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| What year did "Showboat" premier? |
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| What other show opened in 1937, the same year that "Showboat" opened? |
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| What was the "one-two punch" at the end of the decade that started a downturn in the Broadway Musical? |
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1. The talking picture 2. Stock Market Crash |
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| What actor helped popularize Minstrelsey? |
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| Thomas D. Rice was known as _______ . |
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| What was Thomas D. Rice's character's name? |
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| theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians. |
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| The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface |
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| a humorous and provocative stage show featuring slapstick humor, comic skits, bawdy songs, striptease acts, and a scantily clad female chorus. |
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| a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied. |
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What was the first form of American stage entertainment to commission popular music for its shows? |
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| What makes revue different from vaudeville? |
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| revue has a theme and vaudeville does not |
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| In act one of a minstrel show what are the two characters called that took end seats of the semi circle named? |
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| What are the three acts of a Minstrel show called? |
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| Fantasia, Olio, and Variety Show |
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| What are the differences between small time and big time vaudeville? |
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Big- has fewer shows, have larger crowds, higher production costs, and more stars Small- has the opposite |
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| In what way did Oscar Hammerstein use the music in "Showboat?" |
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| in "Showboat" the songs seemed to come from the souls of the actors. they always seemed like they HAD to sing and showed great emotion |
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| The Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project produced many productions during the depression. Which team directed and produced "The Cradle Will Rock" for the classical division of FTP? |
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| Orson Wells and John Houseman |
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| Which Minstrel show is considered the very first in America? |
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| What year was the Virginia Minstrels founded and who was it founded by? |
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| What Minstrels show was the first to commission original songs for is performance and what year was it founded? |
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The Christy Minstrels founded by Ed Christy in the 1850s |
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| What is the main difference between opera and musical theatre? |
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| there is more singing in an opera |
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| in "showboat" why are Julie and her husband forced to leave the traveling theatre group? |
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| because they were a mixed race couple |
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| What black faced performer popularized the song "Swanee?" |
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| Who penned the song Swanee? |
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| What shows did Rogers and Hart write in the 1920s and 1930s? |
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-Connecticut Yankee (1927) -Babes in Arms -Pal Joey -Garlic Gaieties |
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Who wrote "Brother can you spare a dime?" |
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| When did Cradle Will Rock open? |
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| Who was the non union actress who acted in the cradle will rock? |
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| What playwright called his play,"Porgy and Bess," an American Folk Opera? |
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| Who wrote the show "anything goes?" |
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| who was the star of "anything goes" |
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| What did Ethel Merman perfom in "anything goes?" |
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"You're the Top" this show epitomizes the escapism of depression-era musical |
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| What was the name of the revues produced by former dancer, George White? |
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| Who sang "Night and Day" in "gay divorce"? |
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| What musical was the first to win a pullitzer prize? |
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| What made Richard Rogers and Lawrence Hart's "Pal Joey" unique? |
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| it looked at real world people and showed that no one was perfect or without corruptibility |
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| Who wrote and starred in the popular black musical "shuffle along?" |
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| What was the first black musical to appear successfully on broadway? and who starred in it? |
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"A trip to Coontown" stars: Bert Williams, Walker, Inda Dehomey written by Bob Johnson and Cole |
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