History
Where will you find Broadway Theaters?
New York City
Which musical includes the song "It's a Hard Knock Life"?
Annie
What composer wrote "West Side Story"?
Leonard Bernstein
What musical emphasises the importance of tradition?
Fiddler on the Roof
When did Broadway experience a decline in popularity?
late 1960's
What genre influenced Broadway?
Operetta
This musical focuses on a Jewish family in the early 1900s.
Fiddler on the Roof
Which composer duo, which was on of American theater's most successful, created hits such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music?
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
The musical "West Side Story" did NOT deal with which social issue - equal rights, racism, immigration, or gangs?
Equal Rights
What show started the rise of the complex choreography?
West Side Story
Why were the 1940s and 1950s called the "Golden Age of Broadway"?
This musical is based on a book by Charles Dickens and is about an orphaned boy.
Oliver
What duo wrote many operettas including "The Pirates of Penzance"?
Gilbert and Sullivan
What musical from the 1920s highlighted the racism and inequalities between ethnicities?
Show Boat
When was the era of "show tunes" and large chorus numbers?
1940s and early 1950s
In the beginning, why were shows of dance and song performed?
Escape the hardships of daily life
Which musical talks about living out west and working as Farmers and Ranchers?
Oklahoma
What brothers wrote music for early musicals (1920's)?
George and Ira Gershwin
Religious Freedom
When did serious issues first start to be brought into musicals?
1920s
Before theaters moved to a specific part of New York, now called Broadway, where were performances of dance and song found?
Ethnic Neighborhoods
What musical is sometimes called the first "contemporary" musical?
Show Boat
What composer, who later became half of a powerful duo, wrote the lyrics and stage lines (book) for Show Boat?
Oscar Hammerstein II
What does "contemporary" mean and how does Broadway incorporate contemporary themes?
Of the times - by using social issues
What form of language did the first musicals of the 1920s start to include which made them more enjoyable to a wider audience?
Slang