played the leading role in the Tony award winning Broadway musical In the Heights, for which he also wrote the music and lyrics. This same actor played the leading role in the Broadway musical Hamilton, for which he also wrote the music, lyrics and dialogue.
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For most of American theatre history white players wearing makeup made from burnt cork performed as African Americans. What was this demeaning, now discontinued type of theatre?
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Who wrote the music and lyrics for The Sound of Music?
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According to your instructor, this is generally acknowledged as the first rock musical on Broadway:
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This milestone musical by the most celebrated creative duo in American theatre was a trailblazing synthesis of music, dancing and dialogue, using all three in a groundbreaking way to further the story.
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