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This is the composer who first wrote songs with Hart and then transitioned to Hammerstein.
Who is Richard Rodgers?
This song from The Black Crook is about we love men all the same even if they suck.
What is "Naughty Naughty Men"?
This movie musical was known for major innovations in technicolor.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
This Broadway predecessor is like vaudeville, but the acts are united by a common theme.
What are revues?
This group of women in the 20s liked to bob their hair, smoke, and wear bright red lipstick.
What are flappers?
This is the composer of Anything Goes.
Who is Cole Porter?
This song starts out with the lyrics "I get no kick from champagne".
What is "I Get a Kick Out Of You"?
This 30s musical addressed the contemporary theme of unionization.
What is Cradle Will Rock?
This comic song type comes from operetta and features a rhythmically repetitive rapid-fire note delivery with fancy rhymes.
What is a patter song?
This war began with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
What is WWI?
This is the composer of the song "I Got Rhythm.
Who is George Gershwin?
This was the biggest Tin Pan Alley hit.
What is "After the Ball"?
This is the first musical with a racially integrated cast.
What is Showboat?
This is the jazz feature in which the pianist's left hand alternates between lower bass notes and higher chords.
What is stride piano?
This president oversaw getting America out of the Great Depression.
Who is FDR?
This is the composer of Wizard of Oz.
Who is Harold Arlen?
This Rodgers and Hart song has the lyrics "Summer journeys to Niagara/and to other places aggra/vate all our cares".
What is "Manhattan"?
This musical brought jazz to Broadway.
What is Shuffle Along?
This jazz subgenre began in New Orleans, has straight 8th notes, and was an influence on The Princess and the Frog and Hadestown.
What is dixieland?
This is the decade when silent films were at their most popular.
What is the 1920s?