Songs
This number in the musical Oklahoma was unusual for an opening song because it was sung by a single actor who started offstage.
What is "Oh What A Beautiful Morning"
This lyricist who wrote 11 musicals with Richard Rodgers was named after both of his grandfathers.
This antecedent to musical theater was known for its use of stock characters and poetic justice.
What is melodrama
This idealized ethos says that anyone, regardless of background, can achieve prosperity and success through hard work alone.
What is "The American Dream"
This musical is widely considered to be the first integrated book musical.
What is Show Boat?
This song in the musical West Side Story shows the Puerto Rican characters' mixed feelings about their country.
What is "America"
This composer, known as the "Father of Musical Theater" brought many innovations to musicals, including the leitmotif.
Who is Jerome Kern?
This antecedent of musical theater was made popular by Gilbert and Sullivan.
What is the operetta?
This form of music was developed by Black musicians in New Orleans and quickly became popular throughout the U.S. in the 1920s.
What is jazz
What is West Side Story?
This song is sung by Rose after her daughter June leaves her.
What is "Everything's Coming Up Roses"
These two brothers were a widely celebrated composer and lyricist who wrote the American folk opera Porgy and Bess.
Who were George and Ira Gershwin
This antecedent of musical theater began as exclusive court entertainment in Italy.
What is opera seria?
This form of entertainment became popular in early 20th century American immigrant neighborhoods because many of the acts had little or no dialogue.
What is Vaudeville
Ethel Merman insisted on finding a composer for this musical because the lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, was not well known.
What is Gypsy?
Paul Robeson made this song such a popular song of resistance that it was banned in both South Africa and Norway.
What is "Old Man River"
This choreographer invented the "dream ballet" for the show Oklahoma.
Who is Agnes de Mille
This antecedent to musical theater used satire and popular tunes to make fun of the upper class.
What is ballad opera?
This writer and theorist wrote, "For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
Who is Audre Lorde
This musical was adapted from the 1930 play Green Grow the Lilacs.
What is Oklahoma?
This number in Show Boat was one of the first examples of the "quasi love song" invented by Hammerstein.
"Make Believe"
This choreographer of West Side Story became known for his unmatched ability to use dance to tell a story.
Who is Jerome Robbins
The Magic Flute was one example of this German version of comic opera.
What is singspiel?
This 1967 Supreme Court decision overturned anti-miscegenation laws in Virginia and across the country.
What is Loving v. Virginia
This musical by Cole Porter is about madcap antics onboard a steamer ship from New York to London.
What is Anything Goes?