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1
American musicals were most often written and produced
A)in Hollywood, California.
B)On or near Broadway in New York.
C)In Chicago, Illinois.
D)In London before coming to America.
2
Who wrote "Oklahoma," "South Pacific," and "The Sound of Music"?
A)Rodgers and Hammerstein.
B)George M. Cohan.
C)George Gershwin.
D)Gilbert and Sullivan.
3
Which of the following is not a Gilbert and Sullivan European operetta?
A)H.M.S. Pinafore.
B)Grand Old Flag.
C)The Pirates of Penzance.
D)The Mikado.
4
Which of the following statements is not true about musicals?
A)Musicals typically have less elaborate costumes and staging than opera.
B)Singers often sign their roles in a musical six to eight times a week.
C)One of the greatest strengths of the musical is that the songs often become popular on their own.
D)Musicals usually have smaller orchestras than operas.
5
Musicals usually
A)Concentrate on the drama of the plot.
B)Have songs that require quite a lot of vocal training in order to sing them.
C)Use one song after another to help relate the story.
D)Have a conductor on stage.
6
Which of the following is a rock-based or influenced musical?
A)Porgy and Bess.
B)Show boat.
C)The Mikado.
D)Hair.
7
Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals are more like operas because
A)The vocalists must have operatic training to perform in them.
B)Acting skills are secondary to singing skills in his musicals.
C)The dialogue is sung instead of spoken.
D)The singers are amplified.
8
Most Broadway musicals of the 1920s and 1930s were based on
A)Stories with a serious tone.
B)The light "boy-meets-girl-and-they-fall-in-love" enre.
C)German and Italian operas.
D)Shakespeare's plays.
9
Which of the following is not associated with Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story"?
A)Romeo and Juliet.
B)Sharks and Jets.
C)Jazzy, Latin-influenced music.
D)The crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
10
Which composer wrote the music and lyrics for "Sweeney Todd"?
A)Leonard Bernstein.
B)Andrew Lloyd Webber.
C)Stephen Sondheim.
D)Tim Burton.





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