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 describes the spoken lines?
What is Book
100
A play without music is sometimes called a(n)...
What is Straight play
100
A big musical number that results in a torrent of applause is called...
What is a Showstopper
100
What musical combined comedy and serious drama to create what we know today as the American musical?
What is Show Boat
100
Which play, produced in 1866, is often called the first modern musical?
The Black Crook
200
Which type of opera is sometimes called light opera?
What is Operetta
200
Musicals that have less spoken dialogue than music, such as Les Misérables and Evita, are also known as...
What is operatic musicals
200
Musicals that have particularly well-developed storylines, characters, and spoken dialogue are called...
What is Book musicals
200
What form of early American "entertainment" included comic scenes, dance interludes, and sentimental ballads, all based on white stereotypes of black life in the South?
What is Minstrel shows
200
Which country produces more musicals today than any other?
What is India
300
Grease is an example of what type of musical theatre?
What is Rock Musical
300
The very first musical happened when a melodrama was combined with Parisian ballet dancers. What happened to make this possible?
What is The theatre where the Parisian ballet dancers were performing burned down
300
Who writes the book portion of a musical?
What is Librettist
300
What term refers to the cinema of India?
What is Answer Bollywood
300
The purpose of these shows—which included songs, skits, and racy dancing girls—was to satirize high society’s operatic tradition.
What is Burlesque
400
When a song is sung a second time in a musical it is called a(n)..
Reprise
400
The song "Tonight" from West Side Story is an example of a...
What is Ballad
400
the most expensive musical ever
What is Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
“Spider-Man,” the most expensive musical ever (with a budget of $75 million and losses estimated at $60 million
400
At the beginning of a traditional musical, the __________ lets the audience know that the performance is about to begin.
What is Overture
400
The first operas were staged in what country?
What is Italy
500
A(n) ____ is a program of satirical sketches, singing, and dancing on a particular theme.
What is Revue.
500
The earliest American musicals were what kind of musical?
What is Ballad Operas
500
Who wrote such famous musicals as West Side Story, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods?